Challenge: With a €3.1 billion balance sheet and more than 300,000 customers, Sparda‑Bank Hamburg is the largest cooperative bank in the Hamburg, Schleswig‑Holstein, and Northern Lower Saxony area. Founded in 1903, it employs 500 people and specializes in services for private customers through 25 branches, nine direct banking shops, and 11 self‑service ATMs. It’s hard to think of another industry sector needing higher performance and security in its IT environment than financial services. Helping ensure customers’ confidence in the bank is crucial and, today, IT is at the heart of that relationship…
Solution: Following an extensive evaluation process, Sparda‑Bank Hamburg chose the Cisco® Unified Data Center Architecture with Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS®) servers. “One convincing factor was Cisco UCS Manager,” says Rickert, “while another was the superior scalability of the Cisco architecture.” Sparda‑Bank Hamburg made that choice in cooperation with Cisco partner company, and the bank’s long‑term IT consultant, TRAFFIX Network Partner GmbH. The deployment of Cisco Unified Data Center architecture was recommended by TRAFFIX, because it offers a balance of performance and flexibility…
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