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IMG Mediahouse hits home run with Huawei Symantec
Storage specialist works on private cloud with global production house. Mediahouse selected disk-based storage and networked attached storage from the Huawei Symantec Oceanspace series, and a next-generation blade server from the manufacturer’s Tecal range. It’s essential in the broadcast industry that any solution does what it says it can and at a rapid rate. Any downtime or ‘black space’ as it’s known in this industry causes the broadcast to stop completely, which costs a lot of money and naturally shakes client confidence. Huawei Symantec’s excellent track record in the telecoms sector made them a natural fit for an industry that relies on trusted recommendations and due diligence tests carried out at the very highest levels, before it implements a new technology.
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| Manufacturer: | Blade |
| Manufacturer: | Huawei Symantec |
| Manufacturer: | Symantec |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Media |
| Sector: | Technology |
| Sector: | Telecoms |
DEK manufactures bandwidth efficiency
DEK decided to create a new WAN architecture that would optimise traffic and use deduplication technology to streamline the data flow. It considered multiple products, including Cisco WAAS and Citrix Branch Repeater, but chose Riverbed® Steelhead® appliances from market leader Riverbed Technology.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Riverbed |
| Technology: | Networking |
| Sector: | Manufacturing |
| Sector: | Technology |
Fugro Data Solutions Secures Worldwide Reputation with Scalable Backup Solution from ExaGrid that Delivers 80:1 Data Deduplication Ratio
Fugro Data Solutions group of companies (Fugro) offers an exhaustive range of Data Management and Data Conditioning Services complemented by various in-house developed applied technology products. Its services range from Physical Warehousing, Physical Asset Management Solutions, Data Conditioning Services, Exploration and Reservoir Services, License Round Management, National Data Repositories, GIS services, Industry specific training and Consultancy. Its applied technology products target the generic need for optimum utilization of available data and data integration. The success of Fugro Data Solutions has enabled it to become a global company with operations in the UK, Canada, the USA, the Netherlands, India, Singapore, Libya, Oman and Australia.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | IT |
| Sector: | Technology |
WISE Campus Relies on Meru Networks Wireless Technology
Almost immediately after going live with the wireless network, the College’s IT personnel were flooded with calls from users frustrated with the unreliability and poor performance of the network. Overwhelmed by the volume of complaints, the College sought specialist support from Synaptics Solutions, a systems integrator with expertise in the design, deployment and supporting of large scale wireless networks within academia. After a thorough survey and review of the system, Synaptic Solutions identified a number of issues that were contributing to the poor performance that Filton users were experiencing. At Synaptics Solutions’ suggestion, Filton College decided to invest in a Meru Networks wireless network. Synaptic Solutions began the changeover by disconnecting the legacy equipment thought to be causing the networking problems. Shortly thereafter, they began deploying the Meru Networks networking kit
Download Link| Technology: | Networking |
| Manufacturer: | Meru |
| Sector: | Education |
| Sector: | Media |
| Sector: | Technology |
| Technology: | Virtualisation |
Millennium Technology Group Speeds Backups and Restores with ExaGrid
A new ExaGrid customer success story about Millennium Technology Group is now available on our website. Millennium Technology Group was founded in 1997 as an internal solution for Rosen Hotels & Resorts. Today, the company provides comprehensive computer network solutions and services including network design, wireless Internet, desktop software and hardware upgrades, computer training, and server overhauls ranging from wire management, hubs, routers, and switches to complete computer room planning. The company is also a leading provider of telecommunications and technology for Orlando area conventions and trade shows.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Technology |
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Uses LifeSize HD Video Communications to Optimize Meetings, Enhance Collaboration
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center staffed and managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In addition to space and planetary exploration, JPL deploys earth-orbiting satellites and develops technologies in fields from public safety to medicine.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | LifeSize |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
Utah Transit Authority Speeds Backups with ExaGrid
The IT staff at UTA had been using a 40-slot tape library to back up its data, but the technology couldn’t keep up with the agency’s growing day-to-day data protection demands. With weekly full backups stretching three to four days, the IT staff at UTA was often behind on its backup schedule and the continuous backups caused system slowdowns that were seriously affecting user productivity.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Technology |
