Down with Costs, Up with Reliability
Intel® Platforms Running Open Source Software help
Indian Life Insurance Company achieve more with less
Challenge • Control costs and deliver higher return on investment.
Minimize maintenance costs and maximize return on investment.
• Manage Risk. Reduce incidences of virus infections and
online threats.
• Increase reliability. Increase employee productivity and work
effectiveness by reducing PC downtime.
Solution • Deploy Linux* OS. Migrate Bajaj Allianz proprietary operating
systems (OS) to Red Hat* Linux OS to help reduce virus risk and
online threats.
• Use Open Source Software (OSS). Deploy free OSS equivalent
applications like Mozilla Thunderbird* and Mozilla FireFox* to help
control costs.
• Convert databases. Convert existing databases to open source
MySQL* format.
• Tap into Intel’s expertise. Look to Intel as a trusted advisor.
Use the Linux/OSS Center of Excellence lab as a testing facility to
ensure seamless deployment.
”Cost is one of the
major issues we
needed to address.
By migrating from
a proprietary OS
to the open source
Linux* OS, we
saved up to
40 percent on
acquisition costs.“
JB Bhaskar
Head of Information Technology
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance
Company Limited
As one of the fastest-growing private life insurance companies in India with a trained sales
force of more than 100,000 agents, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Limited (Bajaj Allianz)
operates thousands of desktop and notebook PCs. The company realized that continuing to
deploy proprietary operating systems and software was becoming costly. Expenses escalated
with regular upgrades, security issues and ...