02/15/2007, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
 | 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
Additional Networking and Interoperability Session Podcasts | |||||||||
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| Session Code | Session Title | ||||||||
| N1 | Merging /etc/group and ‘Domain Users’: How to Unify Authorization Models between Windows and Unix | ||||||||
| N2 | Mobile Linux Grows Up | ||||||||
| N3 | | Speaker: Barry Strasnick, CIO, CitiStreet. | | Download this podcast | View slideshow | | ||||
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
Additional Networking and Interoperability Session Podcasts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Session Code | Session Title | |
| N1 | Merging /etc/group and ‘Domain Users’: How to Unify Authorization Models between Windows and Unix | |
| N2 | Mobile Linux Grows Up | |
| N3 | Roundtable Discussion: Windows & Linux Interoperability Challenges and Success Stories | |
| N5 | Provisioning Linux Clients Using PXELinux | |
| N6 | Delegating Administration of Samba Servers | |
| N7 | Case Study:How CitiStreet Improved Speed and Availability and Lowered Costs by moving to Linux, JBoss and Apache | |