Spackenkill Union Free School District Gives ExaGrid High Marks for Backups
The Spackenkill School District is a highly regarded district in New York known for its innovative use of technology. The district experienced rapid data growth over the past few years as its IT department rolled out new technologies such as electronic white boards and handheld student response systems in each of its four buildings.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Technology |
Plymouth State University Graduates to ExaGrid Disk-based Backup, Gains Speed and Reliability
The IT staff at PSU needed to upgrade the tape technology it used to perform nightly backups. Faced with the choice of continuing with tape or moving to disk, the IT staff chose to pursue disk-based backup solutions in an effort to make its data protection processes faster and more reliable. “We did a lot of research on backup technologies and decided that disk was a more fl exible option than tape. We needed to increase the speed and overall reliability of our backups and tape really couldn’t offer the functionality we needed,” said James Cook, systems administrator for Plymouth State University.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
OmniSource Southeast Leverages ExaGrid to Speed and Simplify Backups
As a rapidly growing company, it’s imperative that OmniSource Southeast’s backup strategy is fully capable of properly protecting its valuable data. But although OmniSource Southeast prides itself in using leading-edge technology to make its operations more effi cient, the company’s IT department had been struggling to keep up with its demanding day-to-day backups using tape.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Technology |
NPS Pharmaceuticals Streamlines Backups and Restores with ExaGrid
As the manager of information technology at NPS Pharmaceuticals, Jason Ostrowski is all too familiar with the day-to-day diffi culties of backing up to tape. Lengthy backups and difficulty restoring data from tape had worn thin and Ostrowski began looking for a more automated solution that could reduce the company’s reliance on tape, improve disaster recovery and make adhering to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulations easier.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Pharmaceuticals |
| Sector: | Technology |
ExaGrid Wins the Case for Disk-based Backup at Mintz Levin
Mintz Levin prides itself in using state-ofthe-art technology to manage the flow of information from research to attorney to client as quickly and efficiently as possible, providing its staff with access to the most up-to-date information 24 hours a day.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
Idaho Falls School District #91 Relies on ExaGrid for Fast Backups
Idaho Falls District #91 has seen its data grow quickly over the past several years and is expecting it to grow even faster in the near future when it implements a portfolio program that will enable students to retain their work electronically throughout most of their school career. To meet current and future data protection requirements, the district decided to upgrade its backup technology from tape to disk.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Technology |
Gates Chili School District Learns to Streamline Backups
The IT staff at Gates Chili is responsible for managing the technology needs of the District, and wanted to ensure that the student, teacher, and administrative data was backed up effectively. The staff was overwhelmed by the data backup processes in place across the nine buildings in the district. Each day, the district’s nearly 30 servers were backed up individually with tape drives. Ideally, after the backups were completed, administrative personnel in each building would eject the tapes and store them, then set up new tapes to backup data for the day.
Download Link| Sector: | Technology |
Gardner Trucking Drives Backup Window Down with ExaGrid
Gardner Trucking relies heavily on technology to manage its business data and the data associated with its 1100 trucks and 1900 trailers on the road. The firm’s backup requirements had grown quickly, and its IT staff was struggling to keep up with nightly backups that stretched over 13 hours.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Technology |
Taxing Tape Issues Lead Finley & Cook to ExaGrid for Disk-Based Backup with Data De-Duplication
As a public accounting firm, the IT staff at Finley & Cook knows that its tape backups must be rock-solid. The fi rm relies heavily on technology and counts its innovative use of technology as one of its key differentiators. The fi rm virtualizes and dedicates resources to each client to ensure a high level of redundancy and availability and to retain a division of data among clients.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Technology |
ExaGrid Gets High Marks for Backup at Dublin City University
When DCU needed to upgrade its tape library to handle its growing data protection requirements, the university’s IT staff decided to look at various backup solutions on the market and chose to move its backups to disk. “We were at the point where we needed to upgrade our tape technology and licenses to handle more data,” said John L. Doyle, IT specialist at Dublin City University. “Moving to disk gave us the ability to reduce our reliance on tape, improve disaster recovery efforts and shorten our backup times.”
