Featured Profiles

Xerox Leverages Apple Technology for Instantaneous IT Support

Xerox has created a diagnostic kit called Being There — basically an Internet-connected MacBook with an iSight camera (and a light) connected via a 30-foot FireWire cable.

Keeping "IT" Simple

Tayco is one of North America’s leading office furniture manufacturers, but it is also something of a secret. But now Tayco plans to make some noise, thanks in part to an expandable IT infrastructure built around the Xserve.

Success is in the Cards

Hallmark’s information technology infrastructure isn’t a single entity. Instead, dedicated IT teams work as close partners within each group, determining the specific needs of workers and offering supportable solutions.

reSources IT: Remote Magic

reSources IT provides tech services for 21 agencies of its parent company, Publicis, with just a staff of seven. How? With Apple technology, of course.

JWTwo: From facility to funhouse

By investing in an Apple Xsan system, award-winning ad agency JWT has created new and flexible ways for all their people to work together.

MGM MIRAGE takes a grand approach to employee communications

MGM MIRAGE doubled in size when it acquired the Mandalay Bay Resort Group. But thanks to Apple technology, the job of employee communication got smaller.

EchoStorm delivers military intelligence data with Xserve and QuickTime

With real-time delivery as the goal, EchoStorm set out to transform how the U.S. Armed Forces disseminates intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data.

The Star Tribune delivers in deadline-driven environment

They turned to the stable UNIX-based Mac OS X platform for the connectivity and compatibility needed to support the delivery of up-to-date news and information.

Mass Storage/Shared Storage

• Oracle Expands Collaboration with Xserve RAID
  With Xserve RAID, Oracle can store and back up valuable data for about one-third the cost of traditional systems.
• Pushing Broadcasting to the Limit
  In the UK, ITV assembeled a “dream team” to cover the 2005 Tour de France. Then they created a “dream workflow” that included Mac OS X and Xsan.
• Xsan Revolutionizes Post-Production Workflow
  Through its invention of reality television, Bunim-Murray turned traditional television production workflow on its head.
• Cisco Chooses Mac OS X, Xserve, Xserve RAID and Xsan (PDF)
  The world's largest networking equipment manufacturer, chose for an e-mail archival system.
• iParadigm Uses Xserve RAID to Prevent cheating (PDF)
  Over 3500 educational institutions use iParadigms to enhance the way student papers are submitted, graded, and shared.
• Smugmug Picture Perfect with Xserve RAID (PDF)
  Fast, reliable, and affordable, Apple Xserve RAID stores more photos so customers can share more photos.

Database

• Matanuska Telephone collects Critical data with Xserve (PDF)
  Alaska’s largest telephone cooperative saves nearly $400,000 by running mission-critical billing application on Xserve.
• The Indian Health Service Cures Downtime with Xserve
  To manage the healthcare data of tribal members throughout the country, the IHS chose Apple Xserve for its reliability and simple administration.

Migrating Tape to Disk Storage

• Seitel Gets More Bytes Per Buck with Xserve RAID (PDF)
  Seitel maintains and licenses one of the largest collections of seismic data in North America. Apple Xserve RAID helps them keep it stored, safe, and streamlined.
• Applica Saves Thousands of Dollars with Xserve RAID (PDF)
  A giant in the world of small appliances (does Black and Decker sound familiar?) turns to Apple Xserve RAID for high-capacity data storage.

HPC/WGC

• The U.S. Army Reaches Out to the Public with Apple
  As the public face of the U.S. Army on the web, www.army.mil is a vital tool. It’s also the target of hundreds of attacks daily. That’s why it’s hosted on an Xserve running Mac OS X Server.
• Taking Apple Xserve to MACH5
  COLSA Corporation and the U.S. Army model hypersonic flight on one of the world’s most powerful computers: a supercluster of 1,566 Apple Xserve G5 servers.
• Gigaelement FFTs (PDF)
  Specifies G5 cluster configurations suitable for performing massive (billion- element) fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) all for complex-valued float elements.
• Cost-Conscious Supercomputing
  Virginia Tech sets a new milestone with System X. Originally built with Power Mac G5s, it now uses 1,100 Xserve G5s.
• Reducing the Complexity in Complex Genetics
  The University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health switches to an Xserve-based solution that meets the computing and storage needs of over 120 research projects.
• UIUC’s 640-node Xserve Cluster Wins on Price, Speed
  The Turing Xserve cluster at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the latest large-scale, high speed computing systems to use Apple’s Xserve G5.

