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Insurance & Technology
December 20, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Mother of Invention Need for computing 'horsepower' leads Hartford Life to implement freeware grid computing solution.   |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2001
John Teresko |
The Promise Of Grid Computing The technology affects all IT fundamentals -- available computing power, applications, and the way businesses collaborate... |
InternetNews
April 6, 2005
Michael Singer |
IBM, Oracle Lean on Open Source for Grid Linux and other standards are filling out grid projects for IBM and Oracle. |
CIO
April 1, 2002
Eric Berkman |
Power Pool Distributed processing gets an updated look as vendors go for the grid... |
InternetNews
August 8, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
IBM Grows The Grid The company's Grid and Grow is intended to help enterprises get going on distributed computing at an entry-level price. |
Wall Street & Technology
May 15, 2006
Paul Allen |
Banks Take Their Places on the Grid As new alternative investment products are added to the mix, and portfolio managers and risk managers strive to get an accurate view of a fund's value and associated risk, systems are being stretched to the limit of their computing power. |
CIO
May 15, 2004
Christopher Lindquist |
True Grid Long the domain of scientists and engineers, grid computing is finally going mainstream. CIOs need to examine their applications to see if their businesses can benefit from grid's power and economies. |
InternetNews
November 17, 2004
Michael Singer |
Sun Lights Up $1 Grid Sun Microsystems continued its disruptive pricing strategy this week with a new grid computing offer that costs $1 per -CPU, per-hour to use. |
Wall Street & Technology
February 12, 2004
Jim Middlemiss |
Gearing up for Grid Although mass adoption is several years away, many financial institutions are reaping the benefits of grid computing. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 6, 2006
Leslie Kramer |
Powering Up the Grid Recently, many financial services firms have begun looking into grid computing. By taking advantage of unused CPU capacity, IT departments can increase transaction speed, improve computing agility and reduce costs. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 1, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
What's So Great About Grid? You wouldn't allow your employees to remain idle 70 percent of the time. And you shouldn't stand for it with your lazy computers, either. Grid technology allows unused CPU capacity to be used in solving large computational problems. |
Insurance & Technology
October 22, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
Hartford Life Names Brian O'Connell CIO The insurer can benefit from greater technology unity, according to O'Connell. |
InternetNews
January 2, 2007
Paul Shread |
Grid, Virtualization Get Closer Grid computing could become inseparable from virtualization and service-oriented architectures, according to 451 Group analysts. |
Wall Street & Technology
June 22, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
What's So Great About Grid? You wouldn't allow your employees to remain idle 70 percent of the time. And you shouldn't stand for it with your lazy computers, either. |
InternetNews
February 15, 2005
Paul Shread |
Digipede Does Windows Digipede launches a commercial distributed computing solution for Microsoft .NET... IBM introduces Accelerated Design Services for Grid Computing... United Devices Unveils Capacity Management and Unified Job Scheduling... |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002
Mark Hall |
Grids: When Concepts Collide Within just a few years, grid computing has gone from being a subject discussed by only experts in the fields of high-performance computing (HPC) and networking to one that has captured the imagination of an increasingly large percentage of the computing public. |
InternetNews
September 17, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Big Blue Turns Green with Grid Computing Deal IBM inks a grid computing deal with the EPA, and also adds to its list of contracts with companies in Asia. |
Insurance & Technology
November 24, 2003
Julie Gallagher |
Is Grid Computing Next Wave? Insurance companies that need to perform large processing tasks like scanning policies to see which ones are likely to generate claims can save money on hardware with grid computing. |
Bank Technology News
October 2003
Holly Sraeel |
Good Grief, This Idea Has Been a Long Time Coming The larger the bank, the more sense grid computing makes, and the more efficiency it yields. This is something all CIOs need to consider as they look at a networked enterprise. |
CFO
November 17, 2003
Peter Krass |
Grid Computing The same technology being used to search of life in outer space could soon help your company save serious time and money. |
New Architect
April 2002
Jay Lyman |
Girding for the Grid When a computing project demands greater processing resources than are available locally, the grid lets remote machines lend their CPU and storage to the task, across a network... |
Insurance & Technology
September 5, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
IT Claims Transformation Karen Chamberlain, the new VP and CIO for IT claims at The Hartford Financial Services Group's P&C company, comes primed to contribute to the ongoing transformation of The Hartford's technology and culture. |
InternetNews
September 29, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Sun Strikes Grid Computing Pact with Bank The systems vendor signs another major computing pact with BNP Paribas, a Parisian bank. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2006
Clint Boulton |
IBM Grid in The Insurance Business IBM said it has created IBM Grid and Grow for Actuarial Analysis, a new grid computing package to help life insurance companies cut the time needed to run detailed insurance model scenarios. |
Bank Technology News
August 2008
Rebecca Sausner |
