
Industry challenges
Over the past decade, changes caused by globalization, increases in operational speed, and financial instrument complexity have created a challenging environment for financial institutions. While capturing, analyzing, and sharing business data, global banks must also be more attuned to data security than ever before.
The finance and banking industry faces unique challenges in managing IT and storage:
- Data security while capturing, analyzing and sharing business data
- Risk analytics
- Compliance with regulations around record retention
- Information warehousing
- IT optimization
- Disaster recovery and continuous application availability
- Scalability and manageability
- Cost pressures
IBM System Storage solutions
IBM Information Infrastructure solutions can help:
- Provide continuous, undisrupted access to information so that finance clients can leverage it when and where it’s needed
- Efficiently store, retain and protect customer financial and personal information, statements and relationships
- Ensure security and privacy of the customer's information as it is generated, managed, and shared across the enterprise
- Offer scalability to address the information growth seamlessly without disrupting service
- Provide infrastructure optimization (reducing redundancy and cost in infrastructure)
IBM has the trained resources, skills, and solutions to help banking, finance and insurance clients to protect and manage information across their organizations and enable secure and efficient operations.
Learn more
- Success story: Bank Leumi revolutionizes its storage paradigm after discovering superior performance and real single-tier storage with the IBM XIV Storage System (1252KB)
- Case study: Security Service Federal Credit Union revitalizes data storage with IBM System Storage DR550
- Case study: IBM and Tectrade help Winterthur Life UK meet storage demands
- Case study: St. Paul Travelers UK chooses IBM for storage virtualization
- Case studies: IBM System Storage Case Studies (7024KB)
- IBM solutions for the financial industry
- IBM Smarter Money solutions
