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Success Story
Halkbank Serves Customers
24/7 Across Channels and
Meets Business Continuity
with NetApp
Customer Profile
Halkbank or the “People’s Bank”,
is a Turkish state-owned bank with
successful national and international
operations. Today, it is the sixth-largest
bank in Turkey in terms of assets and
the fourth-largest banking network in
Turkey, with more than 850 branches
and 2,000 ATM machines. The bank
supports more than five million custom-
ers who enjoy access across a broad
range of alternative channels. Source:
www.halkbank.com.tr/e/index.asp
The Challenge
Exponential growth
Halkbank merged with Commerce
Bank—both of which are large and rap-
idly expanding banks. Like most mergers,
this spurred growth and management
challenges. The merged banks, which
operate under the Halkbank name, con-
tinued to grow exponentially, with data
volumes expanding by 50% annually.
Halkbank suddenly faced issues sus-
taining its escalating growth. The bank
was burdened by a heavily fragmented
IT infrastructure that lacked standards
for storage, business continuity, and
disaster recovery (DR). Developing a
DR solution was especially important
because Halkbank, located in Turkey,
is at constant risk of earthquakes.
Both staff and customers needed
continuous access, performance, and
efficiency to support legal and business
requirements. The bank relies on a main-
frame for mission-critical core banking
applications and a variety of Microsoft®
Windows®
-based servers and Microsoft
SQL Server®
databases to handle cus-
tomer service, document management,
and archiving. In addition, distribution
channels such as point of sale, credit
cards, and ATMs, as well as Internet,
telephone, and TV banking, also run
on the Microsoft SQL databases. SQL
operations overall are supported on
190 physical and more than 250
virtual servers.
Unfortunately, the infrastructure relied on
a variety of disparate storage, including
direct-attached storage (DAS), which
lacked several crucial capabilities. The
bank needed easy scalability—especially
for activities such as archiving sensitive
customer documents—as well as reliable
DR for data protection in the event of an
earthquake or other disaster. DAS was
also difficult to manage and maintain.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Industry
Financial services
The Challenge
Decrease overhead, speed time
to market for new products, and
safeguard customers’ financial
data, all while supporting data
growth rates of 50% annually.
The Solution
Enable disaster recovery and
provide continuous, multichannel
customer service with NetApp,
Cisco, and VMware.
Benefits
•	 Achieved 24/7 service avail-
ability for customers
•	 Enabled archiving of financial
data for 10 years
•	 Accelerated time to market for
new services
•	 Enabled business continuity
and disaster recovery required
for government compliance
Another NetApp
solution delivered by:
“With NetApp, we get standardization,
ease of management, and tight
integration with VMware. It all adds
up to investment protection, as well
as the ability to meet DR and legal
requirements.”
Cenk Niksarli
Head of IT Infrastructure Management and Operations Department, Halkbank
Driving innovation and time to market
Halkbank prides itself on tailoring new
products and channels to ever-changing
client demands, and delivering them
first to market to increase customer
satisfaction and competitiveness. For
instance, Halkbank is the only institution
in Turkey to offer banking via Internet
television. To sustain this level of innova-
tion and agility, the bank must continually
update its IT infrastructure to develop,
test, and deploy new products and ser-
vices and manage them with speed
and efficiency.
Another point of pride for Halkbank
is its ability to grow while minimizing
overhead. This requires continuous
adoption of new technologies that
enable responsiveness to customers
and adaptation to market demands.
Efficient new product development and
streamlined core operations are a must.
Comply with government regulations
The Banking Regulation and
Supervision Agency of Turkey governs
and audits Halkbank through a complex
set of regulations pertaining to every-
thing from accounting practices to
procedures for determining qualification
for loans. The bank also must comply
with retention of documents, which
includes storing customer information
for 10 years, and follow standardized
processes required by the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO).
As the number of services and new
channels and Halkbank’s customer
volumes continue to grow, so does
the need for easily expanded storage
and more flexible IT systems.
