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Brazilian Pipeline Operator Enhances IT Security With Software Upgrade

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Overview Brazil's leading natural gas distributor, Comgas had an outdated IT desktop infrastructure. The company decided to upgrade its environment to the Windows Vista operating system and the 2007 Microsoft Office system to provide company professionals with enhanced security and productivity features, and its IT team with simplified management. The company has deployed the new software to approximately 900 of its 1,000 computers.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Business Management, Upgrades and Migration, Windows Vista

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Publisher:
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Publisher:
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Channel:
Desktops
Tags:
windows vista,
vista

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Publisher:
ZDNet UK

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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

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Publisher:
IBM

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