SUCCESS STORY Finansbank
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Country
- Turkey
Product
- Brocade DCX 8510 Backbones
- UltraScale Inter-Chassis Link (ICL)
- Brocade Network Advisor
- Brocade Professional Services
Tech Stack
- SAN architecture
- Fibre Channel
- ICL connectivity
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Infrastructure Inspection
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Finansbank is a steadily growing bank owned by the National Bank of Greece and headquartered in Istanbul. The bank operates more than 650 branches and manages more than 75 billion TL in assets. Finansbank offers a broad spectrum of services for consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, and corporate banking. An early adopter of technology, it added telephone and Internet banking services in 2000. In the last few years, Finansbank has added dozens of online solutions, and customers continue to embrace these new services, which increases the volume of banking transactions. As a result, new banking applications and steadily growing transaction volumes were straining the bank’s legacy SAN resources.
The Challenge
Finansbank, a steadily growing bank owned by the National Bank of Greece and headquartered in Istanbul, was facing challenges with its legacy SAN resources due to the increasing volume of banking transactions. The bank's storage had reached three and a half petabytes, and keeping pace with growth was becoming challenging. The bank's open-system SANs were built as redundant networks in three separate rooms, and connecting these rooms required extensive cabling. Often, cabling issues affected ISL throughput, negatively impacting application performance. Scaling the SAN to increase capacity created complexity, and changing the legacy infrastructure to accommodate new workloads was also difficult. If the storage team had to move or add a device, they might need to physically move ports and re-cable devices, which significantly increased management cycles and costs.
The Solution
Finansbank turned to Brocade for a solution to its challenges. The new architecture is built on Brocade DCX 8510 Backbones with Gen 5 Fibre Channel and optical UltraScale Inter-Chassis Link (ICL) connectivity. These reliable, high-availability backbones are designed for mission-critical storage, 16 Gbps performance, and unmatched simplicity. Finansbank deployed Brocade DCX 8510-8 Backbones in every data center location, each with four vertical blade slots that will provide up to 256 16 Gbps Fibre Channel ports. These backbones are connected with ICLs in a highly scalable mesh topology, and the high-density chassis topology reduces inter-switch cabling by 75 percent and frees up to 33 percent more ports for server and storage. This maximizes overall port density in the lowest amount of rack space. The UltraScale ICL design also provides up to 2 Tbps of bandwidth between switches—a huge improvement over the previous ISL connectivity approach. In addition to gaining industry-leading performance, Finansbank was able to reduce power consumption, cooling requirements, and space requirements in each data center.
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