IBM and Indian Bank have joined forces to deploy future-ready compute infrastructure to boost the public sector bank’s scalability and agility.
Through the partnership, the Indian lender will fast track its modernisation path with flexible and secure compute infrastructure for implementing new front-end banking applications.
The infrastructure will also enhance the business growth of the core banking solution (CBS) workloads for Indian Bank, said IBM.
Indian Bank has been planning to consolidate its front branch servers for better manageability and availability at both data centres (DC) and disaster recovery (DR) centres.
The public sector bank also intends to run its CBS workloads on the latest generation of IBM Power servers.
Indian Bank IT and partnership chief general manager Deepak Sarda said: “With the proposed private cloud solution, we aim to achieve better agility, scalability and security to meet our growth requirements and adopt a consumption-based IT solution that is required in today’s dynamic, hyper competitive market.
”The gains through technology-based innovation will empower us to deliver exceptional customer experiences, while ensuring the highest level of data protection.”
To address the digital infrastructure requirements of Indian Bank, IBM has proposed a hybrid cloud approach for all AIX workloads to enhance agility. The latter has also introduced a combination of Capex and Opex model for the utilisation of compute resources.
IBM said that Indian Bank is using IBM PowerSC for all AIX endpoints to get better support for compliance audits as well as to streamline and improve the security of its private cloud.
Besides, the bank has implemented IBM PowerVC for optimised virtualisation management, deployment of cloud, workload image management, and dynamic resource optimisation for IBM AIX Servers.
Furthermore, by utilising Power Enterprise Pools, Indian Bank has been able to offer a single pool of compute resources across its DC and DR sites, said IBM. This enables more efficient usage of available compute resources and reduces the total cost of ownership for the bank.
IBM India and South Asia technology vice president Viswanath Ramaswamy said: “We are focused on helping clients introduce hybrid cloud and AI tools to their workflow, operate with greater efficiency and drive growth while minimising risks.
”Supporting Indian Bank’s journey of transforming their digital capabilities is testament to the success of this focused effort.”
