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NTTX Select: Hosting Provider Uses Industry-Standard Storage to Slash Storage Costs by 30 Percent

March 22, 2013 12:00am PDT

NTTX select is a United Kingdom - based service provider and member of the Microsoft partner network that offers custom managed IT solutions, including customized virtual desktops; hosting...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Meeting Student Demand for Always-On Wired and Wireless Network

January 23, 2013 12:00am PST

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...

Provided by: Cisco

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Saitama University: Preparation of a Platform for a Virtual Environment to Centralize Data Management

December 11, 2012 12:00am PST

At Saitama University, this has five faculties gathered on a single campus with thriving intercommunication. When performing maintenance of the university data infrastructure, they were looking...

Provided by: Cisco

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Customer Case Study: Qantas guarantees online availability, improving customer experience and protecting revenue

November 9, 2012 12:00am PST

Consumerisation of IT continues at a rapid pace, but it's not just about new devices; it's redefining the entire relationship between IT and end users, introducing potential opportunities for...

Provided by: Computer Associates

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Taking Arts Education Into 21st Century

September 7, 2012 12:00am PDT

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...

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Kennards Hire: Kennards adopts business intelligence tool to turn data insight into action

August 8, 2012 12:00am PDT

Kennards Hire started in 1948 as a small, family-owned business hiring tools and equipment to local customers. With a fast-growing business and increasing volumes of data, Kennards needed a...

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Baker Hughes: Global Oil Services Firm Supports Self-Service BI With a Single Version of the Truth

July 24, 2012 12:00am PDT

Baker Hughes, a global oilfield services company operating in more than 80 countries, has long used data warehouses to support decision making. The company wants to push Business Intelligence (BI)...

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GreatSchools: Front-End Engineering Team Gains 3 to 5 More Weeks Per Quarter for Developing New Content

June 20, 2012 12:00am PDT

With one million page views per day, and traffic nearly doubling in the months before school resumes, GreatSchools puts a great deal of effort into ensuring excellent site performance. Most of...

Provided by: Riverbed Technology

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American University of Beirut: By Moving to the Cloud, University Significantly Cuts Costs and Improves Customer Service

June 8, 2012 12:00am PDT

Since 1866, the American University of Beirut (AUB) has been providing excellence in education and advancing knowledge through research in more than 120 undergraduate and graduate programs. AUB...

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Building Material Distributors: Distributor Chooses Microsoft BI over IBM, Cuts Deployment Time and Saves $100,000

June 5, 2012 12:00am PDT

Building Material Distributors (BMD) supplies quality building products to independent lumberyards, building material dealers, window and door specialty retailers, hardware retailers, and home...

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The Tailor-Made Cloud

March 20, 2012 12:00am PDT

Thomas-Krenn.AG, based in Freyung in the Bavarian Forest, has an excellent reputation as a server manufacturer. Their challenge is a customizable cloud solution for demanding hosting customers....

Provided by: VMW Games

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China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation: Chinese Energy Utility Builds BI Solution to Improve Information Sharing and Efficiency

March 6, 2012 12:00am PST

China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation (CGN Group) is tasked with developing clean energy sources to fuel China's booming economy. As the utility grew, its data stores multiplied into...

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Case Study - Gilt Groupe

February 27, 2012 12:00am PST

With millions of unique visitors to its website and over 5,000 requests per second during peak periods, online retailer Gilt Groupe could lose a large percentage of its daily profits in just 10...

Provided by: Riverbed

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MedRecruit: Moving Email Online Gives Medical Recruiters the Edge

January 30, 2012 12:00am PST

With a vision to improve the work/life balance and opportunities available to doctors, Sam Hazledine founded MedRecruit in 2006. MedRecruit has seen rapid growth in a very short space of time and...

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Greenfield Wireless Innovator Outsources Mission-Critical Functions to Amdocs for Rapid Success

January 19, 2012 12:00am PST

In the highly competitive Canadian wireless market, Mobilicity has a very innovative business model for its operational and IT strategy: outsourcing virtually all of its mission-critical...

Provided by: Amdocs

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Mediterranean Shipping Company: Shipper Supports Expansion by Boosting Speed, Control, and Savings With Microsoft

December 13, 2011 12:00am PST

As the second-largest shipper in the world, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) must access and share operational data with global employees and partners all day, every day to deliver excellent...

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Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand: Data Integration Tool Helps Non-Technical Staff Create Their Own Line-of-Business Applications

November 21, 2011 12:00am PST

Located in Perth, the Fujitsu Microsoft Solutions Centre is a centre of software excellence. The centre's 70 consultants work in fast-paced project environments. To provide an optimal service they...

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Virtualization Generates a Wealth of Efficiencies for Credicitrus With IBM

August 26, 2011 12:00am PDT

Credicitrus is the largest credit cooperative in Brazil. Credicitrus needed to modernize its information management system in order to cope with increasing data volumes and continue providing an...

Provided by: IBM

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Regional Telecommunications Company Opts for Excellent Service Delivery to Beat Big Carriers

August 26, 2011 12:00am PDT

West Central Telephone Association (WCTA) is a full-service telecommunications. The main challenges were to prepare for anticipated growth and the addition of new technologies including triple...

Provided by: Extreme Networks

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Strategic Rescue For Portuguese Acting School

July 20, 2011 12:00am PDT

The Escola de Actores, or Act, is a non-profit acting school located in Lisbon, Portugal. It offers the Acting Professional Training Course for aspiring actors aiming to start a career in...

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