Hybrid cloud platform provider, IBM and Indian Bank have collaborated for deploying new front-end banking applications and providing the bank with safe compute infrastructure, the company announced on Monday.
With this partnership, the public sector bank wanted to consolidate its Front Branch Servers for better manageability and availability at both Data Centres (DC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) centers in Mumbai and Chennai. It also plans to run its CBS workloads on the latest generation of IBM Power servers, as part of its project PARADISE.
This enables the bank with more efficient utilization of available compute resources and also help in decreasing the total cost of ownership for the bank, as per the release.
“As part of our capacity management initiative and to manage evolving application requirements, we wanted a cloud like functionality within our own data center. With benefits like better flexibility, lower costs and enhanced security, we are creating a value-oriented solution by setting up a proactive and service-oriented model for the bank,” said Deepak Sarda, Chief General Manager, IT and Partnership, Indian Bank.
IBM proposed a hybrid cloud approach for all AIX workloads to boost agility and introduced a combination of Capex and Opex model for consumption of compute resources to meet Indian Bank’s digital infrastructure needs. “Essentially, it provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and aims to deliver various capabilities such as additional compute and storage, build a private cloud using the available resources, create a single pool of processors across DC and DR and enable services equivalent to a pay-as-you-grow model,” the release stated.
As part of the various services deployed by the Indian Bank, it will also be using IBM PowerSC for all AIX endpoints to get better support for compliance audits so as to simplify and improve the security for their private cloud. Moreover, for simplified virtualization management, cloud deployments, workload image management and resource optimization for IBM AIX Servers the bank will use IBM PowerVC .
