1. IBM Systems and Technology
Ping An Insurance
Exceeding service level agreements by 20 percent
The need:
Ping An Insurance Group wanted to increase its market share in the competitive “The IBM platform has
Chinese insurance industry by delivering timely insurance quotations. After
given us the stability and
reviewing its hardware infrastructure, the company determined that service levels
of its insurance applications were too low. In addition, its distributed server performance boost that we
landscape 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 Insurance
processors 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 resources
which can be orchestrated rapidly to provision new business services—easily Solution components:
managed with IBM Systems Director.  IBM System x® 3850 X5
The 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-00
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