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whitepaper Bendigo Bank Bolsters Growth Strategy With IBM Global Financing0000-00-00 IBM
  With 25-30 new branches opening each year, Bendigo Bank views IT infrastructure as critical to supporting the bank in its efficient delivery of banking and wealth management services to customers nationally. With its business growing by over 20 per cent per annum, Bendigo Bank began to face the challenges imposed by ageing IT equipment supplied through leases from various suppliers. After a comprehensive review, Bendigo Bank decided to consolidate its IT asset leasing into a partnership with IBM Global Financing. The bank's IT infrastructure comprises about 3000 desktop and notebook computers, more than 400 small servers and an IBM Servers mainframe server, with associated storage and tape library.

Tags: Mainframes, Tape Drives - Libraries		   
whitepaper How to Design a New Product That Will Compete in a Brand Dominated and Choice Saturated Market Environment?0000-00-00 GadShaananDESIGN
  The rear projection television market is saturated, price driven market dominated by consumer electronics giants such as Sony, Samsung and Mitsubishi as well as less known, low priced brands from China. HP wanted to capture the essence of their brand attributes. As a new player in the RPTV market, HP wanted to introduce a product that would "Stand out" from the competition and establish itself as a key player in the category. The design strategy should convey the message that "HP IS THE OBVIOUS CHOICE", HP turned to GadShaananDesign to address the challenge. This case study will focus on the discovery of the "Unique feature" strategy on the RPTV itself and not the remote control or other elements of the project.   
whitepaper HP's Mobility Solution Helped Position Cyber Resource to Seamlessly Cope With Change and Beat the Competition0000-00-00 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Located in Beijing Shangdi High Technology Industrial Park, Cyber Resource has many overseas investment companies as well as government entities as customers, and is well known in its industry. For them to fully understand the actual needs of a customer, a good many projects require that Cyber Resource post engineers onsite at the customer's office. As such, many of their staff must continually operate between Cyber Resource and customer offices. The company had to, therefore, find a way to help its staff work more effectively. Cyber Resource believed that the best way was to adopt a HP Smart Office mobility solution. They replaced some of their Desktop PCs with HP Business Notebooks and also introduced several HP iPAQ Pocket PCs.

Tags: Laptops		   
whitepaper Success Stories: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology0000-00-00 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Engineering and science coursework is notoriously difficult, with an endless barrage of equations, formulas and methodologies to study and review. At Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, students and faculty rely on HP to make learning easier and the learning environment better integrated. Since 1994, each incoming freshman has received a notebook PC. For its latest class, the school wanted a highly durable notebook PC with faster processing speeds and improved graphics capabilities. After reviewing and testing several notebook PCs, the school chose the HP nw8440 Mobile Workstation.

Tags: Workstations, Tablets		   
whitepaper Dell IT Cuts Energy Costs by Up to 40 Percent With a New Power Management Plan2007-09-01 Dell
  Energy conservation is an increasingly important issue for organizations in a wide range of fields. There is a need to conserve energy and cut expenses at Dell by reducing the power used by approximately 50,000 of its computers during non-business hours. As a solution Dell installed 1E NightWatchman and SMSWakeUp software on its desktop and notebook computers: NightWatchman helps reduce energy waste by turning off computers overnight, and SMSWakeUp repowers machines from a centralized command.

Tags: Laptops		   
whitepaper Automated Desktop Deployment Boosts Productivity and Reduces Costs2007-09-01 Electronic Data Systems
  The data storage solutions provider wanted to accelerate new desktop deployment while ensuring more efficient system upgrades and refreshes. The company also wanted to enable immediate integration of security patches so that it could proactively protect its systems from computer viruses and other intruders. EDS proposed a leading-edge automated desktop solution. EDS' comprehensive solution deployed 30 desktops at a time. The solution also reduces operational costs by 32 percent. Plus, ADDS processes new computers more quickly, reducing the order-to-delivery cycle for new computers by a day.

Tags: Network Security, Security Management		   
whitepaper Coal Company Reduces Operational Costs With Centralised Network Management0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Yuzhkuzbasugol is one of Russia's largest coal mining companies. It is based in Kemerovskaya oblast. Yuzhkuzbasugol wanted to improve workflow processes for all of its employees by centralising its IT infrastructure. The company needed to reduce its IT overheads while standardising more than 1,500 workstations. Softline recommended Yuzhkuzbasugol implement a consolidated solution based on the Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment Enterprise Edition (BDD EE). With this tool, the company could manage the transition of all its PCs to a standardised Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Office 2003 environment through Zero Touch Installation (ZTI) - without the loss of any company data or user settings.

Tags: Workstations, Windows XP		   
whitepaper Microsoft Windows XP Professional Enables Unattended Installation of Operating System and Applications in Less Than an Hour0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Taking advantage of Remote Installation Services (RIS) and Group Policy features in the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system, the Corporate Services Division Information Technology Management Branch (ITMB), serving two British Columbia environmental ministries, was able to perform a completely unattended installation of both the operating system and applications in an average of 40 minutes per desktop. These capabilities will help reduce deployment costs, automate future software upgrades, and simplify hardware additions and changes. The expected result is a more consistent environment and the ability for the ministries to more efficiently administer and support their 3,500 desktops.

Tags: Windows XP		   
whitepaper Global Manufacturer to Improve Security and Collaboration With "Desktop of the Future"0000-00-00 Microsoft
  With a global workforce of more than 30,000, PPG Industries wants to empower its employees to work at top efficiency regardless of time zone, location, or language. To achieve that, PPG developed its computer "Desktop of the Future" - based on Windows Vista and Microsoft Office Professional 2007 - to enhance security and support real time communication and collaboration across the enterprise. The new desktop configuration requires only one image for all 20,000 workstations, which will help reduce deployment and management time. And built-in diagnostics, increased automation, easier access to features, and improved document management capabilities will help PPG workers work more productively. In addition, enhanced security features will help provide a more stable desktop environment.

Tags: Windows Vista		   
whitepaper SonicWALL Case Study: DePaul University2007-08-01 SonicWall
  Chicago-based DePaul University 's IT administrators needed a solution that could ensure that the network, data and the University applications would be secure. The challenge was to provide DePaul's students, administrators and staff with easy-to-use, secure access to any application. They wanted a solution which provided self-remediation so that they wouldn't be bogged down with support calls. DePaul deployed SonicWALL Aventail E-Class EX-2500 SSL VPN functioning as a central gateway for wireless access. University's administrators, staff and more than 23,000 students can now securely and remotely access internal or external applications and files based on their login credentials, as well as the identity and integrity of their connecting desktop, laptop or wireless mobile device. .

Tags: VPNs, Laptops