Samba Capital

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Entry level Enterprise and High End Tier 1 Storage Systems:

Business Needs:

Samba as one of the elite banks in the region they provide 24/7/365 undisruptive services to their clients with the most intelligent applications available in the industry.

Samba Bank required storage platform designed for all data types with 100% availability, scalability and cost effectivness, with ability to consolidate deferent load and capacity form multi-vendor Storages existing in the environment.

Reducing the operation cost, non-optimization performance and Capacity were important parts of Samba major business objectives including the unified management for the data storage resources.

Challenges

  • All data are very sensitive and highly important

  • Support different solutions for data protection cause higher OPEX and management complexity

  • No Down time allowed for the core banking application

  • Data Migration and consolidation

  • Support operations and always-on business

  • Utilize existing investments longer

  • Reduce operational cost without increasing complexity

  • Increase utilization and efficiency of storage assets

  • React to changing business requirements by redeploying services

  • Turn data into business information and unlock new value

Solutions

Based on our consultancy analysis for Samba environment we proposed to Samba Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform the high end Enterprise storage.

It is the only storage architecture that flexibly scales for performance, capacity and the virtualization of multivendor storage to optimize return on storage assets.

The mobility it gives to data reduces the business impact of adapting to change. A highly efficient design allows unsurpassed performance and capacity, and lowest power and cooling requirements.

Hitachi Dynamic Tiering makes block, file and content data mobile across virtual storage tiers. The Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, when combined with Hitachi Command Suite management software, transforms the data center and makes IT more agile.

 

Contract Period and Value

Three Years Frame agreement for 10 M$ including STME 24/7 SLA and Resident Engineers’ Services.

 

Solution Benefits

  • 3D scaling gives Samba optimal infrastructure growth in all dimensions
  • The management platform efficiently manages all data types for an agile data center
  • Hitachi Dynamic Tiering automates data placement for higher performance and lower cost
  • Nondisruptive migration, host-transparent technology refresh that can be executed in days
  • Focused on delivering a vision that IT can be: Virtualized, Automated, Cloud-ready, Sustainable
  • Use more of existing storage to reduce spending by 20 to 50%
  • Save up to 40% of storage infrastructure OPEX

Solution Components

  • Hitachi Virtual Storage for High End Enterprise Tier 1 core banking Application for 50TB in Headquarter
  • Hitachi Virtual Storage for High End Enterprise Tier 1 core banking Application for 50TB in DR
  • Hitachi Unified Storage VM for Entry level Enterprise Banking Application 100TB in Headquarter Site
  • Hitachi Unified Storage VM for Entry level Enterprise Banking Application 100TB in DR Site