Retail is a multibillion-dollar business for Microsoft and no period is more important to Microsoft’s retail business than the four days between Black Thursday and Cyber Monday. Ambitious sales targets for the company’s flagship Xbox products meant Microsoft couldn’t afford a misstep in promoting and selling Xbox both in its retail stores and online. Sales ...
Cube52 is a hosting services provider that is committed to offering customers flexible, affordable cloud computing solutions. With growing customer demand for Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions, Cube52 chose to use Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to create a flexible and cost effective disaster-recovery-as-a-service offering. Cube52 can fail over live customer applications to Microsoft Azure or ...
South Africa’s largest fixed odds operator, Betting World, secures IT uptime with Microsoft SQL Server 2012. This direction was based on the identification of weaknesses within Betting World’s SQL indexing process. Following consultation with First Technology EDS and Microsoft South Africa, Betting World opted to split its reporting and transactional data loads allowing the workload ...
ICT professionals have casted their votes and chosen Symantec Backup Exec™ 2014 as the solution to deal with today’s growing data volumes and complex virtual environments. Winning the Computerworld Readers Choice Award 2014 for backup system, this powerful, flexible and easy-to-use solution helps your organisation achieve better backup and recovery by: • Increasing backup and ...
Learn how Infrastructure-as-a-Service company simplified its data center using Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) approach. Adopting Cisco’s ACI, NetApp experienced: • Improvements in the density of throughput and cost per port • Increased productivity of the infrastructure • Integrated visibility and intelligence • Agility enablement of the entire application infrastructure Download this Case Study to ...
Mediatonic creates and manages games on mobile devices, consoles and PCs (Personal Computers). Understanding player behavior is crucial in an industry that has moved to a free-to-play model, with revenues mostly coming from in-game purchases. With help from Elastacloud, Mediatonic implemented Microsoft Azure HDInsight to analyze large volumes of big data, the insight from which ...
Midsize semiconductor manufacturer saves $0.5MM in infrastructure expenses by switching from servers to Box. They use Box company-wide: R&D, sales, M&A, legal, and more. Technology industry, manufacturing industry, midsize company, midmarket, NA, server replacement, Sales LOB, R&D LOB, M&A, Legal LOB, Box Content API, cost savings. Subscribe to the Data Insider Newsletter Learn the latest ...
The Cisco supply chain is highly diverse, extensive, and global. Their challenges are business agility constrained by highly customized supply chain system and multiple ERP instances, few industry-standard processes and automation efficiencies in the supply chain and long time to market and for acquisition integration. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They have implemented ...
NASDAQ OMX group is a leading global provider of financial trading services, exchange technology, and market insight. Every year, it adds more than 500 TeraBytes (TB) of uncompressed data to its archives. To better manage data growth, maintain fast queries, and reduce database maintenance time, NASDAQ OMX migrated data warehouses to SQL server 2014. As ...
Equinix connects you to the markets, customers, and partners on the scale you need to grow your business. Our global footprint is the largest in the industry, and supports the most extensive and robust assortment of carriers, content providers and cloud services available. But more than that, we put our data centres in global commerce ...
How do the users boost availability and speed disaster recovery across an expanding, global data infrastructure? For Amway, the answer is with Microsoft SQL Server 2014 and Windows Azure. In pilot tests, Amway found the two Microsoft technologies worked together to support 100 percent availability and reduce data center recovery time from six person-hours to ...
This ZDNet and TechRepublic guide, in association with HP, looks at what’s at stake for those who’re still on XP, explains some of the threats, and offers options to help the risk-exposed take action to protect their business. Subscribe to the Executive Briefing Newsletter Discover the secrets to IT leadership success with these tips on ...
To enhance IT services for faculty and staff across the United States, University of Maryland University College (UMUC) needed to replace out-of-lifecycle desktop hardware and software quickly and efficiently, and with minimal risk of downtime to staff services. Read this case study to learn how UMUC leveraged new technology and Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services to ...
GameStop’s Four Lessons on the Customer Experience Organizations must put consumers at the forefront of everything they do. From customer service, to product development, to sales and marketing, “customer centricity” is the main objective. Video game retailer GameStop has always consistently been at the cutting edge of customer-centric strategy. From its innovative customer loyalty program ...
Clark Country, Nevada is the nation’s 15th largest county, supporting more than 2 million residents and 42 million tourists a year. The Family Services department is one of its largest divisions, providing services to protect children through development of nurturing, stable families in collaboration with community providers. After a rigorous selection process, Clark County decided ...