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Virtualized financial services platform
ensures availability
Infrastructure that’s more efficient, manageable, and cost-effective
Seeking maximum uptime in financial services
Seeking maximum uptime in financial services
Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong
was finding its data center of more than
500 servers difficult to manage; they
also needed to ensure high application
availability, and eliminate disaster
recovery downtime.
“The time to recover the
application data in the event
of an issue could be up to
eight hours or two days,
and even after this we were
still uncertain as to whether
the hardware was capable
to be placed back into
production.”
IT Department Representative, Daiwa
Capital Markets Hong Kong
Operational benefits
of virtualization
Paid-in capital
US$536,734,230
HK$100,000,000
450 employees
Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong
provides a comprehensive range of
financial products and services to an
established international client base,
maximizing client opportunities through
the resources and network of Daiwa
Securities Group, Inc.
21%
Number
of new
projects
22%
Application
time to
market
26%
Rework
and
Testing
27%
Server
incidents
26%
System
downtime
“Virtualization has helped us achieve server
consolidation and has contributed to signifi-
cant savings in investment and maintenance
of physical servers.”
IT Department Representative, Daiwa Capital Markets
Hong Kong
Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong reduced
500 physical servers to 26
costs due to decreased server
maintenance
2 day server recovery time
to zero downtime
IT workload
test environment deployment from 2
days to 1 hour
Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong gained
Improved stability and performance of
trading systems
Comprehensive disaster recovery
80% server resource utilization
After considering solutions from
Microsoft and Red Hat, the
organization chose to implement a
virtual infrastructure using VMware
vCenter Server to provide centralized
management for VMware vSphere
and high availability through VMware
vSphere vMotion.
$18.8M
The finance sector
spends more than any
other sector in the
Asia- Pacific region on
IT backup and recovery
High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs)
in the Asia-Pacific region increased
their wealth by well above the rate of
the rest of the world in 2012.
12.2%
Asia-Pacific
9.3%
worldwide