| Publisher | Microsoft | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | HTML | Date added | 05 Aug 2002 |
| Topics | Directory Services | ||
| Downloads | 127 | ||
Prior to the Windows 2000 initiative, Barclays Global Investors's (BGI's) highly decentralized IT infrastructure, consisting of seven data centers with a mixed infrastructure composed of Microsoft Windows- and UNIX-based servers, resulted in frequent authentication-related network and application access delays and long lead times to get new solutions deployed with appropriate security mechanisms. This resulted in decreased availability of corporate data and increased the time end-users needed to get information to customers. Upgrading and maintaining BGI's decentralized IT system in a phased deployment would require replacing redundant hardware and maintaining redundant services. Instead, BGI decided to migrate to a Windows 2000-based solution that improved employee productivity by making security, data management, and network administration more efficient. This would also cut costs by eliminating redundant hardware and IT support, and would improve the agility of BGI's IT department to quickly deliver new solutions integrated with Windows 2000 and Active Directory.
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