Italian Bank Approaches Cloud with Unified Data Center

Creval's primary data center is at its headquarters in Sondrio, and a disaster recovery site is located in Milan nearly 150 kilometers away. Their challenges are to improve customer satisfaction, adapt IT service delivery model for cloud and reduce operating costs. They chose Cisco's Unified Data Center architecture, with Fibre Channel over Ethernet, to support full virtualization and migration to cloud service delivery. The results of deploying Cisco were up to 50 percent improvement in application performance, Cloud-ready platform created by unified, flexible, and easy-to-manage data center environment and ability to manage more workloads at lower cost: New solution delivers higher compute processing at 25 percent.