First American Title deployed HP Integrity Superdome servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, Intel Itanium 2-based HP Integrity Superdome servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter edition and Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Enterprise Edition (64-bit).The server has been up and running since December.
First American Title estimates that efficiency improvements will save it $100 million annually. Overall CPU utilization dropped to 20 percent to 30 percent and end user experience of response time improved by 20 percent, Godec estimated. "First American Title has been able to help more users through the consolidation of its server and the move to the Itanium Superdome," said Vish Mulchand, Director of Server Marketing for business Critical Systems at HP, Cupertino, Calif. "Our customers are finding that when they can respond to their customers more quickly it really changes things."
Going forward, First American intends to use the increased server space to make the Fast system accessible to more users. "The server has positioned us nicely to push the Fast Transaction System out to other companies that we purchase to be part of First American," said Godec. "We've added 1,000 users since last year without repercussion or degradation in performance." In addition, the company has begun allowing its outside title agents to use the Fast system, which was previously available only to internal employees. Currently, the company works with more than 10,000 independent agents.
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