Bangalore: NetApp’s FAS 8000 storage system has sorted out the data center management issue for ING Vysya Bank Ltd. (NSE: INGVYSYABK) for the next 5-7 years which  is a great relief for the bank, as there will be zero capacity issues in the near future. ING is a premier private sector bank with retail, private and wholesale banking platforms.  ING has selected NetApp’s storage system to deliver the necessary throughput, capacity and connectivity to meet the demands of the evolving market conditions. NetApp have built this storage system which is an effective ecosystem of financial services, across ING’s 553 branches.

The bank offers a broad range of innovative and established products and services, and currently has market cap of $120.92B. ING, an institution that believes in innovation, had embarked on an integral plan to build a world class technology environment to support business growth. NetApp FAS storage system has enabled ING to deliver online and mobile banking services to more than 2,000,000 customers across the country.

 “We are proud to be the first core banking application in India to be hosted on NetApp. With NetApp’s FAS storage series, we can leverage our core banking system (CBS) to provide innovative products to customers while improving performance by 60 percent immediately. It also reduced our batch processing time by 100 percent, significantly improving business agility, system uptime, resulting in greater customer satisfaction,” says Aniruddha Paul, CIO, ING Vysya Bank.

 “NetApp provided us with - enough flexibility, a wide array of software with varied functionality and the confidence that we can leverage the storage infrastructure on a wider platform, in terms of the number of applications it can support efficiently,” says Sandeep Kaul, Head-IT Infrastructure of ING Vysya Bank.

This FAS storage system had optimized memory and I/O bandwidth to provide finer and better quality performance while providing the network connectivity and capacity scaling needed to meet growing and changing data center requirements, as well as ensuring a proven availability in excess of 99.999 percent. This NetApp’s FAS 8000 provide an enterprise storage solution accelerates resource-intensive applications with hybrid flash arrays that give more than 2.6M IOPs of flash-integrated, low-latency performance and hence enhances the business agility.