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MGM Mirage's IT green field: RFID meets alcohol; predictive modeling; bandwidth galore

Very few technology executives ever get a green field to play with. MGM Mirage CIO Tom Peck has an $8 billion green field--actually massive construction project dubbed CityCenter--right in the middle of the Las Vegas strip. Peck was speaking at the Gartner Emerging Technologies Conference in Las...

Tags: Bandwidth, Information Technology, MGM Mirage, SOA, Modeling, CityCenter, RFID, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-10

ROI Case Study: Microsoft Exchange Server - MGM MIRAGE

MGM MIRAGE operates around the clock and had an e-mail system running on Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5 with 10,000 email accounts. With a user base of that size, MGM MIRAGE faced challenges in providing optimum service to its employees to ensure that e-mail was readily available and quickly restorable...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, MGM Mirage, ROI, Server, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software

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Consolidation Beats a Full House

MGM MIRAGE, one of the world's leading and most respected hotel and gaming companies, sought to reduce server proliferation by consolidating over 125 SQL Server databases while improving manageability and providing future expandability. MGM MIRAGE deployed two eight-processor Unisys ES7000 Aries Model 410 servers employing 1.3 GHz Intel Itanium 2...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Unisys Corp., Consolidation, Intel Itanium 2, MGM Mirage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Processors, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

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MGM MIRAGE Server Consolidation Beats a Full House

MGM MIRAGE, one of the world's leading and most respected hotel and gaming companies, sought to reduce the associated costs of purchasing and maintaining an increasing number of servers by consolidating over 125 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases while improving manageability and providing future expandability. MGM MIRAGE deployed two eight-processor...

Tags: Intel Itanium 2, MGM Mirage, Microsoft Corp., MGM MIRAGE Server Consolidation, Server Consolidation, Databases, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components

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News to know: The week in video; Software licensing doomed?; Windows Mobile UI; Microhoo

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Traditional software licensing: Could a customer revolt cook the model? The week in video: Cisco's virtual health care project Sun Labs looks into 'proximity communications' RSA 2008: Sizing up security RSA 2008: Emerging tech...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Video, Microhoo, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Patches, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-04-11

Is someone not doing their homework at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?

If you read a recent LA Times article the way I did, then its apparently more difficult that it seems to do the world good without relying on a bit of evil. In what appears to be a deeply researched article by Times staff writer Charles Piller, The Bill and...

Tags: Berlind, General, investment, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-02-09

Las Vegas Neon Nights 1 (Windows)

Stroll the Las Vegas Strip in the glow of the magical neon lights. See famous signs and spectacular light shows. Experience the buzz and excitement of Las Vegas at night. The MGM Grand, The Imperial Palace, The Mirage, Caesars Palace, Paris, Harrahs, The Flamingo, The Venetian, The Bellagio fountains, and...

Tags: Pixel Paradox, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-05-09