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[RABOBANK, NETHERLANDS] As the popularity of
Internet banking continues to grow, and as
in-person visits continue to decline, financial
institutions need to strike a balance between
costly branch offices and increased support
for online services. This is precisely what
Rabobank is doing. Over the past three
years, the bank has moved aggressively to
increase efficiency through consolidation
and reduction of branches, simultaneously
enhancing its computing infrastructure to
support centralized versus decentralized
applications. Today, any branch in the
Netherlands can service any Rabobank customer
who walks through the door, thanks
to centralized access to enterprisewide data.
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Rabobank entrusts its core applications—including ATM, statement printing, CRM,
clearing and settlement, and Internet banking—to the HP NonStop platform. “Rabobank is
primarily an Internet bank,” explained
Diederick de Buck, systems programmer and
technical architect at Rabobank. “If the service
isn’t available, you don’t have customers.
That’s why the continuous availability of the
NonStop platform is so vital to the success of
our business.” Rabobank’s mission-critical
applications run on NonStop S76000 and
S86000 servers; disaster recovery is handled
by NonStop Remote Database Facility
(NonStop RDF) software.
If Rabobank’s core systems were down for
any period of time, losses could be calculated
in the millions, or even hundreds of millions,
of dollars. “If a NonStop server has a problem,
the fault is contained due to the loosely
coupled MPP architecture, and the application
is unaffected,” de Buck concluded. “The HP
NonStop platform delivers the most manageable
and reliable computing environment
in the world, and it is a key element in
Rabobank’s success.”
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