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whitepaper AngloGold Ashanti's Clustered Database Environment Makes Transactional Data Sets Highly Available2009-11-01 Oracle
  AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. wanted to ensure optimal implementation of Oracle Database 11g and stream 50 terabytes of spatial information from a central point to all global operations, for both greenfields and brownfields. The challenge was to deliver highly available platform for Oracle 11g environment to facilitate dissemination of data for global exploration teams and accommodate future growth in data volumes and access demands. AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. implemented a two-node system of Oracle Real Application Clusters across special and online transactional datasets and guaranteed future scalability and availability.

Tags: Network Management, Data Tools		   
whitepaper IT Services Provider Improves Mobile Communications and System Availability2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Big Bang System (BBS) Corporation, an IT services company in Japan, wanted to enhance collaboration for itself and its customers. The company sought higher availability and better access to e-mail and calendar information. To meet these needs, BBS Corporation is implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and using Microsoft Outlook Web App for remote access. Instead of deploying traditional failover clusters, the company is designing a high-availability solution with Database Availability Groups. BBS Corporation expects to save money by taking advantage of lower cost storage options, and it can implement a streamlined e-mail and mobility solution. Employees also benefit because they can connect to their inboxes from almost any device and location. Finally, the company has improved security with enhanced information protection and control features.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Energy Company's Mobile Work Force Gains Better Access to Messaging Information2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Medco Energi Internasional (MedcoEnergi), a global energy company, wanted to improve communications for its mobile work force. Employees traveled frequently to remote locations, and relied on e-mail to collaborate. However, an e-mail outage could stall communications for hours. To avoid downtime and improve access to information, MedcoEnergi is deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and integrating it with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. By creating a Database Availability Group, it can increase uptime and restore service within seconds instead of hours. Employees have improved Web-based access to multiple communications tools, and they can find and organize information more efficiently. In addition, MedcoEnergi expects to cut costs by consolidating server hardware and taking advantage of built-in communications capabilities.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Accounting Services Firm Upgrades Messaging to Improve Availability, Reduce Costs2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Baker Tilly, an independent firm of chartered accountants and business advisers, has more than 2,200 employees in 25 locations across the United Kingdom. Effective communication and collaboration are critical to these workers so that they can deliver timely, quality advice to help their clients. Baker Tilly was looking to deploy a unified communications solution that would make it easier for employees in different parts of the organization to work together. In addition, Baker Tilly wanted to improve the disaster recovery and e-discovery capabilities of its messaging environment. To achieve these goals, the company deployed a pilot of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.

Tags: Internet and Web, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Australian Brewer Improves Reliability, Availability With Highly Available Messaging2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Lion Nathan is a major producer, marketer, and distributor of premium alcoholic beverages in Australia and New Zealand. E-mail is critical to Lion Nathan's operations, including the processing of orders received from many retail stores and pubs. To help ensure high availability of e-mail messaging, Lion Nathan has deployed a pilot of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, as a part of the Microsoft Rapid Deployment Program. Lion Nathan expects that messaging enhancements will reduce storage requirements, resulting in a savings of AU$90,000 (U.S.$75,000). With the new messaging environment, Lion Nathan will be able to provide better site resiliency with higher availability, along with capabilities for employees to better manage and prioritize their communications.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Law Firm Provides Disaster Recovery While Reducing Costs With E-Mail Upgrade2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP offers legal counsel in 40 different areas of practice, including corporate, financial services, litigation, real estate, commercial finance, tax, intellectual property, and trusts and estates. E-mail is a critical communication tool for its 1,350 employees - 650 attorneys and 700 administrative and support staff - who work in offices across the United States and in an affiliate in London. Katten wanted to improve site resiliency to avoid extended e-mail system outages that were imposed by property management at their buildings for electrical and HVAC maintenance. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Project Leadership Associates, Katten deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to provide a highly available messaging environment that supported the compliance requirements of legal communications.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Caitong Securities Brokerage Processes 300,000 Daily Transactions With Powerful Database Platform2009-10-01 Oracle
  Caitong Securities Brokerage Co wanted to enable the efficient processing of large volumes of financial transactions for brokerage services and ensure optimum performance even during peak trading periods. The challenge was to reduce the financial threat to the business of trading in high-risk products such as futures commodities. Caitong Securities Brokerage Co engaged Oracle Certified Partner Hundsun Technologies to implement a centralized financial products sales system that runs on Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters and ensured high availability by adopting a clustered server framework made up of two database servers, so that if one database server fails, the workload is automatically transferred to the second server.

Tags: Data Tools		   
whitepaper The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society Ensures Organizational Scalability With Consolidated Enterprise Messaging Solution2009-10-01 Oracle
  The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society wanted to replace legacy communication collaboration applications to provide the organization with a modern, highly available and unified messaging platform and provide a scalable solution that can meet the needs of the growing not-for-profit organization that must communicate among 230 facilities and its headquarters. The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society migrated 230 facilities and 5,500 users at the Good Samaritan Society to a single instance of Oracle Beehive On Demand in just eight months - housing applications and data in the organization's own data center, with Oracle On Demand managing the application and technology stack.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper HP StorageWorks Systems Manage the Growing Flood of Data for Netherlands Telecom Leader KPN2009-08-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  KPN is the largest telephone company in the Netherlands - and a leading supplier of Internet services to businesses and consumers - supporting more than 2 million Internet subscribers and more than 3 million e-mail accounts. It needed to provide highly available, economical virtualized storage to support critical applications while enabling new customer services in a dynamic environment and competitive industry. KPN Expand EVA-based consolidated storage while leveraging HP StorageWorks software solutions and HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System (ExDS9100) to deliver new, high-performance customer services.

Tags: Management, Management		   
whitepaper eHarmony, Inc. Increases Database Scalability and Availability, Improves Customer Service2009-08-01 Oracle
  eHarmony, Inc. is a pioneer in using relationship science to match singles seeking long-term relationships. Its services, available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, present users with compatible matches based on key dimensions of personality that are scientifically proven to predict highly successful long-term relationships. It needed to improve scalability of the company's data infrastructure to support a rapidly growing client base and to ensure high availability and performance of the company's applications, including its U.S. and international Web sites. eHarmony Deployed Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters to create a highly scalable data management solution that supports the company's rapid growth.

Tags: Network Management, Data Infrastructure