The Solution
NetApp provides ease of deployment,
management, and scalability
Halkbank evaluated all leading storage
vendors and selected NetApp because
of its products’ ease of deployment,
management, as-needed scalability, and
single operating system: the NetApp®
Data ONTAP®
operating system. The
bank worked with DATACORE, a systems
integrator specializing in consolidation,
backup, archiving, DR, and virtualiza-
tion, for design and implementation as
well as ongoing day-to-day mainte-
nance and support services. To help
enable best practices to be followed,
NetApp Professional Services meets
with Halkbank once a quarter to opti-
mize the infrastructure.
Today, the NetApp deployment includes
NetApp FAS6240, NetApp FAS3270,
and NetApp FAS6220 storage systems
in production for Microsoft Exchange
Server and all distribution channels,
including branch operations and credit-
and debit-card transactions. In this
environment, continuous NetApp
Snapshot™
copies provide up-to-date
backups while consuming minimal space.
NetApp MetroCluster™
software provides
continuous uptime and replicates data
using NetApp SnapMirror®
software for
off-site DR on a NetApp FAS3160HA
system. A NetApp FAS3240 system with
MetroCluster reliably archives documents
for compliance purposes. NetApp
deduplication software helps reclaim a
significant amount of storage space to
avoid storage overprovisioning and to
allow the bank to purchase new storage
only on an as-needed basis.
The environment also includes two
FlexPod®
systems, the prevalidated
configuration from Cisco and NetApp
that delivers an optimized data center
platform in a rack and is composed of
leading compute, network, storage, and
software components. Both systems
use VMware®
vSphere®
built on FlexPod
and rely on NetApp FAS3240HA stor-
age systems, Cisco®
Unified Computing
System™
(UCS®
) B200 M3 blade servers,
and Cisco Nexus®
5000 series switches.
One FlexPod system is used for test
and development and supports 250 vir-
tual machines (VMs). The other FlexPod
environment supports a shared private
cloud for Internet Information Services,
Microsoft SQL servers, and standard
server platforms. In the future, it will
also support production operations
such as e-mail and customer distribu-
tion and service channels. Currently,
approximately 60% of the servers in the
data center are virtualized, with the goal
of virtualizing about 80% of the servers
in the production environment. Desktop
virtualization, such as systems for con-
tact center agents, is also underway.
“We have approximately 1,000 client sys-
tems virtualized,” says Hakan Dizman,
Open Systems director for Halkbank. “In
the future, those numbers will likely reach
desktops used by 15,000 employees.”
Easier management, better
performance
Key to the solution is NetApp
OnCommand®
Insight, providing “single-
pane-of-glass” visibility and management
into the entire NetApp storage environ-
ment. OnCommand Insight software
automates many of the bank’s storage
management processes across both
physical and virtual storage systems
and clusters. “We can set policies
and monitor thresholds from a single
dashboard to deliver efficiencies across
our storage environment,” says
Muhammet Haydar Ertek, manager
of storage and backup systems at
Halkbank. “As a result, we can imple-
ment standard processes and more
easily manage our 50% annual data
growth.” NetApp Flash Cache™
intelligent
caching is used throughout the bank to
speed data access through intelligent
caching of recently read user data or
NetApp metadata. No setup or ongoing
administration is needed, and operations
can be fine-tuned. Flash Cache works
with all NetApp storage protocols, includ-
ing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS, as
well as software used at Halkbank.
Business Benefits
Enhanced customer service
through continuous operations
With FlexPod and NetApp storage
systems with MetroCluster software,
Halkbank can achieve continuous
access to data for nondisruptive
operations. For instance, the bank
can conduct planned maintenance
without service interruption, thus sup-
porting its initiative to provide services
to customers around the clock and
across multiple channels. Previously,
IT teams had to take applications off
line when they wanted to upgrade
versions of software or introduce new
applications or services into production.
More recently, Halkbank moved its
entire production data center with zero
downtime due to the NetApp architec-
ture. Current plans include building a
new data center and, once again, the
bank expects to incur no downtime.
