IBM PureFlex Banking

IBM PureFlex provides an ideal environment for deploying Temenos T24

Highlights

Simplifies resource management with a single application to manage your entire environment Provides a flexible environment for deploying Temenos T24 Ensures high availability for business-critical systems Operates as a state-of-the-art virtualization environment

The challenge facing the banking industry is clear: banks need a smarter way of doing business. Todays banks are facing unprecedented change, so they must also change if they wish to remain competitive. Banking business models and their supporting IT infrastructure need to be able to keep up with the new industry realities of risk, regulation and customer retention. In addition, new entrants to the banking industry, such as Paypal, Bitcoin and Tesco, are not encumbered by antiquated core banking systems, creating even more pressure on traditional banks to update their way of doing business. To be successful, next-generation banks must be ready to compete in a manner that decreases costs, encourages business agility, and lowers risk. Many banks have turned to Temenos, a leading global banking software company and IBM Premier Business Partner, to nd a smarter way to meet the demands of the modern banking environment. Temenos T24 (T24) is the worlds most widely used core banking system, providing 24-hour, real-time access to banking information. Together, Temenos and IBM provide customers with compelling joint solutions, combining Temenos technology and application banking software with IBMs complementary hardware, software and services solutions. If youve already selected Temenos T24 as your core banking system of choice, then you are most likely aware of all the benets that T24 has to offer: comprehensive business functionality with an advanced, secure, scalable and modular architecture that ensures consistency of service across all branches and delivery channels. Deploying T24 on IBM PureFlex can help you build on these benets with additional simplicity, exibility, availability and virtualization.

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IBM PureFlex
A part of the IBM PureSystems line of expert integrated systems, the PureFlex System is a exible infrastructure system with integrated expertise that senses and anticipates the resources required to optimize your infrastructure. IBM PureFlex deeply integrates compute nodes, storage, networking and virtualization into a single system with a single, unied management console. Its built-in expertise helps organizational leaders more simply manage and exibly deploy integrated patterns of virtual and physical resources.

Availability
For banking institutions that deploy T24, the ability to keep systems up and running is of the upmost importance. IBM PureFlex has many features that are designed specically to provide high availability for business-critical systems, including internal duplexed network switches and multiple redundant power supplies and fans. IBM PureFlex is designed to protect business applications from outages of virtually any kind.

Virtualization
IBM PureFlex offers a state-of-the-art virtualization environment, including virtualized systems, storage and networking. This gives you a complete virtual datacenter, which can be easily managed using software. Thanks to the virtualization capabilities offered by IBM PureFlex, youll be able to perform complex system recongurations without having to touch a single cable. PureFlex also operates as a private cloud environment, allowing you to make some or all of your capacity available to users as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud. Delivering T24 development and test environments over the cloud gives your developers the ability to access these environments through a self-service portal.

Simplicity
PureFlex is designed, built, and delivered as a complete, readyto-use system. Once the IBM service engineers complete the installation (usually within four hours), youll have a working system in place that could help take weeks off the infrastructure deployment of T24. With IBM Flex System Manager, PureFlex also provides a single application to manage your entire environment, making it much easier to manage resources. Whether youre in the office or on the go, Flex System Manager provides everything you need to manage your compute, storage, network and virtualized resources. IBM Flex System Manager is designed to help you get the most out of IBM PureFlex System. By automating repetitive tasks, IBM Flex System Manager frees up more of your time, so you can focus your efforts on business innovation.

Flexibility
Compared to other pre-integrated systems, IBM PureFlex is extremely exible in its design and layout. When you rst roll out your PureFlex implementation, you can start with as few as one compute node. As your business needs change, youll be able to add nodes (up to 41 in a rack) without having to pay for an expensive system upgrade. One of the key benets of T24 is its exibility to work across operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and AIX. PureFlex gives users the ability to deploy T24 on the operating system of their choice, allowing them to take advantage of the exibility offered by T24.

IBM PureFlex System takes the IT industry beyond delivering IT components to start delivering integrated expertise that maximizes optimization and automation. IBM Pure Systems provides greater agility reduces risk and allows greater predictability for banks.
John Schlesinger, Chief Enterprise Architect, TEMENOS

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About Temenos
Founded in 1993, Temenos Group AG is the market leading provider of mission-critical software systems to retail, corporate, universal, private, Islamic, micronance and community banks, wealth managers, and other nancial institutions. Headquartered in Geneva with 59 offices worldwide, Temenos software is proven in over 1,500 customer deployments in more than 140 countries across the world. Temenos products provide advanced technology and rich functionality, incorporating best practice processes that leverage Temenos expertise around the globe.

IBM brings the credentials and commitment that comes from working for many years with some of the worlds leading nancial services companies. Working together with Temenos, we can help you build a smarter bank and create a robust, dynamic, scalable platform for growth and innovation.

For more information

To learn more about IBM PureFlex, contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner or visit:
ibm.com/pureflex

Why IBM
IBM has decades of experience in the banking and nancial services industry and provides a wide range of business consulting, nancing and information technology services, including a broad choice of server platforms, related storage, databases and middleware. IBMs Smarter Computing strategy can help banks and other businesses address customers increasing service expectations and control rising costs while laying the foundation for breakthrough productivity, gains and accelerated value creation.

To learn more about how IBM and Temenos can benet your banking institution, please contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner or visit:
ibm.com/banking

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