HP announces integration of infrastructure to provide private cloud for Huamei Bank

BEIJING, November 19, 2013 (HP)--China and the Philippines, one of the country's fastest-growing banks, chose HP's converged infrastructure to provide a modern, flexible, agile Foundation to meet its business needs and transition to a private cloud. Founded in 1994, the   Huamei Bank has emerged as one of the largest credit card issuers and auto loan providers in the Philippines, competing with large international banks. Technology upgrades, including new automation programs, to support new customer services have played a crucial role in the bank's success. However, banks are aware that their existing IT infrastructure is hampering productivity gains. For example, after a daily transaction, the financial system will take at least 6 hours to complete the settlement process.   In contrast to IBM and EMC Solutions, the company chose HP's converged infrastructure to simplify IT operations, reduce costs and expand IT infrastructure to cope with growing customer transactions.   Upgraded infrastructure includes HP 3PAR Storeserv T400 Storage System for scalable, flexible, and cost-effective storage. Huamei also deploys HP ProLiant DL360 servers to optimize unit energy consumption and space performance while maximizing power efficiency through shared power. Randy Evangelista, vice president of   and information technology, said: "The previous systems are not flexible enough to meet our day-to-day business needs, and the infrastructure is greatly limited by the inability to configure storage between systems." By deploying HP's converged infrastructure, we have taken an important step towards private cloud building, while providing a dynamic and flexible IT environment to meet business requirements. "  to ensure business continuity, Huamei has deployed a set of HP 3PAR Storeserv T400 Storage systems in its production data center and disaster recovery site." Banks can consolidate thousands of of virtual computers onto one storage system to easily cope with the growth of workloads and support future development.   Using HP 3PAR Storeserv, Huamei Bank has achieved its primary goal of shortening settlement processing time by shortening the daily transaction settlement processing time by 40%. Data recovery time for all key business systems is also shortened from the maximum 4 hours to 1 hours, including the core bank and other major financial applications. In addition, by sharing and maximizing storage capacity, the bank does not have to buy additional hardware. The upgraded infrastructure delivers terabytes of total storage capacity, equivalent to five years of data to meet the storage needs of critical data in the financial industry. (1)   During the transition to the integrated infrastructure of HP, HP Technical services provided professional advice and support for the design, deployment and migration of infrastructure. HP Technical experts work closely with Huamei Bank to ensure the design is reasonable and meet ChinaUS banks ' specific demand for infrastructure.   HP EMEA Discover will be held in Barcelona, Spain, December 10-12th.   Welcome attention @ Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Group official micro-blog to participate in zero-distance interaction, and we grow and win.