virtualisation in case studies
Standard Life goes virtual
Case Study Standard Life has found server virtualisation an effective way of improving its IT services while controlling costs. Speaking at a recent event in London, Andrew Gordon, technical infrastructure manager at Standard Life, explained how the company... [11 Jul 2007]
Virtualisation powers up council's cost and time savings
Case Study Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is rolling out a virtualisation strategy to reduce the council's power bills and deliver applications quicker. The council has created up to 45 virtual machines, with around 50 traditional servers still running... [05 Jul 2007]
RSPB wings it with virtualisation
Case Study The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has buffed up its disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure using virtualisation to increase flexibility and reduce the risk of downtime. Mike Courtney, senior systems engineer at the RSPB, said... [04 Jun 2007]
Channel Five switches on to virtualisation
Case Study Channel Five is revamping its IT infrastructure by embracing virtualisation as it adjusts to the increasingly digital and on demand media world. The broadcaster has been working with virtualisation specialists Equalogic and VMWare to boost capacity... [22 May 2007]
Virtualisation powers up energy group
Case Study Since the move to virtualisation, E.ON is using 56 per cent less power and has reduced the amount of heat pouring out from its data centres by more than half. Energy company E.ON has shifted to a virtualised infrastructure to help it save money and... [23 Apr 2007]
Foster's serves up disaster recovery on the move
Case Study Drinks company Foster's is using virtualisation to save cash and improve disaster recovery for the company's mobile workers. Ken Kaban, European technology services manager for Foster's EMEA, told silicon.com the three-strong IT team is now doing... [11 Apr 2007]
Virtualisation helps teachers slash electricity bill
Case Study The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has reduced the number of servers it needs - and slashed the electricity bill for its server room by three-quarters by using virtualisation software. The virtualisation software lets the ATL run... [26 Mar 2007]
NHS IT under 24-hour surveillance
Case Study The NetIQ toolkit has also helped the IT department evaluate whether an application can be pushed onto its virtualisation network - freeing up servers and subsequently using less energy. The University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has... [20 Mar 2007]
Insurer slashes servers down from 100 to just six
Case Study Insurance company Markel International hopes to save £250,000 over the next three years by consolidating its server infrastructure using virtualisation technology. Like many companies the insurer found itself buying more and more servers to host... [26 Jul 2005]
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