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Case Study: Avocent Helps Royal & SunAlliance to Grow IT Infrastructure, Not Costs

From Avocent Corporation
 

 
Royal & SunAlliance is one of the world's leading international insurance groups. The corporation's activities span property, casualty and life insurance and risk management services. Employing 38,000 people and transacting business in 130 countries, the company has approximately 20 million customers around the globe. At its operations in Dublin, Ireland, Royal & SunAlliance (R&SA) has approximately 600 staff, the majority of whom are located at a campus site comprising three separate buildings. The company also operates branch R&SA's IT department provides centralised network management services to the company's entire Irish operations. Network monitoring and rapid incident response is a vital function tasked to a team of network administrators who maintain the smooth running of services throughout the business. In a customer-driven company, the capability to react with speed to any network issues is crucial, particularly if systems go down.

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