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whitepaper Gritti Gas Rete Increases Flexibility and Cuts Costs With Virtualization2007-03-10 Microsoft
  The company has made the choice to outsource the IT infrastructure with the aim of reducing the tasks of its in-house management and system development personnel to a minimum, while keeping a close collaboration relationship with its technological partner in order to ensure rapid adaptation to the changes of operating and administrative needs. Computer Design presented Gritti Gas Rete with a server consolidation project and the simultaneous implementation of a disaster recovery system developed on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition technology.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper VirtualizeIT Designs and Implements a Virtual Infrastructure Platform for High Availability and Support of Business Critical Systems at Anglian Water2007-03-09 VirtualizeIT
  Anglian Water is one of the leading providers of water and wastewater services in the UK. This year, Telemetry Systems Manager, was required to review his IT infrastructure as some systems were coming to end of life and furthermore he had to take on the role of tactical systems development. This required a server environment that was both flexible and agile to enable support of rapid development of small business applications. Following consultation with VirtualizeIT, a VMware Authorized Consulting (VAC) Partner and VMware Enterprise VIP, Anglian Water began implementing a virtual infrastructure that would deliver on its business requirements.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper SENAC Lowers TCO Through Messaging Server Consolidation2007-01-05 01:00:23 Microsoft
  The National Commercial Education Service (SENAC) promotes professional education in Brazil. Based in Sao Paulo, SENAC has long been at the forefront of technological innovation in the educational field. Lately, SENAC focused on upgrading its messaging and collaboration systems in order to take advantage of new messaging features and reduce the number of server computers that it manages. SENAC migrated 100 users to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, giving them access to a highly integrated messaging system that supports mobile workers and reduces the institute's total cost of ownership of its messaging environment.   
whitepaper Server Virtualization Solution Using VMware2007-01-02 Berbee Information Networks
  Lakeview Medical Center is an independent, nonprofit, 75-bed community hospital that serves northwest Wisconsin. The organization boasts modern facilities with state-of-the-art technology and offers the area's largest number of full-time, resident doctors and specialists on its staff. Lakeview Medical Center was faced with the challenge of managing a rapidly growing organization with a data center that was originally designed to handle a fraction of the actual workload. This undue stress began to cause a number of day-today problems, the most critical of which was application availability. As a solution they used VMware to consolidate servers and provide a more efficient environment.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper European Financial Services Provider Migrates Database From Sybase to SQL Server 20002007-01-01 01:00:30 Microsoft
  REAAL Verzekeringen, a part of SNS REAAL Group, was facing several issues with its heterogeneous IT infrastructure and applications. Maintaining multiple technology platforms meant a higher investment in IT skills. The unavailability of people with Sybase skills and the undependability of its aging solutions led the organization to conduct a pilot migration from Sybase to Microsoft SQL Server 2000, with the intent of standardizing on this platform. REAAL Verzekeringen engaged Tata Consultancy Services, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner to help migrate the most complex and largest databases. The pilot has resulted in a clear understanding of the benefits, most notably, server consolidation and improved administration.   
whitepaper Pittsford Central School District Learns About HP's Commitment to Educational Market2006-12-20 01:00:25 Hewlett-Packard
  The Pittsford Central School District, a recipient of the prestigious New York State Governor's Excelsior Award for quality, is one of the top school districts in the United States. As Pittsford teachers and staff increasingly adopt new technologies, the district's total data storage is growing by more than 100 percent per year, and the need for improved storage management along with it. To gain greater control over storage assets, improve performance, and increase security, the Pittsford Central School District's Technology Department is consolidating storage islands on a Storage Area Network (SAN) based on the HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array. The district is automating and strengthening backups with HP OpenView Storage Data Protector and consolidating file-server management using the HP BladeSystem.   
whitepaper Global Banking and Financial Services Firm Drives Down Cost, Risk, and Complexity with Azul Compute Appliances2007-03-05 20:11:34 Azul Systems
  This case study explains how a leading financial services firm solved the performance problems that plagued its Java-based trading applications. The paper describes the problems the bank was having and explains why the company was looking for a solution that could:
  • Deliver extraordinary performance and scalability
  • Eliminate application memory constraints
  • Readily integrate into its existing IT environment
Download the paper to learn why the bank ultimately chose Azul Compute Appliances and to find out how the solution is helping the firm drive down cost, risk, and complexity. 		  
whitepaper HP Integrity Servers Help Keep Planes and Passengers in the Air2006-12-13 01:00:24 Hewlett-Packard
  Lufthansa Technik Logistik GmbH (LTL) supplies Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services to 450 airlines worldwide. Its heterogeneous server environment delivered low performance and high maintenance costs and also had availability and scalability issues. Working together with HP, Lufthansa Systems consolidated the 18 old PA-RISC machines down to two HP Integrity Business Critical Servers (BCS). It transitioned LTL from PA-RISC to Itanium. HP MSL tape libraries and EVA storage arrays were provided for backup and storage. They were formed into two identical server and storage systems, connected by SAN switches to create a high availability mirrored environment.   
whitepaper Centea: Server Consolidation Delivers on TCO Expectations2006-12-13 01:00:24 Hewlett-Packard
  Centea, a member of the financial group KBC, provides complete financial services to customer across Belgium. Faced with mounting server support and maintenance costs, Centea turned to HP for a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction proposal that would deliver measurable results from the start. By consolidating from ten servers in five clustered environments to two more powerful servers in a single cluster, Centea has achieved its TCO reduction goal of 25 percent - without compromising system availability or critical system support services.   
whitepaper Telstra Improves Efficiency With Simplified Development Environment2006-12-06 01:00:24 Oracle
  Telstra's data centers are responsible for managing the network records of the company's sprawling resources, which include everything from old copper wiring to the latest high-density optical fiber cables, cable, and satellite links. Compounding the issue for the centers was that they were experiencing an increasing array of problems with the incumbent desktop database platforms. The current databases lacked scalability and reliability, while deployment and maintenance of 'Fat client' desktop software was proving burdensome. Telstra was eager to consolidate its distributed desktop database setup into a centralized environment. This was achieved by combining applications from the seven data centers into a single Oracle 10g Database running on Red Hat Linux and low-cost Intel hardware.