Consolidating workloads delivers savings
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The bank has deployed its transaction and payments processing system - SNS Administration System (SAS) - on a JBoss Application Server supplied by open source outfit Red Hat. SAS provides services to over 3300 workstations that produce over 500,000 transactions on a daily basis at bank branches across the Netherlands.
By moving to Application Server SNS Bank has benefited from reduced licence costs, increased stability and reliability and a reduction in hardware demands, compared with its Pascal-based system, says Red Hat.
The bank is now able to run the entire system on eight IBM X-series servers, with enough spare capacity to support over 2000 additional workstations.
Check out this article showing how this bank has managed to reduce its license costs and improve reliability by updating its transaction and payments processing system. By abstracting the processing at the desktop end, they have managed to run the system on eight servers whilst supporting additional users to the system - very cool.
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