Faster time to market
With NetApp and VMware, IT supports
the business in staying ahead of the
competition through rapid introduction
of new products. IT can efficiently
develop and test new products and
services before introducing them into
the production environment. They can
also conduct upgrades with ease. For
instance, they can take snapshot cop-
ies of a production VM, complete an
upgrade, test it, and then, if things work
properly, put it back into production.
“Among the distinct benefits of NetApp
is flexibility,” says Dizman. “With NetApp,
we can get products to market faster and
easier, with flawless availability.”
Reduced cost and complexity
By using the streamlined NetApp Data
ONTAP operating system, and efficient
management software such as
OnCommand Insight, the IT team can
provide services to the business with
greater flexibility and lower overhead.
In the near future, Halkbank plans to
implement FlexPod for tier 1 systems,
including a new data center, as well as
expand its private cloud and increase
desktop and server virtualization.
“With NetApp, we get standardization,
ease of management, and tight integra-
tion with VMware,” says Cenk Niksarli,
head of IT Infrastructure Management
and Operations Department for
Halkbank. “It all adds up to investment
protection and the ability to meet DR
and legal requirements. NetApp is more
than just a vendor. We see them as a
trusted business partner and ally who
helps us operate more efficiently and
support sustained growth.”
Figure 1) Halkbank storage infrastructure
ISTANBUL GAYRETTEPE IZMIR DISASTER
ISTANBUL ATASEHIR
NetApp FAS6240
MetroCluster
NetApp FAS3270
MetroCluster
NetApp FAS6220
MetroCluster
Microsoft
SQL Server
VMware
Microsoft Exchange
Server
Microsoft
Exchange Server
Banking and
Business
Applications
NetApp
SnapMirror
Production Disaster Recovery
Other NetApp software and
solutions leveraged across
the environment include:
NetApp Data ONTAP OS
in 7-Mode
NetApp Flash Cache
NetApp OnCommand Insight
NetApp Snapshot technology
NetApp SnapManager for
Exchange Server
Virtual Storage Console for
VMware vSphere
Archive
NetApp FAS3240
MetroCluster
FlexPod with
NetApp FAS3240HA
storage systems,
Cisco UCS B200 M3
blade servers, and Cisco
Nexus 5000 series switches
NetApp FAS3240HA
Test and Development
NetApp FAS3240HA
NetApp FAS3160HA
Banking and
Business
Applications
Microsoft
SQL Server
VMware
VMware
File Servers
Production
FlexPod with
NetApp FAS3240HA
storage systems,
Cisco UCS B200 M3
blade servers, and Cisco
Nexus 5000 series switches
NetApp creates innovative storage and
data management solutions that deliver
outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate
business breakthroughs. Discover our
passion for helping companies around the
world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
Go further, faster®
www.netapp.com
Follow us on:
© 2013 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to
change without notice. NetApp, the NetApp logo, Go further, faster,
Data ONTAP, Flash Cache, FlexPod, MetroCluster, OnCommand,
SnapManager, SnapMirror, and Snapshot are trademarks or registered
trademarks of NetApp, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.
Microsoft, SQL Server, Windows, and Windows Server are registered
trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. VMware and vSphere are
registered trademarks and VMware View is a trademark of VMware,
Inc. Cisco, Cisco Nexus, and Cisco UCS are registered trademarks and
Cisco Unified Computing System is a trademark of Cisco Systems, Inc.
Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. All other brands or
products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
holders and should be treated as such. CSS-6683-0114
“NetApp is more than just a vendor.
We see them as a trusted business
partner and ally that helps us
operate more efficiently and
support sustained growth.”
