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Global Company Reduces Downtime, Gains Operational Excellence

Overview For 75 years, Oil Search Limited has been exploring and producing oil and gas in PNG. When the end date for the 2006 daylight saving time in Australia changed, the Oil Search Limited IT team needed to develop a patch to mitigate operational risks. The TAM facilitated communication between Oil Search Limited and Microsoft experts to proactively prevent issues from arising. Oil Search Limited engaged with Microsoft Services Premier Support, creating a flexible support plan tailored to the company's unique needs.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	August 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Windows XP

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North Sea operators to stockpile oil and gas

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Channel:
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Oil giant extends exchange to gas and electric service

Total Fina Elf, the world's fourth largest oil company, is to expand its presence in the gas distribution and trading market. The company initially launched an exchange on 21 March to trade crude oil, petroleum process and precious metals.

Channel:
Applications

IBM rolls out grids for big business

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Channel:
Servers

All aboard for Wi-Fi? Guard against the most obvious form of snooping on planes

Analyse and be aware of your specific risks and take steps to mitigate them. Some are now commercially available and they prevent off-axis viewing of screens. Security experts also point out that users shouldn't have to worry about what's going on...

Channel:
Security Strategy

You can't outsource email compliance headaches

Dan Scobie, strategic technology officer at technology services provider Star, said: "It's important that all parties engaged in any sort of outsourcing service have a clear understanding of where liability exists and who has ownership for that...

Wikipedia's Wales hypes open-source search plan

The people behind the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia have launched Wikia: a project to develop a search engine, crawlers and other indexing tools through a collaborative, open source process. Contributors are likely to include graduate...

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In this webcast, our panel of experts will review where we are with next generation telecoms in the UK, working through the concept of 'Telecoms 2.0': - Realising the potential of Next Generation Networks - why it isn't just about the technology? - What attributes should firms be looking for in their telco partner? - Is the relationship between telco provider and customer changing? - What things need to happen to make next generation services a reality? - You say you want the supplier to change. Do you want to change too? - What is Telecoms 2.0?

Publisher:
ZDNet UK

Telecom 2.0: Mind over matter

ntl:Telewest Business believes that the role of the telco is evolving. Gone are the days when it was enough to simply focus on circuits and minutes, customers now need a far higher degree of interaction and look for suppliers who will talk business solutions with them.

Publisher:
ntl:Telewest Business

IBM Information Server Change Data Capture

In today's fast-paced world, access to real-time data has never been more important. To be successful, organizations need to be able to report and analyze corporate data quickly and easily, regardless of what applications created the data, what platform they're running on, or what database they're stored in.

Publisher:
IBM

An examination of server consolidation: the trends that can drive efficiencies and help businesses gain a competitive edge

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Publisher:
IBM

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