Case Study: First National Bank at Darlington achieves 3-minute recovery and enterprise-grade availability with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Converged Infrastructure

Small bank leverages HPE Converged Infrastructure for High Performance

First National Bank at Darlington, a small community bank in Wisconsin serving about 2,500 people from a single branch, needed a resilient, high-performance infrastructure to support resource-intensive applications (like Compliance Concierge) and meet strict regulatory business-continuity requirements on a limited budget. The bank engaged Hewlett Packard Enterprise and deployed HPE Converged Infrastructure—including HPE ProLiant DL380p Gen8 servers and HPE StoreVirtual VSA—to provide virtualization, redundancy, and affordable storage scalability.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise implemented a virtualized environment (VMware on HPE ProLiant servers with HPE StoreVirtual VSA), HPE Proactive Care, and integrated backup with Veeam to enable fast recovery and reliable operations. The solution cut the bank’s recovery time objective from three days to three minutes, accelerated patch management by 75%, enabled failover in under a minute during tests, recovered about 10 staff-hours per week, and delivered continuous uptime to satisfy regulators and improve customer service.

First National Bank at Darlington

Michael Lee

Vice President and IT Director