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Red Bull Racing revs up computing grid
Case Study Following restrictions on car testing, Red Bull Racing now uses around 3,000 cores in its supercomputer to boost its simulation capacity - around double used a year ago. The Red Bull Racing Formula One team is using grid... [24 Mar 2009]
figleaves.com tries Red Hat for size
Case Study On that new hardware, we've subsequently been building and installing ATG software and we're now going into the last phase of testing the applications and software configurations that we've set up," Pedersen said. [02 Feb 2009]
ITV F1 website gets in the fast lane
Case Study During testing the new setup coped with 5,000 concurrent users, showing it could stand up to the increased demand. ITV's F1 web team has been using load balancing software from Zeus Technology during the 2008 Formula One... [05 Dec 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Camwood CEO Frank Foxall pointed out that one of the additional outcomes of compatibility testing was getting a good idea of any unwanted applications on the system (such as Tiger Woods Golf) and unused licences. [30 May 2008]
Carphone Warehouse's 'bumpy road' to outsourcing success
Case Study From 2006 to date, the company has outsourced an increasing number of services, including software development and testing, product and incident management, some infrastructure support and a limited amount of IT... [28 May 2008]
Travel site bookings fly when glitch fixed
Case Study Usability testing software has helped a holiday company boost its sales by spotting a glitch in its website's navigation that could have been costing it tens of thousands per week in lost business. The company... [09 May 2008]
Police gets to grips with body cameras
Case Study L is for Liveness testing Police in Staffordshire are trialling video technology to capture and store footage officers have gathered on the beat using cameras worn on the body. The trial is funded from the £3m that the... [12 Mar 2008]
McLaren in pole position with data
Case Study The organisation has been using a pre-release version of SQL Server 2008 to run mission-critical applications for the F1 team's testing and development work and will also use it at races once the season starts. [03 Mar 2008]
BA puts faith in IP at Terminal 5
Case Study British Airways (BA) is in the final testing phase of its sophisticated IP network in Heathrow's new Terminal 5 (T5), ahead of its opening on 27 March. The testing involved up to 3,000 volunteers at a... [08 Feb 2008]
TNT speeds data flow with handy hardware
Case Study The company has a long-standing relationship with Motorola/Symbol - Motorola acquired Symbol for $3.9bn back in 2006 - and was actively involved in the beta testing of some of the hardware involved. Delivery company TNT... [16 Nov 2007]
RSPB wings it with virtualisation
Case Study These applications are backed up to a central library at a secondary site from where they can be restored for disaster recovery or testing and development purposes. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)... [04 Jun 2007]
Tesco.com takes stock with Windows Vista
Case Study The retailer migrated the PCs to Vista Ultimate edition in January, following several months of testing. Tesco.com was part of the Vista early adopter programme, with testing starting in September last... [31 May 2007]
Linux move reaps dividends for stockbroker
Case Study There was an initial testing period of 25 days when the Unix and Linux platforms were run in parallel - the Linux OS mirroring the transactions of the live system. Since stockbroker Redmayne-Bentley revamped its IT... [18 May 2007]
Virtualisation powers up energy group
Case Study E.ON's infrastructure is stored over three tiers - tier one holding the most used applications and therefore needing 100 per cent data availability; tier two holding the less critical applications; and tier three mainly used for... [23 Apr 2007]
Cambridge speedy software brings out the stars
Case Study The Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (Casu) - part of the university's Institute of Astronomy - is testing the Kognitio WX2 database system with legacy data. Cambridge University is speeding up astronomical discoveries... [16 Apr 2007]
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