Case Study: Visa Europe achieves cost avoidance and peak-performance assurance with Fortra's Vityl Capacity Management

Visa Europe Uses Vityl Capacity Management to Make Best Use of Investments

Visa Europe, the European payment system owned by 4,600 member banks and supporting more than 360 million cards and €13 trillion in annual purchases, needed to guarantee true 24/7 availability and peak performance across a complex, high‑profile, heterogeneous IT environment. The challenge was to move from short‑term, tactical upgrades to a cost‑effective, long‑term capacity strategy that prevented outages, delivered predictable performance, and improved ROI.

By deploying Vityl Capacity Management, Visa Europe’s capacity team could model from live data (98% accuracy) and run fast simulations to right‑size infrastructure and pre‑test workloads on Sun and AIX systems. The result was significant cost avoidance and efficiency gains—including server consolidation from 64 servers to 4—no outages during peak seasons, and the ability to process over one billion transactions at peak (730 transactions per second on Dec 24, 2008, processing €14 billion that day).

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