Business Challenge MacArthur Corporation is a distributor of roofing, siding, HVAC, and other building materials for residential and commercial construction. Headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, the company maintains 36 distribution locations and two recently acquired manufacturing facilities in the upper Midwest and mountain states and on the west coast. With a basic hub-and-spoke architecture, MacArthur’s
U.K. energy contractor reduces total cost of ownership while improving customer service and adopting new ways of working Challenge • Improve customer service, while driving down costs Solution • Establish better, faster ways of working • Cisco Borderless Network infrastructure with Cisco Security Results • Key performance indicators for managing future business improvement • New
“There’s no such thing as “the cloud,” says this Frost & Sullivan executive brief. It’s more useful to think of the cloud as shorthand for a range of service and deployment models. This practical guide offers steps for moving your company into the cloud, at whatever pace you prefer, with a focus on the SmartCloud
“Adopting cloud technology is a reasonably easy decision. Figuring out when and how to get the most value from cloud computing is the next—often more challenging—step. This white paper shows how a robust analysis of your workloads can help identify candidates for target cloud environments, by asking key questions, such as: Can the workload run
An effective cyber security strategy calls for the latest intelligence on the kinds of attacks that are occurring, who is committing them, and how often they are happening. A new IBM report offers expert insight into a range of security statistics, based on monitoring tens of billions of security events that occurred at 3,700 organizations
“A recent IDG survey of CIOs revealed that those using virtual desktops now say the biggest benefits are increased simplicity and a more productive and mobile workforce. Find out how other companies are using virtual desktops to: • Drastically cut IT investment costs • Simplify management across multiple platforms and devices • Increase workplace flexibility
This IDC white paper discusses the types of services IT organizations can leverage to ensure that their data centers are the key to business expansion, not a barrier to business success.
Many IT professionals cite loss of control as a barrier to using third-party partners for enterprise cloud construction and management. Read the white paper to learn how IBM SmartCloud Services help knock down this barrier by offering the cost-savings and convenience of a third-party cloud with a web portal that gives you control of cloud
To measure the financial and reputational consequences of business disruptions caused by business continuity or IT security failures, IBM teamed up with the Ponemon Institute to survey more than 2,000 business continuity specialists and IT security practitioners. Read the research report based on this groundbreaking study for key findings that you’ll want to delve into,
Technology is integral to the success of the Games. Dell is proud to be the official end-to-end IT partner of the XX Commonwealth Games, and will provide both hardware and data center support. Technology underpins everything at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Dell plays an integral part in providing the laptops, tablets, PCs, servers and storage.