The client is a leading private sector bank in India, founded in 1985 and part of a prominent financial services conglomerate. Over the years, the bank has expanded its national footprint and emerged as a leader in offering digital-first banking services, catering to both retail and corporate customers.
The bank wanted to adopt Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to improve application availability and streamline its IT operations. However, several challenges arose in implementing VDI across various core banking functions, including Treasury, remote branches, and loan processing centers:
Anunta leveraged its extensive experience in virtualization to design and implement a customized VDI solution that addressed the bank’s diverse needs. This solution was built on a combination of persistent and non-persistent Hosted Virtual Desktops (HVDs), Hosted Shared Desktops (HSDs), and desktop virtualization technologies like Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH), XenDesktop, and XenApp.
The key components of the solution were:
The implementation of Anunta’s VDI solution brought several measurable benefits to the bank: