After a POC, Punjab Maharashtra Coop Bk on with ADC

BANGALORE, INDIA: Punjab Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (PMC Bank), has chosen Array Networks' ADC and server load balancing solutions to serve their customers with secure high speed connectivity for internet and mobile banking.

As per the announcement shared, PMC Bank required high availability, speedy performance and reliable security for their internet and mobile services portals. They wanted to enhance their online transaction processing in order to provide customers with good user experience and around the clock service. PMC Bank conducted a detailed requirements analysis with their compliance and networking teams which was subsequently shared with various vendors. All the leading ADC products were tested; Array Networks' Proof of Concept (POC) solution was selected after a month of live internet usage at PMC's production site.

As added, Array Networks' ADC solution helped PMC Bank provide application availability and security to its customers over the internet. The bank claims it was able to make use of Array's inclusive security and traffic management features to secure internet traffic using 2048 bits VeriSign certificate encryption, and intelligent route customer traffic based on usage to the best web and application servers and data centers.

Array Networks' ADC also helped PMC Bank comply with RBI guidelines for business continuity and availability, ensuring hassle free wirespeed encryption for internet users, the announcement explained. In addition, Array's ADC enabled global load balancing of internet traffic between PMC's primary Mumbai and secondary Bangalore sites which helped the bank improve Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) during failover to Disaster Recover (DR) sites for Drills and during actual Data Center unavailability for a particular application or the whole site. 

Atul Thakker, Vice President - Information Technology at PMC Bank said, "Array Networks solution has enabled our customers with high speed connectivity for internet and mobile banking transactions. The performance of the internet banking servers was noticeable. Array has helped us to enhance the business continuity for Internet & Mobile banking applications and we are able to meet the RBI compliance because of the Array Networks ADC solution."