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Customer Snapshot: Sun Helps Luxembourg Bank Cut IT Costs Sun SPARC & Solaris 10 OS Supports Growth for New Bank Application
Sun technology meets a powerful banking customer challenge by providing LBBW Luxembourg Bank with a solution that helps it cut IT costs and supports its growth. Sun's professional services designed a high-performance infrastructure built with Sun SPARC Servers and Solaris 10 to create a flexible, scalable infrastructure for their new Avaloq application. The results are that they created a flexible environment ideal for their new application, Avaloq that brings products to the market faster. "We recognized that by standardizing on Sun technology the bank could deliver its key objectives of reducing costs and supporting continued growth," said Jean-Luc Raskin, Head of the IT Infrastructure Unit, LBBW Luxemburg. The following customer challenges were met and faced by Sun: The LBBW bank needed to be able to migrate into a new banking application but also they needed to increase their computing power and performance. Conscious of price, they wanted to move to a single solution provider. However, they still needed flexibility for growth in their new infrastructure. From a business standpoint, the following results were highlighted: LBBW was able to implement a new Avaloq system successfully, decrease their footprint by 60 percent, reduce cooling costs, gain a single solution supplier for their IT needs, deploy a scalable infrastructure for cost-effective growth. Keenly set on cost-effectively providing power, Sun designed the LBBW system infrastructure with four Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers that had eight dual-core SPARC64 VI processors. This infrastructure runs on Solaris 10 OS and Solaris Cluster 3.2 software. The Avaloq application was supported by these servers for both production and development environments. Tests were delivered to the production and test areas for the Oracle database and a general IT testing environment. Another key component of the design was Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 servers with Solaris Cluster acting as a data transfer component. In addition, the Sun StorageTek 6140 array also improved LBBW’s existing backup infrastructure by extending the staging unit. About the Luxembourg Bank
Founded in 1978 and one of the largest banks in Luxemburg, LBBW Luxemburg is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW). With 220 employees, LBBW is acting in the domains of Private Banking, Treasury, Debt and Capital Markets. In 2007, the bank’s balance sheet total amounted to €14,756 million. More Information
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Customer Snapshot: Sun Helps Luxembourg Bank Cut IT Costs
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