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Banking and Insurance

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Enable the bank to take complete advantage of industry leadership with respect to
the technology product portfolio offerings.
Ensure service with minimum interruption for round-the-clock business operations.
Provide a high performance and scalable platform.

Optimise the systems with better manageability.
Future proof against IT investments.
YES bank needed a one-stop solution for their IT problems.
The IBM solution
YES Bank chose IBM to provide IT infrastructure. To address the bank's challenges, IBM
proposed servers based on POWER5 technology. As there were disparate applications and
security concerns, different server environments with storage consolidation was the ideal
solution. All the servers would connect to the SAN Switches, which in turn would be
connected to the IBM Storage for Production environment. The solution had been
configured with redundant paths with no single point of failure in the connectivity to the
storage and the network.

Details

Application Core Banking Cash Management Treasury Application

O.S. AIX

Platform eServer pSeries POWER5 System
The business applications powered by IBM eServers were:

Core Banking - Retail and Corporate by iFlex - runs on a cluster of p550 as the
database servers and x 365 as the application servers.

Cash Management application by Cashtech - cluster of 520 servers.
Treasury application by Murex - cluster of 520 servers. Additionally, YES Bank also
installed IBM ThinkPads and Desktops in all their offices.
The result - YES bank is the future of banking

YES Bank wanted to be geared up to meet its future expansion plans. The scalability of the
IBM system and its virtualisation capability fitted the client requirements. The IBM
infrastructure on Power5 provided YES Bank with following benefits:
CMainframe-inspired features that help businesses thrive by providing higher
utilisation
Massive performance enhancements
Greater flexibility and lower IT management costs
Consistent, real-time data and information on demand robust, high-availability IT
infrastructure with minimum disruption to business

Source: http://www-07.ibm.com/in/casestudies/case_yes.html

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