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Vebo Builds a Strong Technological Foundation With Windows 7
Vebo is a concrete, steel, and aluminum manufacturer in the Netherlands. The company specializes in just-in-time delivery and the development, design, and manufacture of high-quality products. Like many companies, Vebo faces a harsh economic climate. Maintaining a stable, vital company and workforce means building a reliable and efficient technology infrastructure. With the help of technology consultant BRAIN FORCE, Vebo decided to update its Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP systems to Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, respectively.
27 days ago by MicrosoftEnergy Company Speeds Provisioning, Easily Scales Environment With Virtualization
Endeavour International Corporation is an oil and gas company with operations in the United Kingdom and the United States. When the company's Aberdeen, Scotland, office tripled its employee base in 2009, Endeavour needed to scale its IT infrastructure to accommodate the growth. However, it was challenged by limited space and IT resources: just one IT staff member, who was based in London, England, supported the environment. Using Windows Server 2008 Enterprise with Hyper-V virtualization technology and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Endeavour reduced the time needed to provision servers from one month to hours and enabled simple, remote management of the Aberdeen computers. The company created a reliable, highly available environment that can scale within its existing data center, without requiring additional hardware or space.
31 days ago by MicrosoftAutomating Oracle Business Continuity With VMware
The dependencies associated with business continuity and disaster recovery make it difficult to implement an automated solution. With VMware and EMC technologies, one can automate failover and ensure that the virtualized applications, middleware, and database servers are fully protected. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to automate failover for mission-critical applications.
32 days ago by EMCPhysical to Virtual 101: Oracle Apps and Databases
Oracle applications and databases can be virtualized on VMware vSphere, creating powerful advantages in manageability, efficiency, and performance. The attendee of this webcast will find out how to virtualize the mission-critical applications using VMware and EMC solutions.
39 days ago by EMCVMware View 4 QuickStart Series Part 2: Managing Desktops
The attendee of this webcast will learn the software implementation of the PC-over-IP protocol and how to install and configure composer.
40 days ago by VMwareSymmetrix V-Max - New Capabilities That Deliver
EMC Symmetrix V-Max and VMware vSphere are a perfect match for the virtual environment. The latest release of Symmetrix V-Max delivers the enhancements one need for the virtual environment, including Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), thin pool rebalancing, and Virtual Provisioning space reclamation.
44 days ago by EMCSimplify SAP Cloning Operations on z/OS
SAP administrators face complex challenges with cloning operations. The attendee of this webcast will learn how Rocket Software's "Storage-aware" database products integrate with EMC storage systems to provide cloning solutions for SAP.
46 days ago by EMCVMware View 4 QuickStart Series Part 1: Install and Configure
The attendee of this webcast will learn the main features of VMware View and installing and configuring VMware View Connection Server.
47 days ago by VMwareDeveloper Provides Better Product for Clients With Latest Virtualisation Technology
Ascom provides testing software to many of the world's major mobile telecommunications companies that need High Availability services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It wanted to accelerate the quality and consistency of customer deployments. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Full Circle Technology, the company realised that Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V would help with deployment and be the ideal environment on which clients could run its monitoring solution.
47 days ago by MicrosoftShipper Cuts IT Costs, Increases Availability and Agility, Using Virtualization
Totem Ocean Trailer Express (TOTE) offers twice-weekly freight and cargo shipping services to Alaska and prides itself on reliable service with electronic tracking of every business step. As TOTE became more dependent on technology, however, server costs began to rise, and worries about availability mounted. To reduce costs and improve availability, TOTE deployed Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V to expand its use of virtualization, and Microsoft System Center data center solutions to streamline management work. To date, TOTE has reduced IT costs by U.S.$80,000 and could cut its energy costs by $10,600 - plus, the company is being a better environmental citizen by curbing its energy use.
47 days ago by Microsoft
