Grid ComputingGE Financial Assurance Innovates to Reduce Cost and Cycle Time by Enabling the Power of PCs
When the actuarial staff at GE Financial Assurance came to the IT department with a problem, the actuaries figured the simple solution to their needs was buying more server capacity. But the IT department, headed by Debora Horvath, senior vice president and CIO, and Kevin Gordon, vice president, technology, chose not to follow the most obvious solution. We dont have a large technology workforce in our business, especially in comparison with our competitors, says Horvath. But weve got a really innovative team.
That innovation led GE Financial As-surance to a grid computing solution. Instead of added server capacity, the carrier combined the power of 100 desktop PCs to give the actuaries more computing power than they needed.
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