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Technology |
BayHealth Medical Center Increases Retention, Improves Disaster Recovery with ExaGrid
Bayhealth is an award winning healthcare company that prides itself on using cutting edge technology to automate its processes and operations. Bayhealth’s IT staff had been backing up the facility’s data to its storage-area network (SAN) for some time, but without data deduplication, disk space had become a serious issue. The SAN was only capable of retaining a week of data, and the staff had to copy nightly backups to tape and transport the tapes offsite in case the data was needed for disaster recovery.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Healthcare |
| Sector: | Sport |
| Sector: | Technology |
| Sector: | Transport |
Architectural Nexus Designs Better Backup Strategy with ExaGrid
Architectural Nexus is a fast growing architectural fi rm with a signifi cant amount of data to protect. The company’s IT department had been backing up its data using disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) technology but struggled daily with the system because it had run out of capacity. In addition, long backup times had begun to affect system performance.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Exagrid |
| Sector: | Technology |
The Rica Hotels Deployment of Wireless Technology and PoE in its Chain of Norwegian Hotels
The hotel wanted to install a state-of-the-art wireless network that would provide guests with the ability to access e-mail or download a file from anywhere in the hotel, even whilst travelling in the lift down to reception. In addition the hotel also considered deploying information terminals and guest PCs throughout the hotels where guests can access local information to make their stay more rewarding, such as details of concerts, plays and other special events happening in the area with the facility to book tickets online and download payment details. For the purposes of health and safety it was important to avoid the possibility of trailing cables posing a danger for guest’s safety as well as maintaining the stylish look of the décor.
Download Link| Sector: | Technology |
| Sector: | Travel |
Purdue University
Brad McCoy, network engineer for Information Technology at Purdue University, led the university's project to create a campus-wide wireless network that covers 140 buildings and is available to all 40,000 faculty members and students. Deploying 1,100 wireless access points is no easy task, because traditionally, wireless LAN installations have required operating power to be delivered separately to each remote access point. Given the massive quantity of access points that the team wanted to deploy, wiring each one with electrical service, along with Ethernet cabling, would be a timely and costly task.
Download Link| Sector: | Technology |
PowerDsine® Midspans Simplify Network Management At Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts
Cole’s existing installation of Cisco switches were installed in 2002, too recent to justify replacing with costly switches having power over Ethernet capability built in. “The cost of POE switches was prohibitive--especially when we only need a few ports with POE capability,” he explains. So to Cole’s Network Operations team, the obvious solution turned out to be the simple addition of midspan units from PowerDsine, the pioneers of power over Ethernet technology.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | PowerDsine |
| Sector: | Technology |
Leading VoIP Technology Consultant, Capgemini, Expands Own IP Telephony Network Using Microsemi’s PowerDsine Power-over-Ethernet Midspans
Capgemini recently turned its attention to further expansion of its own IP telephony infrastructure. Capgemini believes that VoIP should enable anyone to sit anywhere they want, type in their login, and have the phone become theirs for the day, as though it were their own phone.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | PowerDsine |
| Sector: | Technology |
Sage Hospitality Resouces
Based in Denver, Colorado, Sage Hospitality Resources manages or operates more than 50 hotels and resorts in the United States, including Marriott, Sheraton, Hilton, Doubletree, Hampton Inn and Holiday Inn. To backup their Windows NT environment, Vice President of Information Technology Bob Higgins turned to Spectra Logic.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Spectra Logic |
| Sector: | Technology |
| Sector: | Hospitality |
Exempla Healthcare
Exempla staffs more than 9000 employees, volunteers and medical staff, and cares for patients in more than 1140 licenced beds across its three locations. A medical facility of Exempla's size produces massive amounts of sensitive patient records, plus employee and corporate data. In 2001, Steve Perkins, Exempla's Systems and Networks Manager, grew dissatisfied with the outdated, slow library, whic no longer met the organization's needs. Perkins conducted an exhaustive search to fin newer technology to back up more than 4.5 TB of data weekly, and complied with HIPAA regulations.
Download Link| Sector: | Healthcare |
| Sector: | Technology |
Infinity Broadcasting Corporation
With regular backups of 1TB or more for the five Infinity radio stations in the seattle area, wekend backups had to be personally attended to so that the backup could be completed with someone chaning tapes and managing the effort. The stations rely on Sony technology, and needed a backup system that could provide helical scan technology, automate the backup process, run reliably and provide the high availabilitynecessary in the broadcast industry.
Download Link| Sector: | Technology |
ParkPost
Avid Technology, Inc. is the world leader in digital nonlinear media creation, management, and distribution solutions, enabling film, video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast professionals to work more efficiently, productively, and creatively.
Download Link| Sector: | Media |
| Sector: | Technology |
nVidia Corporation
NVIDIA Corporation is a visual computing technology and market leader dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video game consoles.
