Podcast: Case Study:How CitiStreet Improved Speed and Availability and Lowered Costs by moving to Linux, JBoss and Apache

02/15/2007, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

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	Speaker: Barry Strasnick, CIO, CitiStreet.
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Who/what is CitiStreet

» Retirement and benefit recordkeeping

» Joint venture of State Street and Citigroup

» 12 million participants Challenges/opportunities of the hardware pricing model of firms like HP and IBM

» Significant savings in both acquisition and maintenance costs by going to Intel/AMD vs. proprietary chip, but that means Linux as opposed to HP-UX or AIX

» Better performance and availability at lower costs Our experience

» Increased throughput

» Enhanced availability

» Excellent support

Conclusion : Some use of open source is the prudent approach for large financial services applications