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COMPUTER
maker IBM and Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) said a
major transformation effort is in place to implement the
New Enterprise Data Center strategy to address the
bank’s increasing business and technology requirements
and support its expanding customer base.
The
strategy will also improve its product and service
portfolio.
PSBank
decided to migrate its database to IBM System z. The
bank will use the mainframe for seven Linux-based online
transaction processor applications and its Data
Warehouse.
IBM
System z’s advanced virtualization technology will allow
PSBank to consolidate multiple servers into just one
Integrated Facility for Linux, while providing 30 times
better performance.
System z
is a robust, scalable and secured platform that the bank
will use for its mission-critical database applications.
IBM’s
New Enterprise strategy allows companies to focus on
services provided by the infrastructure, while
streamlining underlying technology to enable these
services.
The
results would amount to a more productive and satisfied
user community, as well as better alignment between
business priorities and information technology
investments.
“With
the PSBank’s thrust of giving premium to quality
customer service, we embarked on upgrading the
technology infrastructure with IBM to improve capacity
and service availability to address issues that may
confront us as our customer base grows rapidly,” PSBank
president Pascual Garcia III said.
“With
IBM as our partner, we are confident that we can achieve
better response time and minimized downtime, resulting
in better productivity, savings on operating systems and
database software license costs, better capacity for
future expansion requirements and a consolidated
operating environment. All these will translate to
better customer experience and satisfaction,” Garcia
added.
“PSBank
requires an efficient, flexible and resilient
infrastructure that is primed to anticipate and respond
rapidly to its shifting and expanding business
requirements,” IBM Philippines general manager James
Velasquez said.
“We are
excited to collaborate with PSBank in driving the new
enterprise data center architecture—one that allows for
massive scalability and dynamic responsiveness while
also providing an energy efficient and resilient
infrastructure,” he added.
The New
Enterprise project is an example of how IBM is helping
clients develop a new data center that offers dramatic
improvements in IT efficiency and provides for the rapid
deployment of new services to support future business
growth. |
