IT Case Studies | The Cloud and Virtualization

8 February 2012

IT Case Studies in The Cloud & Virtualization

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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

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

A mountain of video

14 July 2009

How the British Board of Film Classification tackled the challenge of upgrading its collection of 160,000 recordings to a digital format

The ultimate archive

07 August 2008

The British Library’s information environment presents a storage management challenge like no other

The natural selection of storage

10 April 2008

London’s Natural History Museum has a physical storage challenge like no other organisation

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