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Prescription for Growth: Dell storage helps Navicure reduce disaster recovery site deployment time by 75 percent | 2008-07-10 | Dell EqualLogic |
| Existing outsourced storage was too inflexible to keep up with Navicure's rapid growth and expanding Oracle database; the company also needed to automate disaster recovery to help ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Learn how Navicure implemented a scalable, in-house storage area network (SAN) using Dell EqualLogic PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) arrays, and automated the planning, testing, and deployment of a disaster recovery solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Tags: Virtualization, Data Center, Data Recovery - Security |
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College Chooses Hosted E-Mail From a Trusted Partner so Students Can Work Smarter | 2008-04-01 | Microsoft |
| Lees-McRae College in North Carolina had a student e-mail solution that took too much time and money to manage. Students kept losing e-mail because of limited storage. Lees-McRae replaced it with Microsoft Live@edu to provide Web-based communication and collaboration services and more storage. Now students rarely lose information and they can organize their communications, share calendars, and schedule meetings with professors to improve time and study management.
Tags: Collaborative Web, Collaboration Tools |
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German Hospital Group Deploys New Storage Area Network (SAN) to Gain 14 Times More Space for Clinical Images | 2008-03-05 | Dell |
| Klinikum Nordfriesland GmbH is a non-profit clinical centre based in Husum, Nordfriesland, Germany. Klinikum Nordfriesland wanted to obtain a stable and reliable IT system, supporting consistent and high quality treatment for all patients at all times. The hospital group also needed additional storage for clinical images and increased flexibility with scalable servers. Dell installed the storage system and virtualized servers. They also deployed the systems and provided training for the customer to ensure optimal use of the solution. With Gold Enterprise Support, the hospital has the added reassurance of prompt, expert assistance at any time of the day or night for the solution deployed.
Tags: Virtualization |
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Brookfield Homes Saves with Equallogic SAN and Thin Provisioning | 2008-01-18 | Dell |
| Brookfield Homes is a home builder and land developer with operations on the West and East coasts. In addition to land purchases and home building, the company transforms unused urban shopping areas into new communities. Brookfield Homes Southland Division, covering southern California north of San Diego County, employs about people and generates annual revenues between $300 million and $500 million.
Tags: SANs, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization |
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Microsoft Deploys EMC SAN for Data Centers and Reduces Costs by 50 Percent | 2008-03-01 | Microsoft |
| The Microsoft Information Technology Group (MSIT) was experiencing a rapid increase in the time and cost required to maintain its data centers. The storage volume was doubling each year and disk utilization was low. In the first quarter of 2004, MSIT worked with EMC to deploy a storage service built on Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and the EMC CLARiiON storage area network. With this storage utility, MSIT has reduced administrative and storage costs while providing its customers with faster and more reliable service. MSIT has cut storage costs by 50 percent and increased disk utilization to 70 percent.
Tags: Windows NT - 2000 - 2003, SANs |
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Specialist Recruiter and Staffer Simplifies IT With Virtual Solution and Reduces Administration by 30 Per Cent | 2008-02-06 | Dell |
| Expectra Group, a leading recruitment and staffing agency in Belgium, needed to ensure increased availability for its employees. This would help ensure that its clients and candidates received the best possible services. The IT team searched for a new server and storage environment that would simplify server administration and create minimum disruption for colleagues. Expectra Group Dell for its solution and implemented a new virtualized system. The Dell infrastructure consulting service team planned, designed and implemented the solution and trained IT employees so they could maintain the system in the long term.
Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization |
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Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: Bryant University | 2008-02-02 | Microsoft Tips |
| Bryant University heard from many alumni that they wanted to keep using the same Microsoft Exchange Server-based messaging solution that they had used on campus. Unfortunately, maintaining this service for graduates wasn't economically feasible for the university. Bryant students and faculty unanimously chose Microsoft Live@edu, a free, Microsoft-hosted messaging and collaboration solution for universities. The centerpiece of the solution is Windows Live Hotmail that includes five gigabytes of storage space per account, as well as features like calendar sharing, contact management, access to e-mail through mobile phones and POP, and improved spam filtering.
Tags: Email, Mobile - Wireless Communications |
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Top Law Firm Relies on Storage From Network Appliance and 3PAR | 2008-02-01 | NetApp |
| One the top law firms in the United States represents clients in high-stakes litigation, complex financing and regulatory matters, government affairs, and corporate and technology transactions. With data growing about 30% annually, storage was increasingly complicated to manage. So the customer looked into storage solutions that would allow them to provision and manage easily, while also being able to scale rapidly and non-disruptively. After a thorough evaluation, the customer selected 3PAR based on ease of use, rapid provisioning, massive scalability and performance. At the same time, they selected Egenera server blades with VMware to create a complete utility computing server-and-storage environment.
Tags: Virtualization |
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One of Oregon's Largest Counties Deploys Equallogic | 2008-01-18 | Dell EqualLogic |
| Clackamas County, Oregon, is home to more than 338,000 people. Heavily timbered, the county's geographical features include Mt. Hood and numerous rivers - the Willamette, Clackamas, Sandy, Pudding, Molalla and Salmon. The Aging Fibre Channel SAN could not scale to meet growing demands. Clackamas County replaced old Fibre Channel SAN with modular PS Series SAN for central storage consolidation and data protection. It attached stray servers to the SAN, eliminating all direct attached storage.
Tags: Server Consolidation, Storage Consolidation |
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Web Hosting Company Increases Server Capacity Six-Fold, Reduces Costs and Downtime | 2008-01-01 | Microsoft |
| With increased demands on its Web hosting infrastructure, HostMySite.com needed a solution that would minimize downtime while maximizing the number of sites on a single Web farm. HostMySite.com utilized the Storage Area Network (SAN) storage solution and network load balancing of Internet Information Services 7.0 and Windows Server 2008 to centralize customer content. The new solution increased server stability, lowered infrastructure costs, and reduced time spent on administration and diagnostics.
Tags: SANs, Windows Server 2008 |