Indian Thane Bharat Sahakari Bank Selects IBM PureSystems

IBM Corporation announced that the Thane Bharat
Sahakari Bank Ltd. has selected a computing solution built on IBM
PureSystems over its existing HP environment to create an infrastructure designed to help the bank manage growth, introduce new client
services and boost its profitability.

The bank, based in Mumbai metropolitan region, is the first bank in India
to adopt PureSystems. In making its decision, it was looking to increase
the flexibility and capabilities of its core systems and to become more client
oriented and responsive to changing market demands. With a network of more than
20 branches in Maharashtra and plans to expand in other states, the bank needed
to refresh its hardware infrastructure to ensure better support for its core
banking system.

PureSystems
provides the answer to these challenges by automating systems management
expertise with open, scalable systems that help increase utilization and reduce
the total number of servers required in the datacenter. By eliminating lower
utilization servers, it allows the bank to consolidate its IT
operations even as it grows its business model. Increased utilization equates
to a smaller real-estate requirement, lower energy costs and lower systems
management costs. As a result, PureSystems can help to free up the bank’s
valuable human resources from mundane, error prone, and expensive IT
operational tasks, allowing them to rededicate these resources to customer service operations.

"IBM PureSystems is the ideal choice because
it helps us in three main areas," said Shriram Date, CEO, Thane Bharat
Sahakari Bank. "First, it reduces
our cost and complexity – simplifying and reducing steps across the complete IT
life cycle; second, it provides additional security by helping reduce
enterprise risk with trusted protection built in from the hardware up; and
third, PureSystems significantly reduces new application deployment times."

Working with
Business Partner Finacus Solutions Pvt Ltd, IBM provided the bank with a solution consisting of PureFlex System, Flex System
Manager (FSM), V7000 Storage, Flex Chassis, BladeCenter H, and tape library TS
3100. The solution helps the bank to cater to newer workloads faster, bringing
down the deployment times from days and months to hours.

"Businesses today face significant challenges
in managing large amounts of data and information. IBM’s expert integrated
systems help organizations use their information to better serve their clients
and reduce costs," said Ken Muckenhaupt, CTO financial services
sector, IBM Systems and Technology Group. "The solution we are providing to Thane Bharat Sahakari Bank will help
move their business forward by increasing the bank’s efficiency and
profitability while reducing risk."

The
PureSystems family offers clients an alternative to current enterprise
computing models, where multiple and disparate systems require significant
resources to set up and maintain. It enables organizations to more
efficiently create and manage an infrastructure. PureApplication System helps
organizations reduce the cost and complexity of deploying and managing
applications. PureData System is tuned for cloud computing and can consolidate
more than 100 databases on a single system. In addition to the common web
application patterns supported by PureApplication System, the combination of
both PureData and PureApplication Systems can be used for end to end
transaction workloads.

For IBM
Business Partners, PureSystems creates a new opportunity to help clients solve
the complexity of enterprise IT, reduce costs and encourage innovation. From
resellers to distributors and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), more than
700 Business Partners are supporting IBM PureSystems. PureSystems currently run
tens of thousands of existing ISV applications across four operating
environments including Windows, Linux, AIX, and IBM i OSs.
Additionally, Business Partners have created more than 200 new solutions and
applications that are optimized to run on PureSystems. These patterns of
expertise, which span 20 industries, can be accessed through the IBM
PureSystems Centre. They include solutions from large ISVs, including ERP systems and applications for the banking,
marketing, healthcare and energy industries.

To help
address the new opportunity that PureSystems presents, IBM is also providing
training, marketing, certifications and technical validation support to
business partners. For instance, dozens of IBM Innovation Centers in cities such
as Bangalore, Dublin, Johannesburg and Shanghai are helping Business Partners
develop and test their applications using PureSystems. Business Partners
can also bring their clients to IBM Innovation Centers to see PureSystems
technology at work.