http://www.zdnet.com.au/allianz-cio-lost-hair-over-linux-upgrade-339301891.h tm
Allianz Australia Insurance chief information officer (CIO) Steve Cole said yesterday he had done the equivalent of losing hair while undertaking an upgrade that saw the company move from multiple Wintel servers to a Linux mainframe. The insurance company had over one weekend moved from the Wintel environment of 60 plus servers over two separate datacentres onto a mainframe running Z Linux. : : "[I'm] very pleased to say it was a highly successful roll in terms of establishing a foundation from an infrastructure perspective that's really reduced complexity and we've been able to really establish a level of robustness around what we couldn't have in the previous environment," he said. "It took a huge amount of cost out of our bottom line. So that was a real learning experience in multiple ways as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
