Challenge: In addition to its main corporate center, UBS comprises four business divisions: Wealth Management & Swiss Bank, Wealth Management Americas, Global Asset Management, and the Investment Bank. Today this global company, with 150 years of heritage in the financial services market, operates in more than 50 countries and participates in the major financial centers around the world. The IT organization is headquartered in North America, with engineering teams located around the world to deploy and manage the numerous data centers and networks that support operations…
Solution: Having previously learned about and deployed Cisco ACE Application Control Engine solutions, the engineering team recognized the cost-saving potential of the Cisco virtualized load-balancing design as well as the blade form factor that could be integrated with the company’s existing Cisco routers. Intelligent load-balancing and content switching technologies of the Cisco ACE are also combined with acceleration and security capabilities…
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