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Mainframe Rehosting Success Stories
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Affina (Customer Relationship Management)
“By using Sun to move our applications from the mainframe environment, we significantly
reduced costs and gained control over the reliability of our IT environment.” – Ron Nelson,
Technical Manager, Information Technologies, AFFINA
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Atlantic Blue Cross Care (Health Care)
“Moving off the mainframe has brought us a more cost-effective means of managing our IT
system and easier access to information for our users. We now have a system that will scale to
our future needs, enabling our company to manage our information needs today and grow
easily.” – Don McPhee, Director of Technical Services, Atlantic Blue Cross Care.
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Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie (BIAT) (Finance/Banking)
“Sun is a trusted name in open systems environments
and we knew our applications would run
efficiently on this platform, helping reduce
operating costs.” – CTO BIAT
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CASCO Co., Ltd. (Financial Services)
“By replacing the mainframe with a Sun open systems environment, we have cut operating
costs in half and doubled average processing capacity. If we had continued with the mainframe,
we would not have converted our databases into relational databases, and would have incurred
additional costs. The project has achieved exactly the results we aimed for, and even more.”
– Kotaro Terada, Business Strategy General Manager, CASCO
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CedCamera (Government Agency)
“Closing down the mainframe and moving our
applications to a Sun open systems environment
is reducing our annual IT operating costs.”
Attilio Sprela,
Manager of ICT Operations
CedCamera
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Central States Health & Life Co. of Omaha (CSO) (Insurance)
“We were able to migrate our existing applications relatively quickly and painlessly since we
didn’t need to rewrite them. Performance is better, and we have the ability to more completely
separate our two divisions, which wasn’t possible on the mainframe.” – Eric Kennedy, CIO at
Central States of Omaha
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Defense Manpower Data Center, Department of Defense (Government Agency)
“When we rehosted our application on the Sun system, the purchase price was significantly less
than a mainframe and the computing power was larger. Sun’s technology allowed us to move a
majority of our legacy applications seamlessly to the new platform.” – Bill Boggess, Chief of the
Access & Authentication Program, Defense Manpower Data Center, Department of Defense
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IOOF Investment Management Limited (Financial Services)
“The reduction in IT operational costs has enabled IOOF to focus it’s investments on business
growth and client-focused initiatives.” – Marshall Stephen, Head of Information Technology, IOOF
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Ingegneria Sistemi Elaborazione (ISED) (Information Systems and Telecommunications)
“The Sun solution has improved our ability to
deliver systems and applications that optimize
our customers’ IT infrastructure in critical areas
such as health care, telecommunications,
defense, and automation and control – areas that
require reliable, efficient, and accurate information.
Their precise requirements had outgrown
the mainframe’s ability to deliver information.” – Raffaele Giannetti CEO ISED
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Kirchman Corporation (Financial Services/Banking)
“Migrating our established Kirchman Bankway application to the Sun open systems platform
enables us to help our customers establish their core banking systems on a more cost-effective,
high performance IT system. This has allowed us to assist a significant number of customers
who are looking for ways to better manage and lower the cost of their computing environment,
while achieving strategic business objectives.” – Mark Viselli, Senior Vice President, New Business
Development, Kirchman Corporation
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The Landrum Company (Financial Services/Banking)
“The Sun alternative was the solution to several problems. It gave us all the new application
functionality we were seeking while saving costs in many areas compared with the mainframe –
maintenance, operating system license fees, floor space, electricity, and more. As a bonus, we
got Sun’s reliability, scalability and performance.”
– Jim Stock, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, The Landrum Company
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Lloyd’s of London, Canada (Insurance)
“Sun Microsystems provided Lloyd’s Canada with a
new IT system that reduced costs and improved
performance, and preserved the large investment
in legacy applications.”
Gary Hynes,
Manager of Technical Support and Operations
TELUS Enterprise Solutions, Inc.
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Sony Italy (Electronics)
“I believe that open systems represent the future of information systems. With Sun Mainframe
Transaction Processing software, we were able to rehost our important business applications
from our mainframe environment to Sun’s open systems, preserving our investment in legacy
applications and providing us a clear path to the future.” – Dario Politi, Manager, Sony Italy
Information Systems
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TowneBank (Financial Services/Banking)
“When we were evaluating whether a mainframe or open systems platform would serve the banks
needs best, Sun was the only IT vendor whose products met the criteria for ease of migration,
scalability, fault tolerance, and lower cost of operations. Because of the features, functions, and
cost, Sun is the best solution for our bank.” –Keith Horton, Executive Vice President, TowneBank
Technology and Operations
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Transamerica Life Canada (Insurance)
“Keeping customer records on the outsourced mainframe was extremely costly. By rehosting
these applications on a Sun server using the Sun mainframe rehosting solution, we have reduced
total costs by more than half.” – Naj Hirani, CIO Transamerica Life Canada
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University of British Columbia (Higher Education)
“With Sun’s hardware and software, we have established a very affordable, reliable IT system that
will grow with the University. During the successful rehosting of our applications from the high-cost
mainframe, there were no major disruptions to the people who relied on the IT system for important
information. Today, thanks to Sun, we have a modern system that is very cost effective.”
– Audrey Lindsay, Associate Registrar, Director Student Systems, University of British Columbia
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University of Northern Iowa (Higher Education)
“Sun has been a very reliable and cost-effective
platform upon which we plan to build future
applications.”
Garry Bozylinsky,
Associate Vice President for Information Technology,
University of Northern Iowa
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