Deutsche Bank lifts the hood on cloud transition

Deutsche's internal cloud is hosted in a data centre in a box – a container packed with blade servers using four 12-core processors, with network attach storage and a 10GB switch on each rack. This configuration allows Deutsche to host 2,000 virtual machines at any time.

The system as user friendly as possible

To make the system as user friendly as possible, developers can access it using Deutsche Bank's identity management architecture, primarily based on Microsoft Active Directory, which provides the foundation for its web single sign-on service. Once authenticated, users can request a new virtual machine to be assigned to them. Any authenticated users that have appropriate permissions can at the time connect to Deutsche's package repository, to download a standard set of Solaris, Linux and Windows operating systems.