UnionBank has always spearheaded technological innovations to empower its customers. It is fully committed to being the Philippines’ leading bank of innovation to best serve the growing needs of Filipinos everywhere. UnionBank is diving deeper into digital transformation, spanning network infrastructure, organizational structure, and operational mode. Data is exploding in the digital era, and it is the data center (DC) that processes and stores so much data, especially an enterprise’s core data and production systems; it is also the starting point of business innovation. UnionBank is among the first to embrace digital transformation by building a next-generation DC architecture and promoting data center network (DCN) transformation. The resulting benefits include more agile and reliable networks, higher-quality services, and more energetic business innovation.
Originally, UnionBank operated an active/standby disaster recovery (DR) DC architecture that was built on legacy devices. This legacy network architecture, however, became less practical as the bank’s services developed. There were challenges in rapid and elastic scaling, agile deployment, or E2E automation, and meeting agile service innovation requirements. To overcome these challenges, the bank needed to build a next-generation smart DCN as soon as possible. UnionBank finally decided to join hands with Huawei to build a smart DCN. The bank came to its decision based on Huawei’s unrivaled strengths, including future-oriented DCN architecture, smooth network migration and evolution, a simplified and intelligent DCN O&M system, and customer pain point-targeted real-time service support.