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whitepaper Software Services Provider Delivers Cost-Effective E-Government Solution2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Persistent Systems provides software development services that help enterprises and public sector customers enhance their offerings. One of the company's primary offerings is an e-government solution that helps governments and agencies deliver services and interact with constituents electronically. However, the company's ability to promote the solution was often limited by the IT infrastructure capacity of governments in developing regions. Persistent Systems needed a way to deliver its solution without requiring local governments to invest in new IT infrastructure and personnel. The company used the Windows Azure platform to deliver its e-governance applications on the Internet through a Microsoft data center. Now Persistent Systems can offer its e-government solution in a high-availability environment while reducing capital and maintenance costs for itself and its customers.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Software Developer Launches Highly Scalable Web Site Platform, Minimizes Costs2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Sitemasher, developer of an innovative platform for building and managing Web sites, wanted to help Web professionals create scalable, data-driven Web sites faster, and at lower cost. The company also needed to lower its own systems infrastructure costs. Sitemasher used the Windows Azure platform to offer its application as a hosted service, delivering an efficient, highly available, and highly scalable Web site development and hosting environment to its customers. By hosting its application on Windows Azure through Microsoft data centers, the company has minimized infrastructure costs and reduced ongoing maintenance. Finally, with no data centers of its own to manage, Sitemasher will refocus the time its development staff spent maintaining servers to improving and expanding the Sitemasher application, representing a time savings of approximately 20 percent.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Job-Listing Web Site Scales Up Solution, Reduces Costs by More Than U.S.$500,0002009-11-01 Microsoft
  The job-listing Web site OCCMundial.com connects job seekers with opportunities and optimizes hiring processes for businesses. Headquartered in Mexico City, OCCMundial.com helps to fill more than 600,000 positions a year in Mexican and international job markets. To provide better value to its customers, the company developed a recommendation system it calls OCCMatch to match job openings to candidate resumes. OCCMundial.com wanted to scale up its OCCMatch recommendation system to connect 1.5 million resumes with 80,000 job listings, but its existing computing infrastructure lacked capacity to meet the demand. To avoid significant hardware and other infrastructure costs, OCCMundial.com used the Windows Azure platform to host OCCMatch through a Microsoft data center, providing easy solution scalability and enhancing value for OCCMundial.com customers.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Dell Case Study: Inovis2009-10-01 Dell
  Inovis must rapidly build a data center to accommodate a new customer at the same time that a corporate office move requires relocating 100 IT servers across the country. Dell infrastructure enables Inovis to boost performance and complete the new data center on schedule; the Inovis IT team also virtualizes its 100 older servers, making them easier to move, and consolidates them onto Dell PowerEdge servers to reduce space requirements and costs.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Distributor Uses Virtualization to Reduce Disruptions and Costs, and Double Efficiency2009-07-13 Microsoft
  Based in San Antonio, Texas, SPFM is a distributor of medical equipment, health and beauty products, and specialty food items. The company needed to modernize its IT infrastructure to accommodate rapid growth and improve the availability of critical applications. With the help of Catapult Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, SPFM replaced 12 older servers with 5 new servers running Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology. The firm also deployed Microsoft System Center data center solutions to gain new IT efficiencies and monitor servers proactively. Using server virtualization, clustering, and preemptive monitoring, SPFM has eliminated business interruptions and freed the business to grow; it has also avoided a U.S.$75,000 hardware expense and associated electrical costs of $10,000 annually.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Hoster Uses Hyper-V to Provide Servers on Demand and Boost Profitability by 55 Percent2009-06-30 Microsoft
  PoundHost is a fast-growing hosting service provider in Maidenhead, United Kingdom, that embraced server virtualization as a way to curb hardware costs and lower hosting prices. However, the high cost of VMware and lack of management tools hurt competitiveness. PoundHost replaced VMware with Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter and Hyper-V technology to reduce licensing costs by 80 percent and add new services. Using Hyper-V in conjunction with Microsoft System Center data center solutions, PoundHost now offers customized online ordering and delivers configured servers in less than an hour. Between a dramatic increase in virtual-machine sales and reduced licensing costs, PoundHost has increased profitability by 55 percent. Automated server provisioning has reduced IT costs by more than U.S.$50,000 annually, and proactive server monitoring increases server availability.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Growing Beyond the Limits: Maryland government agency responds to user needs faster thanks to a server and storage virtualization solution from Dell2009-05-08 Dell
  Growth is inherent to IT organizations, and this Maryland government agency is no exception. The agency is charged with providing IT resources to the Governor's office and other state agencies. Having room for growth is critical. The IT team is dedicated to meeting its government users' requests for services, applications and innovative ideas for improving services to citizens.

Tags: Management, Data Infrastructure, Storage Hardware, Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Continental Flies Higher by Saving Millions With Microsoft Hyper-V on HP BladeSystem2009-05-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Continental Airlines (www.continental.com) is the fifth largest airline in the world. At number five, Continental may not be the world's biggest airline. But in a number of surveys, passengers say it's the best. Continental wanted to increase compute capacity despite data center limits on power. Continental standardized on HP BladeSystem and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V to maximize CPU utilization and reduce the number of physical servers required.

Tags: Server Hardware, Server Platforms - OS		   
whitepaper HP Automates End-User Management2009-05-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  HP's decision to consolidate more than 85 internal data centers of 5,000 or more square feet, plus hundreds of additional smaller server locations, to three pairs of next generation data centers garnered considerable industry attention. As a part of this transformation HP consolidated its client management environment using HP Client Automation software as an alternative to its home-grown solution. Intelligent, automated tools like HP Client Automation help significantly reduce the cost and complexity of a number of challenges that corporations commonly face today: managing software distribution and upgrades, setting up new systems, and supporting clients and end users across environments that span thousands of offices worldwide.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Efficiencies Enable Two Administrators to Manage 200,000 End Users Worldwide2009-05-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  HP wanted to reduce the administrative costs to manage HP's client environment while simultaneously improving quality of service. HP automated management of the client environment, including installing and maintaining core applications, patching systems, enabling self-service for optional software and collecting inventory and usage information. This resulted in reduced infrastructure by more than 50% while improving reliability to over 99.9% as well as compressed packaging times for patches from at least eight hours down to minutes.

Tags: Data Infrastructure