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Virtualized financial services platform ensures availability

Infrastructure that’s more e�cient, manageable, and cost-e�ective

Seeking maximum uptime in financial services

Seeking maximum uptime in financial services

Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong was finding its data center of more than 500 servers di�cult to manage; they also needed to ensure high application availability, and eliminate disaster recovery downtime.

“The time to recover the application data in the event of an issue could be up to eight hours or two days, and even after this we were still uncertain as to whether the hardware was capable to be placed back into production.”

IT Department Representative, Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong

Operational benefits of virtualization

Paid-in capital

US$536,734,230HK$100,000,000

450 employees

Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong

provides a comprehensive range of financial products and services to an established international client base, maximizing client opportunities through the resources and network of Daiwa Securities Group, Inc.

21%Number of newprojects

22%Application time to market

26%Rework and Testing

27%Server incidents

26%System downtime

“Virtualization has helped us achieve server consolidation and has contributed to signifi-cant savings in investment and maintenance of physical servers.”

IT Department Representative, Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong

Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong reduced

500 physical servers to 26costs due to decreased server maintenance2 day server recovery time to zero downtimeIT workloadtest environment deployment from 2 days to 1 hour

Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong gained

Improved stability and performance of trading systemsComprehensive disaster recovery80% server resource utilization

After considering solutions from Microsoft and Red Hat, the organization chose to implement a virtual infrastructure using VMware vCenter Server to provide centralized management for VMware vSphere and high availability through VMware vSphere vMotion.

$18.8MThe finance sector spends more than any other sector in the Asia- Pacific region on IT backup and recovery

High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) in the Asia-Pacific region increased their wealth by well above the rate of the rest of the world in 2012.

12.2% Asia-Pacific

9.3% worldwide