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IT Case Studies in The Cloud & Virtualization

How Pfizer uses data virtualisation to accelerate R&D

 16 March 2012

Pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer uses data virtualisation to remove the friction from new drug analysis

Autonet tackles data boom

 16 February 2012

Insurance provider used virtualisation to get customer data under control

Royal College of GPs' £1.5 million virtual makeover

 16 February 2012

The Royal College of General Practitioners used an office move as an opportunity to modernise its IT infrastructure

Changing the barrels

 07 February 2012

Pub and restaurant operator Mitchells & Butlers recently switched its data centre and network outsourcing supplier to achieve more scalable, outcome-based IT services

Lessons from the virtual desktop

 19 December 2011

New College Durham anticipates considerable savings from its virtual desktop implementation but it has not been without hiccups

Exploiting the human weak point

 14 November 2011

Author and consultant Ian Mann explains how he got the better of a SaaS provider's security precautions by outsmarting its customer support agents

Securing mobile access 

 14 November 2011

Corporate finance advisory KBR used cloud-based service Simplexo to remove the risk of mobile workers 

Putting the London insurance market into the cloud

 14 November 2011

Uncertain how London's insurers would take to its e-brokerage platform Lime-St.com, TriSystems opted for cloud-based hosting

Preventing data extinction

 30 August 2011

Concerns about the resilience of its IT infrastructure and the cramped conditions in its data centre prompted the Zoological Society of London to virtualise

Groupon's call centre in the cloud

 22 August 2011

The fast-growing group discount company uses a hosted IP telephony service to prioritise customer calls according to urgency

Q&A – Salvation Army UK

 18 April 2011

CIO Martyn Croft explains how the Christian charitable organisation’s use of desktop virtualisation is evolving

Slimming down storage

 15 November 2010

Thin provisioning helped the London Borough of Hillingdon cut storage costs even as its data burden grew

Bringing backup back in-house

 19 November 2009

After a routine power-down caused a week of disruption, the MS Society took control of its own backup facilities

Queries at the speed of light

 18 November 2009

With tens of thousands of gamers playing simultaneously, CCP Games, creator of the popular online role-playing game Eve Online, was forced to become one of the earliest enterprise-scale adopters of solid-state storage

Storing surveillance

 14 September 2009

Nottingham City Transport turned to Blu-ray discs and hierarchical storage management to help archive its CCTV footage

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