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- Database Migration Nets Manufacturer 100% Uptime and ROI in Six Months
- As Western Digital prepared to produce new lines of hard drives at its Malaysia facility, the company knew the Enterprise class database used to manage production there couldn't handle the increased load. The database already had caused production errors because of slow response times, and some failures resulted in significant...
- Tags: ROI, Uptime, Migration, Microsoft Corp., Malaysia, Roi/Tco, Storage, Databases, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Baptist Healthcare System's VMware Virtual Infrastructure Maximizes Uptime, Flexibility and Responsiveness
- Baptist Healthcare System BHS is one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in Kentucky. With numerous applications supporting its hospitals, BHS was constantly deploying new servers. Because most of its applications did not have built-in features to accommodate multiple time zones, BHS had to install duplicate servers. The organization turned...
- Tags: Health Care, Uptime, VMware Inc., Baptist Healthcare System, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
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- TechNet Webcast: Optimize Performance With Maximum Uptime by Creating and Maintaining Indexes Online With SQL Server 2005 (Level 200)
- This webcast shows how in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 you can create indexes online using data definition language operations such as CREATE/ALTER/DROP index which can be executed concurrently with Data Manipulation Language operations. The webcast explains the basic implementation mechanism behind these operations and shows a number of scenarios where...
- Tags: Webcast, DDL, Performance, Microsoft SQL Server, Uptime, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft TechNet, Digital Media, Databases, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Data Management
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- A Benefits Payment Provider Builds Its Business on 100% Uptime
- Evolution Benefits sells a prepaid benefits card, called Benny, for employers to offer as part of their benefits programs. When employees sign up for a Flexible Spending Account or some other tax-favored benefit, they can use Benny to pay for eligible out-of-pocket and other expenses. The card payment system debits...
- Tags: Payment, Uptime, International Data Group, Evolution Benefits, Benefits, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance
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- Cost-Effective Solution Provides 100% Uptime
- Santa Fe International Corporation owns and operates 26 marine drilling rigs and 33 land drilling rigs. They needed to keep their email system running 100 percent of the time When their previous email system and hardware vendors stopped supporting the products Santa Fe International was using, they began to search...
- Tags: Solution, Uptime, Email System, E-mail, Online Communications
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- With SUSE LINUX, First Network Mortgage Improves Uptime to 99.999 Percent and Gains Competitive Advantage With Fortune 500 Customers
- First Network Mortgage is a mortgage technology company providing accurate, saleable and secure closing documents since 1987. After years of running Debian GNU/Linux, the company wanted a more stable Linux environment that would offer greater options for certified Linux applications. Having a reliable e-mail platform for exchanging thousands of files...
- Tags: Mortgage, Network, Competitive Advantage, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Uptime, SuSE Linux, SuSE, First Network Mortgage, Linux, E-mail, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Online Communications, Hardware
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- The Best of Uptimes: Strategies for Assuring Business Continuity
- A highly resilient IT infrastructure can mean the difference between business wins and disaster. In this webcast, the presenter will discover the latest business continuity best practices and explore the inside and outside factors that interoperate to impact critical IT systems, and shape a person's ability to anticipate and respond...
- Tags: Webcast, Liebert Corp., Information Technology, Uptime, Business Continuity, It Services, Strategy, Management
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- Meeting Danish Municipality's Demands for Full Uptime With Symantec Data Protection Solution
- Hvidovre Municipality is one of the largest municipalities in Denmark. To ensure that citizens receive the best possible service and that the authority delivers on its efficiency remit, Hvidovre needed to re-evaluate its storage infrastructure: bottlenecks and other issues that were in danger of compromising high availability. By implementing an...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Municipality, Uptime, Hvidovre Municipality, Storage, Security, Hardware
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- Insurance Company Increases Systems Uptime With Dell | EMC Storage Solution
- Belgium-based insurance company Assurances Federales realised that its IT staff were spending too much time managing its storage infrastructure. It wanted to implement a consolidated storage infrastructure to ease management and ensure that all employees could access business-critical information 24x7. The company chose leading services provider Dell to design, implement...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Uptime, EMC Corp., Storage Infrastructure, Storage, Insurance, Servers, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance
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- Failsafe Telephony Guarantees Uptime for Cisco It's Nerve Center
- When Cisco Systems converted to an IP telephony network and exchanged its TDM-based PBX switches for Cisco CallManager clusters, the company's mission-critical Operations Command Center OCC was reluctant to make the change at that time. This small group facilitates problem resolution for significant corporate wide failures that could affect global...
