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Comic Relief puts charity in the cloud

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

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

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

RLAM upgrades server capacity through virtualisation

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

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

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

Tea service

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

A virtual operation

How the Royal College of Physicians used virtualisation to cut its hardware requirements by four-fifths

Parking the PC

NCP uses blade PC technology to take processing out of its car parks.

Ship shape

Shipbuilding and government contractor VT Group swabs its software inventory.

VIP protection at the Ritz

Exclusive London hotel locks down its mobile data after PDA goes missing.

Inter-city Internet

Great North Eastern Railways (GNER) has installed WiFi clouds on all of its trains.

Most Effective Enterprise-Wide IT Infrastructure

Energy crisis

Growing power demands in corporate data centres challenge ‘green’ initiatives.

The strategic imperative

The proliferation of information may swamp many managers – only organisations with a determined, structured approach will thrive.