Case Study: Dhaka Stock Exchange achieves rapid app deployment, 98% uptime and 50% cost savings with VMware virtualized solutions

Dhaka Stock Exchange Transforms IT with VMware’s Virtualized Solutions

Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), Bangladesh’s premier securities exchange serving 250 brokers and facilitating hundreds of listed securities, struggled with a sprawling physical IT footprint—about 250 servers—that limited scalability, increased power/cooling and security burdens, and caused frequent downtime and slow application rollouts (often months). These constraints threatened DSE’s growth plans and its ability to support higher trading volumes and a growing investor base.

DSE implemented a VMware virtualized infrastructure (vSphere and vRealize) to centralize management and optimize resources, consolidating 250 servers to 25. The upgrade raised data center uptime to 98%, cut recovery time by 50%, reduced OpEx ~50% and CapEx ~30%, and shortened application rollout from three months to eight days. The private cloud now supports a 100,000-user mobile trading app, increased customer reach by 50%, and gives IT proactive monitoring and capacity planning to better serve brokers and investors.

Dhaka Stock Exchange

Mohammad Ruhul Amin

Assistant General Manager, ICT Division