Podcast: Case Study:How CitiStreet Improved Speed and Availability and Lowered Costs by moving to Linux, JBoss and Apache

02/15/2007, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

By Barry Strasnick, LinuxWorld.com, 02/19/07

< Return to LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit main page

	Speaker: Barry Strasnick, CIO, CitiStreet.
		Download this podcast
View slideshow

Who/what is CitiStreet

» Retirement and benefit recordkeeping

» Joint venture of State Street and Citigroup

» 12 million participants Challenges/opportunities of the hardware pricing model of firms like HP and IBM

» Significant savings in both acquisition and maintenance costs by going to Intel/AMD vs. proprietary chip, but that means Linux as opposed to HP-UX or AIX

» Better performance and availability at lower costs Our experience

» Increased throughput

» Enhanced availability

» Excellent support

Conclusion : Some use of open source is the prudent approach for large financial services applications

Additional Networking and Interoperability Session Podcasts
Session Code	Session Title
N1	Merging /etc/group and 'Domain Users': How to Unify Authorization Models between Windows and Unix
N2	Mobile Linux Grows Up
N3	Roundtable Discussion: Windows & Linux Interoperability Challenges and Success Stories
N5	Provisioning Linux Clients Using PXELinux
N6	Delegating Administration of Samba Servers
N7	Case Study:How CitiStreet Improved Speed and Availability and Lowered Costs by moving to Linux, JBoss and Apache