Case Studies

Finland's Slot Machine Association (Raha-automaattiyhdistys, RAY) was established in 1938 to collect funds from gambling activities for Finnish social and health organizations to support their activities. Throughout its history, RAY has pursued the money machine business in Finland on an exclusive basis.

Philip Nash Photography, based in Surrey, has been shooting commercial and personal photography and
video for over 9 years. As with a great deal of professional photographers today, the company has been working with digital formats for some time. But, as well as bringing a host of benefits to both the photographer and client through the speed in which images can be viewed and delivered, digital photography has also bought with it a new challenge - one of storage.

What do comic books and wireless networking have in common? Both are vital to Milwaukie Portland, OR based Dark Horse Comics. Dark Horse began in the mid-1980s as a retail comic book chain in Portland, Oregon by Mike Richardson. Noticing the content of comic books began to stale, Richardson began to seek innovation.

Dating back to the 13th century, Leeds Castle is four miles southeast of Maidstone in Kent. A royal home for over three centuries, the castle and its grounds are now a popular leisure, educational, and business destination. Owned by the Leeds Castle Foundation, it's regularly used for board meetings, residential conferences, and banquets. Leeds Castle has a number of separate buildings within the moated enclosure as well as in the surrounding grounds. According to IT Manager Andrew Payne, only the administration centre was networked for internet access. Leeds Castle wanted to offer more than this but only had a partial solution.

The College has some of the finest buildings and largest grounds of any secondary school in Ireland. The school required to network their new and existing computers across the campus for academic staff and pupils. The installation of regular network cable was simply not an option as many of the buildings are over 200 years old with walls over three foot thick in places.

Turku is Finland's oldest city and Turku Science Park, with its three Universities, is Finland's largest Science Park, It holds within its campus, Finland's largest Polytechnic and over 210,000 square meters of facilities for business activities. Turku Science Park is home to 750 companies and organisations, of which nearly 250 are technology-based.

UK TeraStation Case Study 08/11/2006 The school needed access to data that was up to two years old throughout each academic year, but couldn't rely on teachers or students to keep all of their coursework on file. With over 750 pupils and 80 staff, finding the capacity to store and backup these important files was proving a massive problem, particularly at the end of long courses when coursework had to be retrieved or restored and sent to exam boards electronically.