Established in 1936, Bank of China Singapore Branch holds a Qualifying
Full Bank License (QFB) in Singapore. It has a network of 22 financial
touch points. With over 80 years of presence in Singapore, leveraging on
the Group’s extended global network and team of experienced
professionals, the branch provides a full range of financial services to
its customers from China and Singapore as well as the surrounding
regions.
Over the years, it has demonstrated its long term commitment to promote
bilateral economic and trade relations between China and Singapore. The
Branch is the first bank in Singapore to provide RMB services, and is
committed to providing its customers with a wide range of RMB services,
including RMB Deposit, RMB Loans, RMB Remittance, RMB Cash Exchange, RMB
Clearing, RMB Trade Settlement and Finance, RMB bond underwriting and
distribution, RMB Wealth Management Products and RQFII investment
services.
Challenges
The bank previously had 6 physical servers running Maxxmedia and file
servers in the data center. They also have requirements for DHCP, PRTG
and Wiki, however, the existing servers were too old to handle all the
new workloads together with the existing applications. All of the
servers were running in physical mode without shared storage, which
means there were single points of failure everywhere and there was no
effective failover and backup solution implemented to secure business
continuity and reliability. Furthermore, with only one engineer to
manage everything in the data center, it was simply too complex and
laborious for him to do daily O&M.
The Sangfor Solution
Sangfor HCI helped the bank address all the pain points effectively with
two aServer2000 systems combining the power of aSV and aSAN. Existing
Maxxmedia and file servers were easily migrated to the Sangfor HCI
platform with an easy-to-use P2V migration tool. The customer learned to
use the migration tool and successfully migrated all the existing
applications to Sangfor HCI within half a day. New applications like
DHCP and Wiki can be launched on the HCI platform with a few clicks on
the web-based console and they can run smoothly without any performance
concern thanks to the aServer appliance being powered by the latest
Intel CPU chips and SSD caching and tier-ing. The existing servers
storage capacity can be leveraged as a backup location for HCI, and
native HA is built in to ensure business continuity. Now O&M has also
been simplified with the intuitive web-based Sangfor HCI management
platform so the engineer is liberated from painstaking IT O&M and has
more time to think about driving business innovation.
Highlights
- O&M simplified dramatically with intuitive web-based management console
- Much quicker new business launch
- Business continuity and reliability guaranteed by native HA and backup
- Short learning curve, ease of use
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