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Protégésoft Lowers Portfolio Management Costs, Increasing the Size of the Serviceable Market 20080711 Itanium Solutions Alliance

"The Financial Service Industry (FSI) is facing tremendous challenges from consolidation and convergence arising from a more globalize networked business environment. Individually, FSI firms are now faced with the following challenges:
· Competitive pressure from globalization (margin squeeze, rising supporting cost, ballooning list of substitute services)
· Rising customer expectation in terms of product range, ROI, transaction cost, timeliness of key information, convenience, etc
· Government regulatory requirements that will increases compliance cost e.g. anti-money laundering, Sarbane Oxley, Patriot Act etc

Protégésoft Ltd, a company services billions of funds and wining the Global Innovation Awards Itanium Solutions Alliance in Business Application Catalog. Its newly developed applications based on Itanium-based server help to solve FSI firms’ challenges. A comprehensive case study about how Protégésoft helps to solve the changes as well as the application detail has been developed."

Manufacturer Gains Confidence From Expert Guidance and Embraces IT Overhaul 2008-03-31 Microsoft Tips

Furniture manufacturer American of Martinsville relied on a 28-year-old mainframe system to run its business. The company needed a change but didn't know what was possible with new technologies. The company's executive team attended a Strategy Briefing at a Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), which helped the group gain consensus about the need to invest in technology and better understand how to increase efficiency through integrated software.

Tags: CRM Software, Database Management

HP Partner Cnetics Helps Fast-Growing Georgia Government Agency Save Time and Money Using HP Bladesystem 2008-02-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Cnetics Technologies wanted to provide server consolidation and security management services at an affordable price and build a scalable easy-to-manage IT infrastructure. The company installed a cost-effective, scalable, reliable server infrastructure using HP BladeSystems with ProLiant server blades, HP Insight Control infrastructure management tools and VMware virtualization software. As a result it reduced total cost of ownership and enhanced ability to handle spikes in demand through pooling virtualized resources.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization

Dell Case Study: Ryerson University 2008-02-01 Dell

The ever-increasing demand for IT services at the university put significant stress on IT staff and data center capacity. Ryerson University wanted to speed server provisioning; reduce space, power, and cooling needs; and implement rapid disaster recovery. As a solution Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services led a project to identify underutilized servers and consolidate onto Dell PowerEdge blade servers running VMware Infrastructure 3 and mirrored Dell/EMC storage area networks.

Tags: SANs, Server Consolidation

Premier Firm Speeds Deployments, Enhances Security, Reduces Desktop Imaging Time by 96 Percent 2008-01-24 Microsoft

Sutherland is the largest organically grown Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) player in the industry, with a significant offshore footprint and a balanced portfolio of services that include customer care, technology support, and integrated back-office services. It also offers a professional services arm, focused on process improvement consulting and global business transition. In spite of being a leader in its field, providing services to Fortune 1000 companies, Sutherland faced challenges in deploying, updating, and supporting applications for users. It needed a solution to address these challenges, simplify and accelerate application deployment and upgrades, and establish a cost-effective way to manage its IT infrastructure. Sutherland decided to deploy Microsoft Softgrid Application Virtualization for faster application deployment, enhanced security, and business agility.

BeneMetrix Depends on High-Density Configuration for Production Servers 2008-01-15 Parallels

BeneMetrix provides analysis and reporting tools to the insurance industry. As BeneMetrix's customer base grew, the Chief Technology Officer and primary technology owner of the BeneMetrix product suite, started to examine the weight of managing so many remote servers. Providing an entire server to each site was a challenge, yet it was necessary to ensure that the BeneMetrix products didn't interact with any other application. The application and its associated performance is the business of BeneMetrix. When BeneMetrix evaluated Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, it became clear that the single OS architecture enabled unbeatable levels of performance and cost containment. "Parallels Virtuozzo Containers provides a flexible, scalable, cost effective solution that allows us to configure, manage and operate our customer servers easily and completely separate.

Developing a Business-Driven Strategy for Natural Language Processing Technologies 2008-01-01 IBM

Through On Demand Innovation Services - a partnership between IBM Research and Global Business Services - IBM was able to give the insurance and banking executives an integrated view of the technology itself and potential business applications. As a leader in the fields of speech and language processing, IBM Research was well-positioned to provide a comprehensive overview of NLP and its capabilities. Global Business Services (GBS) employed its Capability Maturity Model technique to help the company's decision makers understand the full range of NLP possibilities and implications for their business. The process gave the client both the big picture and the in-depth information it needed to forge a strategic pathway toward market leadership.

