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Raiffeisen Bank Aval's Cloud Resource Alignment with Densify: A Case Study

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Virtual Private Cloud
Applicable Industries	Cement Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Procurement
Use Cases	Construction Management Infrastructure Inspection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Hardware Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Raiffeisen Bank Aval, one of the top five commercial banks in Ukraine, faced a significant challenge in modernizing their private cloud infrastructure. The bank was struggling with validating hardware requirements against purchase recommendations made by the hardware vendor. This resulted in an expected additional 33% in hardware costs for the transformation project. The existing cloud environment had a VM-to-host ratio of 24:1, and it consisted of 38 VMware hosts and 923 virtual machines. The bank needed a solution that would help them avoid these additional expenses and ensure that their private cloud resources were perfectly aligned to workload demand patterns and business cycles. Read More
About Customer	Raiffeisen Bank Aval is one of the top five commercial banks in Ukraine. The bank offers a wide range of standard and up-to-date banking services to more than 2.5 million customers. As a large financial institution, Raiffeisen Bank Aval has a significant need for efficient and cost-effective cloud infrastructure. The bank was in the process of modernizing their private cloud infrastructure when they encountered difficulties with validating hardware requirements against purchase recommendations made by the hardware vendor. This led to an expected increase in hardware costs for the transformation project. Read More
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Solution	Raiffeisen Bank Aval partnered with Densify to address their challenge. Densify ingested all historical VM utilization metrics across the private cloud infrastructure and leveraged machine-learning-driven analytics to model the utilization patterns. This established unique workload profiles for 923 of Raiffeisen’s VMs. With a clear understanding of the workload profiles and new hardware benchmarks, Densify performed in-depth predictive analysis across the infrastructure. This allowed them to scientifically place these workloads onto fewer hosts, while at the same time rightsizing the VMs based on demand patterns. Densify considered factors such as CPU and memory thresholds and overcommit ratios, time-of-day utilization patterns, recurring transaction activities, production versus test and dev environments, Windows and Linux software licensing, benchmarks of new HPE Synergy 480 Gen10 hardware, and high availability during multidimensional permutation analysis. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Virtual Private Cloud

Applicable Industries

Cement

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Procurement

Use Cases

Construction Management

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Hardware Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Raiffeisen Bank Aval, one of the top five commercial banks in Ukraine, faced a significant challenge in modernizing their private cloud infrastructure. The bank was struggling with validating hardware requirements against purchase recommendations made by the hardware vendor. This resulted in an expected additional 33% in hardware costs for the transformation project. The existing cloud environment had a VM-to-host ratio of 24:1, and it consisted of 38 VMware hosts and 923 virtual machines. The bank needed a solution that would help them avoid these additional expenses and ensure that their private cloud resources were perfectly aligned to workload demand patterns and business cycles.

About Customer

Raiffeisen Bank Aval is one of the top five commercial banks in Ukraine. The bank offers a wide range of standard and up-to-date banking services to more than 2.5 million customers. As a large financial institution, Raiffeisen Bank Aval has a significant need for efficient and cost-effective cloud infrastructure. The bank was in the process of modernizing their private cloud infrastructure when they encountered difficulties with validating hardware requirements against purchase recommendations made by the hardware vendor. This led to an expected increase in hardware costs for the transformation project.

Customer Name

Raiffeisen Bank Aval

Solution

Raiffeisen Bank Aval partnered with Densify to address their challenge. Densify ingested all historical VM utilization metrics across the private cloud infrastructure and leveraged machine-learning-driven analytics to model the utilization patterns. This established unique workload profiles for 923 of Raiffeisen’s VMs. With a clear understanding of the workload profiles and new hardware benchmarks, Densify performed in-depth predictive analysis across the infrastructure. This allowed them to scientifically place these workloads onto fewer hosts, while at the same time rightsizing the VMs based on demand patterns. Densify considered factors such as CPU and memory thresholds and overcommit ratios, time-of-day utilization patterns, recurring transaction activities, production versus test and dev environments, Windows and Linux software licensing, benchmarks of new HPE Synergy 480 Gen10 hardware, and high availability during multidimensional permutation analysis.

Impact #1	By implementing Densify’s recommendations, Raiffeisen Bank Aval was able to rightsize their VMs with optimal placement across their private cloud infrastructure. This not only helped them avoid significant expenses in additional hardware procurement but also improved the efficiency of their cloud resources. The bank was able to align their private cloud resources perfectly to workload demand patterns and business cycles. This resulted in a more efficient and cost-effective cloud infrastructure, which is crucial for a large financial institution like Raiffeisen Bank Aval.

Impact #1

By implementing Densify’s recommendations, Raiffeisen Bank Aval was able to rightsize their VMs with optimal placement across their private cloud infrastructure. This not only helped them avoid significant expenses in additional hardware procurement but also improved the efficiency of their cloud resources. The bank was able to align their private cloud resources perfectly to workload demand patterns and business cycles. This resulted in a more efficient and cost-effective cloud infrastructure, which is crucial for a large financial institution like Raiffeisen Bank Aval.

Benefit #1	Avoided significant expenses in additional hardware procurement
Benefit #2	Reduced the number of hosts from 38 to 14
Benefit #3	Increased the VM-to-host ratio from 24:1 to 66:1

Benefit #1

Avoided significant expenses in additional hardware procurement

Benefit #2

Reduced the number of hosts from 38 to 14

Benefit #3

Increased the VM-to-host ratio from 24:1 to 66:1

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Raiffeisen Bank Aval's Cloud Resource Alignment with Densify: A Case Study

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