Case Studies
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Is There Affordable And Reliable Backup For NAS? 2008-03-01
During the most recent network upgrade, Secure Systems recommended Color Portraits install a secondary backup NAS. The secondary NAS would be online all of the time for quick retrieval of images if one of the high-end NAS appliances failed. Backing up to CD or tape was not an option because of the time and manpower required. Retrieving images from CD or tape would also be cumbersome. "A NAS will fail at some point," explains Rhea. "These are mechanical devices, and something in them will eventually break; you need to be prepared."
Secure Systems wanted to find a secondary backup solution that was cost-effective and still highly reliable...
- Buffalo Technology and Dark Horse Comics, Portland, OR, USA 2006-11-14 What do comic books and wireless networking have in common? Both are vital to Milwaukie Portland, OR based Dark Horse Comics. Dark Horse began in the mid-1980s as a retail comic book chain in Portland, Oregon by Mike Richardson. Noticing the content of comic books began to stale, Richardson began to seek innovation.
- Leeds Castle Case Study 2006-11-14 Dating back to the 13th century, Leeds Castle is four miles southeast of Maidstone in Kent. A royal home for over three centuries, the castle and its grounds are now a popular leisure, educational, and business destination. Owned by the Leeds Castle Foundation, it's regularly used for board meetings, residential conferences, and banquets. Leeds Castle has a number of separate buildings within the moated enclosure as well as in the surrounding grounds. According to IT Manager Andrew Payne, only the administration centre was networked for internet access. Leeds Castle wanted to offer more than this but only had a partial solution.
- Education Case Study: St. Columba's College, Dublin, Ireland 2006-11-14 The College has some of the finest buildings and largest grounds of any secondary school in Ireland. The school required to network their new and existing computers across the campus for academic staff and pupils. The installation of regular network cable was simply not an option as many of the buildings are over 200 years old with walls over three foot thick in places.
- City Network Case Study: SparkNet, Turku, Finland 2006-11-14 Turku is Finland's oldest city and Turku Science Park, with its three Universities, is Finland's largest Science Park, It holds within its campus, Finland's largest Polytechnic and over 210,000 square meters of facilities for business activities. Turku Science Park is home to 750 companies and organisations, of which nearly 250 are technology-based.
