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Institute of Cancer Research
NEC deploy new email system for the Institute of Cancer Research
-NEC migrating 1600 accounts to Microsoft Exchange -
The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) has placed an order with NEC IT Solutions to design the infrastructure and manage the initial phases of the migration of 1,600 mailboxes from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange 2007. The migration will provide a scaleable IT infrastructure to support the organisation’s strategic plans, as well as create a standardised technical environment that is easier to maintain, thus reducing the associated costs. It will also enable the ICR IT Team to focus its resources on the delivery of new requirements and provision of better support to scientists.
The project means that the ICR can start to adopt web-based information management, collaboration and communication technologies, which were not previously available. The first job for NEC is to integrate Symantec’s Enterprise Vault (EV) to provide an enterprise email archiving solution with Exchange 2007.
The ICR, founded in 1909, is a college of the University of London. It has grown to be one of the world’s foremost cancer research centres, internationally renowned for the quality of its science.
The ICR has a mixture of PCs and Macs and needs a robust, scalable and flexible IT infrastructure that can support the evolving needs of the organisation and help to maintain its reputation for excellence in cancer research. NEC was selected because of their expertise across multiple vendor platforms, which is critical to managing the risks involved in this project. Furthermore, NEC recommended and manages a third party specialist that is working in partnership with NEC to manage the Mac email migration.
The ICR has also agreed an annual IT support contract with NEC, providing them with general support across all their existing IT estate, ranging from simple advice or on-site involvement with major projects.