Case Studies/Best Practices


Harvard Nails SendMail

Harvard University's EECS turns to Sendmail.

Equant Goes Global

A world-class system for multinational IP and data support.

Senate Mobilizes Politicos

Republicans just might have an IT edge in Washington—wireless e-computing technology that lets senators and staff check on the latest developments via PDA.

NOAA Calls for Clear Skies

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sought to accelerate sluggish supercomputer performance. Using Linux, the weather research speeds are now scorching.

Brown&Williamson: Open All Night

A self-service extranet helped tobacco distributor Brown & Williamson automate its order-entry system and erase a time-consuming East Coast, West Coast divide.

Xand Turns to SANs

A New York-based managed service provider switched to a SAN solution from IBM to drive revenue and beef up customer value.

New Life for Old Software

The federal Jet Propulsion Laboratory is porting old VMS software onto new PC hardware running Linux, extending the life (and value) of legacy programs.



Keeping the Trains on Track

AS/400s help a Georgia railroad company keep track of where loaded trains are within the system.

The RIT Stuff: Students Drive Universities to the Future of Data Access

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) wanted to give its students more direct access to needed informational resources through its Web browser. Their goal was to continue to use the legacy, 3270-based Student Information System, and students more direct access to class availability, current grade information and financial records without changing or rewriting applications. After analysis, refacing and remodeling solutions were chosen -- find out the whys and hows of this decision.