Case Studies in Financial Services

bank zweiplus Rapidly Gains Ground

July 16, 2009

To launch the new bank zweiplus for private affluent customers in a joint venture with AIG Private Bank, Bank Sarasin took the lead in benchmarking the performance of HP Integrity* rx8640 servers powered by Intel® Itanium® processor 9100 series to…

Banking on Remote Support


Managing thousands of PCs, including 23,000 desktop PCs across 4,200 branches required intensive management by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) with the frequent remote data and application updates and security patches. If an upgrade failed, not only did IT support…

Wall Street Systems Boosts Revenues, Cuts Costs by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

April 27, 2009

Wall Street Systems, who help financial institutions and other enterprises improve their workflows and increase control of corporate treasury, bank treasury, central banking, FX trading, and global back office operations, found their clients wanted the ability to replace their SPARC*…

GigaSpaces: A Scalable, Cost-Effective Stack for Highly Concurrent Financial Services Applications

March 26, 2009

Intel, Sun and GigaSpaces have partnered to offer an optimized hardware and middleware stack, targeted at the unique needs of banks, capital market firms, insurance companies and other financial institutions. The platform was tested with highly concurrent risk management, real-time…

NYSE Technologies: Optimizing Middleware to Increase Throughput and Reduce Latency and TCO

March 25, 2009

NYSE Technologies is working with Intel to prove that improving efficiency by processing vast amounts of market data in a matter of microseconds is compatible with reducing the total cost of ownership. This case study looks at how these competing…

Thomson Reuters: Powering the Law

February 16, 2009

Thomson Reuters has been providing research tools and information to legal professionals for over 130 years and their services are used by nearly 95 percent of major U.S. law firms to research legal issues. Other Thomson Reuters databases provide vital…

Virtualization Helps DDS Dresdner Direktservice GmbH Achieve Better Performance at Lower Cost

November 25, 2008

DDS Dresdner Direktservice GmbH helps Dresdner Bank and other Allianz Group business units by offering customer sales support and services. Continuous growth pushed some DDS servers to their capacity limits, and maintenance contracts for 39 servers expired. DDS decided to…

Bank NISP Deploys Intel® Multi-Core Xeon® Processors and Increases Performance

November 5, 2008

With the successful deployment of blade server systems based on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, Indonesia-based Bank NISP has effectively buffered itself against increased business demands and laid the groundwork for further service expansion, distinguishing itself from the competition. Read how Bank…

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