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To learn more about the world's leading virtualization platform with insight to IT capacity and performance, click here. Insuring New Zealand “In a physical environment, it’s difficult to perform maintenance or relocate servers without causing disruptions, which means inconveniencing customers with scheduled maintenance breaks. We sought help from VMware Professional Services to help make more use of our existing virtual infrastructure.” Kevin Harvey, Infrastructure Services Manager, AIA New Zealand Assets AU $ 147 billion+ Policy holders 27 millon+ Virtualized firewalls to maximize compliance with minimal management AIA New Zealand offers a comprehensive suite of insurance and retirement planning products to financially protect New Zealand families and businesses Market Trends Only 36% of insurers feel their organization has an agile business structure that is adaptable to changing customer and market needs Compliance simplified, downtime and costs reduced, flexibility increased The outcome: Significant CAPEX savings: vCNS is approximately half the cost of a physical firewall solution Reduced downtime: virtual servers and their firewalls can be moved without disruption Agile disaster recovery: Recover not just VMs, but firewalls as well Simplified maintenance: changes can be made on the fly Working with VMware professional services, the company to maximize its existing vSphere environment converted from physical firewalls, which were difficult to manage and maintain, to VMware’s vCNS virtual firewalls. AIA New Zealand needed to update its IT infrastructure to meet corporate requirements and more efficiently maintain PCI DSS security compliance, which demands that computers pro- cessing financial data are firewalled from non-payment systems. Top three objectives of initiatives to standardize and automate financial processes in the insurance industry +11.5% from 2013 to 2015 Asia-Pacific insurers are implementing IT solutions to increase operational efficiency 28% 54% The Asia-Pacific region’s share of the global middle class is expected to nearly double 2009 2020 50% Enhancing data integrity 48% Cutting back on manual processes, decreasing risk of error 43% Freeing staff from routine number- crunching, redeploying into higher-value activities 1 2 3 “VMware has enabled us to undertake a fundamental transformation in how we operate. At this stage we have really only started the journey and there is a lot more to come. It’s very exciting.” Brannan Hunter, CTO of AIA New Zealand
