Taiju Life Insurance Achieves Flexible Scale-Out to Avoid Over-Engineering
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Asia
Country
- Japan
Product
- Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS
- Nutanix AOS
- Nutanix AHV
- Nutanix Prism
Tech Stack
- Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- VMware
- Citrix VDI
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Device Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- System Integration
- Training
About The Customer
Taiju Life Insurance Company Limited, a prominent player in the life insurance sector, has undergone significant transformations in recent years. Originally known as Mitsui Life Insurance Company, it merged with Nippon Life Insurance Company in 2016 and rebranded to its current name in 2019. The company is focused on expanding its market presence and enhancing its product offerings to meet the evolving needs of its customers. Taiju Life Insurance is committed to growth through various channels, including sales staff, direct writing, and wholesale fields. The company emphasizes customer-oriented business operations, strict compliance, and human resource development to create an energetic workplace. As part of the Nippon Life Insurance Group, Taiju Life Insurance aims to leverage synergies and construct a secure and user-friendly platform to support its sales strategy and adapt to changing environments. The company is also preparing for digital transformation by actively pursuing a multi-cloud solution and strengthening its cybersecurity measures in line with the Financial Services Agency's guidelines. With a focus on innovation and efficiency, Taiju Life Insurance is poised for continued growth and success in the competitive life insurance industry.
The Challenge
Taiju Life Insurance Company Limited, which underwent a merger with Nippon Life Insurance Company in 2016 and then changed its name from Mitsui Life Insurance Company to its current name in 2019, is aiming for further growth. As life insurance products become more sophisticated, the company is working on “growth in sales” through the sales staff channel and “growth in the direct writing field” through the supply of products to over the counter sales at banks, agents and Nippon Life Insurance. In addition, the company is accelerating its growth by “strengthening and improving the efficiency of the direct writing capabilities” and “strengthening the wholesale field”. To support these strategies, customer-oriented business operations, strict compliance, human resource development and the creation of an energetic workplace are all key factors for Taiju Life Insurance. In terms of its system, in order to demonstrate synergy as part of the Nippon Life Insurance Group, the company is constructing an easy to use and secure platform that will strongly support improvements to sales strategy and flexibly adapt to environment changes. Moving forward, while aiming to prepare for digital transformation, the company’s plan is to actively construct a new platform that will allow it to pursue a multi-cloud solution, among other goals. Taiju Life Insurance is also working on security measures in accordance with the “Policy on Initiatives to Strengthen Cyber Security in the Financial Sector” published by the Financial Services Agency in 2015. After considering all the circumstances, including the effect on operations, the company decided to adopt a network separation strategy in which a virtual environment is constructed on the server side, and the Internet environment is separated logically. Initially, this project needed to be constructed in a short time period in order to be completed before the international sporting event that had been scheduled for summer of 2020. The company ha
The Solution
Of the HCI technology considered, the one that stood out was Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS. After comparing products from other companies and deliberating, the product with the most positive characteristics for Taiju Life Insurance was Nutanix. Specifically, the low barrier to operating the system, including one-click operation for scale-out and software updates, was mentioned as a favorable selling point. Another reason for selecting Nutanix is that it allows hardware to be selected without restriction. In terms of costs, the hypervisor being provided free for up to a certain number of users was also greatly appealing. For Taiju Life Insurance, which has migrated much of its internal platform to a VMware virtual environment, Nutanix AHV was also very interesting as a next-generation platform for future transition to the cloud for its internal systems. Before making its selection, the company confirmed the screen layout including the Nutanix Prism interface, and it concluded that features were plentiful compared to its existing virtual environment. Currently, about ten nodes are deployed for a VDI environment used by thousands of users, and the various necessary components for operation of the Citrix VDI are run on Nutanix. In addition, features related to the VDI environment including License Server, Active Directory and file servers have been consolidated within Nutanix, with a total of more than 30 virtual machines in operation. The project was completed in a short time period of about one year after its launch. Simple theoretical parameters including for virtual machine and virtual pool design were prepared in advance, and settings were implemented to reflect them. Acceptance testing in the field was conducted after only three months, and after another three months of tuning to improve ease of use of the VDI, the company launched the production environment. There is a rich amount of knowledge available for running VDI on Nutanix, and the fact that hardly anything
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