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Cedacri Selects Cisco Data Center Infrastructure to Target New Customers
Cisco Data Center Technology Helps Italian Banking Services Company Reduce the Cost of Expanding Services to New Markets
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
MILAN, ITALY--(Marketwire - October 26, 2007) - Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO ) announced today that
Cedacri, a leading information technology (IT) provider for financial
institutions in Italy, has chosen a Cisco data center infrastructure to
help reduce the cost of winning new customers in Milan, one of Italy's key
financial centers. The Cisco technology will help Cedacri deliver
expertise and services to financial institutions without the prohibitive
cost of building a local data center. Banking institutions will benefit
from less expensive long-distance data communications.
Cisco data center networking technology will help Cedacri establish a point
of presence in Milan, linked to two existing data centers more than 150
kilometers (93 miles) away in Parma and Alessandria. Milanese banks and
financial services companies will pay only for data communications to the
Milan point of presence. They will also have access to Cedacri's
specialized banking services, including IT outsourcing, disaster recovery,
business continuity and data storage via a 10-gigabit high-speed,
low-latency connection.
Riccardo Trazzi, manager for information and communications technology at
Cedacri, said, "The Cisco Data Center Network Architecture means that we
can quickly, easily and cost-effectively establish a presence in Milan.
Without this, we would have to build a data center in the region, which
would be too expensive, or pay very high data communications costs, making
our products and services uncompetitive. Neither Cedacri nor its customers
need pay for expensive data communication, because Cisco will provide a
high-capacity, low-cost connection between our data centers and Milan.
This means that we can expand our financial IT expertise and services to
new markets, effectively bringing them to the doorstep of new customers
without the usual infrastructure costs."
The Cisco data center infrastructure is based on a Cisco Service-Oriented
Network Architecture (SONA) framework that enables businesses like Cedacri
to develop integrated network solutions. These solutions optimize
applications, business processes and resources and provide a scalable
infrastructure for future application and service deployment.
Cedacri will use Cisco Catalyst® 6500 Series Switches to manage data communication over
the 10-gigabit Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol backbone between the
data centers and Milan. The switches will also provide Cisco network
security features such as intrusion detection and firewalls. Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches, which will be located in
Cedacri's data centers and which allow logical rather than physical data
center partitioning, are expected to help Cedacri deploy services to
customers faster and more efficiently. The Cisco Data Center Network
Architecture at Cedacri is being implemented by IBM, a Cisco Gold Certified
Partner.
"Cedacri is a prime example of how organizations can use the Cisco Data
Center Network Architecture to maximize existing resources to improve
services and, significantly, make those services available to more
customers without additional large investment," said Enrico Deluchi,
operations director for the enterprise market, Cisco Italy. "Cisco network
technologies help enable organizations to be much more agile because they
are not restricted by the traditional costs or logistics of entering new
markets. Equally, they can respond to changing business demands faster
through rapid application and services provisioning and fast, highly secure
access to those applications and services irrespective of location."
About Cedacri
Cedacri is leader in Italy in the IT services for the banking and financial
sector. The company's mission is the development, maintenance and
management of a multi-bank system and the provision of IT systems
outsourcing services, full or selective, supported by assistance, training
and management consultancy. Cedacri has more than 100 clients, 70 of
which are Italian credit institutions in full outsourcing with about 2.500
branches; 26.000 employees using everyday the Cedacri solutions; 22 million
clients of the credit institutions and more of 20 million transaction
managed everyday.
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