Genworth Financial

Grid Computing at Genworth Financial
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Listen to Kevin Gordon, CIO, Insurance & Investments at Genworth Financial, speak about Improved Analytics Reporting and Decision Support.

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"Every CIO should be looking at grid computing," states Scott McKay, CIO at Genworth. "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.

Genworth Financial: Improved Analytics Reporting and Decision Support
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With demand for compute-intensive workloads such as actuarial analysis surpassing existing IT resources, Genworth Financial sought new ways to guarantee workload execution and improve the run-time rates of its actuarial applications for financial projects. To keep up with the exponential demand for computing power, control costs and maintain its competitive advantage, the company adopted a grid computing strategy.