Bendigo and Adelaide Bank to deploy IBM's XIV Gen3 disk storage systems

The banking institution, which as well owns and operates Sandhurst Trustees, Leveraged Equities and numerous other businesses, is an early adopter of the recently announced research and the first Australian organisation to actively deploy it.

The XIV Gen3 is being adopted as "a key infrastructure component" for the bank's expansion of its customer-focused business applications. During Bendigo and Adelaide Bank storage team leader, Greg Smith, is aware that the XIV Gen3 solution has just been announced, he points out that the bank is no stranger to the innovation having already implemented IBM XIV Gen2 units in its Bendigo data centre.

Strong relationship with Bendigo

"We have a strong relationship with Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and were able to offer flexible storage solutions to meet the bank's needs not only today, nevertheless also henceforth," IBM Australia and New Zealand systems and research group general manager, Francois Vazille, said.

Another useful characteristic of the XIV Gen3 is optimisation for Cloud computing and virtualisation, which the bank hopes to use for future service expansion without needing to make furthermore costly investments into extra hardware.

"The IBM XIV Gen3s will ensure performance improvements in our applications, allowing us to provision storage quickly so that the bank can continue to grow, within its current data centre footprint," he added. IBM's business partner, ISI, collaborated with IBM on implementing XIV Gen3 at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.

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