server in case studies
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]
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. One of the main reasons for looking at blade servers was that we've got a small server room and we wanted... [01 Nov 2006]
Standard Life goes virtual
Case Study Standard Life has found server virtualisation an effective way of improving its IT services while controlling costs. For instance, consolidating servers previously took 10 to 15 days but the switch to the virtualised servers took just 30 minutes... [11 Jul 2007]
McLaren in pole position with data
Case Study McLaren Electronic Systems (MES) has been using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as it prepares for the 2008 Formula One season opener in Australia on 16 March. The organisation has been using a pre-release version of SQL Server 2008 to run mission... [03 Mar 2008]
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]
Paymaster saves £300k with mainframe move
Case Study Financial services provider Paymaster has saved money and speeded up its operations by modernising its core banking systems and moving to a Windows server environment. Paymaster used Micro Focus application modernisation technology to move its core... [08 May 2007]
Police gets to grips with body cameras
Case Study Inspector David Edge, who is coordinating the camera trial, told silicon.com: "Once the officer's finished his tour of duty or taken his prisoner back to the police station he can upload those recordings to a central server.silicon.com's A to Z of... [12 Mar 2008]
New Star beefs up disaster recovery
Case Study If the main server in any of the company's offices has a problem the software will allow the backup server to take over the reins, allowing the email system to return to operation with the minimum of fuss. [15 Dec 2006]
Rugby club scores with automated backup
Case Study It backs up 120GB of stored data from three Windows 2003 servers, including an Active Directory server, a Microsoft Exchange SQL server and a general file server. The system is so precise it allows the club to restore anything down to an individual... [21 Jan 2008]
PA spreads the news on open source
Case Study Berman added: "PA's been using open source software - be it web server or database server - really for some time but we're now moving up the technology stack more into the complete application area. Press Association (PA) is moving to an open... [20 Mar 2008]
RSPB wings it with virtualisation
Case Study The DR systems sit in an entirely separate building so anything affecting the main server room - such as a power cut or flood - does not affect the back-up server. He said: "We will always try to use an existing server if possible. [04 Jun 2007]
Everton FC gets a kick out of IT
Case Study With no need for a server to deal with processing of payments, space has been created in the server room for future IT upgrades. Everton FC has upgraded its entire IT network and fully outsourced its payment processing system. [11 Jan 2007]
Council saves by streamlining PC procurement
Case Study We had just switched our server architecture to a leasing model and we were sure that we could make savings here too. Alongside the refreshed server architecture, the authority was also implementing a CRM system and ERP, supplied by Oracle. [11 May 2007]
TalkTalk Direct gets faster on its feet
Case Study TalkTalk Direct has upgraded its enterprise server infrastructure, speeding up bill processing and cutting energy consumption. The business process outsourcing division of Carphone Warehouse upgraded to Fujitsu Siemens Primepower servers to run its... [11 Oct 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. Steve Clark, senior server support for Newcastle... [05 Jul 2007]
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