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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Customer Case Study

One of the largest banks in the country gets closer to cloud architecture with

Cisco Unified Computing System

™

Business Challenge

The banking industry represents a dynamic operating landscape where change is

inevitable and competition is keen. To remain competitive, major financial institutions like

PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) are constantly seeking out new markets to serve.

In particular, the rural market of Indonesia has been a growth area for BRI, and

a niche which it has served successfully over the years. To sustain its market

position here, BRI plans to offer micro banking services to consumers and extend

banking support for mid-sized businesses in an effort to contribute to the growth of

Indonesia’s rural economy.

However, BRI was facing obstacles which prevented it from accelerating its

business expansion to rural markets. Firstly, scaling up its legacy IT infrastructure

would require significant cost, since it was still running on a compartmentalized

data center structure. Poor utilization of computing and storage resources,

combined with IT silos also translated into longer lead times in deploying the IT

infrastructure necessary to deliver new applications and services quickly.

BRI therefore needed solutions that will not only enable it to scale its IT infrastructure

to meet business needs rapidly and cost efficiently but also to achieve a “Green Data

Center” and the associated energy efficiencies. “We realized that our data center model

required a rethink and went about to search for a technology partner with a strong vision

that could guide us in our transition to a new model,” Mr. Toto Widjonarto, Data Center

Deputy Manager, Bank Rakyat Indonesia.

Bank Rakyat Indonesia expands domestic

coverage with Unified Data Center Architecture

Customer Name: PT. Bank Rakyat

Indonesia

Industry: Financial Industry/Banking

Location: Indonesia, Jakarta

Challenge

• Keen competition in targeted markets

• Data center services need to be aligned

with business expansion

• Optimize data center operations

Solution

Cisco

Unified Data Center Architecture

Results

• Expected 35 percent reduction in

operating costs

• Simplified data center management

• Scalable and flexible data center

infrastructure

• IT-enabled business agility

Summary of content (4 pages)

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Bank Rakyat Indonesia expands domestic coverage with Unified Data Center Architecture Customer Case Study One of the largest banks in the country gets closer to cloud architecture with Cisco Unified Computing System™ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Customer Name: PT.
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Customer Case Study Solution To meet their requirements for data center transformation, BRI looked to Cisco’s Unified Data Center Architecture, with a roadmap proposed by Packet Systems (a Cisco data center partner). A unified data center architecture shifts away from vertically integrated silos, towards a fluid, dynamic “fabric”, capable of seamlessly delivering IT resources as the business dictates.
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Customer Case Study “ With Cisco UCS, we have saved 84 hours rolling out 150 servers and expect to double that savings for the next 300. Application roll-out time has also been reduced by 40 percent” Mr. Toto Widjonarto, Data Center Deputy Manager, Bank Rakyat Indonesia Repositioned for scalability and flexibility Legacy systems which once resulted in data center silos now form an integrated computing architecture, as Cisco UCS enables workloads to be shuffled across any idle computing resources.
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Customer Case Study PRODUCT LIST • Cisco Unified Computing System • Cisco Unified Fabric (Cisco Nexus® 5000 Series Switches/ Cisco Nexus® 2000 Series Fabric Extenders) Next Steps BRI will be looking to further implement the Unified Fabric to the remaining servers across its data centers. It will also be looking to reorganize itself away from siloed IT teams, and move to a centralized service-centric model. With the Cisco Unified Data Center, on-demand scalability is now achieved.