Customer Quotes

"The enhanced computing power GridServer provides our pricing software has exceeded targets beyond our expectations. Our original goal when we embarked on this project was to independently price 600,000 deals. We are now doing more than two million deals in the same timeframe."
Alberto Ricciotti, head of Group Pricing for the Capital Allocation Unit at UniCreditMore info

"Most companies, on average, utilize between 10 and 30 percent of their computing power. Everybody builds for peak [usage], but during slow times, the middle of the night, weekends, there are a lot of resources sitting there doing nothing. That’s what we’re utilizing."
Brandt Barlow, IT systems architect for NationwideMore info

"By presenting [grid] as a solution to business problems, I think our business users could easily see that grid wasn’t your conventional scientific computing in the supercomputer data-center role," he says. "They could see results as far as increased performance with their applications."
Brian Cucci, manager of the Advanced Technology Group at UPSMore info

"We were impressed by both the depth of companies with which DataSynapse worked with in financial services, as well as their breadth of their experience in other sectors. DataSynapse had demonstrated improved scale and performance for compute-intensive applications."
Dipak Shah, head of structured credit IT at BNP Paribas UK. More info

"For us [Merrill Lynch], policy-driven, dynamic resource allocation is a key priority to meet SLA commitments. We post all our performance statistics on the Web by application and business unit, including SLA, ROI and TCO scorecards, so users see the advantages."
Juan Lando, Director of Grid Center of Expertise, Merrill Lynch

"DataSynapse’s ability to grid-enable a wide range of resources, including transactional and service-based applications makes it a compelling solution. We rely on GridServer to scale the business, control infrastructure costs, and maintain a high quality of service for our clients."
Mark Cates, CTO for Wachovia’s Corporate Investment BankMore info

"Merrill Lynch has developed an enterprise computing grid that allows it to run applications 800 times faster than previously by putting to work the power of disaster recovery servers and other under-utilised resources."
Merrill Lynch

"DataSynapse's products will help Goldman Sachs continue to scale our shared computer resources across our business."
Peter Perrone, vice president with Goldman SachsMore info

"At the time, we needed to scale and grow the business but we did not have the capacity. Our software capability at the time meant that we could not simply buy our way out of the situation with more hardware. With the technology in place, we can now price on a pre-trade basis very quickly, and running intraday batches means you can make better risk metrics, giving more accurate information to the trading desk."
Richard Bunting, IT relationship manager at ABN Amro

"Every CIO should be looking at grid computing. It's a double win from a cost standpoint. You get it up front by retiring servers and leveraging the hardware that you already have in place. If you're doing a better job of managing risk as a life insurance business, you're also winning on the back end, because the policies you're selling are better underwritten, and therefore more profitable."
Scott McKay, CIO, Genworth FinancialMore info