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Wellpoint to achieve cost savings with HP technology
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WellPoint, Inc. was created in 2004 when WellPoint Health Networks Inc. and Anthem, Inc. merged to become the largest health benefits company in the United States in terms of commercial membership. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, WellPoint delivers integrated healthcare plans and related services, along with life and disability insurance benefits, pharmacy benefit management, dental, vision, behavioral health benefit services, long-term care insurance, and flexible spending accounts. WellPoint, Inc. concentrates on establishing higher levels of excellence in health outcomes. Similarly, the company’s Chief Technology Office (CTO) focuses on bringing excellence to the company’s computing infrastructure economically. According to Nancy Perlman, Manager-Infrastructure Architecture for the company, the CTO is able to achieve these results by enacting IT standards and insisting on performance, scalability, and resilience. WellPoint is growing through acquisitions and mergers; therefore, it requires an IT infrastructure to carry the company into the future.
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- Will fulfill the company’s agenda of combining multiple Microsoft SQL Server instances
- Will provide projected cost savings of $1.1 million in support over four years
- Will save $300,000 in SQL Server licensing costs
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IT Improvements |
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- Supplies linear scalability, superior performance, greater utilization, and constant service levels—even with nine heavily used databases on a single physical server
- Meets the company’s performance goals: capacity to process more than 10 million rows of data or 100,000 transactions per second on one Integrity server
- Will reduce the number of Microsoft SQL Server database servers
- Reduces server footprint: a large number of lessutilized SQL Server applications can share a single host
- Will enable the Chief Technology Office to provision additional database resources faster—without purchasing new servers
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