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The Eurostar rail link: a major Bechtel project

The Eurostar rail link: a major Bechtel project

Bechtel’s silver cloud computing lining

30 Mar 2009

Managing the technology for a large multinational construction company is a huge challenge. John Bailey, CIO of the civil information systems and technology group of Bechtel, explains how cloud computing has helped his business.


The challenge

The complexity of running so many construction projects around the world meant Bechtel's approach to IT needed to change in order to remain cost effective for the company and its clients.

The solution

Bechtel ventured into the cloud, benchmarking itself against Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com and YouTube to gain insight into how it could reduce costs and improve performance in the areas of server management, storage, application management and network costs. Download the full case study to find out how Bechtel has achieved real benefits and reduced IT costs in the cloud.

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