Tags: Programming Languages, Application Development

Establishing Virtualization Management Leadership 2007-11-13 TechTarget

When CA, one of the world's largest Information Technology (IT) management software companies, wanted to establish a North American leadership position for its Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) solutions in the virtualization market, it turned to TechTarget for an online marketing program positioning it as a visionary for IT professionals facing the emerging challenges of virtual machine management. To penetrate new markets with its virtualization management solutions, the program addressed challenges of virtual environment management, describing solutions to make virtualization succeed. While other companies focus on promoting themselves as virtualization server or solutions providers, CA's opportunity is in supporting organizations already investing heavily in virtualization.

By Consolidating 90 Percent of Its Physical Servers, the Ryerson University IT Group Is Poised to React More Quickly to University Needs 2007-11-07 Dell

Ryerson University was founded in 1948 to train a growing workforce to meet the demands of a booming postwar economy. The ever-increasing demand for IT services at the university put significant stress on IT staff and data center capacity. Ryerson wanted to speed server provisioning and reduce space, power, and cooling needs and also implement rapid disaster recovery. Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services (ICS) led a project to identify underutilized servers and consolidate onto Dell PowerEdge blade servers running VMware Infrastructure 3 and mirrored Dell/EMC Storage Area Networks (SANs).

Tags: SANs, Virtualization

Managed Hosting Provider Powers Extreme Growth and Virtualization With Hyperic 2007-11-02 Hyperic

