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Direct Edge: Stock Exchange Gains Deeper Understanding of Data and Drives New Business Growth

May 14, 2013 12:00am PDT

Direct Edge is the world's fourth largest equities exchange. The organization offers its customers market data services and trading functionality across two distinct platforms: EDGA and EDGX....

Provided by: Microsoft

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FHI 360 Nonprofit Organization Chooses Microsoft Office 365, Gains Global Productivity

April 15, 2013 12:00am PDT

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization working to improve lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Following an acquisition, half of its employees...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Case Study: Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden

March 28, 2013 12:00am PDT

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is one of the nation’s most popular attractions, a Top 10 Zagat-rated Zoo, and a Top Zoo for Children according to Parent’s Magazine. Each year, more than 1.3...

Provided by: IBM

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Smooth Migration for Belgian ICT Shared Service Organization

March 6, 2013 12:00am PST

Smals is a Belgian ICT shared service organization specializing in infrastructure and applications for public institutions in social security and healthcare. Their challenges were to reduce costs...

Provided by: Cisco

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Advocate Health Care: Healthcare Provider Drives Innovation, Improves Collaboration with Cloud Services

March 1, 2013 12:00am PST

Advocate Health Care is the largest healthcare provider in Illinois. Several years ago, Advocate subscribed to a hosted messaging service to help associates communicate, and it deployed...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Community health center outpaces competition with HP Converged Infrastructure

February 26, 2013 12:00am PST

Learn how Jupiter Medical Center deployed HP Converged Infrastructure so it can deploy new applications faster to remain competitive with larger health care organizations in the area. Sponsored...

Provided by: HP and Intel®

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Avoid vulnerabilities and threats in the cloud - What your organization needs to know about security in the cloud

January 29, 2013 12:00am PST

Like any other technology, there are vulnerabilities that attackers look for in the cloud; however, users can make the cloud a safer place by becoming aware of these security challenges and how to...

Provided by: IBM

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Aviva Case Study

December 1, 2012 12:00am PST

Aviva is one of the world's largest insurance companies, with 46,000 employees in 28 countries. The London-based company's strategy is to operate as a single global organization that rapidly...

Provided by: Workday

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More Agile and Responsive Technology for Country Fire Authority

November 29, 2012 12:00am PST

CFA (Country Fire Authority) is a largely volunteer fire and emergency services organization that serves 3.3 million people in more than one million homes and properties across the Australian...

Provided by: Cisco

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Advanced Remote Monitoring: Managing Today's Pace of Change

November 7, 2012 12:00am PST

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and large organizations responsible for supporting IT end-users have been tasked to...

Provided by: ISOdx Solutions

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Moravia IT: IT Firm Uses Web-Based Management to Extend PC Lifespan, Preserve Cost Savings

October 29, 2012 12:00am PDT

Based in the Czech Republic, Moravia IT helps its customers adapt and introduce software products to global markets. The company provides localization, product testing, multilingual publishing,...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Century Council: Public Service Organization Uses Operating System to Shorten Project Completion Time

October 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

The Century Council is an independent National Advisory Board composed of distinguished leaders in education, medicine, government, and business who work with law enforcement, public officials,...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Virtual Success in the Healthcare Provider Market

September 25, 2012 12:00am PDT

This white paper is presented by IDC Health Insights and sponsored by NetApp. The objectives were to gain insights into: The decision-making process for investment in desktop virtualization by...

Provided by: NetApp

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Unilever (UK): Unilever Transitions to Private Cloud, Expects to Double in Size Without Increasing IT Costs

August 31, 2012 12:00am PDT

Unilever has been hugely successful in selling personal care, homecare, and food products to billions of customers throughout the world - so successful that it expects to double in size in 10...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Royal Mail Group: Postal Agency Reduces Costs by 20 Percent With Automated Deployments and Private Cloud

August 16, 2012 12:00am PDT

Royal Mail Group wanted to upgrade its 27,000 computers to the Windows 7 operating system. However, the cost-conscious organization wanted a way to streamline and automate the mostly manual,...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Forrester Total Economic Impact of VMware View

August 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

In August 2012, VMware commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by efficiently managing their...

Provided by: VMware

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Cisco Delivers Wireless Access at University of Louisville

July 30, 2012 12:00am PDT

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...

Provided by: Cisco

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BayCloud Systems: ISV Scales Cloud Service to Manage 240 Percent Increase in Customer Volume With Ease

July 23, 2012 12:00am PDT

BayCloud Systems saw an opportunity to help organizations comply with an emerging online privacy statute. To shorten development time and minimize capital costs, it decided to use cloud technology...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Kaggle: Company Creates Crowdsourcing Platform in the Cloud to Solve Complex Problems

July 16, 2012 12:00am PDT

Kaggle is a company and platform launched to provide a link between organizations needing specialized analytic and scientific skills with a global pool of researchers and scientists who can...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Techila: High Performance Computing ISV Switches From Amazon, Adds $328,000 in Revenue

July 5, 2012 12:00am PDT

Techila is an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) based in Tampere, Finland. Its Techila middleware solution enables organizations that run computationally intensive applications to access...

Provided by: Microsoft