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County Health Services Organization Saves U.S.$25,000 Annually on Server Downtime
Shelby County Health System SCHS was pressured to reorganize due to changes in industry and government policies, limited budgets, and expanding service requirements. This meant changes to its IT systems, as well as its IT staff. Still, SCHS had to ensure the availability of its critical medical information systems 24...
Tags: Information Technology, Downtime, Health Care, Server, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management
Case studies
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Eliminates Costly Downtime With Grid Solution
Founded in 1919 in the Netherlands, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is one of the world's oldest airlines. The company wanted to prevent unacceptable levels of downtime of online ticket sales, passenger self-service check in and other important systems and solve the problem of excessive downtime without making any changes to...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Downtime, KLM, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
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German Environment Ministry Cuts Costs, Slashes Downtime
Since the IT division of Lower Saxony's Ministry of Environment in Hanover, Germany, began working with the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and the Active Directory directory service and security features, the system administration's efficiency has increased by 20 percent. By implementing Windows Server 2003, the Ministry of Environment...
Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Server, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
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Top Russian Manufacturer Cuts Downtime 20 to 30 Percent With Security Solution
SOK Group, one of Russia's largest manufacturers, relied on a third-party product to protect its central e-mail infrastructure. But the single scan engine in that product sometimes allowed new viruses to slip through. So, as the company upgraded to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, it also migrated to Microsoft Forefront Security...
Tags: Security, Microsoft Exchange Server, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications
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Enabling Recovery of Business-Critical Servers and Data With Symantec Solution
Inventec Appliance Corporation is growing rapidly, both in revenues and number of locations. Downtime is expensive - $3 million a day - so the company must be able to rebuild servers and restore data quickly. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery has shortened both backup and restore times, and provides great...
Tags: Symantec Corp., Recovery, Downtime, Server, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery, Security
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Application Service Provider Moves From Linux to Windows, Cuts Downtime 95 Percent
HR-ease offers its online human resources management tool in an Application Service Provider ASP hosting model. When a third party began hosting the computers for the solution, the solution became unreliable, and customers couldn't access their applications and data. The problems arose because the Windows-based servers that HR-ease executives thought...
Tags: HRM, Downtime, Application Service Provider, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Human Resource Management (HRM), Application Service Providers (ASPs), Web Hosting, Linux, Organizational Structure, Business Services, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Internet, Human Resources, Hardware
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Sanyo Semiconductor Cuts Downtime, Improves Productivity With Help From Global Sapphire Inc.
Sanyo Semiconductor Manufacturing Philippines SSMP began experiencing irregular system outages and longer transaction processing time as its aging production server struggled to cope with an increase in workload. This resulted in data losses, long report generation times, a decrease in overall productivity, and frustrated, overworked staff. Maintenance costs were also...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Downtime, Sanyo Electric Co., Semiconductor, Linux, Databases, Blade Servers, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Servers, Hardware
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Designing Critical Enterprise SANs for Troubleshooting; Advanced Preparation Prevents Costly Downtime
With a critical SAN, usually supporting a large number of users, downtime is expensive in terms of both lost productivity and data access. Almost everyone in the company and the company's customers are affected, leading to mounting pressure on those debugging to quickly fix the problem. Adding to the frustration,...
Tags: SAN, Downtime, Monitoring, Finisar, Analysis, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
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Victoria University of Wellington Cuts Costs, Minimizes Downtime With Proactive Monitoring
Founded in 1897, Victoria University of Wellington has a reputation for educational and research excellence. With around 1,500 staff members, 19,000 students, and ambitious expansion plans, they knew it had to work smarter and establish more efficient operations. One of their main goals was to provide staff with around-the-clock access...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Victoria University, Downtime, Monitoring, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Databases, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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Provider of Accessibility Products Reduces Downtime With Windows Server 2003
The Braun Corporation began experiencing significant downtime with its Novell GroupWise e-mail server. Without a Novell resource close by, getting onsite support for this mission-critical server was challenging and expensive. In addition, Braun planned to implement a new Customer Relationship Management CRM application and an Internet Protocol telephony solution, both...
Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Servers, Groupware, E-mail Clients, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Hardware
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AFPD Saves US $ 3 Million a Year With Unicenter Network and Systems Management Solution
Occupying 92,700 square meters of land, the 6 storey single-use high technology manufacturing plant in Singapore belonging to AFPD, is one of the world's largest Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display TFT LCD plants. The company was facing problem in production downtime as well as incompatibility and instability issues with...
Tags: CA Unicenter, Network, Downtime, Systems Management, AFPD, It Management, It service Management
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Novell Case Study: Schlouch, Inc
Schlouch Incorporated is one of Eastern Pennsylvania's leading residential and commercial site preparation specialists. The company was facing problems as the Workstations were locking up daily with a bombardment of spam and spyware. Such downtime is expensive when estimators rely on a stable network to create estimates for jobs costing...
Tags: Novell Inc., Network, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Downtime, Networking, Open Source, Security, Servers, Viruses And Worms, Hardware
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Chevron Aims to Accelerate Production and Reduce Downtime Through Implementation of New Business Intelligence Platform Providing Consistent, Available Data in Real Time
The challenge facing the main players in the oil industry is to service this growth in demand by increasing productivity in both upstream and downstream activities, without losing sight of wider goals including safety, and overall corporate responsibility. Chevron is the second-largest integrated energy company in the United States and...
Tags: Downtime, Chevron Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Business Ethics, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Leadership
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NEC Gains Functionality, Reduces Downtime, and Improves Security of Its E-Mail System
NEC Computers International, based in the Netherlands, is a subsidiary of premier global technology firm NEC. The company wanted to upgrade its e-mail and messaging system to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Its goals were to increase system functionality, reduce downtime and risk of data loss due to human error, and...
Tags: Security, Microsoft Exchange Server, Downtime, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., NEC Corp., Groupware, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications
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Global Automotive Components Manufacturer Taps SAP Consulting to Ensure a Successful Upgrade and Just 48 Hours of Downtime
The MANN+HUMMEL Group wanted to safeguard future by implementing new version of SAP software for Enterprise Resource Planning ERP. The company deployed SAP Consulting project management and technical consulting services for Customer-Based Upgrade CBU. As a result it reduced downtime to 48 hours using the CBU procedure and tools and...
Tags: Downtime, SAP AG
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SAP R/3 Upgrade Completed in Just Six Months With Less Than Seven Hours of Downtime
Petron Corporation, the Philippines' leading oil-refining company, decided to upgrade its SAP R/3 System 3.1H to SAP R/3 4.6C. The new release enabled it to further streamline processes and take advantage of value-added capabilities, which included simplification of warehouse transactions at the depots, along with goods issue and receipt transactions....
Tags: Downtime, SAP R/3, SAP AG, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
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VoIP Migration with Legacy Systems - an efficient solution without downtime
James Pazarjian, the owner of a Montreal-based calling card business, wanted to grow his business, but could not afford potentional downtime or interrupted service for his clients. He needed a solution that allowed for migration of his current data plus affordability. Download this case study to...
Tags: VoIP, Legacy System, Downtime, Migration, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware
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The End of Downtime - Forever
The calling card market is a high demand, high competition arena. When you can permanently lose customers in a matter of hours, the last thing you want is any system downtime. Pieter Hansen came to IPsmarx with this in mind. He wanted a failure-proof system that guaranteed availability to his...
Tags: Software, Downtime, Tools & Techniques, Management
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Global Company Reduces Downtime, Gains Operational Excellence
For 75 years, Oil Search Limited has been exploring and producing oil and gas in PNG. When the end date for the 2006 daylight saving time in Australia changed, the Oil Search Limited IT team needed to develop a patch to mitigate operational risks. The TAM facilitated communication between Oil...
Tags: Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Patches, Team Management, Strategy, Security, Management
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Swinton Insurance Simplifies Remote Office Backup and Eliminates Application Downtime With NetApp
Swinton Insurance is the largest main-street insurance chain in the UK, with 3,000 employees and 442 locations. With 442 offices backing up from 2 to 6GB of data to tape every night, Swinton was beginning to encounter problems with the quality and running time of its backups. This tape-based backup...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Downtime, NetApp, Swinton Insurance, Backups, Storage, Hardware
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