Science and Engineering

• An Oasis of Learning in the Middle East
  Education City in Qatar is a multi-institutional campus with faculty and cirricula from five of America’s leading universities, including Texas A&M. To support the research and computational needs of engineering students, the school’s IT team has created a new supercomputer comprised of Xserve G5 nodes and Xserve RAID shared storage.
• Mac Lights Way to Digital Campus
  The Université Lumiere Lyon 2 is using Apple technology to power its most important pedagogical initiatives. And Mac OS X Server, Xserves, and Xserve RAID are providing the keys to unlocking the potential of this revolutionary environment.
• Meet Me on the Ocean Floor
  Want to explore the ocean depths but don’t want to leave dry land? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s website has QuickTime videos that deliver rich aquatic vistas to anyone with a computer.
• A Critical Edge for NASA 3D Rendering
  The development team at the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), which does work for NASA, was in search of a single computer platform that could handle a variety of tasks.
• Revolutionary Flow Cytometry
  Dr. Roederer and Adam Treister at Stanford University wrote FlowJo, Mac OS X analysis software for flow cytometers, high-speed, automated microscopes.
• Apple Charts the Human Body
  Using MRI, CT and anatomical images — more than 5,000 images for the female data set — Thomas Gest’s team is enabling “fly-throughs” of the body.
• Performing Feats of Bioinfomagic
  Dr. Will Gilbert carries the human genome on his iPod. It’s the easiest way to transfer it to other researchers.
• A Web-based Informatics System
  My job is helping scientists at Genzyme work more efficiently and invent drugs faster,” says Dr. Scott Sneddon.
• Macs and the Next Frontier - Proteomics
  Now that scientists have decoded the human genome, they’re taking the next and much more challenging step.
• Mastermind of Java
  He created the programming language that brought the Internet to life. Today, he travels the world, evangelizing Java.
• Search and Deploy
  For more than 20 years, Tim Bray has been there for you, working the problem of online information access.

Media Workflow

• Xsan Drives 24-Hour News Station
  Delivering breaking news and analysis to an information-hungry audience, 24-hours a day, seven days a week, is a huge endeavour.
• Image Archiving at the Smithsonian
  Working in the Smithsonian Office of Imaging and Photographic Services, he helps preserve more than two million images.
• The USIP Upgrades to Apple Xserve
  The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) promotes peaceful resolutions to international conflicts — and uses the latest technology to deliver its message.
• Yahoo! Finds a Perfect Picture (PDF)
  Yahoo! Uses Apple QuickTime to stream movie trailers and other consumer-oriented media on its website, and offers critical quality streaming for special events.
• Making the Universe Shake
  We all go to the movies to see stars. But the audience for the IMAX film “Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time” gets to see the universe.

Configuration Management

• Curing System Unreliability with Apple Xserve
  To manage the healthcare data of tribal members throughout the country, the IHS chose Apple Xserve for its reliability and simple administration.
• Training on Mac OS X
  Apple training keeps the Texas Air National Guard flying high, despite of deployments to the Middle East.

Web hosting

• LA.com Delivers LA Faster with Apple Xserve
  Thanks to Apple’s Xserve servers, LA.com is not only the best way to discover LA, it’s also the fastest.
• VeloNews Ahead of the Pack with Xserve (PDF)
  Moving to Apple Xserve for the Tour de France is a win for VeloNews.
• Terayon Stretches Marketing Dollars with Xserve (PDF)
  By choosing Apple solutions to serve its mission-critical customer portals, Terayon saves over $100,000.

Managing a corporate workgroup

• Crispin Porter + Bogusky Creates Freely with Xsan and Xserve RAID
  Miami-based full-service advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky prides itself on rescuing underdog clients and building momentum behind client brands by making them relevant to pop culture.
• Staples — Design by Xserve (PDF)
  With impossible-to-meet deadlines, 9TB of data to store and access, and 135 desktops to support in the advertising group, the Staples IT team realized it needed more horsepower.
• Macy’s: How One Department Fills 141 Department Stores
  Ultra-efficient automated workflow makes the impossible possible, every day.
• Not Just Meeting, But Creating Demand
  Marketel is one of Montreal’s biggest agencies, offering advertising, promotions, sponsorships, design, interactive communications, media and custom publishing services.