BusinessWeek: A Virtual Revolution Jun 14, 2005, 17 :30 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (8569 reads) (Other stories by Steve Hamm)
" When it came to technology, First National Bank of Nebraska Inc. had too much of a good thing. The holding company, with 21 banks and 110 branches in the Midwest, had loaded up on gear in the 1990s. It ran online-banking Web sites on 30 Unix servers and handled more than 500 internal applications on 560 small servers running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows. But since many of the machines handled just one application, the system was woefully inefficient. The bank's techies did the math and discovered that they were using only about 12% of their potential computing power. Senior Vice-President Ken Kucera decided to rip up and start over..."
