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whitepaper Internet Solutions Company Boosts Scalability of Content Delivery Network2009-11-06 Microsoft
  Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Internap helps companies maximize the performance, reliability, and value of Internet-based applications. In 2008, the company earned U.S.$254 million in revenue. Internap deployed Internet Information Services 7.5 in the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system to implement new capabilities in its content delivery network. As a result, the company can replace Apache Squid on its edge servers, cut costs, and improve scalability, reporting, and the users' Web experience.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS		   
whitepaper BREG, Inc. Powers Global Expansion With Highly Available, Flexible, and Integrated IT Infrastructure2009-11-01 Oracle
  BREG, Inc. wanted to implement a flexible and scalable IT architecture to meet rapidly changing business demands and enable seamless introduction of new technologies and organizations and ensure IT infrastructure availability and performance. The challenge was to simplify IT administration and standardize production processes, centralize key back-office capabilities, and create a more flexible supply chain. BREG, Inc. deployed Oracle infrastructure software to ensure round-the-clock IT uptime for the rapidly growing international orthopedic, reconstructive, and postoperative products business and streamlined IT administration - enabling the manufacturer to increase resources devoted to its core business and more effectively respond to changing business demands.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Worldwide News Provider Creates New Content Channels With Hosted Computing2009-11-01 Microsoft
  The Associated Press (AP) is the world's largest news organization, with bureaus in 97 countries. On average, more than half the world's population sees news from AP on a given day. AP wanted to broaden its reach by encouraging developers to incorporate AP content into their applications. Using the Microsoft-hosted Windows Azure platform, AP created a highly scalable solution that simplifies capacity planning and creates new business opportunities.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Ticket Seller Finds Ideal Business Solution in Hosted Computing Platform2009-11-01 Microsoft
  New Zealand - based TicketDirect International has grown into a major ticketing service for venues in Australia and New Zealand. The company's focus on excellent customer service led it to look for a better way to handle peak system loads during major event ticket sales. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Intergen, TicketDirect has begun redesigning its system to work from a "Cloud computing" environment using the Windows Azure platform. The company is rebuilding its customer application as a Windows Azure application and migrating its data to a Microsoft SQL Azure database. By moving to an off-premises, cloud solution, TicketDirect is able to easily and cost-efficiently scale its computing resources in response to real-time demand while simultaneously giving up the cost of maintaining its own hardware.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
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 Texas Instruments Gains Technical Acumen and Boosts Scalability of Customer Solution2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Texas Instruments needed to improve the performance of a key order-taking solution used by engineering customers. The company attended a Proof-of-Concept workshop at a Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) to explore and resolve coding bottlenecks, helping the solution go from supporting 20 concurrent users to supporting 450. The company also gained technical insight and avoided spending U.S.$75,000 on extra hardware because of its MTC experience.

Tags: Business Functions		   
whitepaper Video Services Provider to Reduce Transcoding Costs Up to Half2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Origin Digital, a video application service provider, wanted to increase transcoding throughput without increasing capital expense. To gain dynamic scalability within a familiar development environment, the company built an innovative transcoding application called Cloudcoder on the Windows Azure platform. The application will reduce compute costs and database administration time as well as expedite moves into new geographic markets.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Financial Risk-Analysis Firm Enhances Capabilities With Dynamic Computing2009-11-01 Microsoft
  RiskMetrics Group's Risk Management Business delivers risk management services to the world's leading asset managers, banks, and institutions to help them measure and model complex financial instruments. To meet increasing market demand for risk analysis, RiskMetrics needed to accommodate increasing peak loads on its computing infrastructure for specific periods of time. The company used the Windows Azure platform - an Internet-scale services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers - to provide on-demand computing capacity for its analytics applications. Now RiskMetrics can complement its on-premises capabilities with a flexible, reliable solution that can support bursts in computing activity over short periods of time, deliver enhanced services for more customers, empower innovation, and provide the company with increased business agility.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Developer Scales Search-and-Rescue Application to Help Save More Lives at Sea2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Responding to high numbers of deaths at sea in the fishing industry, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution contracted Active Web Solutions (AWS) to create an automated sea-safety application. AWS developed a location-based service infrastructure, code-named GeoPoint, which transmits position data to a centralized tracking and alerting system. AWS used GeoPoint to build MOB Guardian, a search-and-rescue application for fishing vessels. To extend GeoPoint to more scenarios, AWS migrated it to the Windows Azure platform. By hosting GeoPoint in the "Cloud," in Microsoft data centers, AWS attained massive scalability, richer functionality, and lower infrastructure costs. AWS was able to quickly convert its application to a hosted service and avoid the expense of building and managing a data center.

Tags: IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Company Efficiently Delivers Advanced Forecasts With Scalable Software-Plus-Services2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Lokad is a software development company that delivers sales, demand, and call volume forecasts for more than 300 customers - from one-person eCommerce companies to multinational retailers. To improve its forecasting capabilities, the company developed advanced forecasting tools and models. However, the more powerful forecasting models required significantly more computing resources than the company had available. Lokad decided to implement its software-plus-services forecasting application on the Windows Azure platform - a quick, efficient process. As a result, Lokad reduced IT maintenance costs compared to traditional approaches, delivered more powerful and accurate forecasts to its customers, and improved its ability to expand into new markets.

Tags: Software Development Tools