Shamrao Vithal Co-op Bank (SVC), one of the most technologically advanced co-operative banks in India has chosen IBM’s BladeCenter solution to optimize their IT infrastructure to support their branch expansion plans. Shamrao Vithal Co-op Bank embraced IBM BladeCenter to run their virtualization solution and gain operational efficiency. The bank aims to grow to 250 branches across the country and achieve Rs.25000 crore business turnover by 2014.
With over 125 branches spread across the country, the Mumbai-headquartered Shamrao Vithal Co-op Bank has traversed a long way since its inception as the Co-operative Credit Society in 1906. Prior to IBM, the new applications that were developed to cater to the growth resulted in a server sprawl which started introducing multiple operational and management inefficiencies resulting in lack of utilization of resources. It also started consuming high power that led to difficulty in managing data.
To meet these challenges, Shamrao Vithal Co-operative Bank selected IBM’s BladeCenter solution after a detailed evaluation of vendor capabilities from hardware and software perspective, to support their needs. The most important criteria of selection was the solution partner’s experience to understand, size and implement a virtualization solution on the scale that SVC was expecting. IBM’s BladeCenter solution was the best choice as it consisted a stack of servers, storage, virtualization, networking and backup functions that would enable a modular scalable growth plan. All the servers and applications can now be managed and monitored through a single console which resulted in an easy administrable IT system.