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Consulting Firm Finds Reliable Remote Access at Lower Cost With Windows 2000 Server | 0000-00-00 | Microsoft |
| Tompkins Associates was looking for reliable remote access for its consultants worldwide, so the total operations consulting firm upgraded to Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. The rollout was accomplished with no downtime. The thin client solution lets Tompkins IT staff administer the global network from one location. The firm gains agility from Windows 2000 Server's seamless integration with other Microsoft products such as Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft Outlook messaging client. To help select and implement the solution, Tompkins turned to 4Front Systems, a systems integration firm and Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider (MCSP).
Tags: Windows NT - 2000 - 2003, E-Mail Client |
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Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) Proves Better for Users, IT Administrators, HP Bottom Line | 2005-11-01 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
This case study explains how HP used its own Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) solution, which leverages thin client and blade technologies, to solve top challenges in five of its business units. Those challenges included:
Tags: Network Security, Security Tools, Blades, Best Practices |
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HP Revitalizes Multispecialty Clinic's IT Environment | 2007-02-13 17:25:33 | Hewlett-Packard |
| Physicians' Clinic of Iowa P.C. (PCI) is a physician owned medical group with four sites in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In early 2005, PCI decided to replace its aging technology environment with a new infrastructure that would more efficiently connect all of its Cedar Rapids offices. HP supported PCI and EnCompass in designing and implementing the new system. IT management is accomplished through the use of HP Systems Insight Manager, Altiris Deployment Solution and Windows Terminal Services Manager. EnCompass provided the smart planning advice that Johnson wanted, configured the servers and helped with deployment. | |||
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Sun's N1 Grid Engine Increases Return on Assets (ROA) Quickly for Sun IT Operations | 2006-01-04 01:01:52 | |
| Sun's IT operations are just like many of Sun's customers-under pressure to get more out of their significant existing computing resources. An opportunity was identified in Sun's desktop server environment, powered by innovative Sun Ray technology, which processes thin client user sessions for all campuses. Since many of these servers were idle in the evening, a strategic pilot project was initiated to identify ways to increase utilization of Sun Ray servers after hours. of computing resources. The Sun team realized grid computing was the obvious option for optimizing use of the global computing power of Sun Ray servers. | |||
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H. Gugel Increases Efficiency and Flexibility With IBM Technologies | 2005-12-06 01:01:57 | |
| Founded in 1934, H. Gugel GmbH is a leading supplier of meat products and sausages in Germany. As the company expanded operations, Gugel executives found IT costs rising dramatically. Over five years, the number of servers required to support critical business services grew by more than 100 percent. To maintain its competitive edge, Gugel needed to create a reliable operating environment that could flexibly respond to market fluctuations and efficiently support the needs of an increasingly mobile workforce. Working with the IBM Business Partner SecureIT, Gugel used IBM technologies to build an open, integrated and automated infrastructure that adapts to changing business requirements. | |||
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Sun Case Study: Ligare Book Printer | 2005-12-01 01:00:02 | |
| Ligare Book Printer, Australia's largest privately owned book manufacturer, decided to pursue a massive undertaking to replace its information systems infrastructure. Ligare Book Printer required a cost-effective secure remote access solution that provided cross-platform support and centralized administration for Oracle e-business applications via a thin-client network. By deploying Tarantella Enterprise 3 software in a Solaris environment with Sun Ray thin clients, Ligare is able to provide the head office, multiple manufacturing and distribution sites, as well as remote staff, with access to business critical applications, including its new Oracle mPowered Manufacturing suite. | |||
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Sun Case Study: CSI-Piemonte | 2005-12-01 01:00:02 | |
| When the Italian city of Turin wanted to deploy its accounting applications to low-cost client devices, it decided that the solution was to web-enable these applications. The challenge was to web-enable them quickly, without any costly application rewrites or changes to the existing network architecture. Tarantella web-enabling software, provided by CSI-Piemonte, enabled the city to web-enable these applications quickly. The city now benefits from the resulting lower costs and increased efficiency. | |||
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Sun Case Study: Busan Adventist Hospital | 2005-11-29 01:00:03 | |
| Busan Adventist Hospital (BAH) is the general hospital of affiliated Sahmyook, South Korea, with 280 beds and an additional 100 to be added in the near future. One of the newest tools in the medical field is the picture archiving and communications system (PACs), enabling digital imaging without film. To consolidate and increase administrative efficiency, Sun built the hospital information system (HIS) to include not only PACS, but also an order communication system (OCS) and electronic medical records (EMR) system. The new system efficiently administrates 150 machines from the same computing environment with optimal security. | |||
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Sun Case Study: Urasoe City Offices | 2005-12-06 03:19:12 | Sun Microsystems |
| For more than 20 years, the city of Urasoe (population 105,000), located in the southern part of Okinawa, Japan, has steadily developed advanced computing capabilities. The Japanese city of Urasoe needed to find a server-based thin client solution which allows for unified application control while reducing overall client maintenance. Using Tarantella software and thin clients, the city of Urasoe is able to offer applications to users regardless of location and with a great reduction in maintenance costs. | |||
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chooses Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains as Its Global Financial Solution | 2005-10-13 03:00:02 | |
| With 230 overseas offices in 190 countries, all of which regularly consolidate their finances into the FCO's London headquarters, the FCO needed to quickly and cost-efficiently replace its obsolete finance system with a flexible, user-friendly solution. By choosing Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains, the FCO has solved its problems, creating a system that is reliable and easy to manage, generating significant efficiencies across the department's financial reporting and ensuring its ability to analyse its accounts information in real time. |
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