Volksbank Romania Selects IBM for Business Resiliency and Data Recovery

Bucharest, Romania, 19 March 2013 Volksbank Romania, one of the leading banks in
Romania, today announced that it will move its IT infrastructure to the IBM Managed
Data Center in Bucharest,. With this move, Volksbank will be able to adapt to
continuously changing demands of the business environment and more fully protect the
banks data and operations from disrupting events.
As Volksbank seeks to transform its customer experience and expand the banking
solutions, they must ensure the IT infrastructure is continuously operational and protected
from interruptive events and disasters.
Volksbank turned to the IBM Managed Data Center for a proven disaster recovery
solution with minimum downtime, predictive cost benefits over time, and minimum
expense for expanding their infrastructure. The major benefits are highly availability for
banking applications and the capability to adopt new technologies.
Banks need smart solutions to accelerate innovation and increase operational
efficiency, said Valeriu Nistor, Country Manager, IBM Romania. The services provided
through IBM Managed Data Center enable faster and more efficient big data
management, helping the customers to pick out relevant data insights for making strategic
business decisions.
Throughout the three-year contract, Volksbank will use IBMs managed hosting services
and data communication services, which include managed telecom services, relocation
services and end-to-end project management.
"IBM offered the best package of solutions critical to our current needs and growth
estimates said Bogdan Pipernea, CIO, Volskbank Romania. The most innovative
elements of this partnership are represented by the state-of-the-art design of disaster
recovery concept and the high performance versatile data services capable of active data
replication between primary and disaster recovery sites. We consider a long-term
collaboration, which includes the changing role of the new data center, from Disaster
Recovery location into main location''.
IBM Managed Data Center offers a wide-range of services to its clients, such as hosting,
installation, cloud computing and co-location services, together with additional services
including business continuity, on site back up and disaster recovery. IBM will provide
Volksbank with a full suite of IT services from a robust facility in a timely and costeffective manner to allow company to meet present and future business needs and to
improve operational efficiency,
Since 2010, IBM Romania has offered clients one of the most advanced data centers in
South Eastern Europe. The IBM managed data center in Romania offers clients a wide
variety of services, such as hosting facilities, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS
(Platform as a Service), cloud computing, business continuity and data backup. Based on

its hosting facilities, IBM is able to offer scalable IT infrastructure including hardware
with high processing capacities, storage on-demand, back-up on disk and tape,
virtualization, operating systems, security services, monitoring and management.
About IBM:
For more information regarding IBM, please visit www.ibm.com .
About Volksbank:
Founded in 2000, Volksbank is a financial Austrian institution, serving more than 150,000
clients, being one of the top 10 banks in the local market, with assets of 4.4 billion Euros.
The bank has 130 branches, covering the most important areas of the country. As a
universal bank, Volksbank today offers a full range of products and services for all types
of customers: individuals, small and medium-sized companies and large corporations.
Volksbank aims to provide competitive financial products and advisory for clients, acting
as their trusted partner.
For more information about Volksbank, please visit: www.volksbank.ro .