Philadelphia Insurance CIO Alfred Goxhaj writes of his Bala Cynwyd-based company's roadmap for cloud-computing in a blog post for industry blog Insurance & Technology.
Businesses need to respond quickly to market demands and to scale resources up or down on demand, while providing customer access to those resources from anywhere at any time -- all while reducing costs. In such a high-pressure, competitive marketplace, building availability, flexibility and agility into the IT infrastructure is key.With these considerations in mind, Philadelphia Insurance Companies' (more than $2 billion in 2009 gross written premium) IT department has developed a living road map for its private cloud initiative, the drivers of which are standardization, virtualization, distributed data management and automation into the data center. Original source: Insurance & Technology
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