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Retail Trade

Betfair

Betfair is an industry leader in technological innovation, as well as in its value proposition and customer service. Having created an IT infrastructure for which there is no blueprint, Betfair requires suppliers that truly demonstrate the flexibility to work in new ways, meet tough technology challenges and deliver business value. [MORE]

Education

University of Salford

With more than 19,000 students, the University of Salford in Manchester, United Kingdom, includes several campuses around the city. The university is modernizing its entire infrastructure, including a £130 million investment in new buildings and facilities and a renovation of existing locations. An important part of this modernization program is integrating the university's many IT systems and providing easier and more secure access to campus resources through identity management software.[MORE]

Public Sector

Scottish Water

Scottish Water provides water and waste-water services to 5 million people and 135,000 businesses across 30,000 square miles in Scotland. It operates and maintains thousands of assets including water treatment centers, pumping stations and pipelines to provide services to a geographically dispersed population. [MORE]

Public Sector

North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust

North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust manages North Hampshire Hospital, a 480-bed acute facility located in Basingstoke, U.K. The trust was established in 1994 and now serves a population of approximately 280,000. Through the hospital, it provides a wide range of acute and specialist services on an inpatient, day-case, and outpatient basis, and also manages a multimillion-pound education and research center.[MORE]

Retail Trade

Harrods

Harrods is an upscale department store on Brompton Road in London’s Knightsbridge region. The store was founded in 1834 in London’s East End, when founder Charles Henry Harrod set up a wholesale grocery operation.[MORE]

Public Sector

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSHCC)

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity raises funds to support the needs of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, a national centre of excellence in children's health care. GOSHCC delivers the widest range of specialist paediatric care in the UK. Each year, the charity funds the purchase of equipment, accommodations for staff and patient's families, support services, research and staff training. GOSHCC also contributes toward providing state-of-the-art research facilities for the hospital's research partner, the Institute of Child Health, which is part of University College London. Every year, GOSHCC needs to raise £50 million through charitable donations.[MORE]

Energy

E.ON UK

E.ON UK is the UK’s largest integrated energy company, generating and distributing electricity, and retailing electricity and gas. It is part of the E.ON group, the world’s largest investor-owned energy services provider. [MORE]

Finance

Coventry Building Society

Based in England's midlands, Coventry Building Society is a mutual retail banking, savings, mortgage and investment society owned entirely by its savers and borrowers. The society employs 1200 people and had assets exceeding GB £11 billion ($21 billion) in 2006. Coventry Building Society is the fifth largest building society in the UK. [MORE]

Media

Betfair

Betfair is the world's leading online betting exchange, a concept it has pioneered. Driven by cutting-edge technology, Betfair enables punters to choose their own odds and bet against each other, even after an event has started. Betfair processes 5 million transactions a day and more than 300 bets a second. [MORE]

Communications

National Grid Wireless

National Grid Wireless is the leading provider of infrastructure to mobile telecommunications operators in the United Kingdom, with about 14,500 sites. [MORE]

Communications

ICM Direct

Established in 1998, ICM Direct Limited is a specialist provider of telephone research and data collection services to the market research industry. The company offers a wide range of business-to-business services, including a variety of data processing services. [MORE]

Education

Univeristy of Surrey

The University of Surrey is one of the UK’s leading professional, scientific and technological universities, and has a world-class reputation for excellence in teaching and research. [MORE]

Public Sector

Sun Prescribes Storage Solution

Discover how Sun's Storage Solutions deliver faster, more reliable data protection, with a lower TCO. [MORE]

Communications

Premium TV

Premium TV (PTV) is one of Europe’s leading publishers of broadband and mobile content. The company offers a range of services, including enabling content to be delivered through subscription or Pay Per View broadband services. [MORE]

Education

Grid Computing / Sun Ray solution helps Bournemouth University to reduce costs and increase performance

Bournemouth University is a modern and innovative institution that consistently achieves one of the highest graduate employment rates in the UK. The University’s School of Design, Engineering & Computing is particularly well respected for its work in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration), electronic systems design, human computer interface design and applied computing.....[MORE]

Public Sector

NHS Tayside

As one of the largest National Health Service (NHS) administrations in Scotland, NHS Tayside aims âto improve the health of the people living in Tayside, and to reduce health inequalities. Amongst its many functions, NHS Tayside is responsible for the performance management of the local NHS system, comprising two NHS .....[MORE]

Education

University of Nottingham and Sun Microsystems Streamline Computing and Allinea Software; Unveil Second Largest Academic Computer System in Europe  - New 3 Teraflop Grid To Enable Academics to Complete a Year's Work in a Single Day.....[MORE]

Information Technology

PinkRoccade Case Study

PinkRoccade NV was formed in the Netherlands over 50 years ago, as a Dutch Government Data Centre, with responsibility for processing the Dutch Civil Service payroll. Today, the company is one of the largest IT solutions and Managed Services providers in Europe, with operating companies in the Netherlands and the .....[MORE]

Public Sector

Sun/SAP finance solution fully supports the ODPMs business needs

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) was created as a central government department in May 2002 bringing together key responsibilities for regional and local government, fire, housing, planning and regeneration. The ODPM includes functions and structures that were previously part of the Cabinet Office or the former .....[MORE]

