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  • Case Studies // Jul 2013

    Media Company Lays Firm Foundation for Business Growth

    Aegis Media is the world's leading media and digital communications group. Their challenge was to support ambitious business growth and improve operational efficiency and IT governance and security. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. Data center transformation, with FlexPod architecture based on Cisco Nexus switching, Cisco UCS servers, NetApp...

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  • Videos // Jul 2013

    72% ROI in 5 Years - Cisco Desktop Virtualization

    From cost savings to complexity, finding the right desktop virtualization solution can be a challenge. See how Cisco's network foundation and full portfolio of solutions can deliver agility, reliability, cost effectiveness, and security. Watch video.

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  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    The Total Economic Impact Of Cisco Catalyst Access

    Cisco commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Cisco Catalyst Access Switches. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Cisco Catalyst Access Switching on their...

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  • Case Studies // Jul 2013

    School Expands Services With Virtual Desktop Environment

    Located just outside of Los Angeles, Oaks Christian School (OCS), an independent college preparatory school has helped hundreds of students pursue academic excellence, artistic expression, and athletic distinction. Their challenges are expanding academic services for students and faculty across devices, reducing expenditures by extending life of aging computers and maintaining...

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  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Forrester: Defining the Next-Generation Workspace

    How will you meet the needs of a mobile workforce? In this Forrester study, discover approaches to BYOD and desktop virtualization. Learn why Cisco Unified Workspace may be the solution for your mobility, virtualization, and security challenges. Read study.

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  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Forrester TEI Study: The Business Value of Cisco VDI

    In a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cisco Systems, learn how you can achieve up to 72% ROI with Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solutions (VDI). Get a break down of potential costs and benefits - and see how VDI can help you virtualize your desktop infrastructure. Read...

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  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Gartner-Hosted Virtual Desktop Deployment, Stage 1

    Gartner provides a seven-stage framework to move from an initial Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD) technology assessment to a production rollout. In this analysis of Stage 1, Evaluate, learn the key elements needed to initiate an HVD project. Read report.

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  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Transform Your Data Center with Cisco Nexus Switching Portfolio

    The data center is the heart of the network, delivering business agility and promoting IT transformation. As your business evolves and you look toward new technologies and applications to grow the business, the data center switching architecture that underpins the delivery of enterprise-wide applications and services must provide the scalability,...

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  • Case Studies // Jul 2013

    Bank Gets Ready for Retail With Desktop Virtualization

    Arab Investment Bank is an Egyptian federal joint stock company founded in 1974 and primarily involved in investment and business banking services. Their challenges are to support business expansion into retail banking market and improve employee IT support while lowering costs. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented...

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  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Whitepaper: Leadership and technology: a total-cost-of-ownership comparison for unified communications

    Mid-market enterprises strive for success. Being successful means consistently making smart decisions - including smart technology purchases. Technology should enable a mid-market enterprise to meet the needs of its employees and customers today, and also allow a business to make simple but value-rich changes in the future. Technology must support...

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  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Case Study: Credit Union Amplifies Employee and Customer Communications

    Read about how Cisco helped Stanford Federal Credit Union to overcome their challenges with:
    * Collaborating effectively to increase employee productivity and customer satisfaction
    * Deploying broad communications system while reducing administrative and services costs
    * Offering innovative communications support channels to advance customer engagement

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  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Whitepaper: Leadership and Technology: Video Communications Benefits Midmarket Enterprises

    Midmarket enterprises strive for success in a highly competitive landscape. Being successful means consistently making smart decisions - including smart technology use. Today, technology should enable an enterprise to meet the needs of its employees and customers; in the future, it should allow businesses to make simple but value-rich changes....

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  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Infographic: New Wave of IT deployment in Midsize Business

    In this comprehensive infographic, we will summarize the recent study conducted by Forrester Consulting with decision makers in the field to confirm that the proliferation of devices at midsize businesses continues to impact the pace of change for IT.

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  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Forrester Whitepaper: Successfully Deploying Communications And Collaboration

    This white paper examines the specific challenges that senior IT decision-makers at medium-size businesses face and how cloud communication and collaboration technologies can help them resolve those issues. The profile’s key findings include the following:
    * Employees at MBs are increasingly mobile.
    * MBs struggle to quantify the benefits of...

