By Sarah Left, 13 August 1998 06:15
NEWS Royal and Sun Alliance has abandoned its IBM mainframes for over £3m of Sequent servers. The four new Numa-Q 2000 servers form part of a strategy to move more than 1.5 million life assurance policies entirely onto one system. Following the merger of Royal Insurance and Sun Alliance last year, the company needed to alleviate administrative headaches by amalgamating information. More than 200 employees are needed to move the data onto the Sequent servers based in the insurance giant's Liverpool data centre. Royal and Sun Alliance cited the much-reduced cost of servers over mainframes and Year 2000 compliance as additional triggers for the move. Sequent claims the servers could eventually hold more than four million policies. Royal & Sun Alliance hopes to complete the project by mid-1999.
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