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HP Helps Ameren Keep the Lights On | 0000-00-00 | Hewlett-Packard |
| After HP announced its plan to transition from the AlphaServers to industry standards based platforms, AREVA T&D chose to focus on Intel platforms including Itanium running Windows or Linux. As a result, Ameren selected a new Integrity server hardware platform that would meet its high standards for reliability. The company chose HP Integrity servers and Intel Itanium 2 processors with built-in redundancy and flexible capacity running Microsoft Windows, along with server management software.
Tags: Windows XP |
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HP Helps Pechanga Win With Customers | 0000-00-00 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| Pechanga Resort & Casino showcases the pinnacle of hotel luxury, fine dining, gaming excitement, musical entertainment, and meeting facilities. The resort sought to connect with its employee team and thousands of customers while improving server management during unprecedented company growth. HP supplied two HP Integrity rx8640 Servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Pechanga uses the platform in several ways: to execute its server consolidation strategy, to implement a data warehouse using SQL Server 2005, and to run its business intelligence and development environment.
Tags: Database Management, x86-standard Servers |
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Standardizing on AMD for the Company That Sets the Reseller Standard | 0000-00-00 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| Founded 24 years ago CDW is now a Fortune 500 company. As a leading provider of technology products and services for business, government and education, CDW is one of HP's biggest North American reseller partners. As the company has grown, its data center needs have expanded, too. The company decided to test out the HP ProLiant DL series servers with the AMD Opteron processors. The server sprawl had gotten enormous in the last few years and the company needed a way to help control it. The company was literally running out of power, running out of cooling, adding extra air conditioner units and adding extra power units to the data center. The company decided to switch to HP ProLiant AMD-based servers.
Tags: File and Network Servers, Data Center |
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APA Engineers Better Messaging Platform With HP and Microsoft | 0000-00-00 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| The charter of APA ? The Engineered Wood Association is to strengthen and develop the market for engineered wood products throughout the world. The company wanted to better serve the critical messaging needs of staff and association members with a strong new unified messaging infrastructure built on a robust 64-bit server platform. APA began its beta tests by running the new Exchange version on a legacy 32-bit server in a test environment. However, the full release version of Exchange Server 2007 requires the power of a 64-bit architecture to realize its full potential. To meet this need, APA ordered a new HP ProLiant DL385 server equipped with 64-bit AMD Opteron processors.
Tags: Application Servers, E-Mail Client |
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High School Students Create Films Using HP Technology | 0000-00-00 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| When students at Carson High School wanted to create videos warning classmates about the deadly combination of drug use and unsafe driving, the last thing they needed was underpowered computers getting in the way of their story telling. Unfortunately, that's just what they got. Crashing PCs and footage lost in editing frustrated some otherwise very motivated students in instructor Brian Reedy's video production class. Looking to furnish his classroom with new, robust equipment, Reedy turned to HP for a solution. After learning about the performance and reliability of HP workstations, the school opted to go with HP's recommendation. High school acquired dual-processor HP xw4300 Workstations.
Tags: Workstations |
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Northwest Hospital Helps Mobile Staff Stay Connected With Unified Messaging Solution | 0000-00-00 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| Seattle's Northwest Hospital & Medical Center operates one main hospital, runs multiple satellite clinics, and works with area physician practices. Increasingly, the hospital's top managers are away from their offices, visiting Northwest facilities, interacting with affiliated physicians, or attending health care seminars and conferences. The hospital wanted to give highly mobile hospital managers access to unified messaging services anytime, anywhere, including access to e-mail, voice mail, and files. They decided to Migrate to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 running on HP ProLiant AMD Opteron-based DL385 servers.
Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, E-Mail Client |
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Advanced Messaging Promises Better Return for IT Outsourcer Data Return | 0000-00-00 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| Founded in 1996, Data Return is celebrating a decade of providing a higher standard of managed services to clients around the world. To maintain leadership as a provider of managed services for midsize to enterprise businesses, Data Return needed a powerful 64-bit server platform to support Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. This would enable Data Return to provide a robust messaging system - including unified messaging features to support customers and internal business user needs. As a Technology Adoption Program partner with Microsoft, Data Return received pre-beta versions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and chose HP ProLiant 64-bit AMD Opteron-based servers to roll out an advanced messaging solution.
Tags: Application Servers, E-Mail Client |
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The Charlotte Observer Looks to Make Headlines With Intel Multi-Core Processors and Virtual Iron | 2006-12-12 | Intel |
| The Charlotte Observer, North Carolina's largest daily circulation newspaper, needed to reduce data center costs while improving the overall responsiveness of mission-critical applications. Legacy systems running on expensive, proprietary hardware were no longer meeting their needs in terms of cost and performance. The Charlotte Observer put both Intel and Virtual Iron to the test by conducting a series of system trials that produced dramatic performance gains. Industry-standard servers running Linux on Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors 5300 series with Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) and Virtual Iron virtualization and management software dramatically outperformed proprietary platforms in terms of price and performance. Application performance improved greatly in the test of Intel multi-core servers with Intel VT and Virtual Iron.
Tags: Virtualization |
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An IT Infrastructure Based on Dell Platforms Keeps the Kenton County School District at the Head of the Class | 2006-12-01 | Dell |
| The Kenton County School District in Kentucky is an award-winning district at the forefront of educational IT. To comply with federal regulations and improve administrative and teacher access to student records, the district needed to revamp its data warehouse strategy. Kenton County School District standardized on dual-core Intel Xeon processor - based Dell PowerEdge servers running the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and AssessMart data warehousing software; deploy 3,500 Dell OptiPlex desktops and 500 Dell Latitude notebooks.
Tags: Windows NT - 2000 - 2003, Laptops |
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Petrochemical Company Cuts Maintenance Costs 50 Percent With Integrated Messaging | 2006-11-29 01:00:19 | Microsoft |
| SK Corporation (SK) is a leading energy and petrochemical company based in Seoul, South Korea. It has 4,916 employees and reached sales of KRW22trillion (U.S.$23billion) in 2005. Faced with the need to upgrade its ten year old legacy workgroup system, it wanted a next-generation work environment to enable it to realize its HIgh PERformance (HIPER) Workplace project objectives. These aim to provide a work environment where employees can make best use of their potential by efficiently supporting communication and collaboration in real-time across all work areas. The company opted to install Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to give improved productivity and accessibility, plus enhanced managerial convenience and a projected 50 percent reduction in maintenance costs.
Tags: Collaboration Tools |
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