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  • Case Studies // Jun 2013

    Cisco Nexus Employed in the Network Infrastructure of the New Head Office High Operability and Stability Provided by Utilizing FabricPath

    Square Enix is best known as the developer of the two epic RPG series Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. A high-capacity network is required in game development. The previous network also had 10Gbps ports on the core switch, but the new network required bandwidth of tens of Gbps on a...

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  • Case Studies // Jun 2013

    Navaho Partners With Cisco to Capture Virtual Image Storage Market

    Navaho is a leading European cloud services provider, delivering a range of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for small- and medium-sized enterprises. Their business challenges were to take early and solid lead in developing cloud-based digital trust services,...

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  • Case Studies // Jun 2013

    Italian Manufacturer Secures Continuity of Supply

    Costruzioni Elettroniche Industriali Automatismi (CEIA) may not be a familiar name, but if the user travels a lot the chances are they will have encountered its products. Their challenges are to improve business continuity, enhance infrastructure scalability and reduce IT administrative burden. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. Implemented...

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  • Case Studies // Jun 2013

    Alaskan Bank Virtualizes Branches for Productivity Benefits

    Northrim is a commercial bank, headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska, committed to providing customer-first service. Business continuity and strong security are important competitive differentiators. Slow bandwidth delivery hampered employee productivity and affected customer service and different WAN configurations and server setups among branch offices create IT support challenges. They chose Cisco...

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  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Solution Brief: Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers for Microsoft SQL Server

    Like all database applications, Microsoft SQL Server depends significantly on the underlying computing power, storage capacity, and I/O performance, which play important roles in the choice of system. This white paper explores how companies can ensure flexibility and scalability when implementing database applications, whilst also lowering the total cost of...

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  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Solution Brief: Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers for Microsoft Exchange Server

    Enterprise messaging and collaboration are critical components of IT infrastructure that directly affect every employee’s communications and productivity. Read this white paper to find out how you can adequately support and scale servers like Microsoft Exchange, whilst reducing operating expenses, lowering risk and incorporating server flexibility by using Cisco UCS...

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  • Case Studies // Jun 2013

    Technology Innovation Fires Design Flair

    Vitra furniture is renowned for its style and quality their challenge is to make wireless key enabler for business transformation and Prepare for Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD). They deployed to Cisco BYOD Smart Solution, based on Cisco Identity Services Engine, Cisco AnyConnect, and Cisco CleanAir technology and LAN refresh using Cisco Nexus...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Boeing Boosts Network Performance While Reducing Costs

    A division of the world's largest aerospace company, Boeing Defense, Space, and Security (BDS) provides end-to-end services for large-scale systems, there challenges were to maintain performance of mission-critical production environment and run FC and IP across the same interface and maintain high performance. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges....

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Subsea Supplier Improves Application and Data Center Performance

    Innovative technologies and the rising price of natural resources have pushed more companies into exploring and developing offshore fields of oil and gas. They wanted to support business activities globally by providing up-to-date reporting, virtualized and improve performance on servers running SAP applications and streamline data center management. Updated data...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Cloud Optimizes Product Development and Delivery

    Thieme Publishing Group is a scientific and medical publishing house maintaining offices in seven cities, there challenges were to respond to Internet threat to print publishing with new business model and cost structure and accelerate product development and time to market. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    University of Bern: Rapid Resource Provisioning With Cisco Ucs

    The University of Bern is involved in a number of research projects on national, European and global levels. Constant data growth requires efficient solutions that make resources available as quickly and flexibly as possible. Ease of operation and central management are equally important in order to keep administrative expenditure as...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Ticketing Giant Books Private Cloud Benefits

    CTS EVENTIM AG, listed in the SDAX index, is Europe's market leader in the ticketing field with activities in 21 countries, there challenges were to optimize hardware landscape to improve manageability, flexibility, and setup times, free up skilled technicians to develop higher value projects and reduce running costs through improved...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    University Strengthens IT Security Through FISMA Assessment

    University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio wanted to comply with FISMA as required by new externally-funded research projects, gain better understanding of what FISMA compliance entails and learn best practices for improving research-specific operational security. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. Cisco FISMA Risk Assessment Service...

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  • White Papers // May 2013

    Power of In-Person - The Business Value of In-Person Collaboration

    As organizations compete and grow in a fast-paced global economy, a new set of business imperatives for success has evolved—solving complex problems quickly, effectively scaling partner interactions, growing customer relationships, and enabling agile innovation.

