disaster in case studies
Connecting to the world when disaster strikes
Case Study Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) provides connectivity wherever disaster strikes to co-ordinate aid efforts and link devastated regions to the outside world. TSF uses satellite communications to provide a three minute telephone call to affected... [11 Jun 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. Half of the 160 staff employed at the EMEA branch of Foster's are mobile workers and the virtualised environment has... [11 Apr 2007]
New Star beefs up disaster recovery
Case Study Fund manager New Star Asset Management has beefed up its disaster recovery system at four international locations to protect its email service. The company is replicating Microsoft Exchange data between its Knightsbridge office and its disaster... [15 Dec 2006]
Home working plan reduces disaster risk for Apacs
Case Study Apacs, the UK's payments association, has signed a contract with outsourced services company Attenda to bolster its disaster recovery plans. Sue Yoe, director of technology and facilities for Apacs, told silicon.com: "The central administration at... [08 Aug 2006]
Insurance firm updates disaster recovery plans
Case Study Events such as 9/11 and the more recent Hurricane Katrina disaster have upped activity across the insurance sector, and in 2004 that Aspen had to find a new gear. Aspen invoked its disaster recovery processes, using the Cable and Wireless network... [11 Apr 2006]
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. These applications are backed up to a central library at a... [04 Jun 2007]
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. The new infrastructure has also boosted disaster recovery so that the council's IT staff can now recover an... [01 Nov 2006]
Police get extra back-up by linking systems
Case Study Two police forces have linked their systems to allow them to share intelligence and provide disaster recovery back-up. We've got a good relationship with them, where we both provide disaster contingency to allow information to be exchanged. [23 Aug 2005]
Insurer slashes servers down from 100 to just six
Case Study The company is part way through a project which will see it slim down from 100 servers running its applications to just six eight-processor servers running all its apps - and disaster recovery as well. [26 Jul 2005]
TalkTalk Direct gets faster on its feet
Case Study For disaster recovery, the company installed replica servers at its data centre in Birmingham, which mirror those at its Northampton HQ. Perry said that now the new servers are in place, the company intends to expand its disaster recovery to... [11 Oct 2007]
What's the deal with BlackBerry-flavoured Coke?
Case Study The dependence of Coca-Cola execs on their BlackBerrys means that, when it comes to disaster recovery, the devices are now as important as the company's SAP-based finance system. We put huge effort into disaster recovery, redundancy.then it's 'Does... [17 May 2006]
Staffordshire councils save millions by joining forces
Case Study He added: "Because we invested together it meant that we could afford to have disaster recovery. Ten local government agencies in Staffordshire have teamed up to share their IT services in a bid to cut costs. [04 May 2006]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study The company also needed to make its disaster recovery system more reliable and up-to-date. Carter explained: "With the traditional disaster recovery service you've got three problems: firstly it's becoming too expensive, secondly you've got no... [20 Jun 2008]
Payments giant saves £2.5m with new network
Case Study But the vast amounts of money flowing through the company's systems would not be as safe as it is today had the company not changed its network and disaster recovery processes. Voca provides the technology behind the direct debit system in the UK... [07 Jul 2005]
Standard Life goes virtual
Case Study Gordon said virtualisation has lowered IT costs, improved business continuity and disaster recovery and simplified acquisitions. Standard Life has found server virtualisation an effective way of improving its IT services while controlling costs. [11 Jul 2007]
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