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Wim deRidder
Managing Director and Chief Information Officer
NEXXAR Group
Through the acquisitions, Nexxar Group has inherited a certain infrastructure. The infrastructure founded multiple data centers and did not provide our ultimate platform we wanted to migrate under. Nexxar Group now has an IBM z9 Business Class mainframe.
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Benefits
Richard Levine
One of the reasons that the IBM System z9 Business Class server was attractive to Nexxar was really that it would give us not just a strategic advantage, but also a cost benefit as well.
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Wim deRidder
We could eliminate the infrastructure into one physical based environment, one data center where we have centralized resource management, giving us a tremendous amount of cost savings. Nexxar is using the Integrated for Linux Processor, together with DB2, running on the z/OS. The benefit is the reduction on the software licensing.
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Resource Management
Wim deRidder
The virtualization, reduced number of resources needed, less software licenses, resulted for the Nexxar Group in an operation cost reduction of 30 percent.
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Richard Levine
The advent of this system will now allow us to go forward with our very aggressive business plan and drive our growth and achieve some of the very lofty expectations that we have for the company.
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Security
Wim deRidder
We have to assure up time 24/7. In order to do so, we have a network control center, which is using the IBM Tivoli Omegamon Product Suite to monitor all the aspects of the system. This allows them to see not only resource utilization, but also whether certain elements of the system are up and down. Security is key within the financial services industry. The built-in cryptographic processors are providing us to deal with the hand-shaking for the secure circuit layer, connectivity, which is activated through our internet-based application. The IBM System z9 Business Class server gave us a faster time to market our new private label customers, as well as the vehicle to successfully integrate our current and future acquisitions with the required quality.
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Growth
Richard Levine
We've actually experienced outstanding service from IBM. We're very pleased with the way the process went, and we found them to be an excellent business partner.
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