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2 September 2010

IT Case Studies in Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

A data centre on ice

 13 August 2010

Managing the University of Wisconsin’s Antarctic IT facility is an exercise in making do with limited resources

Open space

 13 August 2010

Why US space agency NASA contributed its self-built private cloud technology to an open source project

Thomson Reuters' data centre efficiency drive

 14 July 2010

The financial information giant's head of energy discusses how it is addressing the power footprint of its 20 data centres

Unlocking teamwork

 14 July 2010

Rhys Lewis, chief enterprise architect at the BBC, explains how it is addressing the constraints placed on collaboration by systems architecture

North Lanarkshire Leisure stems water waste with smart meters

 13 July 2010

Monitoring consumption helps swimming pool operator stop "pouring money down the drain"

King’s College London taps building energy management

 13 July 2010

Building energy management system (BEMS) allows university to control heat and light dynamically

Bupa reduces paper consumption with online billing

 13 July 2010

Private healthcare provider saves £200,000 annually while reducing environmental burden with e-billing

Breaking the rules at Virgin Media

 18 June 2010

How Virgin Media broke through the constraints of its overlapping firewall products and empowered its IT workforce in the process

Comic Relief puts charity in the cloud

 17 May 2010

Cloud computing helped the charity behind Red Nose Day to scale IT systems to meet heavily-fluctuating demand, Information Age's Hosting & Managed Services conference heard

Standard Bank keeps the desktop cool with virtualisation

 12 March 2010

An urgent need to limit the heat output of its end-user devices drove Standard Bank to undertake an ambitious desktop virtualisation deployment

Virtualisation unearths cost savings at construction giant

 12 February 2010

By virtualising its existing ERP platform, one construction firm has seen significant improvements in costs and business flexibility

RLAM upgrades server capacity through virtualisation

 12 February 2010

Following its decision to virtualise the majority of its servers, one financial services company has seen both a return on investment and solved its computing capacity issues

Across the virtual world

 17 June 2009

Desktop virtualisation has helped payments processing provider VocaLink unify its global development operations, and has brought other benefits rather closer to home

The on demand data fortress

 17 June 2009

KPMG Forensics deploys high security data centre facilities on an on-demand basis to handle large quantities of sensitive data

Tea service

 10 October 2008

Service management at Twinings has enabled the IT department to become a project management centre of excellence

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