Case Study: Myanmar Oriental Bank achieves always-on digital banking and rapid server provisioning with VMware

Empowering Myanmar Oriental Bank’s IT Transformation Through VMware’s Virtualization Solutions

Myanmar Oriental Bank (MOB), a leading private bank in Myanmar with 43 branches and over 1,200 employees, faced rapidly growing demand for mobile and online banking. Its legacy IT—about 20 physical servers, manual shutdowns, long procurement cycles and single‑point failure risks—could not support 24/7 services or quickly provision new capabilities, leading to outages and slow time to market.

MOB deployed a VMware Software‑Defined Data Center (vCloud Suite Enterprise with vSphere/vRealize, NSX, vSAN) with VMware Professional Services and consolidated its physical servers into a centralized virtual environment in six months. The migration cut server provisioning from three months to five minutes, sped testing and deployments by 80%, increased capacity utilization by 60%, reduced physical footprint by 50%, improved diagnostics by 80%, lowered costs and power use, and delivered more reliable, secure always‑on digital banking.

Myanmar Oriental Bank

Nelson Tan

Head Information Officer