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Continental Lowers Costs, Improves Security, and Achieves 99.9 Percent Server Reliability

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• computers,
• directory,
• date,
• disparate

Overview Continental AG had out-of-date and disparate client-server infrastructure that needed groupwide standardization. This more involved providing than 80 sites worldwide with a total of 24,000 new workstations and portable computers, installing new server computers, and setting up modern operating systems and applications. Continental first tested a Linux solution, but the companies decided instead on a platform based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Windows XP Professional because of the opportunity to lower costs and improve security. The new system architecture has considerably reduced IT costs at Continental AG. With Active Directory as a groupwide directory service, the corporate network can now be centrally administered.

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