    These elements are critical to creating market differentiation and competitive advantage in today’s business landscape. Distributed...

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  • White Papers // May 2013

    Four Steps to Understanding the Possibilities of Video for Your Organisation

    More than half of communication efficiency is determined by tone of voice and body language, and many of these important nonverbal details are lost in email exchanges or conference calls. Face-to-face communication is more personal, building a higher level of trust, reducing confusion, and increasing accountability.

    Of course in today’s...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Asset Management Company Builds New, Agile Data Centers

    Built largely through acquisition of top asset managers, Allianz Global Investors (AGI), a world leader in asset management and a subsidiary, there challenges were need to streamline data center management by centralizing and consolidating five existing data centers and standardize on platforms and applications across acquired assets. They chose Cisco...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Network as Platform for Business Transformation

    OMV Petrom is the largest oil and gas group in south east Europe. Their challenge is to accelerate business evolution support for OMV Petrom and parent company, OMV Group. They chose Cisco to overcome this challenge. They deployed to Unified access with one policy (Cisco ISE), one management (Cisco Prime),...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Mexican University Improves IT Security and Resilience

    Universidad Popular Aut?noma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) is a private, nonprofit university serving around 15,000 students in the state of Puebla in east central Mexico. Their challenge is to comply with new personal data protection legislation, while increasing IT security, resilience, and application performance. They chose Vblock System 300...

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  • Case Studies // Apr 2013

    Brennercom Invests in Cloud and High-Density Innovation at Its Data Center

    Brennercom is an Italian communications provider active over a vast area stretching from the provinces of Trentino Alto Adige throughout the territory. There challenges were to enhance Data Center capabilities with a flexible, high-performance solution able to deliver cloud and virtualization services, and develops a new business model. They chose...

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  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    The advantages of a private network implementation (Spanish)

    Before you start your journey to the cloud, discover the barriers to successful implementation. This white paper from Cisco CIO ™, you get a breakdown of IDG Research survey in 2012 in which they compare private clouds, public and hybrid. Read the report.

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  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    Avoid making major mistakes in data center virtualization (Spanish)

    With increasing demand for data centers, network infrastructure may become more complex and more costly. Cisco In this article, you'll discover how to avoid the five major errors during consolidation and virtualization of data centers and how to correct them. Read the report.

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  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    A comprehensive guide to the data center transformation (Spanish)

    Allow the data center more efficient and agile. Domain TenSM Cisco provides a holistic framework that allows you to identify gaps and create an architectural plan for consolidation, virtualization and the transition to the cloud. Download the ebook and see the video.

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  • Case Studies // Apr 2013

    Insurance Company Virtualizes Data Center and Desktops

    Promutuel originated 160 years ago when farmers from Quebec had the innovative idea to band together and create their own insurance company. There challenges were runaway HQ data center server costs to support continual expansion strain space, power, cooling budgets and different WAN configurations and server setups at 150 remote...

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  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    IDC Shows How VCE Saved Customers Time and Money

    IDC research with five companies that have implemented Vblock Systems from VCE indicated substantial business benefits associated with IT convergence and improved asset sharing. The results also showed reduced IT costs per unit of workload, faster deployment, and reduced downtime.

    Read the report.

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  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    Miercom Lab Testing Summary Report

    Cisco engaged Miercom to evaluate the performance of the newly launched ASA 5500-X Series of Adaptive Security Appliances against comparable products selected on the basis of intended markets and price. Three different comparative scenarios were tested.

    Products from Check Point and Fortinet were included in the testing and compared to...

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  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    2013 Cisco Annual Security Report

    Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the rapidly expanding attack surface found in today’s "any-to-any" world, where individuals are using any device to access business applications in a network environment that utilizes decentralized cloud services. The 2013 Cisco Annual Security Report highlights global threat trends based on real-world data, and provides...

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  • Case Studies // Jan 2013

    Meeting Student Demand for Always-On Wired and Wireless Network

    University of Central Missouri (UCM) is committed to preparing its students to excel as they enter the professional world as the teachers, their challenges were to enhance learning experience through better collaboration and access to applications and content, deliver secure wireless access anytime and support growing and diverse number of...

