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HomeThe TGM Group had become victims of its own success. With a fleet of over 400 buses and coaches, TGM provides Airport, Coach, Bus and Flight Delay Services. The company is part of the successful Arriva group, providing public transport services across the UK and Europe.
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Cloud is a topic that’s exercising the IT industry, and is re-shaping business’s IT strategies. There is also another side to cloud-computing; tactical opportunities to solve real-world problems quickly. This paper looks at three such services offered and used by CWL; services that can make a big difference in a short time, and at the same time provide a useful, low-risk introduction to the realities and potential of cloud computing.
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In the manufacturing industry, an unexpected halt in production can lead to substantial financial losses and delivery delays for customers – and these are risks that Jardin Corrugated Cases (JCC) cannot afford to take. Over more than five years, this well-established packaging manufacturer has relied on CWL Systems to help it keep its business running by developing and supporting robust IT systems.
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Solo Cup Europe is part of the American-owned, Solo Cup Company – one of the world’s largest manufacturers of disposable foodservice packaging products, including paper, plastic and foam cups, cartons, cutlery and dinnerware supplying some of the best known high street names in the takeaway beverage and food sector.
When companies move their IT departments to new premises, there is a huge risk that business operations will be seriously disrupted for hours if not days. Geodesys successfully avoided this pitfall by adopting a new virtualised server strategy. With support from CWL Systems, the company relocated its IT infrastructure with minimal downtime and reduced its ongoing IT costs at the same time.
It was clear that any incoming government would make changes to the way it delivered services to the public and local business. However, the scale and speed of the changes demanded by the Conservative-Liberal alliance were implemented far quicker than anyone had anticipated.
Reductions in funding meant reductions in staff. The agency suffered as experienced and talented staff left for more secure posts. Management had to deliver existing and contracted projects with minimum staff.
Mitsui & Co Energy Risk Management Ltd, based in the UK in the City of London, is a consolidated subsidiary of Mitsui & Co Ltd. The company undertakes Energy Derivatives dealing, and falls under the jurisdiction of the FSA.
Business Challenge
In 2007 the company started looking for an email archiving solution. The company wanted to address challenges in two different areas:
IT departments face a competitive threat from cloud computing providers
‘Computing on demand’, ‘reduced overheads’ and applications delivered via the web promise new and efficient delivery of IT services without infrastructure or management cost. Departments are hitting back through virtualising infrastructure. Reducing the number of physical servers has reduced capital and operational costs. However, on its own server virtualisation does not deliver the flexibility that users demand.
The London School of English build a flexible, dynamic infrastructure that has reduced cost and extended the School’s international reach.
Managing three separate campuses in London and Canterbury, the London School of English (LSE) is the oldest accredited language school in the world. A highly successful operation the LSE client list includes Accenture, Nestle and UBS. However, for IT Manager, Iqbal Rehman, success came at a price, ‘running IT infrastructure at three geographically distant sites was a logistical nightmare’ recalls Iqbal, ‘even for routine upgrades, engineers would spend more time on the road than in front of a machine’.
