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whitepaper Construction Firm Uses Virtualization to Reduce Costs and Improve Availability2008-09-01 Microsoft
  Paris-based Bouygues Construction experienced high costs and complex administration due to server proliferation. The firm decided to implement the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system with Hyper-V virtualization technology and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. With virtualization, the firm expects to reduce server holdings, improve disaster recovery, and increase uptime for business applications.

Tags: Windows Server 2008, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Costco Uses Virtualization to Save Space, Reduce Costs, and Increase IT Agility2008-09-01 Microsoft
  Costco Wholesale Corporation is a major international wholesale distributor with revenues approaching U.S.$70 billion. Costco began using virtualization technology in 2006 and has expanded its investment to include Windows Server 2008 Enterprise with Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. With these tools, Costco can control IT spending, increase IT flexibility, and manage its virtualized server assets more efficiently.

Tags: Windows Server 2008, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Hosting Company Expands Services and Reduces Costs With Server Virtualization2008-09-01 Microsoft
  Hostbasket is a Belgian hosting company that strives to keep its services fresh, innovative, and price-competitive. With success and growth, the company acquired a burgeoning number of servers, which required significant staff time to deploy and maintain. Hostbasket turned to virtualization to reduce its servers and server management workload. Using the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Hyper-V technology, Hostbasket plans to create 300 virtual machines and retire 60 physical servers. More importantly, Hostbasket can quickly create new offerings, giving customers more options and greater control over their hosted applications. Hostbasket uses Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to simplify server setup and management. Because Hostbasket can better utilize its servers, it earns higher margins from virtual machines and increases customer application uptime.

Tags: Windows Server 2008, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Oil Company Fuels Business Application Availability With Virtualization Solution2008-09-01 Microsoft
  INA is a Croatian oil company. Its IT staff did not have efficient tools for testing and upgrading software, which slowed deployment to the production environment. Staff also had problems accessing information from an aging file server. INA deployed Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and automated its test environment to ensure timely application upgrades. It virtualized the file server to provide high availability, ensuring consistent information access.

Tags: Windows Server 2008, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Hospital Sirio-Libanes Cut Maintenance Time in Half While Increasing Uptime for Critical Hospital Applications to 99.9% With Dell2008-09-01 Dell
  The hospital needed to improve operating efficiency and availability for important medical and administrative applications. IT infrastructure staff spent all their time maintaining legacy hardware and had no time for new projects. The hospital built a new data center and deployed a turnkey solution including Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell-EMC storage and VMware virtualization software, completing the entire rollout in just 12 weeks.

Tags: Storage Management, Data Center		   
whitepaper Raad Voor de Kinderbescherming NL Better Protects Children With Case Management Solution2008-09-01 Oracle
  Raad voor de Kinderbescherming NL conducts its work from 22 locations. In the past, all regions used their own unique versions of systems and databases to handle the influx of data. Therefore, the information about children and their families was severely divided. Often, as a case moved from region to region, the files did not follow. As a result, one family's files might be scattered among different regions. There were even clients of Raad voor de Kinderbescherming NL who moved purposefully in order to take advantage of the challenges. Therefore, the exchange of information between regions and other partners in the youth chain was vital, and a better control of child support was of great importance. The organization selected Oracle's Siebel Case Management to address these challenges.

Tags: Document Management		   
whitepaper NetApp Speeds Decision Making by 300 Percent With Collaboration Solution2008-09-01 Microsoft
  As NetApp, the maker of innovative storage management solutions, grew, so did the challenges of enabling its global workforce to find the information they need quickly and to collaborate effectively. The company replaced its decentralized information stores and lengthy e-mail exchanges with a comprehensive document management and collaboration solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the company's own NetApp SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and NetApp fabric-attached storage system. As a result, business decisions can be made up to three times faster, new employees can be trained in 83 percent less time, and marketing activities and events can be tracked more effectively than before.

Tags: Storage Management, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Service Provider in Oil and Gas Improves HSE Management With Dashboard Solution2008-09-01 Microsoft
  Hercules Offshore is a global provider of offshore contract drilling, liftboat, and inland barge services based in Houston, Texas. After a series of acquisitions and mergers, Hercules Offshore needed to standardize and automate its various Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) processes. Instead of buying an off-the-shelf software solution, the company decided to build a Web-based dashboard, using Microsoft collaboration and database technologies that it already licensed. HSE Dashboard is an Office Business Application that allows employees to effectively collaborate using Microsoft Office system products, promoting the ubiquitous adoption and widespread commitment to HSE that Hercules Offshore wanted. Employees are using the solution's standardized workflows and detailed reporting to reduce administrative expenses and to make better HSE policy decisions.

Tags: Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Alibris, Inc. Enables Business Growth and Diversification With Flexible Web Platform2008-09-01 Oracle
  Alibris, Inc., an online marketplace for new and used books, music items, and movies, as well as rare and out-of-print titles, has grown rapidly since it was founded in 1998. As is the case with most high-growth companies, the technology evolved over time as the business grew and changed. Unfortunately, this evolution led to growing complexity. Alibris, Inc. needed a Web platform that could not only scale with them but enable growth by providing the flexibility necessary to bring new applications to market quickly. Alibris selected Oracle WebLogic Portal (previously known as BEA WebLogic Portal), which offered a flexible platform and a large developer community.   
whitepaper Biomedical Institute Speeds Researcher Productivity 600 Percent for Faster Insights2008-09-01 Microsoft
  Structural biology researchers at The Scripps Research Institute, a leading biomedical research center, used to process test results manually, inhibiting the pace of their work and limiting the time they could spend thinking creatively about their research. To boost productivity, they adopted a custom High-Performance Computing (HPC) solution based on Windows HPC Server 2008. Now, test results are processed 600 percent faster, giving researchers the time they need to analyze their work more thoroughly and to identify more productive research directions. The HPC applications for the solution were created quickly and easily using Microsoft development tools, and the entire solution life cycle is managed centrally and effectively by a single system developer.

Tags: Windows Server 2008, High Performance Computing