HP Blade Workstation Solution - success story

Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets provides a comprehensive expert financial service to businesses ranging from privately owned firms to multinational corporations and financial institutions.   Corporate Markets has two divisions that provide specialist expertise, working together to offer a full spectrum of services and advice.

The Products and Markets division provides innovative, flexible funding packages, designed to suit the particular requirements of a business. It also identifies opportunities for customers to maximise the profitability and minimise the risk of investments on the international financial markets.

Corporate Banking is focused on customer coverage and relationship management and meets long term financial requirements, offering a supportive day-to-day relationship.

• Deliver a competitive edge to their traders
• Improve data and physical security on the trading floor
• Improve business continuity and uptime for the trading floor
• Improve manageability of trading floor workstations and IT efficiency and response time
• Pave the way to the future of remote users around Europe being served from a central data center

• Improved performance of the workstations and enabled hot desking on trading floor
• All blade workstations are now located in one data center with the data locked up there
• Redundancy in the blade infrastructure components and flexible access allows for quick fail-over capability
• HP ProLiant management tools and Integrated Lights Out (iLO) enable much more efficient and responsive IT support for traders
• The ability of the HP Blade Workstation Solution’s Remote Graphics Software to operate over standard networks and long distances enables a model of distributed users all connecting to a centralized data center

• Lloyds TSB’s Financial Markets Division is running their day-to-day trading operation on 100% HP Blade Workstations
• Lloyds TSB is realizing savings and efficiencies in IT support of the trading floor
• The working environment for traders at Lloyds TSB is less cluttered, quieter and cooler
• Lloyds TSB is beginning to enable remote sites across the UK with Blade Workstations from a centralized data center

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