CUSTOM SOLUTIONS GROUP EMC
With the new storage solutions, our goals of enhanced performance, faster project execution, and improved customer experience were met. We were fortunate to have a specialized team from EMC for the migration process. It enabled us to work together, define our expectations, and achieve our goals.” KERSI TAVADIA CIO, BSE
attitude and business focus. The new outlook is meant to position the bourse better in the eyes of its customers as a national, multi-asset financial infrastructure institution. That tagline was Experience the New. But to do that, the BSE had to first release itself from the challenges of the old.
SCALING LEGACY Given BSE’s heavy dependency on data, it was only natural that the new direction called for an evolution of platforms and technologies. In line with that, BSE’s CIO, Kersi Tavadia, and his team, realized it was time to revamp the exchange’s storage subsystem. It hosted several real-time applications that required the highest levels of availability and performance and it was fast running out of capacity and wasn’t able to scale up efficiently.
Kersi and his team kept a close tab on identifying bottlenecks in systems and effectuating changes in technologies, both tactically and strategically. They found that critical data in multiple silos and a lack of single replication technology were putting additional pressure on the organization’s information storage strategy. So, the BSE’s IT team turned to EMC to create an effective, centralized storage environment that would offer enhanced performance and robust replication technology. This would not only improve the storage environment’s scalability but also strengthened the organization’s business continuity planning (BCP) initiatives. The question was: Could EMC offer them a solution that would meet the BSE’s multiple needs and still offer a near price-to-value proposition? To understand the magnitude of the BSE’s challenge it’s critical to recognize just how large it is. The BSE