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Award Winning Grid Implementation at Hewitt Associates
Webcast Replay: Registration required for new site visitors
Dan Kaberon, Director of Computer Resource Management, Hewitt Associates, presented a case study webcast on their award-winning grid implementation. Motivated by the need to scale and optimize high-volume mainframe reporting processes, Hewitt Associates turned to application virtualization to optimize the performance of their core document production applications. Rather than viewing its grid deployment from a resource-centric point, Hewitt took a fundamentally different, top-down approach to grid implementation and deployment.
Hewitt Associates Puts Grid to Work
NetworkWorld
Hewitt has created a Linux blade server grid, ported portions of a troublesome mainframe application to it and reduced transaction costs by 90%. With such impressive savings and a better understanding of what constitutes a grid-worthy application, Hewitt soon found another IT problem where grid could come to the rescue.
Hewitt Associates: Providing Better Customer Service
PDF Case Study
As a result of M&A and new client acquisition, Hewitt experienced a dramatic surge in the number of pension "what if" requests hitting their website. This created a large volume of unpredictable self -service requests from their portal environment — workload that was processed on the mainframe. They could not guarantee end user response time and the growing transaction costs were making the customer relations unprofitable to service.
