Case Studies

Managing IT Expenditures in a Down Economy

Budget stress often brings radical clarity on which expenditures are adding the least value. With this clarity comes an opportunity to streamline, focus and drive operational efficiency.

Thumb drives & iPhones: Productivity tools or new security threats?

Mobile phones have become hand‐held Wi‐Fi computers; and portable devices now have disk storage capacities that can go over 100 GB. As each of these innocuous items comes into contact with your network, it becomes an endpoint, a new point of vulnerability.

IT Management Strategies for Small Business:
System Monitoring &Managed IT Services

The current economic climate is challenging organizations to innovate and aggressively manage expenses. Managed Services for Small and Medium business are becoming an increasingly effective strategy.

Server Consolidation Success Story: Georgetown McDonough School of Business (with Novell, Inc.)

Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business required a state-of-the-art IT infrastructure. With Novell® Open Enterprise Server running SUSE® Linux Enterprise, the business school consolidated servers by 90% and cut implementation time for new applications by 50%.

Corporate Social Networking: Enabling Effective Collaboration

The value of knowledge workers has never been higher. Yet as projects become more complex and teams become more dispersed, organizing projects, workers, and content in a meaningful way has become very difficult. Yet some organizations are embracing a new way to gather, organize and retain the collective knowledge within their organization.

Gasoline prices choking your company’s growth?
Video conferencing keeps business moving & “green”

The rapidly escalating cost of gasoline alone has created a significant pressure to reduce travel costs wherever possible. This can create a challenge, but today's "next generation" video conferencing can be a cost effective solution that just may surprise you with its quality and ease of use.

Green Computing:
Managing IT energy consumption for bottom line impact

"Green Computing" is no longer just an enterprise level concern. The rapidly rising expense of energy is forcing this resource management discussion
towards the top of many organizations’ agendas this year. Outlines steps your organization can take to begin saving energy and money.

Data Management Strategies: Can you find what you need when you need it?

A brief overview of the challenges of managing an exploding volume of data and steps to start addressing a proactive strategy.

Converged Networking in Real Estate: Adding Value Turning Average Properties into "A" Level Producers

A brief overview of how converged networking infrastructures should be part of any construction or remodel design for its new role as strategic differentiation in a competitive market.

At Handy, VoIP's impact is quick, forceful

Together, N.B. Handy's information systems group and ALI have created a telecommunications foundation designed to support N.B. Handy's business plan for the future.