Case Study: Ceska Sporitelna achieves 100% data availability, 75% storage cost reduction and faster performance with Hitachi Vantara's Hitachi Unified Storage VM

Ceska Sporitelna - Customer Case Study

Ceska Sporitelna, the largest bank in the Czech Republic with over 5 million customers, faced aging storage infrastructure that no longer met demanding banking requirements—high TCO, insufficient performance and availability for virtualization farms, SQL Server and critical finance applications. To address this, Ceska Sporitelna selected Hitachi Vantara and its Hitachi Unified Storage VM platform, combined with Hitachi Accelerated Flash and Hitachi Command Suite, to deliver a modern, high-performance, highly available storage solution.

Hitachi Vantara deployed a mirrored Hitachi Unified Storage VM environment with Accelerated Flash and Command Suite management, consolidating VMware, Microsoft SQL Server and Windows workloads and enabling nondisruptive migrations. The implementation delivered 100% data availability, increased usable storage capacity by up to 40%, reduced data storage costs by 75%, cut migration times by as much as 90%, and simplified management through automation—resulting in faster application performance, minimized downtime and significantly lower TCO for Ceska Sporitelna.

Ceska Sporitelna

Ladislav Lála

Enterprise Platforms Manager