Shift F7 case studies

Our consultants have worked on a wide range of projects across a broad spectrum of industry.  Click on the case study titles below to find out more:

IT Infrastructure Redesign

Customer: Aviation Organisation
Country or Region: United Kingdom
Industry: Aviation

Benefits:

• Improved overall messaging performance and management.
• Scalable future proof design.
• Simplified migration strategy from Novell and GroupWise to Microsoft Windows and Exchange 2003.
• Ability to remotely connect to the messaging system via Outlook Web Access.
• Ability to utilise RPC over HTTP for remote Outlook client users.
• Auto PC deployment using RIS.

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Infrastructure Optimisation and Migration

Customer: Retail
Country or Region: United Kingdom
Industry: Retail

Benefits:

• Reduced cost of ownership due to single skill set.
• Increased availability and resilience over legacy systems.
• Design caters for the growth of the company and further acquisitions.
• Delivered a companywide standard desktop.

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Microsoft Exchange Migration

Customer: Cleaning Services Organisation
Country or Region: United Kingdom
Industry: Commercial Cleansing

Benefits:

• Improved user administration with integration with Active Directory Services.
• Developed solution enables email services failover to the alternative site with the minimum disruption to the Outlook client base.
• Avoids the support cost and complexities associated with a geographically distributed cluster solution.
• Provides comprehensive anti-virus frame-work, content checking anti-spam technologies with the IQsuite for Exchange.
• Provides a scalable foundation for email services to other group divisions.
• Performance migration tool for the migration of Lotus Notes mail, calendars and address books.

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Datacentre virtualisation

Customer: Media

Country or Region: United Kingdom
Industry: Media

Benefits:

• Reduced data centre space requirements
• Reduced power consumption and data centre cooling requirements
• Reduced physical server requirements
• Reduced time to deploy new applications
• Increased server resource utilisation
• Increased management and administration efficiencies
• Increased application availability

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New Windows Based Infrastructure

Customer: UK Housing Association
Country or Region: United Kingdom
Industry: Property

Benefits:

• Increased resilience, performance and data availability.
• Scaled for future growth and sized to accommodate long-term data capacity.
• Proven migration strategy using industry standard migration tools & procedures.
• Improved highly resilient File, Print & SQL resources.
• A centralised management and administration model. Consolidated business units and network infrastructure.

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IT Infrastructure Redesign

Customer: International Property Organisation
Country or Region: United Kingdom
Industry: Property

Benefits:

• High availability and improved overall messaging performance.
• Scalable future proof design.
• Simplified migration strategy from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange 2003
• Ability to remotely connect to the messaging system via Outlook Web Access.
• Ability to utilise RPC over HTTP for remote
• Outlook client users.

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Datacentre virtualisation

Customer: Telco

Country or Region: United Kingdom
Industry: Telco/Media

Benefits:

• Reduced data centre space requirements
• Reduced power consumption
• Reduced data centre cooling requirements
• Increased management efficiencies through the implementation of HP Insight Control Management software.
• Increased application availability through the use of Virtual Connect technologies

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