Max New York Life Insurance : Infrastructure Redesign

MNYL installed a lot of servers to support the growing business, leading to a

highly de-centralized and inefficient IT infrastructure. This shot up

administrative overheads, with lots of underutilized servers sitting there and

adding to the company's energy bills and real-estate costs. The organization

decided to go for a centralized IT infrastructure, for which three milestones

were defined-consolidation of their Lotus Notes and Active Directory Servers and

roll out of NAP (Network Access Protection).

In Notes consolidation, a whopping 14,000 mailboxes were migrated into a single

server. With this, it became easier to administer the mail system, add new

features, and integrate it with other apps like unified communication and

collaboration. It saved bandwidth, which was otherwise wasted in over-the-WAN

mail replication, and lowered dependance on branch office network availability.

In AD consolidation, the company placed read-only domain controllers with

minimal OS core installation in branch offices with 100+ users. This also saved

bandwidth due to reduced replication traffic over the WAN. Lastly, for end point

protection and NAP, Symantec Endpoint Protection was deployed. NAP was used to

block systems that weren't updated from accessing the network. The benefit was

reduction of servers from 500 to just 25 and savings of a whopping 5.9 Crores!