10-04-2017, 09:20 PM
A leader in banking technology
ICICI Bank seeks to be at the forefront of technology usage in the financial services sector. Information technology is a strategic tool for businessoperations, providing the bank with a competitive advantage and improved productivity and efficiencies. All the bank s IT initiatives are aimed at enhancing value, offering customer convenience, and improving service
levels.
ICICI Bank (NYSE:IBN) is India's second largest bank and largest private sector bank, with assets of USD 43 billion as of September 30,2005. ICICI Bank offers a wide range of banking products and financial services to corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery channels and through its specialized subsidiaries and affiliates. Areas include investment banking, life and non-life insurance, venture capital, and asset management. Specifically, ICICI Bank is a leading player in the retail banking market and has over 14 million retail customer accounts. The bank has a network of 600 branches and extension counters and 2,060 ATMs.
ICICI Bank is growing rapidly, in part through its online service offerings, and is considered a technology trendsetter in the Asian banking industry.It is the first bank to offer Internet
banking services in India. It is also extending online banking to rural communities via kiosks.
Targeting high availability for the end user To meet its datacenter availabilitygoals, ICICI Bank runs its customerfacing services and key enterprise applications such as Finacle Core
Banking (Infosys), FinnOne Retail Loans System (Nucleus Technologies), CTL Prime Credit Cards Processing System (Card Tech Limited), and SAP on highly available servers. The data
center has several Sun Fire 15K, E6900, E2900, and E6500 enterpriseclass servers and various Sun Fire mid-range servers 25 in all running the Solaris 9 Operating System. ICICI Bank deployed Oracle 9i database and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) to provide a robust
database component for its enterprise applications, while other applications such as Internet Banking and Customer Relationship Management use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition.
The FlashSnap feature of Veritas Storage Foundation allows ICICI Bank to lower its total cost of ownership through more efficient use of its storage infrastructure. The data for the Finacle application is stored on a new HP Storage Works XP 12000 disk array, Vohra relates. We make periodic point-in-time copies of the data so that we can restore the database in case there is a corruption.
While the HP StorageWorks XP 12000 Symantec enterprise site licensing agreement saves ICICI Bank more than 20 percent in total licensing costs and makes its cash flow more predictable.
CUSTOMER SUCCESS
FlashSnap allows us to write copies of the data onto less expensive Hitachi or Sun storage arrays. We avoid buying more hardware and get the most value from our existing assets.
Pravir Vohra Senior General Manager Technology Management Group ICICI Bank disk array permits such internally via its native asynchronous data replication software, the FlashSnap option allows us to write copies of the data onto less expensive disk arrays from Hitachi or Sun. We avoid buying more storage hardware and get the most from our existing assets. Reliable data protection While those Symantec products ensure datacenter availability, Veritas
NetBackup Enterprise Server provides protection for vital enterprise data. chose NetBackup when we first opened the datacenter, and have never had any reason to reconsider, Vohra relates. It backs up 15 terabytes of data every day from more than 700 Microsoft Windows- andUNIX-based servers. It is reliable andeasy to administer. And Symantec UNIX-based servers. It is reliable andcontinues to innovate, so we continue to stay at the edge of data protection technology without having to work at it. As data volumes grow at a rapid rate
for ICICI Bank currently 300 gigabytes a month the bank is challenged to backup increased data volumes without extending its backup window. With round-the-clock operations, we only have a few hours during the night to complete our backups, he says. Fortunately, we ve
been able to accommodate a 25 percent annual growth in data volume with no additions to our staff, thanks to the scalability of NetBackup. easy to administer. And Symantec