VIB effectively uses IBM cloud computing solutions Vietnam International Bank has applied US-backed IBM cloud computing solutions effectively. IBM last week announced that the bank (VIB) had been using its cloud computing solutions effectively for months, for maximising all of its resources and enhancing its operational capacity. VIB has cooperated with IBM and IBM’s partners to deploy these virtual solutions based on IBM’s systems of PureFlex System Express and System Storage, and software IBM SmartCloud Entry. This cloud can be expanded based on VIB’s demand. After four months of using these solutions, VIB has been able to cut down 76 per cent of costs for electricity and shrink its server’s rack areas by 81 per cent. Time for processing data batches has also been halved, from 180 minutes to 90 minutes, every day. The IBM PureFlex System Express embraces computing nodes IBM Flex System x240 and IBM Flex System p260 with software VMware. VIB has also used a set of software named VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager to support an IBM Storwize V7000 disk system. This is to deal with possible risks and incidents rapidly. VIB is one of Vietnam’s first banks to use cloud computing solutions for improving their performance. With these solutions, VIB has saved nearly 80 per cent of costs for power used for maintaining information technology infrastructures. The bank has also significantly pared down costs for buying software copyrights. Time for implementing other product infrastructures of the bank has also been truncated from several months to several days only. “The deployment of cloud computing solutions has been an important part in VIB’s technological renewal strategy,” said VIB vice general director Tran Nhat Minh. “Over the past recent years, these solutions have become a strategic need of organisations and enterprises,” said Tran Mai Huong, director of IBM Vietnam’s northern region customer section. “IBM cloud computing solutions can support banks in operational capacity and competitiveness.” IBM has also been cooperating with Vietnam’s leading banks to improve their information technology infrastructures. Currently IBM has more than 100 cloud computing software solutions, with a network of 40 data centres around the world. By Thanh Tung, VIR