Finance

Reliance Mutual

Since 1911, Reliance Mutual has specialised in the provision of a wide range of financial products and services, including life assurance, pensions and investment products. The company has recently completed a major programme to re-structure and consolidate its operations, with a view to reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

As part of .....[MORE]

Communications

Orange

Orange is one of the world's most advanced and fastest-growing mobile communications companies, with 13.3 million customers in the UK and over 44 million customers worldwide. Since entering the UK market in 1994, Orange has grown to become the number one operator in the UK. Its network is one of .....[MORE]

Manufacturing

Sun Microsystems Linlithgow Manufacturing Facility

There can be very few major corporations in todays IT industry that work together as closely as Sun and Oracle. Individually, the two companies hold industry leading credentials; Oracle is a leading provider of applications and solutions for the data-driven enterprise, and Sun is a proven innovator and the thought .....[MORE]

Finance

Bankers Automated Clearing

BACS deploys the next generation of payment transfer systems on a Sun / Oracle solution comprised of 4 x Sun Fire F15K servers, Sun Cluster software for High Availability and Oracle 9i RAC

We intend to maintain our record for never having lost a payment, and our use of Sun and .....[MORE]

Education

University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde, located in Glasgow, Scotland, is a top-ranking European University dedicated to excellence through its core mission of promoting useful learning. The university has implemented a system for processing and protecting mission-critical financial and student record data that is based on technology from Sun Microsystems and its .....[MORE]

Information Technology

Ocado

Clarity Technology offers a range of channel development services to the major e-business solutions vendors providing dedicated account management, marketing and technical resources to help IT vendors reseller communities to develop new business. The company is part of the Horizon Technology Group plc a leading systems integrator and .....[MORE]

Public Sector

Kent Fire Brigade

As one of the largest fire brigades in the country, Kent Fire Brigade is responsible for delivering fire and rescue services to over 1.5 million people in the county of Kent, from 66 fire stations and 13 District Fire Safety Offices. The brigade employs just over 1,700 fire-fighters and almost .....[MORE]

Public Sector

West Yorkshire Police

With around 5,200 police officers and 2,300 support staff, serving approximately 2.1 million people over an area of 780 square miles, West Yorkshire Police is the fourth largest force in the country. Headquartered in Wakefield, the forces area combines busy cities and towns, with quiet villages and picturesque rural locations. .....[MORE]

Retail & Distribution

Ocado enhances the retail experience with BSI and Sun

Ocado is a revolutionary online supermarket, designed to change consumers shopping habits and make supermarket shopping a quick and easy, stress-free and enjoyable experience. In partnership with Waitrose, Ocados dedicated home delivery service includes online access to hundreds of offers on Waitrose goods, with free delivery for orders of £75 .....[MORE]

Utilities

DEVON ENERGY DOUBLES ITS DISK SPACE WHILE REDUCING NUMBER OF SERVERS BY ALMOST HALF

Key factors in our decision really came down to Suns excellent performance, scalability,flexibility and expandability.”

Brad Whitley, Senior Network Engineer

Devon Energy Corporation is an independent energy company involved in oil and gas property acquisition, exploration, and production, and it ranks among the top five US basedoil and gas producers. Devon sells .....[MORE]

Utilities

Sun Fire solution provides highly resilient, fully scalable platform to support UUSDs current and future business applications

United Utilities Service Delivery (UUSD) is one of three separate business units within United Utilities plc the fourth largest utility group in the UK. UUSD is responsible for the management and operation of the groups licensed water, wastewater and electricity distribution network assets in North West England supplying .....[MORE]

Media

Nettec and Sun play support to Channelflys website for ânew music fans

Channelfly plc comprises an innovative group of businesses with a focus on new and alternative music. These businesses include channelfly.com, The Fly Magazine, the Barfly chain of live music venues and the Animal Noise record label, as well as Stephen Budd Management, a leading music producer management business, and SuperVision .....[MORE]

Travel & Transport

Migration and consolidation of 90 Oracle databases from IBM Sequent systems to Sun Fire 6800 servers

Virgin Atlantic Airways has successfully migrated all its 90 Oracle-based databases from IBM Sequent systems to Sun Fire 6800 servers, and in the process consolidated these from nine servers to two. Virgin Atlantics move to Suns technology was expedited by Sun Professional Services, whose services included initial architectural design and .....[MORE]

Public Sector

Mapping out the future

We reviewed both Sun Microsystems and Intel based architectures, and came down firmly in favour of Sun we already had some Sun systems, and have a very good relationship with Sun but the key deciding factor was that the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the Sun solution .....[MORE]

Retail & Distribution

Pronto, an integrated POS Enterprise Management System, running on the future-resilient Sun Microsystems Platform

Jessops, the UK's leading specialist photographic and equipment retailer, is moving its Head Office and point of sale operations to PRONTO, an integrated POS Enterprise Management System implemented by Productivity Computer Solutions (PCS).

With approximately 14 million transactions taking place every year and this figure likely to grow, Jessops were .....[MORE]

Communications

COLT eBusiness

With its strong financial position in a highly competitive marketplace, COLT eBusiness certainly has an edge when other Internet service providers (SPs) are struggling to merely survive. A part of COLT Telecom Group plc, a leading European telecommunications provider, COLT eBusiness operates a dedicated, Internet protocol (IP)-based network that links .....[MORE]

 
 

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