How Red Bull North America gained its wings and flew to a different cloud storage provider

How Red Bull North America gained its wings and flew to a different cloud storage provider

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Red Bull North America has chosen Egnyte as its enterprise cloud sync and share provider having replaced Box in a “huge” client win for the Mountain View firm.
One of the key draws for Red Bull was the use of Egnyte’s API to connect to the sales team’s iPads, enabling the team to work in the field as well as leveraging Egnyte’s back end storage.
The announcement represents a validation of Egnyte’s strategy going forward, with the company focused...

By James Bourne, 10 March 2015, 1 comment. Categories: Case Studies, Infrastructure, Software, Storage.

Cookie Jam teams with Couchbase to power and quickly scale Facebook’s most popular game

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Social Gaming Network (SGN) has partnered with NoSQL database provider Couchbase to rapidly scale and maintain uptime for its Cookie Jam game, which boasts over 5 million users worldwide.
The match-3 puzzle game was named by social network Facebook as its most popular game of 2014, with Facebook head of games partnerships EMEA Bob Slinn telling the Guardian it was “an amazing...

By James Bourne, 20 January 2015, 0 comments. Categories: Case Studies, PaaS, Platform.

Take a look at how cloud helped a cancer charity increase donations by 40%

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The Canadian Cancer Society (CCSSK), based in Saskatchewan, has launched an omni-channel engagement centre utilising cloud telephony from NewVoiceMedia and Salesforce, and found charitable donations had increased by 40%.
At the society’s Relay for Life event, participation went up 30% and pledge numbers increased by 70%. The company looked to the cloud primarily to provide a greater customer experience. Utilising Salesforce data, employees were able to create more...

By James Bourne, 19 November 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Case Studies, PublicSector.

Cloud best practices: Compliance, campaigns and SLAs

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The cloud computing track at Apps World Europe yesterday threw up a series of interesting case studies, opinions and analysis.
John Finch, CIO of the Bank of England, spoke in the keynote session and revealed the bank’s use of cloud technologies only extended to the public-facing front end; John Pillar, CTO of Discover & Deliver spoke of a huge cloud-based IT project at former employer Marks & Spencer, and a morning panel session examined SLAs and mobile cloud best...

By James Bourne, 13 November 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Best Practice, Case Studies, Compliance,SLA.

Salesforce customers: Learn from Code Spaces’ swift demise

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A benchmark report by Adallom into the uptake of software as a service (SaaS) applications has found that Salesforce customers have the highest percentage of privileged access users – and warned about the problems that may cause businesses.
On average 7% of users on Salesforce accounts are privileged or have admin access, compared with 4% for Google Apps, 2% for Box and 1% for Office 365, the other three services analysed.
The report gave a grave warning over the prevalence...

By James Bourne, 05 November 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Case Studies, Disaster Recovery, Research,SaaS , Security, Software.

How Carlsberg is deploying Office 365 to move its operations to the cloud

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Danish beer brand Carlsberg is rolling out Microsoft Office 365 for greater enterprise collaboration, according to details of a customer case study from Redmond.
Carlsberg is rolling out this technology initiative under the banner of ‘GloCal’, which “aims for global efficiency while staying true to its local roots,” and chose Microsoft Office 365 as the optimal solution.
Employees use a full range of Microsoft products: Exchange Online for email; Lync as a...

By James Bourne, 27 October 2014, 0 comments. Categories: Case Studies, Microsoft, Migration.