Banco Sabadell selects Bull to ensure business service continuity
As integrator, Bull is to ensure high availability
of open systems based IT infrastructure
Paris,
April
28, 2004 -
Bull has been selected by Banco Sabadell as integrator of the BRS Open (Business System Recovery) project which federates the ambitions of the bank in terms of business continuity of the overall IT infrastructure. The objective of the bank is to avoid any risk of breakdown, deterioration or damage of the data-processing centres.
Practically, this project is based on the delocalisation of the services provided by the bank information system as well as the virtualisation of users access, making the overall exploitation independent of the geographical localisation of both systems and users
As the main integrator of BRS project, Bull will work in close co-operation with Cisco, Citrix, EMC, Nortel, Storagetek, Veritas...
The main steps of the project concerned:
· High availability of the departmental and that of the accounting system on the Bull Escala servers(under AIX™) and the duplication of data between these systems
· High availability of the network environment, that of the access control on Bull Express5800 platforms (under Windows) as well as the duplication of data between these systems,
· Data storage system recovery,
· Storage systems consolidation,
· Extension of the SAN storage network to the IP network,
· The virtualization of applications Access thanks to the « thin client » architecture of the Bull Express5800 systems,
· New breakdown of networked data exchange on the three sites of the bank.
Following acquisitions carried out over the last years, Banco Sabadell undertook a vast modernisation of its information system
" We entrusted Bull with the integration of our great BRS Open Project for their recognized capabilities in the management of complex integration project and in the deployment of infrastructure. The very innovative and competitive methodology around the redistribution of Banco Sabadell IT systems between three operational centers, the overall management of the equipment and the integration expertise were determining factors in the support of our strategy" said Antoni Padilla, Banco Sabadell Production and systems Director.
The first phase of this project will start in June 2004.
About Banco Sabadell
The financial solutions proposed by Banco Sabadell have classified the bank among the most important financial institutions. Banco Sabadell is the 4th bank of Spain.
Backed-up with the most recent technology and commercial resources, focused on optimal quality and capacity to deliver professional service, it lays out a vast multi-mark and multi-channel offer.
About Bull
Bull designs and develops servers, software and services for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies. In this respect, Bull's range of NovaScale servers combines the openness of standards with the robustness of mainframes. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT infrastructure and their applications.
Bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication, utilities and manufacturing sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to efficiently advise and to accompany its customers. Its distribution network spreads to over 100 countries worldwide.
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