White Papers: Case Study

Outsourcery is a hosted solutions provider based in the UK and offers a broad range of cloud services, including software applications, virtualised infrastructures and unified communications. Find out how it provided a managed end-to-end communications and collaboration solution, expanding the business fivefold!

When Goodyear Singapore Tyres IT Director Teck Guan Yeo joined the company, he charged to close the gap between IT and the business. He undertook a number of initiatives to facilitate close alignment. Standardization has been an important focus for the team in areas such as SAP and backup and recovery. In the case of the latter, seeking to shrink backup windows and reduce storage costs, the team chose and implemented NetBackup appliances. The solution seamlessly integrates with the organization’s virtualization strategy and moves towards the private cloud.

As one of the world’s leading unified communications solution vendors, Microsoft has high expectations for the performance and robustness of the IT infrastructure on which its Microsoft Lync application runs. So when it came time to roll out Lync voice and video services over Wi-Fi at Microsoft’s own headquarters in Redmond, Washington, the bar was set high. Very high. Learn more.

Case study demonstrating fast, efficient complex data migration from multiple sources. Find out how UZ Leuven benefited at both a strategic and project level, and accomplished a highly complex database migration without skipping a beat. Read on.

This overview of six of the CIO Executive Council’s most important pieces of intellectual capital represents the thought leadership of literally hundreds of global CIOs spanning over half a decade. It is intended to convey the Council’s position on the current and future CIO role and the value that IT should be creating for the enterprise. We hope that it offers the IT community an intriguing and comprehensive roadmap for continued success.