The IRB Rugby Sevens World Cup was held in Dubai in March 2009 at ‘The Sevens’ stadium, a new sports complex built in just a year. The event attracted more than 100,000 visitors over three days. Mercator provided all permanent and temporary IT infrastructure in the stadium, including supporting RNS areas, the Media Room, Photographers Room, Judicial areas and Tournament offices.

As organisations determine their ERP strategy, however, they need to choose the right ERP vendor partner. This white paper explores the plusses and minuses of the four types of ERP partners: Partner ecosystems, frameworks, best-of-breed packages and end-to-end integrated solutions. Only with the right ERP partner can organisations ensure that they obtain the functionality that drives competitive advantage for the optimal total cost of ownership. Go to the resource centre

Today, IT organisations face unprecedented challenges. The move to next-generation data centers entails a fundamental shift in perspective. Your organisation needs a business-centered view of your data center. HP Data Center Transformation solutions enable this shift in focus.

Implementing Oracle RAC using the HP BladeSystem c-Class with HP Integrity server blades?BL870c and BL860c?running HP-UX can help you build a scalable and flexible SAP application environment.

Linux compute clusters running on an HP BladeSystem infrastructure provide an open source environment that is flexible, cost effective, highly scalable, and reliable.

Your business is dynamic. Faced with unpredictable market pressures and limited resources, you must lower your costs, accelerate growth, and mitigate risks, if you are to sustain a competitive advantage. Virtualisation involves pooling and sharing IT resources, so IT supply automatically meets business demands.