Cenk Niksarli
Head of IT Infrastructure Management and Operations Department, Halkbank
SOLUTION COMPONENTS
FlexPod Components
NetApp FAS3240HA storage systems
Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers
Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches
Virtualization
VMware vSphere 5
VMware View™
5
NetApp Products
NetApp FAS6240A, FAS6220A,
FAS3270A, FAS3240HA, and
FAS3160HA storage systems
NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1 operating
in 7-Mode
NetApp deduplication
NetApp Flash Cache
NetApp MetroCluster software
NetApp OnCommand Insight
NetApp SnapManager®
for Exchange
Virtual Storage Console for
VMware vSphere
NetApp SnapMirror
NetApp Snapshot technology
NetApp Professional Services
Quarterly audits for optimization
Third-Party Products
BankSoft for ATM and credit-card
transactions
Custom applications for core banking
and customer service delivery
IBM mainframe
Intel®
-based servers
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008
Microsoft Windows Server®
2003
Protocols
FC, NFS, iSCSI
Partner
DATACORE
www.datacore.com.tr
Another NetApp
solution delivered by:

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Halkbank Serves Customers 24/7 Across Channels and Meets Business Continuity with NetApp

  • 1. Success Story Halkbank Serves Customers 24/7 Across Channels and Meets Business Continuity with NetApp Customer Profile Halkbank or the “People’s Bank”, is a Turkish state-owned bank with successful national and international operations. Today, it is the sixth-largest bank in Turkey in terms of assets and the fourth-largest banking network in Turkey, with more than 850 branches and 2,000 ATM machines. The bank supports more than five million custom- ers who enjoy access across a broad range of alternative channels. Source: www.halkbank.com.tr/e/index.asp The Challenge Exponential growth Halkbank merged with Commerce Bank—both of which are large and rap- idly expanding banks. Like most mergers, this spurred growth and management challenges. The merged banks, which operate under the Halkbank name, con- tinued to grow exponentially, with data volumes expanding by 50% annually. Halkbank suddenly faced issues sus- taining its escalating growth. The bank was burdened by a heavily fragmented IT infrastructure that lacked standards for storage, business continuity, and disaster recovery (DR). Developing a DR solution was especially important because Halkbank, located in Turkey, is at constant risk of earthquakes. Both staff and customers needed continuous access, performance, and efficiency to support legal and business requirements. The bank relies on a main- frame for mission-critical core banking applications and a variety of Microsoft® Windows® -based servers and Microsoft SQL Server® databases to handle cus- tomer service, document management, and archiving. In addition, distribution channels such as point of sale, credit cards, and ATMs, as well as Internet, telephone, and TV banking, also run on the Microsoft SQL databases. SQL operations overall are supported on 190 physical and more than 250 virtual servers. Unfortunately, the infrastructure relied on a variety of disparate storage, including direct-attached storage (DAS), which lacked several crucial capabilities. The bank needed easy scalability—especially for activities such as archiving sensitive customer documents—as well as reliable DR for data protection in the event of an earthquake or other disaster. DAS was also difficult to manage and maintain. KEY HIGHLIGHTS Industry Financial services The Challenge Decrease overhead, speed time to market for new products, and safeguard customers’ financial data, all while supporting data growth rates of 50% annually. The Solution Enable disaster recovery and provide continuous, multichannel customer service with NetApp, Cisco, and VMware. Benefits • Achieved 24/7 service avail- ability for customers • Enabled archiving of financial data for 10 years • Accelerated time to market for new services • Enabled business continuity and disaster recovery required for government compliance Another NetApp solution delivered by:
  • 2. “With NetApp, we get standardization, ease of management, and tight integration with VMware. It all adds up to investment protection, as well as the ability to meet DR and legal requirements.” Cenk Niksarli Head of IT Infrastructure Management and Operations Department, Halkbank Driving innovation and time to market Halkbank prides itself on tailoring new products and channels to ever-changing client demands, and delivering them first to market to increase customer satisfaction and competitiveness. For instance, Halkbank is the only institution in Turkey to offer banking via Internet television. To sustain this level of innova- tion and agility, the bank must continually update its IT infrastructure to develop, test, and deploy new products and ser- vices and manage them with speed and efficiency. Another point of pride for Halkbank is its ability to grow while minimizing overhead. This