Lakshmi Vilas Bank selects Datacraft to upgrade IT security infrastructure

Datacraft, an
independent IT solutions and services company, has been awarded an IT
security infrastructure and datacenter upgrading project by Lakshmi
Vilas Bank. Lakshmi Vilas Bank
(LVB) is one of the most established banks in South India, which has
a network of 273 branches, one satellite branch and eight extension
counters, spread over 16 states and the union territory of
Puducherry. With a strong focus on customer service, the bank has
invested heavily in strengthening its IT infrastructure and service
delivery over the past few years. With further
expansion in the plan, LVB has called upon Datacraft to upgrade its
IT security infrastructure and datacenter. LVB realized that its
existing infrastructure needed a complete overhaul in order to cope
with rising traffic and meet high service level guarantees for a
rapidly expanding customer base.

“We have
recently doubled our presence in other states and it was very
critical to keep our IT infrastructure, expansion ready. RBI (or
Reserve Bank of India) guidelines also call for end-to-end data
security for all financial transactions and we wanted to ensure that
the IT network backbone had the capacity to cope with increased
demand. We were looking for a fault-tolerant, resilient, and highly
available infrastructure, which involved switching and routing, and
security for all our branches. In addition, it needed to accommodate
future technology advancements with increasing customer base calling
for the need to upgrade the datacenter,” said VS Reddy, MD, LVB.
“Datacraft had
the requisite experience in the financial services sector and an
in-depth understanding of deploying advanced Cisco solutions to
implement this next-generation datacenter solution,” he added.

The contract
required Datacraft to design and implement the datacenter upgrade as
well as to provide ongoing support to ensure a high level of
operational performance. As reliability and scalability are a
challenge, MPLS-based network was deployed for all core connectivity,
and using ISDN as a fallback. “The Datacraft
team adopted a consultative approach to identify the gaps in the
existing network and security infrastructure, and provide a modular
solution to fix the gaps by re-architecting the existing
infrastructure. This has resulted in significant financial savings
for the client,” said Sunil Manglore, CEO of Datacraft India. “Our
expertise
in addressing the specific needs of the financial services industry
is evident in the success of this project and the work done for other
major banks in the country. Working closely with Cisco and other
vendors, the team put together a solution that served to enhance
LVB's business efficiency, operations and services to its
customers, whilst paving the way for future expansion throughout all
its operations,” he concluded.