Morgan Stanley reveals love of Linux
Wednesday 8th April 2009
Morgan Stanley has been using Linux products for the last eight years, it has been revealed.
Speaking at the High Performance Linux on Wall Street show, executive director of enterprise computing at Morgan Stanley Anthony Golia said that the company uses the Linux operating system on cheaper commodity hardware.
It also uses the open source system to configure and monitor its servers, he commented, according to Wall Street & Technology.
Mr Golia explained that Morgan Stanley had between 2,000 and 3,000 applications and significantly fewer Linux computers as of a year ago. It then realised that four or five of these applications had a high server appetite.
"We figured we had to revamp the way we provision and we came up with a unique way to configure and monitor servers using home-grown and Linux tools," he remarked.
Last month, a study by IDC for Novell revealed that over half of IT executives are looking to make use of Linux servers for web hosting and other purposes during the recession.
Written by Debra Hastings-Henry