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How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive

Case Study And, because when NU has between half a million and one million customers signed up there will be about one billion rows of data generated each day, it worked on a compression technique (which it patented) - bringing down volume to two bytes per...

Tags: norwich union, teradata, road pricing, driver

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[27 Nov 2007]

Betfair betting engine goes supersonic

Case Study Matt Carter, Betfair director of architecture and advanced technology, explained to silicon.com customer trends are moving towards a high volume of small-value bets, which, in turn, produce small-value commissions.

Tags: betting, betfair, transaction processing, volume

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[15 Nov 2007]

Comic Relief gets IT ready for donation deluge

Case Study Gill said: "The challenge is transactions appear in a very peaky way between 19:00 and midnight [of Red Nose Day] so there's a huge volume of what potentially can be very dense traffic. Comic Relief has revamped its website and IT infrastructure to...

Tags: web traffic, traffic, red nose, websites

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[15 Mar 2007]

What's the deal with BlackBerry-flavoured Coke?

Case Study Morning also said some operators' inability to cope with the sheer volume of traffic generated by BlackBerrys and similar devices can prove troublesome. With nearly 4,000 BlackBerrys across 75 countries and numerous carriers, Coca-Cola boasts one...

Tags: blackberry, coca cola, rim, coke

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[17 May 2006]

Document project pays dividends for stockbroker

Case Study The volume was so large that we wouldn't have been able to cope with it without a significant purchase of hardware and temporary staff," Bath said. Stockbroker Brewin Dolphin Securities has updated information about its customers and ensured...

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[12 Jul 2005]