Ping An InsuranceExceeding service level agreements by 20 percent

IBM Systems and TechnologyPing An InsuranceExceeding service level agreements by 20 percentThe need:Ping An Insurance Group wanted to increase its market share in the competitive “The IBM platform hasChinese insurance industry by delivering timely insurance quotations. After given us the stability andreviewing its hardware infrastructure, the company determined that service levelsof its insurance applications were too low. In addition, its distributed server performance boost that welandscape was costly to power and maintain. needed to pursue our growth strategy.”The solution:The company consolidated its 1,000 distributed physical servers to — Liang Xia,800 IBM System x® 3850 X5 and 3650 class servers with intelligent Intel® Xeon® IT Engineer, Ping An Insuranceprocessors running Red Hat Linux. VMware virtualization of its servers has helped Group Company of China, Ltd.create a private cloud—a centralized pool of processing and storage resourceswhich can be orchestrated rapidly to provision new business services—easily Solution components:managed with IBM Systems Director.  IBM System x® 3850 X5The benefit:  IBM System x3650 class servers Virtualization offers a fast time-to-market for new services—helping Ping An to extend its SLAs by 20 percent while reducing maintenance and cooling costs  Intel® Xeon® processors combined by 30 percent per year.  IBM Systems Director Standard Edition Time to complete administration tasks cut by 75 percent—freeing employees to develop solutions that add business value.  VMware Improved accuracy of system fault reporting to almost 85 percent—lowering the business risk of unplanned downtime. XSP03353-USEN-001 © 2012 IBM Corporation

Ping An InsuranceExceeding service level agreements by 20 percent

by IBM India Smarter Computing on Aug 08, 2012

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