Willis Group Holdings

Overview

Willis Group Holdings Limited (www.willis.com) is a leading global insurance broker, delivering professional insurance, reinsurance, risk management, financial and human resource consulting, and actuarial services to institutions around the world. Willis has more than 300 offices in 100 countries, with a global team of approximately 16,000 employees serving clients in 190 countries. Willis is publicly traded (NYSE: WSH) and generated $2.6 billion in revenue in 2007.

The most significant benefit of the Riverbed solution has been Willis’ ability to consolidate its technology infrastructure, while improving the user experience and allowing remote workers to collaborate seamlessly. Given the high costs of operating and maintaining both data centers in Nashville and Ipswich, Willis had previously explored consolidating the two, but was unable to do so because of high latency across the global network.

Solution

• 107 Steelhead appliances deployed around the world
• Clustered Interceptors deployed in the main U.S. data center

The insurance world is all about information, and a significant challenge of our business is getting access to information quickly and efficiently.

Eoghan Doyle, Director of Infrastructure and Operations

Willis Group

The ability to cluster the Steelhead appliances using the Interceptor helps us increase the capacity and also provides very good fail over capabilities

Eoghan Doyle, Director of Infrastructure and Operations

Willis Group