Case Study: Yoma Bank achieves 24/7 secure, scalable digital banking and major cost savings with VMware

Yoma Bank Makes Banking Services Accessible to Millions Despite Limited Branches

Yoma Bank, a private Myanmar bank founded in 1993 with 80 branches, aimed to become the leading SME bank but was constrained by limited touchpoints, short branch hours and heavy traffic that made in-person banking inconvenient. An unstable, inflexible IT infrastructure prevented secure online and mobile services and restricted the bank to basic products, so the bank sought an affordable, easy-to-manage solution to support digital channels and improve disaster recovery.

Yoma Bank virtualized its environment with VMware vSphere, vSAN and NSX—using vMotion for zero‑downtime migrations, all‑flash and hybrid vSAN nodes with DR replication, and NSX micro‑segmentation for tighter security. Within a year 80% of servers were virtualized, enabling 24/7 online and mobile banking, new tailored SME products, faster DR (minutes vs. hours), 50% lower capex, ~30% lower opex, improved uptime and security, and measurable revenue growth and scalability.

Yoma Bank

Kyaw Soe Lin

Chief Information Officer