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Customer Case Study
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AmWINS Group, Inc. transforms data center
to deliver reliable, accelerated services
and communications.
Challenge
At the core of today’s businesses, companies are faced with a fundamental business
decision: either to make cuts to help ensure survival and overcome difficult economic
conditions or to challenge convention, drive growth, and innovate to position themselves
for future successes. For AmWINS, the decision was clear to not only drive growth
organically, but also to strategically acquire more specialized insurance providers to expand
its markets and enhance its catalog of insurance policy offerings.
decision: either to make cuts to help ensure survival and overcome difficult economic
conditions or to challenge convention, drive growth, and innovate to position themselves
for future successes. For AmWINS, the decision was clear to not only drive growth
organically, but also to strategically acquire more specialized insurance providers to expand
its markets and enhance its catalog of insurance policy offerings.
AmWINS is a visionary in specialty insurance distribution that manages over US $6.7 billion
in insurance premiums annually. With its aggressive growth model, the company saw
its IT landscape, infrastructure, and software footprint become a patchwork of disparate
technology that could potentially create barriers between staff, customers, and positive
business relationships.
in insurance premiums annually. With its aggressive growth model, the company saw
its IT landscape, infrastructure, and software footprint become a patchwork of disparate
technology that could potentially create barriers between staff, customers, and positive
business relationships.
As a result, the company wanted to standardize its data center with a single, unified
system that would smoothly integrate with office-based networks located across 21
countries. Additionally, AmWINS wanted to boost its email capabilities to provide users
up to 50 GB of storage (more than double its previous capacity) to help deliver superior
services and information faster to its clients.
system that would smoothly integrate with office-based networks located across 21
countries. Additionally, AmWINS wanted to boost its email capabilities to provide users
up to 50 GB of storage (more than double its previous capacity) to help deliver superior
services and information faster to its clients.
Insurance Provider Improves Scalability and
Enhances Services
• Customer Name: AmWINS Group,
Inc.
• Industry: Insurance
• Location: Charlotte, North
• Location: Charlotte, North
Carolina, USA
• Number of Employees: 2300+
Challenge
• Unifying data center and branch
operations
• Improving network scalability and
reliability
• Delivering higher-value services to
employees and clients
Solution
• Standardize data center and branch
IT infrastructure
• Manage network, compute, storage,
and virtualization via single pane
of glass
• Expand memory and virtualization
Results
• Effectively virtualized 95 percent of
all operating systems
• Achieved up to five times faster
email and data retrieval times
• Reduced server rack space
requirements by two-thirds, while
cutting power consumption costs
Executive Summary