Download Link| Sector: | Media |
| Sector: | Technology |
MIMOS
MIMOS is a strategic agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation of Malaysia. MIMOS pursues exploratory and industry-driven applied research through multi-stakeholder smart partnerships with universities, research institutes, government and industries with a focus on frontier technologies. MIMOS’s applied research areas, based on real-world trends, are cyberspace security, encryption systems, grid computing, communication technologies, microsystems & MEMS, advanced informatics, knowledge technology and micro energy.
Download Link| Sector: | Government |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
GSN
Since GSN launched over eleven years ago, the network has amassed a collection of over 70,000 episodes of classic game shows. With such a huge investment in program inventory, GSN was primed for a digital content management system, but it had to be just the right product at just the right time. “Three years ago digital content management was a kluge. It took a number of companies to make one system”, remarked Ryan Tredinnick, Vice President Network Operations, GSN. “There were too many companies to deal with so we decided to wait for technology to be cheaper and provide a more integrative system.”
Download Link| Sector: | Technology |
Fidelity National Information Services
Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) is a global provider of technology solutions to the banking industry and was ranked number one in the world in the 2008 FinTech 100 listings. In addition, one of its key services is payment card management and processing for all types of retailers, dealing with an average 200 million transactions per year in the UK.
Download Link| Sector: | Retail |
| Sector: | Technology |
Riverbed Steelhead® Appliances Enable Exchange Consolidation and Serverless Offices for Global Consulting Company
As a consulting company focused on delivering on-time, on-budget projects for clients, Stanley Consultants’ IT team is always looking for ways to make the organization more flexible and more cost effective. As projects become more demanding, consultants require technology to simplify the way they work.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Riverbed |
| Sector: | Technology |
Riverbed Steelhead® Appliances Save Engineering Firm More than $1M per Year
As a high-growth firm, Psomas needed to optimize its wide area network (WAN) to accommodate a changing set of demands from its employees. “The problem was three fold,” said Erik Durand, Director of Information Technology at Psomas. “We needed to overcome frustrating delays that were hindering inter-office project collaboration and work sharing, avoid mishaps with miscommunication across our offices, and at the same time deploy technology that could keep up with our pace of growth.”
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Riverbed |
| Sector: | Engineering |
| Sector: | Technology |
Riverbed Steelhead® Appliances and Steelhead Mobile Accelerate Consulting Firm
As a consulting and engineering firm focused on high-quality service, JEO uses technology to make sure its engineers, architects, and planners have the best possible resources needed to complete their projects. “We take pride in completing projects on time, no matter what it takes,” noted Travis Klasna, CAD Manager for JEO. “Given that we have engineers, planners, and architects spread across multiple states, we depend on our wide-area network infrastructure to link them all together.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Riverbed |
| Sector: | Engineering |
| Sector: | Technology |
Riverbed Steelhead® Appliances and Equallogic Enable Accelerated, Simplified Replication
GeoEngineers, Inc., faced the challenge of enabling their workforce to effectively collaborate over the WAN. “Our employees are very specialized,” noted Courtenay Bernier, Information Technology Manager. “As a result, we have to enable employees to be able to work in real time over the WAN. Our workforce uses a range of applications from CAD, GIS, and Microsoft Office applications, to Exchange Email, SharePoint, and Microsoft CRM”.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Riverbed |
| Sector: | Technology |
Riverbed® Steelhead® Appliances Accelerate VMware Image Replication and Applications for Pharmaceutical Firm
Cubist Pharmaceuticals faced a number of limitations to deploying IT services efficientlyvia its distributed WAN environment. The company had embraced a consolidated infrastructure model and wanted to deliver applications globally while at the same time enabling VoIP and videoconferencing to their manufacturing facility located in Italy. With limited bandwidth overseas, and large data transfers into their Italian manufacturing facility, Cubist also sought to avoid a costly circuit upgrade without compromising application performance and future technology deployments.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Riverbed |
| Sector: | Manufacturing |
| Sector: | Pharmaceuticals |
| Sector: | Technology |
Riverbed Steelhead® Appliances Enable Global Collaboration for Law Firm
The Allen Matkins law firm (www.allenmatkins.com) has been focused on providing quality, reputable counsel for more than 25 years. Allen Matkins brings creative solutions to complex issues, turning problems into opportunities. With more than 200 lawyers situated in five major business centers in California, their practice is not merely statewide, but national and international in scope. The Firm has developed seventeen highly successful practice areas including Corporate and Securities, Litigation, Real Estate, and Technology.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Riverbed |
| Sector: | Real Estate |
| Sector: | Technology |
Top U.S. law firm chooses LifeSize to improve communication, reduce travel
