Case studies // Data Centre - Finance

Service and solution:Data Centre, Virtualisation
Partners:Cisco
Sector:Finance & Banking

Scenario
A wholesale, institutional investment and treasury bank, part of a large Brazilian conglomerate, needed to expand its 650 user base of VDI thin clients. To follow such growth, it would be necessary to invest in data centre infrastructure while increasing the computing and storage power.

Solution
Already a PromonLogicalis customer in network environment and telephony, with 4.000 (UC) extensions, the bank decided to evaluate the company's proposal in partnership with Netapp, Cisco and VMware to a new platform for unified computing - FLEXPOD - in order to absorb the growing demand of the new virtualised environment. Many studies were carried out comparing the growth of our previous environment with growth based on FlexPod technology and the results were extremely positive.

Benefits
The main benefits of the solution offered by PromonLogicalis were increased scalability of virtualised environment with significant reduction in the required investment.
With the previously used infrastructure, the bank invested in an infrastructure of 138 blades to support the demand of 4000 VDI users, which means approximately 29 users per blade. PromonLogicalis proposal to absorb new demand for 650 users would need only an 8-blade chassis, representing 100 users per blade. In summary, the FlexPod solution is three times more efficient than the previously used model. Other stimulators for choosing FlexPod were provisioning readiness, service profile, FCoE, as well as the excellent reference that already exists about the services provided by PromonLogicalis.