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whitepaper Oil Services Firm Consolidates Servers, Simplifies IT With Branch Optimization Solution2009-06-01 Microsoft
  Expro is a leading provider of oil-and-gas services and products. As the company expanded to 150 offices in 50 countries, its branch servers multiplied. Expro decided to centralize servers but needed to address the challenge of increased traffic on its Wide Area Network (WAN) and the productivity impact on field workers accessing files over the network. Expro decided to replace branch servers with the Windows Server on WAAS (Wide Area Application Services) solution; a Cisco WAN optimization appliance that also runs basic IT services. Expro anticipates consolidating 25 branch servers and streamlining IT operations and costs.

Tags: Software Development Tools, IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Health Insurance Provider Plans for Future With Verizon Business2008-07-01
  With numerous locations in several states, this medical insurance provider handles care for millions of members and employs thousands of healthcare professionals. There was no overall central call center strategy and deployment plan, and much of the equipment was nearing end-of-life. Consequently, the IT staff was challenged to manage software, configuration, performance, and security in a complex, disparate environment. The company, which uses Verizon Business for an ATM data network running IP Trunking between locations, asked for a current-state snapshot of the voice and data network environment. In response, Verizon Business professionals designed and conducted a Convergence Readiness Assessment of the organization's local area networks and the wide area network, answering the fundamental question, "Is the voice infrastructure and supporting network architecturally sound and running efficiently?"

Tags: LAN - WAN, IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Monsanto Enhances Collaboration With Cisco, Microsoft Technologies2008-07-01 Microsoft
  Monsanto, one of the world's leading agricultural companies, takes advantage of team collaboration and ubiquitous access to corporate information in its global business processes. But aging technology was creating slow connections and frustrations for users who wanted to expedite the transfer of documents and other information. To boost productivity and bandwidth, Monsanto deployed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Cisco Wide Area Application Services. The result is that Monsanto employees have better tools for collaborating and for publishing information. In addition, use of bandwidth has been greatly improved, so people working in remote areas with limited connectivity options can experience LAN-like performance.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Office Suites		   
whitepaper Accelerating Mission-Critical Oracle Applications Throughout the Distributed Enterprise2008-06-01 Juniper Networks
  From Oracle E-Business Suite to PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and JD Edwards World, Oracle offers a full complement of integrated business solutions that improve functional best practices, integrate Web services, provide predictive analysis and enable more flexible, collaborative business processes. Many businesses today rely on Oracle applications to support their ongoing business operations. However, globalization and server centralization create performance problems for remote and branch-office users accessing these applications over the WAN. The WX and WXC application acceleration platforms from Juniper Networks accelerate the performance of Oracle business applications over the WAN. Remote and branch-office users receive LAN-like response times, regardless of their location.

Tags: Network Management		   
whitepaper Informa Global Markets Accelerates Real-Time Financial Information Services With Juniper Networks Application Acceleration2008-06-01 Juniper Networks
  For more than 30 years, Informa Global Markets (IGM) has been at the forefront of delivering real-time independent news and analysis of global financial markets. IGM needed to reduce the effect of global network latency. The around-the-clock nature of IGM's business means that information needs to be disseminated to all locations in real time. IGM chose the Juniper Networks application acceleration platforms to improve application response time and optimize WAN efficiency by accelerating the delivery and performance of applications. The first phase of the deployment called for installing the Juniper Networks WXC 590 platforms in each of the company's three data centers.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, LAN - WAN		   
whitepaper Sports Retailer Deploys Domain Controllers in Stores to Keep Registers Ringing2008-06-01 Microsoft
  A large a specialty retailer in the United States with approximately 450 stores wanted to update its older MS-DOS - based Point-Of-Sale (POS) application with a next-generation POS program from NCR. However, the new software required user authentication over the Wide Area Network (WAN) using domain controllers at headquarters. A big concern arose: if the WAN went down, stores couldn't ring up sales. The retailer found its answer with the Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) technology in the Windows Server 2008 operating system. Using RODCs, the retailer will be able to place a security-enhanced domain controller in each store so that registers can continue to ring even in the event of a WAN outage.

Tags: Wholesale - Retail, Server Platforms - OS		   
whitepaper Denso Boosts Global WAN Performance With Juniper Networks WX Platform2008-06-01 Juniper Networks
  As a global corporation, Denso has operations in more than 30 countries around the world. The company has specified a required response time of five seconds or less after a request has been entered into the system. However, as the amount of data flowing across the network increased, it had to take urgent measures to ensure that this requirement could be met and to improve the overall performance of the WAN. Denso deployed Juniper Networks WX platform for WAN acceleration. Juniper Networks WX is a best-in-class application acceleration platform which provides broad support for Web-based, client/server, custom software, voice and video applications.

Tags: LAN - WAN		   
whitepaper Engineering Firm Improves Collaboration, Lowers Travel Costs, Boosts Bandwidth by 230 Percent Using F5 WANJet2008-05-14 F5 Networks
  Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer & Associates GASAI's great success had led to rapid growth and a subsequent strain on the company's Wide Area Network (WAN). All applications are housed in the central Milwaukie, Wisconsin, data center, with all Internet traffic routed over T1 lines through a Milwaukie-based proxy server. The GASAI IT staff realized that it had two options for improving its WAN bandwidth: purchase application acceleration appliances or increase the bandwidth in each branch office. In the end, the company selected the F5 WANJet WAN optimization appliance because of its core TDR and TCP optimization feature set and price.

Tags: Network Management, LAN - WAN		   
whitepaper Expand Optimizes WAN at Ampacet, Deploying Accelerators to Consolidate for Global Quality Standard2008-05-09 Expand Networks
  Ampacet is a global brand, and to maintain its success, it is pivotal for all offices to deliver the same quality standard that their clients expect. Collaboration is one of the key business strengths in the way Ampacet runs it's business. Consequently Ampacet wanted its employees to collaborate easily and naturally, with all forms of communication working together in a coherent package. The Management Team wanted to centralize all data and processes into one unified system. Following a global test which was managed by Expand, together with the support of Simac Luxembourg, Expand's VAR, Ampacet deployed the Expand 6930 and 4930 accelerators on their network between the headquarters in New York and Luxembourg.

Tags: Network Technologies, IT Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Sweden's HL Display Picks Expand Networks for Server Centralisation and Faster WAN2008-04-30 Expand Networks
  HL Display's partner, IT consultancy XLENT, operates the firm's network and handles the distribution of programmes. However, many of the smaller offices lack IT technicians, which have caused problems with handling local servers. Each part of the group has a back-up server but all email has been routed via the server hall in Sundsvall in northern Sweden. This has resulted in unacceptably long response times for regional offices across the world. HL Display deployed Expand's Accelerator 6930, which covers the entire region in the same way as the equivalent hardware. The WAFS technology built into the Accelerator 6930 and 4930 allows a larger amount of data to be transferred with the same response times as before the consolidation.

Tags: LAN - WAN,