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whitepaper Railway Ticketing Agency Improves Performance and Eases IT Management2008-05-01 Microsoft
  Voyages-sncf.com is the online travel agency for the Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais (SNCF), a public enterprise that operates rail services for passengers and freight throughout France. With more than 9 million Web site visitors a month, Voyages-sncf.com needed to ensure that its ticketing Web site is available to customers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The company wanted a new operating system that would interoperate with upgraded hardware. Additionally, IT staff at Voyages-sncf.com wanted to improve server management, increase productivity, enhance security, and provide an optimized IT foundation for the future. The agency deployed Windows Server 2008 with its Read-Only Domain Controller feature and upgraded to 64-bit HP servers with Intel Xeon quad-core processors.

Tags: Application Servers, Windows Server 2008		   
whitepaper Construction Materials Supplier Simplifies Branch Office IT Management, Saves $400,0002008-05-01 Microsoft
  Lafarge North America needed a cost-effective solution to reduce network security risks at branch offices while increasing the efficiency of centralized server administration. The company became an early adopter of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise to test the enhanced features of the Server Core installation option, read-only domain controller, and Terminal Services. Lafarge anticipates that increased efficiencies will produce a savings of U.S. $400,000 over the next three years.

Tags: Remote Access - RA Servers, Windows Server 2008		   
whitepaper GameRail Chooses Dell and Achieves Up to an 80 Percent Reduction in Latency for a Faster Gaming Experience2008-04-01 Dell
  Founded in 2006, St. Louis, Missouri-based GameRail has been working to solve online gamers connectivity and gaming quality challenges. To minimize the possibility of service quality degradation before users reach the GameRail network, the company must locate gateways in optimal locations known as carrier hotels. The company deployed Dell for its solution and implemented Dell PowerEdge SC1435 servers combined with routers from Foundry Networks which provide the performance to intelligently route online gaming traffic from user to game server in a form factor that helps GameRail scale to meet demand.

Tags: Application Servers		   
whitepaper Dell Helps University Create a Superhuman Machine2008-01-31 Dell
  The existing system at the Computational Laboratory for Analysis, Modeling, and Visualization (CLAMV) at Jacobs University in Bremen lacked sufficient computing power to satisfy rising demands. For various departments within the university to conduct a series of computer-aided simulation and modeling solutions, it needed to improve its processing power. They needed to continue making the institution's computer-aided simulation and modeling solutions available to its users in specialist disciplines. CLAMV turned to Dell for its solution and implemented a new high-performance cluster. The system is driven by 320 processor cores at 2.9 teraflops.

Tags: Application Servers, Linux Server OS		   
whitepaper Dell Simplifies In-Store IT for Waterford Wedgwood USA, Cutting Support Time by an Estimated 90 Percent2008-01-01 Dell
  Waterford Wedgwood is one of the world's prominent luxury lifestyle businesses, with brands that include Waterford Crystal, Wedgwood, Rosenthal, and Royal Doulton. A mixed fleet of Point-Of-Sale (POS) systems was time-consuming to maintain and needed to be replaced in time for the holiday shopping season. Dell POS stations, based on Dell OptiPlex 745 desktops with Intel Pentium D processors, were rolled out nationwide by Dell Services in six weeks. The new systems simplify maintenance and practically eliminate downtime.

Tags: Desktop Systems - PCs, Point of Sale Devices		   
whitepaper Virtual Software Demos Reduce Sales Expense and Shorten Sales Cycles2007-11-01 Microsoft
  Makers of complex software programs run into challenges when trying to demonstrate their products. They either have to fly prospective customers to demonstration centers, or salespeople have to configure custom demos and carry around expensive computers to run them. VLabSource, of Redmond, Washington, offers a Web-based demonstration management system called DemoPoint that salespeople can use to demonstrate their wares with nothing more than a browser and a broadband Internet connection. VLabSource uses Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 to create virtual machines, which run on Dell PowerEdge server computers powered by dual-core Intel Xeon processors.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper Leading Managed Services Provider Forecasts "The Perfect Storm" for Small Business Services2007-10-01 Intel
  With the right processes and the right tools, one can become the client's high-value IT department. But 'High-value' doesn't mean 'Fix it when it breaks.' It means an enterprise level of service for small businesses that puts the right infrastructure in place, keeps it working with very few disruptions, and grows it carefully as the client's needs and challenges change. masterIT's tools were not mature enough to support their business model effectively. But now the company's current managed services infrastructure - built on N-able's software's management console, N-central, and PCs with Intel vPro processor technology - gives the capability to deliver very comprehensive, very high-value services to their clients at a reasonable cost.   
whitepaper Growing Manufacturer Gains Productivity and IT Reliability With Combination Solution0000-00-00 Microsoft
  In only one year, California manufacturer Soundproof Windows quadrupled - from 4 people in a 5000 square-foot shop to 23 people in an 18000 square-foot facility, with offices across the country and overseas. The company realized that its aging computer network could not meet increasing business requirements. Desktop computers had no reliable e-mail, fax, or internet security service. Nor could the company provide remote access for its mobile users. Nor could the company provide remote access for its mobile users. Teaming with ExpressNets, a Microsoft Certified Partner and Intel Technology Provider, Soundproof Windows deployed and Intel Xenon processor-based server running Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003.

Tags: Application Servers, IT Reliability		   
whitepaper Dell's IT Infrastructure Services, Desktops, and Notebooks Allow Global Consumer Packaged Goods Marketer Unilever to Support Staff Efficiency and Productivity With Business-Critical IT Services2007-09-01 Dell
  Unilever is a multinational corporation that owns 400 consumer brands spanning a wide range of home, personal care, and food products. The outdated client technology and non-standard services inhibited flexibility, limited scalability, and created overhead; the company wanted to completely refresh its IT infrastructure while reducing deployment and maintenance costs. Dell Managed Services helped Unilever roll out nearly 10,000 pre-imaged Dell OptiPlex desktops and Dell Latitude notebook computers with Intel processors running Microsoft Windows XP across over 100 locations; Dell Managed Client Services offered centralized support services to the distributed Unilever workforce.

Tags: Windows XP, Laptops		   
whitepaper Embedded System Ensures Low-Cost Deployment of Entertainment Devices on U.K. Trains0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Volo, based in the U.K., planned to implement a number of entertainment devices in train carriage seats. The devices needed a hardware and software environment that ensured cost-effective development and compliance with regulations on carriage modifications. It was vital the infrastructure created minimal heat and avoided fan-assisted cooling. After analysing the market, including a Linux solution, the company chose a processor running Microsoft Windows XP Embedded created by Microsoft Gold Windows Embedded Partner, DSP Design in the U.K. As a result, Volo built and deployed the device that met industry standards in only six months. The company gained a stable software environment that ensures low-cost application development and developer tools that are widely known.

Tags: Windows XP, Linux Server OS