requires continuous adoption of new technologies that enable responsiveness to customers and adaptation to market demands. Efficient new product development and streamlined core operations are a must. Comply with government regulations The Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency of Turkey governs and audits Halkbank through a complex set of regulations pertaining to every- thing from accounting practices to procedures for determining qualification for loans. The bank also must comply with retention of documents, which includes storing customer information for 10 years, and follow standardized processes required by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). As the number of services and new channels and Halkbank’s customer volumes continue to grow, so does the need for easily expanded storage and more flexible IT systems. The Solution NetApp provides ease of deployment, management, and scalability Halkbank evaluated all leading storage vendors and selected NetApp because of its products’ ease of deployment, management, as-needed scalability, and single operating system: the NetApp® Data ONTAP® operating system. The bank worked with DATACORE, a systems integrator specializing in consolidation, backup, archiving, DR, and virtualiza- tion, for design and implementation as well as ongoing day-to-day mainte- nance and support services. To help enable best practices to be followed, NetApp Professional Services meets with Halkbank once a quarter to opti- mize the infrastructure. Today, the NetApp deployment includes NetApp FAS6240, NetApp FAS3270, and NetApp FAS6220 storage systems in production for Microsoft Exchange Server and all distribution channels, including branch operations and credit- and debit-card transactions. In this environment, continuous NetApp Snapshot™ copies provide up-to-date backups while consuming minimal space. NetApp MetroCluster™ software provides continuous uptime and replicates data using NetApp SnapMirror® software for off-site DR on a NetApp FAS3160HA system. A NetApp FAS3240 system with MetroCluster reliably archives documents for compliance purposes. NetApp deduplication software helps reclaim a significant amount of storage space to avoid storage overprovisioning and to allow the bank to purchase new storage only on an as-needed basis. The environment also includes two FlexPod® systems, the prevalidated configuration from Cisco and NetApp that delivers an optimized data center platform in a rack and is composed of leading compute, network, storage, and software components. Both systems use VMware® vSphere® built on FlexPod and rely on NetApp FAS3240HA stor- age systems, Cisco® Unified Computing System™ (UCS® ) B200 M3 blade servers, and Cisco Nexus® 5000 series switches. One FlexPod system is used for test and development and supports 250 vir- tual machines (VMs). The other FlexPod environment supports a shared private cloud for Internet Information Services, Microsoft SQL servers, and standard server platforms. In the future, it will also support production operations such as e-mail and customer distribu- tion and service channels. Currently, approximately 60% of the servers in the
  • 3. data center are virtualized, with the goal of virtualizing about 80% of the servers in the production environment. Desktop virtualization, such as systems for con- tact center agents, is also underway. “We have approximately 1,000 client sys- tems virtualized,” says Hakan Dizman, Open Systems director for Halkbank. “In the future, those numbers will likely reach desktops used by 15,000 employees.” Easier management, better performance Key to the solution is NetApp OnCommand® Insight, providing “single- pane-of-glass” visibility and management into the entire NetApp storage environ- ment. OnCommand Insight software automates many of the bank’s storage management processes across both physical and virtual storage systems and clusters. “We can set policies and monitor thresholds from a single dashboard to deliver efficiencies across our storage environment,” says Muhammet Haydar Ertek, manager of storage and backup systems at Halkbank. “As a result, we can imple- ment standard processes and more easily manage our 50% annual data growth.” NetApp Flash Cache™ intelligent caching is used throughout the bank to speed data access through intelligent caching of recently read user data or NetApp metadata. No setup or ongoing administration is needed, and operations can be fine-tuned. Flash Cache works with all NetApp storage protocols, includ- ing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS, as well as software used at Halkbank. Business Benefits Enhanced customer service through continuous operations With FlexPod and NetApp storage systems with MetroCluster software, Halkbank can achieve continuous access to data for nondisruptive operations. For instance, the bank can conduct planned maintenance without service interruption, thus sup- porting its initiative to provide services to customers around the clock and across