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  • Case Studies // Jan 2013

    Schools Deploy Wireless to Enhance Academic Experience

    The Johnson City School System serves 7500 students from pre-k to 12th grade in Johnson City, Tennessee. Their challenges were to improve academic experience for students through increased use of technology, add full-coverage wireless networks to all Johnson City Schools that support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environments and establish...

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  • Case Studies // Mar 2013

    University Creates Flawless BYOD Experience for Staff and Students

    Brunel University is a medium-sized university based in Uxbridge on the outskirts of London. Their challenge was help ensure consistent BYOD experience for students, staff and visitors across Uxbridge campus, with secure and simple access for different user groups. They chose Cisco to overcome the challenge. Cisco BYOD Smart Solution...

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  • Case Studies // Oct 2012

    Australian University Deploys High-Density Wireless Network

    Curtin University is Western Australia's largest and most diverse institution of higher education. Their challenges were providing reliable wireless access for strategic teaching and learning areas and support increasing demand for rich content delivery from personal mobile devices such as tablets, laptops, Smartphones. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges....

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  • Case Studies // Oct 2012

    Regional University Expands Wireless Network to Support Growth of Mobile Devices

    Weber State University (WSU) enrolls more than 25,000 students and spans 500 acres, including 61 buildings. Their challenges were to provide reliable, manageable wireless network throughout campus, help enable faculty and students to teach and learn via personal devices such as tablets and Smartphones and streamline network management and reduce...

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  • Case Studies // Sep 2012

    Taking Arts Education Into 21st Century

    University of the Arts London is an amalgamation of six internationally-known institutions, their challenges were to create mobility vision for improving academic excellence and introducing new ways of learning and help ensure wireless platform is open and secure for students bringing own devices. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges....

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  • Case Studies // Jul 2012

    Cisco Delivers Wireless Access at University of Louisville

    IT organizations across the world are scrambling to deal with the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend. Their challenges were upgrade wireless networking to attract students and meet requirements of today's university communities, improve student technology services and support, implement a wireless management strategy to facilitate deployment and network administration....

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  • Case Studies // May 2012

    School District Enhances Interactive Learning Experience

    The Ligonier Valley School District is home to approximately 1700 students. Their challenges were to enhance learning experience through more reliable access to interactive multimedia and online applications, deliver secure, reliable wireless access to high school students, teachers, and staff and reduce IT maintenance efforts. They chose Cisco to overcome...

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  • Case Studies // Mar 2012

    Dutch Government Deploys Efficient Wireless Network

    Amsterdam is the Netherlands' financial, cultural, and government capital. Their challenges were need to provide secure, user-friendly, reliable wireless access throughout and around government agency buildings, reduce costs associated with wireless network operations and support online access from personal mobile devices. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. Standardize on...

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  • Case Studies // Mar 2012

    Next-Generation Wireless Network Provides Access Throughout Campus

    Bowdoin College is a highly selective college of approximately 1,730 students from across America and around the world. Their challenges were address need for comprehensive, reliable, indoor and outdoor wireless network throughout campus, support anytime, anywhere teaching and learning via popular devices such as iPads and iPhones and decrease coverage...

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  • Case Studies // May 2012

    University Strengthens Wireless Network as Students Bring Own Devices

    University College Lillebaelt (UCL) in Denmark offers bachelor-degree courses in the southwestern part of Denmark, their challenges were address Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend with robust, centrally controlled wireless network, identify and mitigate network downtime due to wireless interference and support high-density environments in auditoriums. They chose Cisco to...

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  • Case Studies // Feb 2012

    University Embraces Bring-Your-Own-Device with Wireless Network

    The University of South Florida (USF) opened its doors in 1960 to 2,000 students. Their challenges were support growing number of personal devices requesting access to wireless network, expand wireless coverage throughout campus and deliver secure wireless access anytime, anywhere on campus to 11,000 simultaneous users. They chose Cisco to...

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  • Case Studies // Oct 2011

    Promoting Teaching and Learning Success with Mobility

    Lake Washington School District (LWSD) is the sixth largest school district in the state. Their challenges were increase the performance and throughput of the wireless network, accommodate significantly more wireless devices in and out of the classroom with access virtually everywhere and offer a more reliable and consistent network experience...

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  • Case Studies // Jun 2011

    University Extends Campus for Broadcaster-Quality Video Production

    The University of Salford has earned an enviable reputation for "Real-world" teaching and ground-breaking research. Their challenges were need to attract students in increasingly competitive climate, extend campus to embrace prestigious new site and meet students' desire for new styles of learning. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. Cisco...

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  • Case Studies // Jun 2009

    University Deploys Connected Learning Technology

    Santa Clara University (SCU) is a 157-year-old Jesuit, Catholic university with some 5000 predominantly full-time undergraduate students their challenges were upgrade outdated network infrastructure to support high bandwidth and wireless standards and provide students and faculty with the tools required to learn. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. Upgraded...

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  • Case Studies // Sep 2009

    Australian University Addresses Growth in Mobility Needs

    The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is one of Australia's leading research and teaching universities. Their challenges were to improve the quality of the wireless network to meet growing mobility needs, deploy a secure wireless network that would simplify management while providing high levels of performance and scalability. They...

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  • Case Studies // Dec 2009

    University Builds More Secure, Collaborative Campus

    The Universit? de Montr?al is the third largest research institute in Canada, their challenges were to support networked collaboration with different research groups, improve network performance to support demanding high-bandwidth applications and control network management and administration costs. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented advanced, Identity-based Networking...

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  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Solution Brief: Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers for Microsoft SQL Server

    Like all database applications, Microsoft SQL Server depends significantly on the underlying computing power, storage capacity, and I/O performance, which play important roles in the choice of system. This white paper explores how companies can ensure flexibility and scalability when implementing database applications, whilst also lowering the total cost of...

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  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Solution Brief: Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers for Microsoft Exchange Server

    Enterprise messaging and collaboration are critical components of IT infrastructure that directly affect every employee’s communications and productivity. Read this white paper to find out how you can adequately support and scale servers like Microsoft Exchange, whilst reducing operating expenses, lowering risk and incorporating server flexibility by using Cisco UCS...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Boeing Boosts Network Performance While Reducing Costs

    A division of the world's largest aerospace company, Boeing Defense, Space, and Security (BDS) provides end-to-end services for large-scale systems, there challenges were to maintain performance of mission-critical production environment and run FC and IP across the same interface and maintain high performance. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges....

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  • Case Studies // Mar 2013

    Military-Standard Data Center Management

    In the case of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) lives depend on it. There challenges were to make IT operations faster, better, and cheaper and move to greenfield data center without disrupting military operations. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented Cisco Unified Data Center solution based...

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  • Case Studies // Mar 2013

    Marian University Enhances Educational Value With Vblock

    In recent years, Marian University has transformed itself from a college to a university, doubled its student population, and launched major initiatives including a new college of osteopathic medicine. Marian needed to update its infrastructure without putting increased pressure on tuition. To set the stage for the university's future, Marian...

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  • Case Studies // Mar 2012

    Building Collaborative Platform for Driving Innovation

    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) Zurich accelerates innovation. There challenges were to create highly available, secure network that facilitates collaboration and help ensure IT model is aligned to support competitive advantage and growth for next 10 years. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented Cisco Unified...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    University of Bern: Rapid Resource Provisioning With Cisco Ucs

    The University of Bern is involved in a number of research projects on national, European and global levels. Constant data growth requires efficient solutions that make resources available as quickly and flexibly as possible. Ease of operation and central management are equally important in order to keep administrative expenditure as...

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  • Case Studies // Feb 2013

    University of San Diego Advances Academic Excellence With Vblock

    The University of San Diego had undertaken a series of strategic initiatives to improve the experience of its 8100 students, their challenge is to standardize on a virtualized infrastructure to reduce IT complexity and meet growing demand for fast delivery of IT services. They chose Vblock Systems to overcome these...

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  • Case Studies // Mar 2013

    University of Tennessee Knoxville Boosts Competitive Edge With Citrix Virtualization on Flexpod

    The University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, is one of the oldest public universities in the U.S. There challenge is to support anywhere, anytime student computing environment while conserving IT and financial resources. Build application and desktop virtualization delivery system with Citrix based on the FlexPod data center platform from Cisco...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Mexican University Improves IT Security and Resilience

    Universidad Popular Aut?noma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) is a private, nonprofit university serving around 15,000 students in the state of Puebla in east central Mexico. Their challenge is to comply with new personal data protection legislation, while increasing IT security, resilience, and application performance. They chose Vblock System 300...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // Mar 2012

    Australian State Deploys Centralized Public School Network

    The Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) wanted to standardize the school network under its School Technology Architecture and Resources, there challenges were to provide enterprise-grade, centralized, and standardized network infrastructure to support DEECD online learning environment and meet increasing demands for rich digital content and video...

