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BT Broadcast Services Uses ES7000 to Consolidate Server Farm

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Overview Ask anyone in Britain to name the United Kingdom's largest telecommunications organization and the answer will most likely be BT the world's leading provider of advanced media technology management and multimedia distribution solutions. BT Broadcast Services, Europe's leading supplier of global broadcast solutions, was looking to consolidate its Windows-based server farm to improve manageability and realize cost savings. Following a TCO analysis, NT Servers and a Unisys e-@action Enterprise Server ES7000, running Windows 2000 servers, were deployed.

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Publisher	Microsoft Corporation	File Format	HTML
Date Published	December 2003	Downloads	61
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Server Consolidation, ROI - TCO

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