The idea of connecting attorneys via video was not a new idea at Cozen O’Connor. The firm had been looking into the technology for nearly a decade, but due to poor image quality and mostly ISDN connectivity between offices, the idea never really took off. When Joe D’Urso joined the firm as Telecommunications Manager, he assessed the issues and decided it was time to put the negative connotations about video communications to rest and truly find the best video solution on the market. Cozen O’Connor needed a technology solution that could not only reduce travel between offices and keep the growing number of attorneys at each location connected, but also give users a superior quality of experience, as if all parties were sitting in the same room. The ability to share depositions and data between locations was also an important factor, as there are often times when multiple attorneys need to collaborate on the same document in real-time.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | LifeSize |
| Sector: | Technology |
| Sector: | Travel |
Collaborative Research Pioneers at Calit2 Use LifeSize HD as their ‘Everyday’ Video System
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology uses LifeSize to connect researchers, increase productivity, reduce travel.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | LifeSize |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
| Sector: | Travel |
Peter Kiewit Institute Pushes Security Beyond the Speed of Education
The Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) is home to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Engineering and the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s College of Information Science. The Institute is shaped by a dynamic alliance of education and industry with a mission to fuel collaborations in an academic research environment by forging best-in-class technology with tomorrow’s research and engineering talent.
Download Link| Sector: | Education |
| Sector: | Engineering |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
force10_grid_tech_research.pdf
The rapid succession of technical developments in the world of information technology (IT) are leading to new computational performance horizons — and one of the topics that is currently commanding a great deal of attention is Grid computing. That’s because by integrating a single unit that combines a ""grid"" of multiple computers and storage devices, researchers are discovering they can share data scattered across many locations throughout the world and attain computational speeds exceeding that of a traditional mainframe computer.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Technology: | Storage |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
Cornell Theory Center Harnesses Best-of-Breed Technology from Force10 Networks and DELL: High-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet and PowerEdge server technology deliver performance and reliability
Many of today’s top research institutions run their most data- and processor-intensive applications on high-performance computing clusters or grids. With scientific breakthroughs and funding riding on the outcomes of their experiments, the researchers who depend on clusters need always-on availability, whether they’re running theorem calculations or genetic modeling.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
Smashing Atoms: CERN turns to Force10 To Support Next-generation Physics Research
How do you take data from the world’s largest proton collider and distribute it to scientists around the globe? That’s the challenge the technology group at Geneva-based CERN faced in designing the network to support the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is slated to go on-line in 2007.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
Asian Paints Leverages Force10 Technology to Support its Growing Application Landscape and Expanding Global Distribution Network
Asian Paints is India's largest and Asia's third largest paint company today with revenues of INR44 billion (around $1.1 billion). Throughout this decade, its domestic business grew rapidly as a result of increasing demand from Asian Paints’ growing domestic and international distribution networks.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Force10 |
| Sector: | Technology |
Morphotek, Inc.
Morphotek, Inc., is a biotechnology company focused on the generation of proprietary organisms for product discovery and development. The organization utilizes its own patented morphogenics process to expedite DNA mutations that can be developed for drugs, agriculture, and other life sciences or industrial applications. Morphotek scientists and biologist amass significant volumes of research data each day. The security and protection of this data, as well as the company’s mission-critical operations data, is essential to business continuity and a primary objective of the Morphotek IT department.
Download Link| Sector: | Agriculture |
| Sector: | Biotech |
| Sector: | Research |
| Sector: | Technology |
InTechnology
InTechnology’s flagship service is a fully automated, remote backup and restore called VBAK. The service is built around a unique agentless software application Asigra Inc. (Toronto, Canada) to enable customers to overcome the challenges backing up and restoring data across multiple and highly distributed sites.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Asigra |
| Sector: | Technology |
Department of Trade & Industry (DTI), UK
This case study highlights an example of how Asigra Inc has enabled InTechnology plc to deploy AsigraTM TelevaultingTM to protect geographically dispersed data. InTechnology has re-branded Asigra Televaulting as VBAK, a managed data backup and recovery service. Fujitsu Services is reselling the VBAK service to its customers. The DTI is a customer of Fujitsu Services and has come to protect its data using Asigra Televaulting software through the rebranded VBAK service.
Download Link| Manufacturer: | Asigra |
| Sector: | Technology |
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