multiple channels. Previously, IT teams had to take applications off line when they wanted to upgrade versions of software or introduce new applications or services into production. More recently, Halkbank moved its entire production data center with zero downtime due to the NetApp architec- ture. Current plans include building a new data center and, once again, the bank expects to incur no downtime. Faster time to market With NetApp and VMware, IT supports the business in staying ahead of the competition through rapid introduction of new products. IT can efficiently develop and test new products and services before introducing them into the production environment. They can also conduct upgrades with ease. For instance, they can take snapshot cop- ies of a production VM, complete an upgrade, test it, and then, if things work properly, put it back into production. “Among the distinct benefits of NetApp is flexibility,” says Dizman. “With NetApp, we can get products to market faster and easier, with flawless availability.” Reduced cost and complexity By using the streamlined NetApp Data ONTAP operating system, and efficient management software such as OnCommand Insight, the IT team can provide services to the business with greater flexibility and lower overhead. In the near future, Halkbank plans to implement FlexPod for tier 1 systems, including a new data center, as well as expand its private cloud and increase desktop and server virtualization. “With NetApp, we get standardization, ease of management, and tight integra- tion with VMware,” says Cenk Niksarli, head of IT Infrastructure Management and Operations Department for Halkbank. “It all adds up to investment protection and the ability to meet DR and legal requirements. NetApp is more than just a vendor. We see them as a trusted business partner and ally who helps us operate more efficiently and support sustained growth.” Figure 1) Halkbank storage infrastructure ISTANBUL GAYRETTEPE IZMIR DISASTER ISTANBUL ATASEHIR NetApp FAS6240 MetroCluster NetApp FAS3270 MetroCluster NetApp FAS6220 MetroCluster Microsoft SQL Server VMware Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server Banking and Business Applications NetApp SnapMirror Production Disaster Recovery Other NetApp software and solutions leveraged across the environment include: NetApp Data ONTAP OS in 7-Mode NetApp Flash Cache NetApp OnCommand Insight NetApp Snapshot technology NetApp SnapManager for Exchange Server Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere Archive NetApp FAS3240 MetroCluster FlexPod with NetApp FAS3240HA storage systems, Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers, and Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches NetApp FAS3240HA Test and Development NetApp FAS3240HA NetApp FAS3160HA Banking and Business Applications Microsoft SQL Server VMware VMware File Servers Production FlexPod with NetApp FAS3240HA storage systems, Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers, and Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches
  • 4. NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com. Go further, faster® www.netapp.com Follow us on: © 2013 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to change without notice. NetApp, the NetApp logo, Go further, faster, Data ONTAP, Flash Cache, FlexPod, MetroCluster, OnCommand, SnapManager, SnapMirror, and Snapshot are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, SQL Server, Windows, and Windows Server are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. VMware and vSphere are registered trademarks and VMware View is a trademark of VMware, Inc. Cisco, Cisco Nexus, and Cisco UCS are registered trademarks and Cisco Unified Computing System is a trademark of Cisco Systems, Inc. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. CSS-6683-0114 “NetApp is more than just a vendor. We see them as a trusted business partner and ally that helps us operate more efficiently and support sustained growth.” Cenk Niksarli Head of IT Infrastructure Management and Operations Department, Halkbank SOLUTION COMPONENTS FlexPod Components NetApp FAS3240HA storage systems Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches Virtualization VMware vSphere 5 VMware View™ 5 NetApp Products NetApp FAS6240A, FAS6220A, FAS3270A, FAS3240HA, and FAS3160HA storage systems NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1 operating in 7-Mode NetApp deduplication NetApp Flash Cache NetApp MetroCluster software NetApp OnCommand Insight NetApp SnapManager® for Exchange Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere NetApp SnapMirror NetApp Snapshot technology NetApp Professional Services Quarterly audits for optimization Third-Party Products BankSoft for ATM and credit-card transactions Custom applications for core banking and customer service delivery IBM mainframe Intel® -based servers Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 Protocols FC, NFS, iSCSI Partner DATACORE www.datacore.com.tr Another NetApp solution delivered by: