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Case Study: Nationwide Uses Linux and High-Power Virtualization for Web Presence

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Overview Nationwide Insurance significantly reduced expenditures by consolidating nonmainframe server workloads using Linux-only System z mainframes, while improving quality of service and providing for growth that has minimal impact on floor space, power and cooling. Its approach will interest any organization that houses a combination of Windows (where its applications have Linux equivalents), Linux, Unix and IBM mainframe operating environments and that is looking at new and innovative ways to consolidate its server environment.

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Publisher	Gartner	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2007	Downloads	2
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Mainframes, Linux Server OS, Virtualization

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