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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 Ricoh Canada Streamlines IT Administration With Help of Windows 7, Windows Server 20082009-11-04 Microsoft
  Throughout its history Ricoh Company has prided itself on being the first to market with innovative solutions. In 2009 Ricoh Company acquired one of the world's largest document management technology distributors, IKON, which had an immediate and dramatic effect on the Canadian business unit, Ricoh Canada Inc., a move that will very quickly double the company's size in terms of revenue. It will also grow the number of PCs the IT department must manage from 1,000 to an estimated 2,000. In response, the IT department sought ways to achieve even greater levels of automated management and control over the company's computing environment, and ensure maximum uptime for applications. To accommodate growth, Ricoh Canada has begun a company-wide migration to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Tags: Server Platforms - OS, Desktop Client OS		   
whitepaper 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Prepares for Growth With the Help of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V2009-11-03 Microsoft
  strategic plans to grow its number of franchises across North America, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? needed to ensure that its IT and server infrastructure could scale to handle growth. Upon review of several IT options, the company determined that Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V was the most cost-effective way to improve its IT environment. The company is using the Windows-based solution to consolidate its hardware servers and operate within a virtualized technology environment. The new infrastructure is helping to reduce costs, improve server management and maintain greater IT uptime - helping ensure that the company can scale to meet current and future business needs. Through virtualization, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? estimates it is saving $35,000 in server hardware costs alone.

Tags: Server Hardware		   
whitepaper Small Nonprofit Reduces Time Spent on Printing and File Sharing, Saves $150,0002009-11-01 Microsoft
  People Helping Horses, a small nonprofit organization, suffered from inefficiencies because employees, volunteers, and board members lacked a centralized way to share files and printer resources. The organization was also concerned that it spent too much of its budget on outsourced IT services. As People Helping Horses looked to expand, it needed to improve administrative efficiency and reduce costs. The organization chose to deploy Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation, which came preinstalled on an HP ProLiant ML115 G5 quad-core AMD Opteron-based server computer. People Helping Horses is using the new operating system to centralize printing and file sharing and provide a foundation for expansion.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Server Platforms - OS		   
whitepaper University Technology Centre Uses High-Performance Solution for Aerodynamic Design2009-11-01 Microsoft
  The University of Southampton in the U.K. houses the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) for Computational Engineering. The centre undertakes aerodynamic research and design using a range of advanced Rolls-Royce structural and fluid flow prediction methods. To operate the increasingly complex computational needs of this work - currently the Spitfire cluster has around 650 Central Processing Unit (CPU) cores - the centre adopted Windows HPC Server 2008.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper University Physicists Reach New Research Horizons With High-Performance Computing2009-11-01 Microsoft
  The Department of Physics at the University of Bologna needed to increase its computation speed for complex tomographic analysis of large works of art. After successful testing, it now conducts its calculations on a cluster that runs the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. Doing so made it possible for university researchers to avoid rewriting code, reduce calculation times from 20 days to 6 hours, and expand into new areas of research.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper University Develops Non-Invasive Treatment for Cancer With High-Performance Computing2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Swansea Metropolitan University (SMU) has gained international fame for excellence in research into cancer by its Applied Design and Engineering Faculty. Scientists needed a fast High-Performance Computing (HPC) tool to support clinicians treating patients with oesophageal cancer. They upgraded to Windows Server 2008 with the Microsoft Message Passing Interface (MS MPI) for parallel testing on a single workstation to support the non-invasive treatment.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Researchers Choose Windows HPC Server for Real-World Computing Questions2009-11-01 Microsoft
  When researchers at Rutgers wanted to explore massive computing scenarios with real-world significance for fields such as financial services and pharmaceuticals, they turned to Windows HPC Server 2008. In one research project, the software proved at least 30 percent faster than Linux. The Windows HPC Server cluster was deployed in one day and works like the Windows operating system with which users and administrators are already familiar.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Computer Center Improves Energy Efficiency With New Diskless Cluster2009-11-01 Microsoft
  The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) provides computing resources to internal and external research and industry partners. The institute uses diskless boot technology for all of its 700 compute nodes to implement a compute cluster with Windows HPC Server 2008. HLRS has found that using diskless boot technology in combination with the latest cluster technology leads to significant savings, thanks to the high energy efficiency.

Tags: Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Industrial Simulation Firm Boosts Compute Speeds by 20 Percent With Cluster Upgrade2009-11-01 Microsoft
  EURO/CFD, which provides digital simulation of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, recently expanded its computing infrastructure and upgraded to the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system for its 37-node cluster. EURO/CFD can now launch simulations on 20 server computers simultaneously. With the resulting 20-percent increase in computation speed, EURO/CFD has gained a competitive edge by delivering detailed, accurate information for customers.

Tags: Data Infrastructure