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Energy Monitoring Firm Saves Money, Scales Business With Hosted Computing Platform | 2009-11-01 | Microsoft |
| Advanced Telemetry develops systems to help businesses monitor and control energy usage, onsite or via the Internet. The company employees 22 people. Advanced Telemetry needed a cost-effective way to scale its computing power, improve service, and maintain a rich and engaging user experience. Advanced Telemetry used Visual WebGui from Gizmox to migrate to the Windows Azure cloud computing platform.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology Pairs Dell Servers With Intel Processor Technology, and Dell EqualLogic Storage to Save Six Figures | 2009-10-01 | Dell |
| Cornell Lab of Ornithology needed a consistent backup and disaster recovery solution to protect terabytes of critical data amassed by researchers to further conservation and explore the biodiversity of the planet. Server sprawl also threatened the efficiency of IT operations. The Lab consolidated multiple backup systems on Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs for data protection and disaster recovery solutions that provide full recoverability of data. It also virtualized servers with VMware and Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon processors to eliminate server sprawl and improve manageability and efficiency.
Tags: Data Tools, Storage Hardware |
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Delsea Regional School District Refreshes Client Systems Four Times Faster With Solutions From Dell and Symantec | 2009-10-01 | Dell |
| With 1,300 endpoints distributed across nine buildings, Delsea Regional School District's IT staff spent a lot of time driving between sites and visiting machines. Summer client hardware refreshes took three months to complete. Delsea implemented Altiris Management Suite for Dell Clients to allow its staff of three people to manage the client systems more efficiently without adding headcount.
Tags: Internet and Web |
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Popular Ecommerce Solution, PriceGong, Selects NaviSite for Reliable Hosting of Price Comparison Data | 2009-10-01 | NaviSite |
| Founded in 2006 at the Israel Business Incubation Center, privately held PriceGong is a great example of a 21st century success story-a small 6 person team identifies a market opportunity and meets the consumer demand with a solid and well received offering. Not content to rest on their laurels, PriceGong took the steps needed to get to the next level and capitalize on their forward momentum. With the early success of the PriceGong comparison shopping plug-in came concerns about infrastructure, performance, and reliability. Compounding this was an increasing need for a higher level of support. | |||
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Always There Support and World Class Infrastructure Made a Winning Combination | 2009-09-29 | NaviSite |
| Founded in 1999, Atlantic QMS worked with numerous technology incubators, launching the pioneering the web based carbon offset company Future Forests as well as the original networking site Ecsademy. Atlantic QMS is developing a complex website and back-end end application for a noted New York finance and insurance company. Among the requirements was the need for the data to be hosted in a facility located in the US due to industry regulations. Through the process of researching providers, NaviSite made to the short list due to recommendations from several Atlantic QMS clients.
Tags: Business Functions, Network Management |
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Gazprom Neft Makes Use of Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization Technology to Increase Efficiency and Reliability of Its IT Infrastructure | 2009-09-28 | Microsoft |
| In today's difficult economic environment, all companies seek ways to cut business costs. One of the possibilities for serious economizing in the field of information technologies can be reduction of costs on infrastructure, that is, on management of desktop computers and servers. This goal can be attained through employment of virtualization technologies, which enable to ensure the dynamic redistribution of computation load and to increase the consolidation of resources. That is precisely what Gazprom Neft Company did by implementing the Microsoft Hyper-V technology. Owing to that solution, not only did it succeed to increase reliability, flexibility and scalability of its IT infrastructure, but also to significantly reduce expenditures, while substantially increasing work efficiency.
Tags: Server Hardware |
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Crutchfield Case Study: A Win-Win Situation | 2009-09-22 | Dell |
| Fast growth had pushed Crutchfield's data center to the maximum capacity of its cooling unit. The company wanted to reduce the number of physical machines to avoid buying a new air conditioner as well as streamline server management. By implementing Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-VTM on DellTM PowerEdgeTM servers, Crutchfield was able to shrink its server footprint, reduce power and cooling costs, and manage its environment more efficiently.
Tags: Server Platforms - OS, IT Infrastructure, Internet and Web, Software Development Tools |
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Tripwire Helps Put This Student Loan Servicing Company at the Head of Its Class | 2009-09-19 | Tripwire |
| EdFinancial Services strives to be best in class by streamlining the student loan delivery process across the life of a loan in a completely digital environment. The challenge was to ensure successful deployment of web content changes, to leverage automated controls to minimize audit overhead and increase change management discipline to gain operational efficiencies. Tripwire Enterprise provides continuous configuration control across IT infrastructure. It provides automated change detection and reporting for file servers, Active Directory domain controllers, and network devices that defend change control processes, simplifies reporting for auditing purposes, plus enhances security and operational efficiency.
Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Security Administration |
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Navisite Case Study: Webchutney | 2009-09-15 | NaviSite |
| Webchutney is India's top full service digital media and interactive marketing agency. Webchutney had a problem though; they were unhappy with the quality of service they were getting from their dedicated server hosting provider. Sporadic outages were frustrating, but even more troubling were the lack of professionalism and follow through on the part of the engineering and support staff. Webchutney took confidence in the fact that NaviSite was an established leader with world class infrastructure, class leading dedicated server performance to cost ratios, proven security technology and other enhanced management services.
Tags: Security Administration |
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Strangers (or Customers) Share Their Experience with IBM Service Management | 2009-09-10 | IBM |
| IBM Service Management provides smarter solutions to design, build and manage a dynamic infrastructure that enables you to improve service, reduce cost and manage risk, while managing and delivering business and IT services more efficiently and effectively. But don't take it from us. See what others say. Watch the Service Management videos.
Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Security Administration, User Satisfaction |
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