Guru Vasudeva
AVP & Enterprise Chief Architect, Enterprise OCTO, Nationwide

During 2005 Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company, embarked on a journey to aggressively exploit virtualization and Linux to address the growing software and data center costs, to simplify the environment, and to significantly improve the provisioning process. Today www.nationwide.com and 10 other mission critical applications run on virtualized Linux environment contributing more than $15 million of savings over the next three years. Guru Vasudeva, AVP and Chief Architect of Nationwide shares the approach, architecture, and lessons learned from this successful deployment.

Recorded August 16, 2006