{"id":82360,"date":"2008-05-05T10:21:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T17:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infraops.wordpress.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T21:00:47","slug":"virtualized-banking-can-save-real-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/virtualized-banking-can-save-real-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtualized Banking Can Save Real Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Virtualization in Banking Survey 2008,&#8221; conducted by independent, Washington, D.C.-based research firm KRC gives some insight into virtualization findings for US and UK banking institutions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crm.tmcnet.com\/topics\/saas\/articles\/26504-microsoft-survey-examines-virtualization-banking-industry.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMCnet<\/a> had this to say about key finding from the survey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>53 percent of those implementing virtualization reported that it eases centralization of deployment and management of applications as well as producing cost savings<\/li>\n<li>51 percent reported that virtualization makes it easier to respond to issues such as failures of applications or systems<\/li>\n<li>46 percent felt that saving space made it easier to provide security and 34 percent ranked it as significant for driving technology<\/li>\n<li>95 percent of current virtualization users have implemented it in regional or national headquarters; 53 percent in branch offices<\/li>\n<li>82 percent of those deploying virtualization in branches were in community branches; 31 percent in showcase branches; 28 percent in co-located branches; and 13 percent in mobile branches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Again from <a href=\"http:\/\/crm.tmcnet.com\/topics\/saas\/articles\/26504-microsoft-survey-examines-virtualization-banking-industry.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMCnet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In today\u2019s major retail bank, machine operating system virtualization is becoming a foundation for a dynamic and responsive data center. Application virtualization continues to change how banks manage line-of-business software applications.<\/p>\n<p>Within the desktop, it is empowering workers by enables them to run multiple operating systems and presentation virtualization allows bank employees to seamlessly execute an application from a remote computer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Remove the percentages and brake this down to some key take-away&#8217;s and you&#8217;ll see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eases centralization and management of applications<\/li>\n<li>easier to respond to issues<\/li>\n<li>space saving<\/li>\n<li>easier to provide security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/link-not-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNNMoney had this to say &#8211;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wide variety of virtualization reported in the survey may be a direct result of increasing market pressure on banks to reduce costs, innovate and manage IT resources more centrally. For today&#8217;s major retail bank, machine operating system virtualization is becoming a foundation for a dynamic and responsive data center; application virtualization is changing how banks manage line-of-business software applications; desktop virtualization is empowering workers by enabling them to run multiple operating systems on a single desktop; and presentation virtualization allows bank employees to seamlessly execute an application from a remote computer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like the other IT sectors being asked to do more with less, the banking industry is finding they can save real money by virtualizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Virtualization in Banking Survey 2008,&#8221; conducted by independent, Washington, D.C.-based research firm KRC gives some insight into virtualization findings for US and UK banking institutions: TMCnet had this to say about key finding from the survey: 53 percent of those implementing virtualization reported that it eases centralization of deployment and management of applications as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[433],"class_list":["post-82360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-talk","tag-infraops"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":441,"label":"Tech Talk"}],"post_tag":[{"value":433,"label":"InfraOps"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jorgep-BlogPostGeneric.jpg",1024,512,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jorge Pereira","author_link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/author\/jorge\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":441,"name":"Tech Talk","slug":"tech-talk","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":451,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":678,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":441,"category_count":678,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Tech Talk","category_nicename":"tech-talk","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":433,"name":"InfraOps","slug":"infraops","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":443,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":91,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}