Data Centers in the Clouds As grid computing evolves in the financial services industry, retail banking and card units are climbing aboard. |
InternetNews
September 12, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Vendors Gird for Grid Forum IBM and Sun show off new grid computing accomplishments as the grid community jockeys for standardization. |
InternetNews
September 23, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Mark Linesch, Chairman, Global Grid Forum Mark Linesch runs the Global Grid Forum, an organization dedicated to solving the challenges that face grid computing. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2005
Paul Shread |
Grid Meets P2P A Grid Forum paper looks at ways to make grid computing and peer-to-peer applications work together. |
InternetNews
May 11, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Grid Computing That Heals Itself IBM releases Batch-on-Grid, a spin on its autonomic computing software designed for parallel computing. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2004
Paul Shread |
IBM Launches Public Grid Computing Project IBM hopes to give a boost to large-scale public computing projects - and its own commercial grid vision - with the launch of the new 'World Community Grid.' |
Bio-IT World
August 18, 2004
Chris Dwan |
Grid Computing: Turning Hype into Reality How to make grid computing more useful. |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Rowley & Dawson |
Japan: Where Financial Security Is One Sexy Beast Hartford pioneered Japan's annuity market. Nobody's laughing at it any more. |
JavaWorld
September 2002
Robert McMillan |
IBM's grid conversion What lies beyond Web services? Some say the answer depends on the emerging model for distributed resource management known as grid computing. And if developers at IBM and the grid-based Globus Project are right, you'll be able to do grid computing with JBoss and IBM WebSphere within the year. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006
Gagliardi & Grey |
Old World, New Grid CERN's massive parallel processing system is expanding from particle physics to everything else, and from Europe to everywhere else. The initiative, funded by the European Union, is called Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE). |
InternetNews
August 24, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Grid Passes Real-World Test Software maker CDO2 claims the Sun Microsystems grid computing utility cut transaction times from days to minutes. |
InternetNews
April 27, 2004
Paul Shread |
IDC Sees Big Opportunity for Grid Computing The grid computing market is 'on the verge of major expansion,' according to a new IDC report. |
Insurance & Technology
July 29, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Executive News Todd Coombes joined Conseco... Bill Pieroni goes to Aon... Terry Walker joins Hartford Life... etc. |
InternetNews
May 6, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Is Creative Computing Gridlocked? IBM and Sun are headed for a showdown as they try to create new pricing schemes, experts say. |
Insurance & Technology
February 24, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Gary Plotkin Named OneBeacon CIO Former Hartford P&C CIO Plotkin succeeds Mike Natan, who retires from OneBeacon this month. |
Insurance & Technology
April 2, 2008
Nathan Conz |
The Hartford's P&C Division Enters Execution Stage of Transformational Effort After four years of investment and organizational transformation, The Hartford's P&C division looks to execute its new strategy to provide better value to its business customers and end users. |
Bank Technology News
October 2003
Karen Krebsbach |
Getting on the grid Have financial services firms captured the Holy Grail of technology? That's what some observers say as firms implement grid computing -- an architecture that helps harness all the computer power across an enterprise. For Schwab's David Dibble, it's been a long time coming. Too long. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Profits in Pirates The swashbuckling Linux computer operating system just won't be kept down. So, who stands to profit from Linux's growing popularity? |
Bank Technology News
July 2005
Michael Dumiak |
Grid Computing: The Grid Is Going Mainstream Fast Grid computing systems have come far from their roots, and are now maturing. Ohio Savings, Wachovia and Credit Suisse First Boston are getting their feet wet, as the GSEs use it to clean up regulatory trouble. |
InternetNews
January 17, 2006
Paul Shread |
Analysts See Big Year for Grid The coming year will be an important one for grid computing, according to a report by The 451 Group. |
Insurance & Technology
May 3, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
The Amazing Race Hartford Life's Group Benefits Division completes rapid core conversion of acquired CNA on time and within budget. |
BusinessWeek
February 19, 2007
Gene G. Marcial |
Hartford Is Leaping Up Shares of insurers are hardly on fire, but Hartford Financial Services stock is lit. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Grid Computing Chokes on License Regs Analyst for The 451 Group says the current software licensing models will stymie the adoption of grid computing. |
Investment Advisor
November 2006 |
Falling Term Insurance Rates The Hartford's changes in underwriting have resulted in more categories and lower rates. Here's an example of how the rates for a 10-year term life policy have dropped. |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
The Biggest Grid Yet The World Community Grid seeks to link 10 million or more volunteer computers together through freely downloadable peer-to-peer networking software. |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2003
Kaufman et al. |
Forum: Grid computing made simple Grid computing enables the use and pooling of computer and data resources to solve complex mathematical problems. The technique is the latest development in an evolution that earlier brought forth such advances as distributed computing, the Worldwide Web, and collaborative computing. |
