DATA CENTRE & CLOUD SERVICES : A GLOBAL BANK CASE STUDY

A GLOBAL BANK
CASE STUDY
TATA COMMUNICATIONS MEETS
A BANK CORPORATIONS
INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS WITH
DATA CENTRE SERVICES

A London-based major bank corporation,

known as one of the largest banking and
nancial services organizations in the world,
needed to expand its IT infrastructure to meet
its growing need to process highly sensitive
information worldwide. The banks international network is comprised of approximately
9,500 ofces in 86 countries and territories in
Europe, the Asia-Pacic region, the Americas,
the Middle East and Africa.

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DATA CENTRE & CLOUD SERVICES : A GLOBAL BANK CASE STUDY

Through an international network linked by advanced technology, including a rapidly growing e-commerce capability, the bank corporation provides a comprehensive
range of personal and corporate financial services including private, commercial and
investment banking.
Instead of investing in an on-site infrastructure, the bank corporation decided to
look at a third-party-provided Managed Hosting solution. They sought a certified
data center that complied with the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) standards and could support the 72 rack space needed for their banking, data
processing and software lines of business. They had their international and global
IT team assess different facilities to determine which facility would be capable of
hosting their servers.
Tata Communications offered global data center services which included Colocation, Managed Hosting and Managed Storage services. The services were all delivered with high quality and consistency from Tata Communications data centers
that covered more than one million square feet worldwide. The bank corporation
originally requested colocation services at a Tata Communications data center.
After reviewing their requirements, Tata Communications made an integrated offer
that would include colocation services at their Tier-3 data center (a PoP center
in Hyderabad, that is currently the customers primary data center) and diverse
National Long Distance (NLD) links connecting the bank via Tata Communications
high capacity Tier-1 backbone to all of its worldwide locations.

Building the Solution

In order to meet the bank corporations needs, Tata Communications provided a
Managed Hosting service, supplying the rack space, network switches, fiber and
Ethernet cabling, as well as a topology of cabling and power supply and storage
requirements. Besides providing the necessary hardware components and secure
network infrastructure, Tata Communications colocation services offered remote
hand services with its highly available and skilled staff to complement the needs of
the bank corporation, additionally the data center facilities were all fully integrated
into Tata Communications Tier-1 IP backbone for seamless global connectivity.

Tata Communications
provisioned the network
within the time frame
requested, to enable the
bank corporation to set up
their servers as quickly as
possible.

The data center facilities

were all fully integrated
into Tata Communications
Tier-1 IP backbone for
seamless global
connectivity.

Solution Components
Tata Communications Colocation Services and NetworkConnectivity services
24x7x365 support by Tata Communications expert on-site and off-site staff
The solution was implemented within 30-45 days, with the hardware delivered
within a week of the contract being signed. The implementation process included
migration of the bank corporation from their previous service provider to Tata
Communications network, as well as the installation of all necessary hardware
components within the Tata Communications data center. Tata Communications
provisioned the network within the time frame requested, to enable the bank corporation to set up their servers as quickly as possible.

Why the bank corporation chose Tata Communications?

Cost-effective, integrated value proposition compared to other outsourced or
in-house data center alternatives
30-45 day rapid deployment capability and service flexibility
High uptime and direct connectivity
Newfound capacity for scaling and support of future growth
Standards built-and-operated services that were compliant to international standards, including TIA 942 Tier-3, ISO/IEC 14001 (Environmental Management Systems), ISO/IEC 20000 (IT Service Management) and ISO/IEC 27001 (Information
Security Management System)
Allowing in-house teams to focus on core strategic areas

Future Plans
Tata Communications will continue to strengthen its relationship with the bank
corporation by providing long distance links for them and their group companies,
managing the core network and servers, and supporting them as their infrastructure needs grow.

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