We offer the marketplace e-commerce based travel insurance that you can buy online when you’re taking your trip for business, for school or for pleasure.
The organization itself has about 55 technology staff; and our charter is to take the business goals of each division, and to stay ahead of what they’re trying to get done.
The business challenges began with, “stop the outages.”


Our charter mandate was “Get us a system that runs fast and will allow us to continue to grow; don’t just plan for today, we want to be able to take on anything we give you tomorrow and the years after that.”


I found out that VMware, NetApp, and Cisco had a few things in common. One, when they go into a piece of business or they go into a technology silo; they don’t dabble in it, they go all in. And when I looked into it and started talking to some CIO’s that had done business with them, they said, “Oh my goodness, those guys threw everything they had into making that a top tier product. And we just love the way it performs, and we love the passion and enthusiasm with which they do it.”
If you look at Seven Corners, from the IT staff to the owners, it’s all about the passion for excellence. And that was the same reputation that O picked up on from NetApp, from VMware and from Cisco.


Virtualization of my data center means efficiency, stability, reliability. Taking away the desktops in the building, I didn’t virtualize desktops, I virtualized users.
When NetApp took their FlexPod product and introduced that wonderful thing called Flesh Cache it took – you know, companies that are in financial services are constantly doing analytics, reporting back to the carriers, making business decisions. And what the FlexPod does is it allow us to run reporting analytics and predictive modeling at speeds 100 times faster than what they did before.


We were able to invent the first truly configurable insurance services product that does not matter what you’re insuring, or who the end user is, or how they’re going to do business with us. Over the last year/half year, executives are unafraid to sell anything because they know that IT can implement it. And they love being able to tell the carrier, “You know, we’re not sure when our last outage actually was, but yea, it’s 99.99% uptime.


To Seven Corners, the FlexPod partnership has meant information now. That no longer waiting six to eight hours for a carrier report. And I have never been so delighted as to have one of the owners come into my office and tell me, “Your new system must be broken, because the report was printing before my hand came off the mouse.” That was a win. To the customers in the field, it means if they’re lost in 75 kilometers southwest of Beijing, actual instance, they can dial-up on their phone to the live chat and be guided over a call that’s coming over our Cloud right to where it is that they’re trying to get to go.


As we grow, we ‘re going to have Data Centers and storage all over the world and we’ll pass that Cloud session from server to server, to FlexPod to FlexPod. That’s power, because it allows you to have the fastest possible successful transaction every time. That is a goal that will add two zeros to the bottom line of Seven Corners, just one product itself will do that, and then what we want to do is we want every traveller anywhere to either be delighted that they’re in our Cloud getting what they need, or working with someone else and wishing they hadn’t.