Launched in February, 2006 as a venture company of Rackspace Managed Hosting, Mosso was started by two entrepreneurial employees, Jonathan Bryce and Todd Morey. Simplifying complex technology to bring reliable, scalable service to web application developers is Mosso's mission. Enterprise systems management software that keeps pace with their always-on, always-changing environment is essential. Virtualization helped immensely. The Mosso operations team was able to monitor the activity of a site, and perform a live migration of any affected virtual machine to a less taxed hardware resource. In June of 2007, the Mosso team downloaded the open source version of Hyperic HQ for VMware.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Protégésoft Lowers Portfolio Management Costs, Increasing the Size of the Serviceable Market	20080711	Itanium Solutions Alliance
"The Financial Service Industry (FSI) is facing tremendous challenges from consolidation and convergence arising from a more globalize networked business environment. Individually, FSI firms are now faced with the following challenges: · Competitive pressure from globalization (margin squeeze, rising supporting cost, ballooning list of substitute services) · Rising customer expectation in terms of product range, ROI, transaction cost, timeliness of key information, convenience, etc · Government regulatory requirements that will increases compliance cost e.g. anti-money laundering, Sarbane Oxley, Patriot Act etc Protégésoft Ltd, a company services billions of funds and wining the Global Innovation Awards Itanium Solutions Alliance in Business Application Catalog. Its newly developed applications based on Itanium-based server help to solve FSI firms’ challenges. A comprehensive case study about how Protégésoft helps to solve the changes as well as the application detail has been developed."
Manufacturer Gains Confidence From Expert Guidance and Embraces IT Overhaul	2008-03-31	Microsoft Tips
Furniture manufacturer American of Martinsville relied on a 28-year-old mainframe system to run its business. The company needed a change but didn't know what was possible with new technologies. The company's executive team attended a Strategy Briefing at a Microsoft Technology Center (MTC), which helped the group gain consensus about the need to invest in technology and better understand how to increase efficiency through integrated software. Tags: CRM Software, Database Management
HP Partner Cnetics Helps Fast-Growing Georgia Government Agency Save Time and Money Using HP Bladesystem	2008-02-01	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Cnetics Technologies wanted to provide server consolidation and security management services at an affordable price and build a scalable easy-to-manage IT infrastructure. The company installed a cost-effective, scalable, reliable server infrastructure using HP BladeSystems with ProLiant server blades, HP Insight Control infrastructure management tools and VMware virtualization software. As a result it reduced total cost of ownership and enhanced ability to handle spikes in demand through pooling virtualized resources. Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization
Dell Case Study: Ryerson University	2008-02-01	Dell
The ever-increasing demand for IT services at the university put significant stress on IT staff and data center capacity. Ryerson University wanted to speed server provisioning; reduce space, power, and cooling needs; and implement rapid disaster recovery. As a solution Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services led a project to identify underutilized servers and consolidate onto Dell PowerEdge blade servers running VMware Infrastructure 3 and mirrored Dell/EMC storage area networks. Tags: SANs, Server Consolidation
Premier Firm Speeds Deployments, Enhances Security, Reduces Desktop Imaging Time by 96 Percent	2008-01-24	Microsoft
Sutherland is the largest organically grown Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) player in the industry, with a significant offshore footprint and a balanced portfolio of services that include customer care, technology support, and integrated back-office services. It also offers a professional services arm, focused on process improvement consulting and global business transition. In spite of being a leader in its field, providing services to Fortune 1000 companies, Sutherland faced challenges in deploying, updating, and supporting applications for users. It needed a solution to address these challenges, simplify and accelerate application deployment and upgrades, and establish a cost-effective way to manage its IT infrastructure. Sutherland decided to deploy Microsoft Softgrid Application Virtualization for faster application deployment, enhanced security, and business agility.
BeneMetrix Depends on High-Density Configuration for Production Servers	2008-01-15	Parallels
BeneMetrix provides analysis and reporting tools to the insurance industry. As BeneMetrix's customer base grew, the Chief Technology Officer and primary technology owner of the BeneMetrix product suite, started to examine the weight of managing so many remote servers. Providing an entire server to each site was a challenge, yet it was necessary to ensure that the BeneMetrix products didn't interact with any other application. The application and its associated performance is the business of BeneMetrix. When BeneMetrix evaluated Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, it became clear that the single OS architecture enabled unbeatable levels of performance and cost containment. "Parallels Virtuozzo Containers provides a flexible, scalable, cost effective solution that allows us to configure, manage and operate our customer servers easily and completely separate.
Developing a Business-Driven Strategy for Natural Language Processing Technologies	2008-01-01	IBM
Through On Demand Innovation Services - a partnership between IBM Research and Global Business Services - IBM was able to give the insurance and banking executives an integrated view of the technology itself and potential business applications. As a leader in the fields of speech and language processing, IBM Research was well-positioned to provide a comprehensive overview of NLP and its capabilities. Global Business Services (GBS) employed its Capability Maturity Model technique to help the company's decision makers understand the full range of NLP possibilities and implications for their business. The process gave the client both the big picture and the in-depth information it needed to forge a strategic pathway toward market leadership. Tags: Programming Languages, Application Development
Establishing Virtualization Management Leadership	2007-11-13	TechTarget
When CA, one of the world's largest Information Technology (IT) management software companies, wanted to establish a North American leadership position for its Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) solutions in the virtualization market, it turned to TechTarget for an online marketing program positioning it as a visionary for IT professionals facing the emerging challenges of virtual machine management. To penetrate new markets with its virtualization management solutions, the program addressed challenges of virtual environment management, describing solutions to make virtualization succeed. While other companies focus on promoting themselves as virtualization server or solutions providers, CA's opportunity is in supporting organizations already investing heavily in virtualization.
By Consolidating 90 Percent of Its Physical Servers, the Ryerson University IT Group Is Poised to React More Quickly to University Needs	2007-11-07	Dell
Ryerson University was founded in 1948 to train a growing workforce to meet the demands of a booming postwar economy. The ever-increasing demand for IT services at the university put significant stress on IT staff and data center capacity. Ryerson wanted to speed server provisioning and reduce space, power, and cooling needs and also implement rapid disaster recovery. Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services (ICS) led a project to identify underutilized servers and consolidate onto Dell PowerEdge blade servers running VMware Infrastructure 3 and mirrored Dell/EMC Storage Area Networks (SANs). Tags: SANs, Virtualization
Managed Hosting Provider Powers Extreme Growth and Virtualization With Hyperic	2007-11-02	Hyperic
Launched in February, 2006 as a venture company of Rackspace Managed Hosting, Mosso was started by two entrepreneurial employees, Jonathan Bryce and Todd Morey. Simplifying complex technology to bring reliable, scalable service to web application developers is Mosso's mission. Enterprise systems management software that keeps pace with their always-on, always-changing environment is essential. Virtualization helped immensely. The Mosso operations team was able to monitor the activity of a site, and perform a live migration of any affected virtual machine to a less taxed hardware resource. In June of 2007, the Mosso team downloaded the open source version of Hyperic HQ for VMware.