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VUB Bank runs 207 retail branches, 35 corporate branches, and 11 mortgage centers across Slovakia. Over the last several years, the bank has focused on expanding its services and market reach, while at the same time controlling costs.

The bank has two data centers, one kilometer from each other. Its storage environment was aging, and the service contract for it had run out. The storage required a good deal of troubleshooting and maintenance, which required considerable IT staff time. Downtime sometimes affected customer and employee access to banking applications and services. The bank was looking for a scalable, reliable storage solution that would eliminate outages, improve performance, consolidate storage, and provide a common platform for mainframe and Open Systems.

• Eliminate outages
• Improve performance
• Improve customer service
• Provide a common SAN platform for mainframe and open systems
• Increase availability
• Serve as a platform for future growth

The solution included:

• HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Arrays, one for each data center; a director class SAN based on Brocade technology
• HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director Power Pack (B-Series)
• HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access software
• HP StorageWorks Performance Advisor XP software
• Storage consulting and architecture design services plus data migration services

• Reliable storage infrastructure that has eliminated outages, and improved performance and customer service
• External storage has been consolidated, improving performance and reducing outages
• Scalable storage infrastructure supports flexible growth and business agility
• Projected, cumulative five-year net benefit of $3,585,650,
• ROI of 297% and a payback period of 16 months

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