At the recent ISOTech conference New Orleans, I chaired a panel of experts that asked, and tried to answer, an increasingly critical question for insurers: "Mainframes: Keep Them or Dump Them?"
For years, it seems, many of us in the tech community have been telling insurers to retire the big iron (their crusty old mainframe computers) and move to some form of server-based computing.
On the surface, such a move makes sense, in terms of better interaction with the Web and Web applications, as well as cutting down the number of data "silos" that make dealing with the huge amounts of data in insurance systems such a difficult undertaking.
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