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BT Vision Builds Cutting-Edge Storage Solution to Deliver Video-on-Demand Over an IP Network, Gains More Than £7 Million in Benefits With HP StorageWorks

BT Vision, based in the United Kingdom, is a next-generation television service that delivers pay-per-view and subscription video-on-demand services, digital TV channels, communications, and interactive services over an IP network to audiences throughout the UK. BT Vision wanted to improve its ability to deliver video-on-demand over an IP-based network to...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., VoD, Network, HP StorageWorks, Benefit, British Telecommunications, IP, Vision, SVOD, U.K., IP Network, BT Vision, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Utility Computing, Strategy, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management

Case studies 2009-02-01

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Blockbuster inks deal with TiVo

Blockbuster inks deal with TiVoTiVo is rubbishI think its only used in the US. I had it when it was first launched in the UK but it was slow and unreliable. BT Vision or Sky+ are the new kings of recorders.Well the first Tivos were not that great...maybe you should...

Tags: Podcasts, DVR, Digital video, Digital media, TiVo Inc., Blockbuster Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

HP BladeSystem Powers BT Vision, Tripling Data Center Capacity

BT Vision (www.btvision.bt.com) offers on-demand television programs, film and sports over the Internet to broadband customers of BT British Telecom. The company wanted to triple data center capacity to one million viewers without adding to power and space requirements. BT Vision replaced rackmounted servers, including Sun Fire V210 servers, with...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., British Telecommunications, Vision, Data Centers, Strategy, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2009-01-01

Integrated Enterprise Performance Management Architecture Drives Global Vision for BT

BT Group wanted to streamline consolidation of 5,000 separate financial data sources from 580 entities covering all of BT's business units across the world and reduce data preparation costs, gain actionable intelligence to enhance decision-making, simplify auditing, and ensure compliance with international financial reporting standards. The challenge was to build...

Tags: Enterprise Performance Management, Financial Reporting, Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, British Telecommunications, Vision, BT Group Plc., Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2008-11-01

iPhone 3G announced for July 11th availability, but lots of questions remain

iPhone 3G announced for July 11th availability, but lots of questions remainUSA...ATT...no mas, jack.sighRE: iPhone 3G announced for July 11th availability, but lots of questions rAs long as the iphone stays on AT&T it will stay out of my pocketJobs again sells the old while pretending it is new[i]Wow, the...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Harry Bardal, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3G

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

What CIOs really want

My Between the Lines partner Larry Dignan attended Hewlett-Packard’s analyst meeting in New York today where CEO Mark Hurd stated the obvious--all CIOs want to cut costs and simplify. It's an oversimplification, but Hurd excels at reducing problems to their bare essentials, with all the metrics needed to make...

Tags: CIO, Technology, RFID, Web 2.0, Strategy, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Internet, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-11

The Carr-to-Rangaswami connection: Time to bleep the CIO?

There are probably a lot of CIOs that don't pay diddly squat in the way of attention to blogs. The question is whether there's a new meme bubbling up in the blogosphere that CIOs should be paying attention to: one that basically says the CIO as we know him/her...

Tags: Expertise, CIO, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-30

News to know: NTP is back; iUnlock; VMWorld; $50 DVD burner;

Notable headlines: Robin Harris: Build a $50 DVD burner. Larry Dignan: NTP: We sue the wireless world. George Ou: Sun shows 2U 16-core Barcelona server with FSB1600. David Berlind: Insight into why Europeans get multi-factor authentication and we...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Hypervisor, DVD Burner, Microsoft Corp., DVD, NTP

Blog posts 2007-09-12

City of Edinburgh Council Works Towards Delivering Smart City Vision With Infrastructure Optimisation Model

Based in Scotland's capital city, the City of Edinburgh Council provides a range of services from more than 70 principal locations to 480,000 citizens, businesses, and organisations in Edinburgh and Lothian. In 2005, the City of Edinburgh Council embarked on a service-led IT transformation programme with its outsourcing partner BT....

Tags: Edinburgh, City, Vision, Business Structures, Outsourcing, Strategy, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

Case studies 2007-09-01

Dentists needed for mobile Bluetooth pain

Dentists needed for mobile Bluetooth painEase, schmeazeNever mind "ease of use" -- that only shows up once the user has committed to forking out a very large chunk of change for BlueTooth.If you want to know why it's not a popular technology, just add up the differential price you paid...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, headset, mobile

Discussion threads 2006-06-28

Sun's flawed utility vision

Now that Sun has booted up its grid offering, it seems like a good moment to explode one or two myths about utility computing. Sun has been trying to get this right for at least a decade now, and everyone (except Sun itself, it seems) can learn from its mistakes....

Tags: British Telecommunications, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun JavaStation

Blog posts 2005-08-25

No surprise--Sun shines when it comes to open source

Here's a news flash--of sorts--for those following recent developments in Sun products and services. IT decision-makers appear to care a great deal more aboutwhat Sun is doing around making Solaris open source than they do about what Sun is doing to make utility computing more affordable and available. A check...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2005-02-01