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 ...

What do the users do when they lack the space or money to add another node to their High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster? To find out if it was also a practical solution, ANEO experimented with an HPC workload on another cloud computing platform. ANEO wanted an answer before any of its customers got into that ...

Royal Holloway, University of London, saw the need to change how it provided IT to users in order to deliver the same experience and choice as consumer websites. By moving to a hybrid cloud architecture based on Microsoft technologies, it has been able to automate the provisioning and delivery of services, improving the user experience ...

Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) is in charge of managing the largest port in Germany and second largest in Europe. HPA wanted to take advantage of new devices and form factors to boost employee mobility and remove issues that could impede the effectiveness of employees working outside of the office. HPA chose to upgrade to Microsoft ...

JOIN, owner of a 4G license, stands out by combining mobile telecom and IT cloud services in a unique offering. JOIN Experience is a newcomer on the mobile telecom market. This owner of a 4G license on the Luxembourg market positions itself as a “Third generation” telecom operator, offering both mobile and IT cloud services. ...

Hertz, is the car rental and leasing industry. Their challenges are to rationalize, replace, and consolidate aging legacy IT and network infrastructure across Europe, decrease total cost of IT ownership and variabilize IT costs and simplify IT operations and increase employee efficiency. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They have implemented data center consolidation ...

IT decision-makers often struggle to achieve a balanced information infrastructure that meets all their needs. Historically, they have chosen between low initial costs and higher efficiencies or market advantages. A platform that combines enterprise virtualization, data unification and efficient packaging enables businesses to extract increasing value from their data for less investment. Unified storage options ...

To reduce operating costs and find more effective ways to attract and retain customers in the hyper-competitive airline industry, United Airlines is working with Microsoft to expand private cloud computing to the enterprise. In 2012, the airline chose the Windows Server operating system and Microsoft System Center data center solutions to host and manage its ...

As mobile workstyles reinvent the way people and businesses operate, IT organizations are in a position to enable new levels of mobility, productivity and efficiency – but not if the high cost of their legacy endpoint environment prevents them from making strategic investments in innovation. Desktop virtualization, paired with thin client computing, lets IT escape ...

NTT Plala Inc. provides a wealth of services, from its Hikari-TV video streaming service to its Plala ISP packages, and also actively pursues a full corporate social responsibility policy. As part of the electricity-saving efforts, the company has a project underway for running internal PCs on virtualized desktops. Cisco VXI was utilized to provide the ...

The Morgan County School System (MCSS) has five campus locations, from pre-K through 12. Their challenges are to offer technologically superior end-user experience and learning environment, implement cost-efficient, scalable network platform for new applications and anticipated user growth and streamline management responsibilities to serve multiple campuses. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They have ...