- Tags: Uptime, Cisco Systems Inc.
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- Sealanes Updates Access Infrastructure for Maximum Uptime
- Founded in the port town of Fremantle in 1922, the family-owned Sealanes Group has evolved into one of Australia's premier food service and ship supply companies. Sealanes runs all of its business operation systems - including accounting, inventory, point-of-sale, CRM and eCommerce functions - through its custom-built core business application,...
- Tags: Food, Microsoft Access, Citrix Systems Inc., Uptime, Sealanes Group, Food & Beverage, Enterprise Software, Manufacturing, Software
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- Lausanne Police Gain 99.999 Percent Uptime With New Command and Control Solution
- The Municipal Police of Lausanne, with 568 employees, are responsible for maintaining public law and order for the City of Lausanne and its 150,000 residents. Lausanne Police wanted a fault tolerant Geographical Information System GIS for better handling of operational information, including command and control, communication, and management support. Getronics...
- Tags: Getronics, Uptime, C#, Microsoft Windows 2000, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Servers, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
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- SAN Performance Monitoring is Essential to Maintaining SAN Uptime
- Maintaining SAN uptime is imperative in today's business environment. Cost of SAN downtime can add up to more than $100,000 per minute according to recent reports from RBC Capital. This paper describes how Finisar's NetWisdom product adds enormous value to popular SRM systems (from EMC, HDS, IBM, HP, Veritas, CA,...
- Tags: Performance, SAN, Finisar, Uptime, SAN Performance Monitoring, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
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- Bloemers Nassau Groep Increases Uptime and Improves Mobile Communication
- Bloemers Nassau Groep, established in 1953, is one of the largest insurance management firms in the Netherlands. It has several offices throughout Europe and an increasingly mobile work force. Ensuring the full-time availability of the network is a challenge for the organization, particularly because the amount of e-mail messages is...
- Tags: Mobile, Uptime, Messaging, Mobile Communication, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- Leading Service Providers Adopt Cisco Info Center to Manage Network Uptime and Service Availability
- 21ViaNet, TManage, and ZoomTown.com have all selected Cisco Info Center CIC as their network monitoring platform for the services they deliver to business and communications communities. Based on Micromuse's Netcool suite of products, Cisco Info Center is a service-level monitoring and diagnostics tool that provides network fault and performance monitoring,...
- Tags: Network, Uptime, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Info Center, Networking
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- Yellow Technologies Increased Uptime From 97.4% to 99.1%, Using PATROL
- Yellow Technologies was created in 1993 to provide IT support for both union and non-union Yellow Corporation carriers. The challenge was to monitor and support enterprise performance to guarantee 99.1 percent availability to customers. BMC Software not only met the designated performance monitoring needs, but also demonstrated excellence in its...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Uptime, Yellow Technologies, It Management, It service Management
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- Leading Professional Services Firm Uses VMware Virtual Infrastructure to Maximize System Uptime
- For a leading professional services firm that provide financial and management consulting services for many of the world's largest companies, maximum application uptime and speed of deployment are crucial. But the company's IT team was struggling to find the space and resources to meet the demand for research and development,...
- Tags: Professional Services, Uptime, VMware Inc., Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
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- Achieving 99.999 Percent Uptime on Windows
- All key functions within the enterprise today - inventory control, order placement and confirmation, customer support, communications, accounting, and workgroup collaboration - are dependent on the information technology IT infrastructure. And Microsoft Windows environments have emerged as one of the major platforms for today's mission-critical applications, such as messaging and...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Collaboration, Uptime, Infrastructure, Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Groupware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software
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- Leader Mutual Freight System Improves Database Uptime With Powerful, Scalable Solution
- Based in Taipei, Leader Mutual Freight System has close to 30 years experience in transporting goods via air, road, and sea. The company offers freight services, logistics planning, warehousing and distribution, and customs brokerage, and specializes in the transport of perishable goods and delicate equipment. The challenge was to minimize...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Leader, Uptime, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Bright Sparks at AGL Hydro Achieve 99.994 Percent Server Uptime
- As Kermit the Frog once lamented, it's not easy being green. Without the economies of scale achieved by larger coal-reliant electricity generators, renewable energy producer AGL Hydro needed to do more for less with its technology dollar. The company was using Microsoft Windows NT as its operating system and Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Server, Uptime, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems
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