Radware Case Studies Radware’s ADC-VX™ Virtualization Solution Enables Garanti Bank to Consolidate its Data Center and Launch New Banking Applications

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	Radware’s ADC-VX™ Virtualization Solution Enables Garanti Bank to Consolidate its Data Center and Launch New Banking Applications Radware

Radware’s ADC-VX™ Virtualization Solution Enables Garanti Bank to Consolidate its Data Center and Launch New Banking Applications

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection Remote Asset Management
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Garanti Bank, Turkey’s second largest private bank, was in need of a virtualized Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solution for its advanced intranet and online banking services. The bank's goal was to consolidate its data center and focus on developing new online banking applications. The bank was looking for a solution that would allow it to maintain its current intranet and online banking services as well as develop new ones, all while ensuring customers enjoy a high-quality of experience whenever accessing its banking services and critical backend applications. Along with these goals, Garanti wanted to consolidate its data center in order to save costs and improve operations. The bank required a scalable, highly available solution that would deliver more, with less hardware and without compromising resiliency, performance or the customer experience. Read More
About Customer	Garanti Bank is Turkey’s second largest private bank. It operates as an integrated financial services company with its nine subsidiaries offering service in payment systems, pension, leasing, factoring, brokerage and asset management. With close to 17,000 employees, Garanti Bank caters to the financial needs of 9 million customers. The bank is involved in all types of business, including corporate, private, commercial, SME, retail and investment banking. Read More
Solution	After evaluating several ADC solutions over a several month period, Garanti chose Radware’s ADC-VX solution for its unique virtualization capabilities, including complete fault, network and management isolation between its virtual ADC instances. The isolation architecture, combined with virtualized hardware-based SSL offloading capabilities, frees the bank’s server CPUs to handle more requests. This minimizes the need for additional investment in hardware to support application processing requirements and ensuring increased cost-efficiency. Radware’s ADC-VX solution allows Garanti to consolidate its data center and reduce hardware costs, enabling the bank to provide even better service with less equipment, while enjoying significant CAPEX savings. It also offers opportunities for OPEX savings in terms of power, cooling, and footprint, as well as reduced annual service costs. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Remote Asset Management

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Garanti Bank, Turkey’s second largest private bank, was in need of a virtualized Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solution for its advanced intranet and online banking services. The bank's goal was to consolidate its data center and focus on developing new online banking applications. The bank was looking for a solution that would allow it to maintain its current intranet and online banking services as well as develop new ones, all while ensuring customers enjoy a high-quality of experience whenever accessing its banking services and critical backend applications. Along with these goals, Garanti wanted to consolidate its data center in order to save costs and improve operations. The bank required a scalable, highly available solution that would deliver more, with less hardware and without compromising resiliency, performance or the customer experience.

About Customer

Garanti Bank is Turkey’s second largest private bank. It operates as an integrated financial services company with its nine subsidiaries offering service in payment systems, pension, leasing, factoring, brokerage and asset management. With close to 17,000 employees, Garanti Bank caters to the financial needs of 9 million customers. The bank is involved in all types of business, including corporate, private, commercial, SME, retail and investment banking.

Solution

After evaluating several ADC solutions over a several month period, Garanti chose Radware’s ADC-VX solution for its unique virtualization capabilities, including complete fault, network and management isolation between its virtual ADC instances. The isolation architecture, combined with virtualized hardware-based SSL offloading capabilities, frees the bank’s server CPUs to handle more requests. This minimizes the need for additional investment in hardware to support application processing requirements and ensuring increased cost-efficiency. Radware’s ADC-VX solution allows Garanti to consolidate its data center and reduce hardware costs, enabling the bank to provide even better service with less equipment, while enjoying significant CAPEX savings. It also offers opportunities for OPEX savings in terms of power, cooling, and footprint, as well as reduced annual service costs.

Impact #1	Radware’s solution frees the bank’s server CPUs to handle additional requests, minimizing the need for additional investment in hardware and decreasing data center costs.
Impact #2	It guarantees business continuity of critical applications, while at the same time facilitating the development and launch of new online banking applications and services.
Impact #3	The solution allows Garanti to consolidate its data center and reduce hardware costs, enabling the bank to provide even better service with less equipment.

Impact #1

Radware’s solution frees the bank’s server CPUs to handle additional requests, minimizing the need for additional investment in hardware and decreasing data center costs.

Impact #2

It guarantees business continuity of critical applications, while at the same time facilitating the development and launch of new online banking applications and services.

Impact #3

The solution allows Garanti to consolidate its data center and reduce hardware costs, enabling the bank to provide even better service with less equipment.

Benefit #1	Significant CAPEX savings
Benefit #2	Reduced annual service costs

Benefit #1

Significant CAPEX savings

Benefit #2

Reduced annual service costs

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Radware’s ADC-VX™ Virtualization Solution Enables Garanti Bank to Consolidate its Data Center and Launch New Banking Applications

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