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  • Case Studies // Nov 2012

    Sinopec Beijing Yanshan Company Realizes Efficient and Smart Operations With Cisco VXI

    Sinopec Beijing Yanshan Company is one of China's largest producers of synthetic rubber, synthetic resins, phenol-acetone, and other high-quality oil products, there challenges were ineffective management of the vast number of computers, burden of IT expenses grew annually and data security was a concern, with rampant problems. They chose Cisco...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Cloud Optimizes Product Development and Delivery

    Thieme Publishing Group is a scientific and medical publishing house maintaining offices in seven cities, there challenges were to respond to Internet threat to print publishing with new business model and cost structure and accelerate product development and time to market. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented...

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  • Case Studies // Jan 2013

    Global Oil and Gas Company Consolidates Branch Infrastructure

    Technip, a world leader in project management, engineering, and construction for the oil and gas industry, is contributing to sustainable solutions for the energy challenges of the 21st century, there challenges were to provide cost-effective IT service delivery to remote offices and ships, accelerate IT infrastructure of temporary offices and...

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  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Ticketing Giant Books Private Cloud Benefits

    CTS EVENTIM AG, listed in the SDAX index, is Europe's market leader in the ticketing field with activities in 21 countries, there challenges were to optimize hardware landscape to improve manageability, flexibility, and setup times, free up skilled technicians to develop higher value projects and reduce running costs through improved...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Asset Management Company Builds New, Agile Data Centers

    Built largely through acquisition of top asset managers, Allianz Global Investors (AGI), a world leader in asset management and a subsidiary, there challenges were need to streamline data center management by centralizing and consolidating five existing data centers and standardize on platforms and applications across acquired assets. They chose Cisco...

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  • Case Studies // Feb 2012

    Loan Provider Cuts Data Migration Effort by 75 Per Cent

    Provident Financial is a financial services group, there challenges were to reduce time and effort needed for major data centre migration, smoothly allocate data to specific priority tiers within new data centre structure and quickly migrate data to new devices. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented Cisco...

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  • Case Studies // Apr 2013

    Insurance Company Virtualizes Data Center and Desktops

    Promutuel originated 160 years ago when farmers from Quebec had the innovative idea to band together and create their own insurance company. There challenges were runaway HQ data center server costs to support continual expansion strain space, power, cooling budgets and different WAN configurations and server setups at 150 remote...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // Sep 2011

    Securities Trading Firm Gains Competitive Edge

    Mantara High-Frequency and Electronic Trading company, there challenges were to reduce complexity of multivendor, multiproduct infrastructure, Help customers comply with evolving security regulations while maintaining ultra-low latency market access and support rapidly growing global client base. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented Cisco Nexus 3064 Switches provide...

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  • Case Studies // Apr 2012

    Insurance Company Streamlines Secure Web Traffic

    Topdanmark is the second-largest general insurer and sixth-largest life insurance company in Denmark. There challenges were to enhance load-balance high volumes of encrypted traffic, enforce security policy as easily and cost-effectively as possible and simplify development and testing of new services. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented...

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  • Case Studies // Mar 2012

    Electrical Firm Reduces Data Center Costs by 75 Percent

    EDIF is an electrical wholesaler and distributor that operate along the eastern side of Italy, generating revenues of 136 million in 2010. There challenges were to improve customer service, reduce operating costs and strengthen operational resilience. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented Cisco Unified data center architecture...

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  • Case Studies // Apr 2013

    Brennercom Invests in Cloud and High-Density Innovation at Its Data Center

    Brennercom is an Italian communications provider active over a vast area stretching from the provinces of Trentino Alto Adige throughout the territory. There challenges were to enhance Data Center capabilities with a flexible, high-performance solution able to deliver cloud and virtualization services, and develops a new business model. They chose...

    Provided By Cisco

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Whitepaper: Leadership and technology: a total-cost-of-ownership comparison for unified communications

    Mid-market enterprises strive for success. Being successful means consistently making smart decisions - including smart technology purchases. Technology should enable a mid-market enterprise to meet the needs of its employees and customers today, and also allow a business to make simple but value-rich changes in the future. Technology must support...

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