Leading Newspaper in Egypt Updates Digital Archive, Speeds Data Access by 66 Percent

Al Ahram, one of the world's oldest newspapers and leading Egyptian IT service providers, used the Ahram Archiving System to migrate its 1-terabyte database with 1,800,000 images to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. As a result, Al Ahram sped queries by 66 percent and productivity by 50 percent; cut database size by 40 percent and help desk calls by 30 percent; and boosted security and data integrity.