Regional Financial Services Cloud
Service:
Cloud Infrastructure & Modernization
Industry:
Banking
Size:
Enterprise-wide
A regional financial services organization consolidated years of fragmented infrastructure into unified enterprise cloud environments supporting more than 28 financial service products.
Introduction
Years of project-driven infrastructure investment had created an environment where hardware, software, storage, and business systems operated largely in isolation.
The organization needed to support faster product launches while controlling infrastructure costs and improving resource utilization across both internal operations and regional subsidiaries.
Challenge
The existing environment created several structural problems:
Heavy dependence on traditional vendor platforms
Infrastructure resources operating in isolated silos
Low overall resource utilization
High operating and maintenance expenditure
No unified platform for managing infrastructure assets
Long provisioning cycles that could not keep pace with new financial product releases
Solution
Two enterprise cloud environments were established: an internal cloud supporting production, development, testing, and fintech workloads, and an externally facing hosted cloud supporting subsidiaries and branch operations.
The architecture unified heterogeneous enterprise infrastructure including x86 systems, IBM Power workloads, SAN storage, distributed storage, and software-defined networking.
More than 28 financial service products were brought onto the environment, spanning personal and commercial banking, wealth management, channel systems, sales management, invoicing, and public services.
Result
The new infrastructure created a common resource foundation across previously fragmented systems.
Reported outcomes included:
300+ physical x86 servers in unified resource pools
Approximately 3PB of managed storage
Average resource utilization of approximately 65%
More than 28 financial service products deployed
Faster application provisioning and delivery
Reported three-year savings of approximately SGD 100M across development, hardware, maintenance, and facilities
