Indian Bank selects IBM to deliver secure compute infrastructure for front-end banking applications

Global technology company IBM has collaborated with Indian Bank to provide compute infrastructure for deploying new front-end banking applications. This ‘flexible and secure’ infrastructure will help in the business growth of the core banking solutions (CBS) workloads for the bank.

Indian Bank is running Project Paradise to consolidate its front branch servers for better manageability and availability at data centers (DC) and disaster recovery (DR) centers, while running CBS workloads on the latest generation IBM servers. By consolidating front-end branch servers, Indian Bank enhances manageability and availability at its data centres in Chennai and Mumbai.

“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,” said Viswanath Ramaswamy, vice president for technology, IBM India & South Asia.

IBM will be offering infrastructure-as-a-service to Indian Bank to meet its digital infrastructure needs. IBM will deliver various capabilities like additional compute and storage, use available resources to build a private cloud, create a single pool of processors across DC and DR, and enable services like a pay-as-you-grow model.

To meet the security needs of the private cloud, Indian Bank is leveraging IBM PowerSC for all AIX endpoints for better compliance audits. To be sure, AIX is a series of proprietary UNIX-based operating systems by IBM. Additionally, the Indian Bank has deployed IBM PowerVC for simplified virtualisation management, cloud deployments, workload image management, and dynamic resource optimization for IBM AIX Servers. Indian Bank is also aiming to cut its total ownership costs through efficient utilisation of available compute resources by tapping into IBM’s power enterprise pools across DC and DR sites.

The new cloud environment by IBM offers features like  virtual machine replication for consistency, a self-service portal for streamlined provisioning, and advanced capabilities such as virtual image capture, deployment, and cataloging.