A Fortune 1000 Insurance Company Chooses IBM Servers With Multi-Core Intel Xeon Processors to Consolidate Its Data Center and Reduce Costs

Conseco helps protect thousands of families against major unplanned expenses through health and life insurance policies, and offers annuities to help people plan for retirement. Conseco needed to reduce the physical server count, increase utilization, and find ways to get more value from their IT resources. The Conseco team evaluated several options and chose the IBM 3850 M2 server and the Intel Xeon processor 7300 series with four cores per processor.