IBM has just published (June 2011) a customer reference highlighting the benefits of the latest POWER7 processor technology.
Applied Technologies client, Admiral Insurance, is a fast-growth business, with the number of online quotations it provides increasing continually. With approximately 95% of sales taking place over the internet, the existing IT infrastructure was struggling to economically scale so with the announcement of the POWER7 processor Applied Technologies suggested using the POWER7 720 as a web server platform. Questioned to begin with as it was at odds with IBM’s “partitions and put it all on one platform stance”, the use of these servers provides a powerful and economic scale out solution. Using the latest i/OS virtualisation capability, Admiral are now able to create new WebSphere instances within minutes through a straightforward copy process, change some IP addressing and the service is up and running.
Interestingly IBM is using this reference as a Smarter Planet reference.
To read the full document, please see:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/cs/STRD-8J8FFA
If you would like to discuss this or understand how POWER7 can help your business please contact Nigel Gillespie, nigel.gillespie@applied-tech.co.uk
https://applied-tech.development-box.co.uk/
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