BisB and Nutanix partner to strengthen banking operations in Bahrain

Written by Delisha Fernandez

Nutanix, a cloud software provider, announced that Bahrain Islamic Bank (BisB), which provides Islamic digital banking services in Bahrain, has standardized on Nutanix technology solutions to accelerate its digital transformation.

Before deciding to invest in a complete solution that includes Nutanix Database-as-a-Service (NDB), the bank wanted to understand the technology’s great capabilities and experience first-hand its incredible performance and reliability. We ran Nutanix in a test environment for a year. ), Nutanix File, Nutanix Data Protection, and Nutanix AHV.

Ahmed Sami, Head of Services and Delivery, BisBHe said: “It used to take up to five days to provision a database cluster, but now it can be up and running within an hour. So when a business unit wants to develop and test a new application, we can quickly This ultimately means the bank can bring innovation to market faster.”

As a result of deploying Nutanix’s broad suite of solutions, we’ve increased the performance and availability of our critical workloads by 70% and increased backup speeds by 90%, with backups now completing in minutes. Database provisioning time has also been reduced from 5 days to less than 1 hour, and maintenance resource requirements have also been reduced by 75%.

The enhancements to our bank’s backup and recovery capabilities are more than impressive. With his 90% performance increase, the bank’s backup time has been reduced to just a few minutes. This exceeds regulatory requirements and gives customers confidence that their hard-earned funds are safe and protected from the threat of cyber-attacks.

Ali Adel, BisB Database Lead “In Nutanix, we have found a rare technology partner who is uncompromisingly committed to our bank’s long-term success. We’re going to fully standardize our infrastructure on Nutanix so that we can do that.”