Case Study: Fransabank boosts banking performance and uptime with IBM storage and Power Systems

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Fransabank, one of Lebanon's largest banks, faced a challenge with its core systems straining under rapid business growth, which put critical overnight and month-end batch processing at risk of overrunning and impacting daytime customer service. To ensure performance and reliability, the bank partnered with IBM to implement a new infrastructure.

IBM's solution involved deploying its Power 870 servers with POWER8 processors, the IBM DS8870 and IBM FlashSystem storage, and IBM Spectrum Virtualize software. This new environment delivered a 40% performance boost, saving over three hours on nightly processing and cutting more than five hours from monthly financial consolidation, which eliminated the risk of overruns and provided faster business insight.

Fransabank

Roland Tabib

Chief Information Officer and Head of the ICT & Projects division