storage in case studies
Kiln builds a bigger insurance data pot
Case Study While underwriters at the company were used to a spreadsheet-based approach, the decision was taken to build an in-house underwriting application and bring in risk assessment modelling techniques, all of which necessitated a new... [09 Oct 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study The company predicts it could save around £1m in terms of up front costs with each of the 1,800 licences costing just £25 per year for 25GB of storage. The construction division of Taylor Wimpey has embraced software as... [10 Jul 2008]
Rugby club scores with automated backup
Case Study There is a vast amount of storage space needed to keep all this important technical data on the games. A world class UK rugby club has turned to an automatic back-up system after data critical to the running of the club... [21 Jan 2008]
British Airways flying high with storage monitoring
Case Study As part of a five-year deal with CA, BA will also use capacity-planning software that will allow the company to reduce the total cost of storage. Using CA's Storage Resource Manage tool, BA will be able... [03 Oct 2007]
NHS trusts to save £5.5m from outsourcing contract
Case Study As part of the contract, Xerox is providing core office functions to eight NHS trusts, such as copying, faxing, printing, scanning, storage and the retrieval of administrative documents and research papers. [14 Sep 2007]
Norton Rose reaps rewards of comms upgrade
Case Study Norton Rose inked a £5m data security and storage deal with BT last year. International law firm Norton Rose has signed a £1.9m contract with Affiniti to upgrade its communications network. The legal firm moved from six... [23 Aug 2007]
Virtualisation powers up council's cost and time savings
Case Study The council has created up to 45 virtual machines, with around 50 traditional servers still running, and is half way through its five-year strategy, which combines server and storage virtualisation. The council's... [05 Jul 2007]
Channel Five switches on to virtualisation
Case Study The broadcaster has been working with virtualisation specialists Equalogic and VMWare to boost capacity, improve use of space and make its servers and data storage more flexible. The TV station has also boosted its... [22 May 2007]
Foster's serves up disaster recovery on the move
Case Study Foster's EMEA - which is the wine importing and supply arm of the Foster's group - implemented a virtualised storage environment last month. The virtualisation environment uses a combination of two EqualLogic PS300E... [11 Apr 2007]
Arsenal FC emails get 'bouncebackability'
Case Study The value of the Mail Manager deal has not been disclosed, however it is part of a far larger relationship between CA and Arsenal, who also use Unicenter and Brightstor products from the software giant for network and... [17 Nov 2006]
Sports council cuts hassle with blades
Case Study The Sports Council for Wales has replaced ageing server and storage infrastructure and improved its disaster recovery capability to boot. IT manager at the Sports Council for Wales, Simon Napper, told silicon.com: "The... [01 Nov 2006]
Vimto puts the fizz into document system
Case Study The company opted for Version One's electronic storage, authorisation, delivery and form design modules, which integrated with its Sage Line 500 finance system. The manufacturer of Vimto, Sunkist and Panda is saving... [23 Oct 2006]
Insurance firm updates disaster recovery plans
Case Study Other suppliers include Cisco, for all sorts of networking kit including switch fabric, and HP, for storage area networks and blade servers, something Aspen and others in this sector need, not just for coping with surges... [11 Apr 2006]
Health trusts cut operating system and storage complexity
Case Study Understandably the organisation wanted to standardise on a single operating system and single storage management platform. For storage, Wakefield HIS had already been a Computer Associates (CA) customer. [06 Sep 2005]
Insurer slashes servers down from 100 to just six
Case Study What we decided we needed was a single box configuration for development/test/user acceptance testing, a three box configuration of eight-way Intel servers for production, backed with an IBM storage area network, with... [26 Jul 2005]
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