The Weather Channel needed to increase business insight, streamline reporting processes and improve data control. In 2012, it implemented a flexible Business Intelligence (BI) solution based on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to take advantage of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Power View via a portal and virtual desktops. As a result, The Weather Channel saves more ...
Volkswagen Financial Services helps Volkswagen buyers acquire the car of their dreams by providing a range of financing options. Volkswagen Financial Services was about to create a private cloud environment using Windows Server 2008 R2 when it learned about the Windows Server 2012 operating system. The company is upgrading hundreds of web servers to Windows ...
Wipro is a global leader in providing IT services, so naturally it wants to operate its own IT infrastructure with model efficiency. The Wipro IT Management Group, which provides internal IT services to more than 130,000 employees across multiple offices, is upgrading its 900 Windows-based virtual machines to the Windows Server 2012 operating system. With ...
To help change its business model from a traditional web hosting company to a cloud services provider, Outsourcery is taking advantage of the latest improvements in the Windows Server 2012 operating system and Hyper-V virtualization technology. No longer hampered by a four-core-per-virtual-machine limit, Outsourcery can accommodate partners and customers that demand high-performance virtual machines. Data ...
RHI, a global supplier of refractory products, wanted better BI (Business Intelligence) tools. To improve query performance and reporting capabilities, the company implemented a tabular data model based on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services and the new xVelocity memory-optimized column store index. Queries that once took more than a minute to run now finish ...
Georgia-Pacific is a leading producer of building products and paper goods for consumers worldwide. To address rapid business growth, the company’s building products unit needed a higher-performing, more scalable data warehouse. In response, the firm implemented Microsoft SQL Server fast track data warehouse, which has greatly improved performance and provides faster and more reliable access ...
CEMEX is a global building materials company that produces, distributes and sells cement, concrete, aggregates and related building materials and services to customers. Their challenge is efficiently safeguard all endpoints and improve visibility and management of overall security posture. They chose McAfee to overcome this challenge. They have implemented McAfee ePolicy orchestrator, next generation firewall, ...
Auckland Airport wanted better Business Intelligence (BI) tools to optimize operations, so it replaced existing Oracle and Cognos products with a BI solution that includes Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. As a result, the airport has improved business agility and profitability with near-real-time access to analytics information. In addition, it has ...
Home of the popular WeatherBug applications, Earth Networks provides atmospheric data through its vast global monitoring networks. Like many technology companies, many of its employees have the ability to operate their PCs remotely. The company had used third-party software that failed to provide PCs with the performance and protection required. In June 2011, it deployed ...
To support Korea’s booming game app-development industry, cloud-computing specialists, APEX PLATFORM, wanted to create a comprehensive, all-in-one, Gaming Backend-as-a-Service (GBaaS) offering. After developing its mixed Windows-Linux GBaaS platform using Amazon Web Services, APEX PLATFORM switched to Microsoft Azure. This switch enabled APEX PLATFORM to sustain a zero startup cost model for new game developers, and ...