2008
2008 Winner Profile
Credit Suisse Group
- Project Description: Credit Suisse used virtualization to manage growing global demand for application services. The bank organized its Enterprise Grid Shared Service Group to create a centrally managed global enterprise grid to provide utility computing. The company estimates it has avoided $10 million in maintenance costs and improved processing performance. One job that had taken 206 hours to run was completed in 18.
- Project type: Virtualization
- Business Functions: IT Operations
- Business Goal: Operational
- CIO: $model.cio100.cioFirstName Pastron, IT Director, Head of Grid Program
- CEO: Brady Dougan, CEO
- Headquarters: Zurich
- Industry: Financial Services
- Revenue (2007): $38.4 billion
- Website: www.credit-suisse.com
