Banks & Financial Services
February 21, 2008
Commerzbank on Netscout Systems
“... it [is] absolutely essential that our network always operates at peak efficiency. We chose NetScout's nGenius® Solution to assure the reliability and business-critical performance of our Gigabit Ethernet network.”-- Network Engineer, Commerzbank
Customer Profile - Commerzbank AG is the second-largest bank in Germany and headquartered in Frankfurt. Commerzbank is mainly active in commercial banking, retail banking and mortgaging, and holds a nationwide network of branch offices throughout Germany and numerous branch offices all over the EU and Europe (namely Luxembourg, Poland, Spain and Switzerland) and with a leading market share in online banking.
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February 07, 2008
Oslo Børs on Netscout Systems
“With the nGenius Flow Recorder if there is a problem, I can easily see application traffic flows and quickly discover the cause. The result is faster repair times and ability to solve problems before they impact end users.”-- Network Administrator, Oslo Børs
Customer Profile - Oslo Stock Exchange (Norwegian: Oslo Børs) serves as the main market for trading in shares of Norwegian companies. In additional to a wide range of domestic companies, OSE attracts a lot of international companies within petroleum, shipping and other related areas. Oslo Børs remained a self-owning institution until 2001 when it converted into a joint stock company and offered shares to the public in an IPO. DnB NOR owns 18% of the company, with the rest of the shares held mostly by many foreign and domestic investors. On October 6 2006, the larger market and pan-Scandinavian stock exchange group OMX acquired a 10% strategic stake.
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October 8, 2007
Wells Fargo on Tealeaf
“Tealeaf is a one-of-a-kind solution that allows bank operators to identify problems immediately, reproduce them, rapidly isolate causal factors and prevent the problems from reoccurring. Errors that may have taken several days to diagnose can now be identified and resolved in a matter of hours.”-- Network Manager, Wells Fargo
Customer Profile - Wells Fargo is a diversified financial services company with $397 billion in assets, serving customers and partners from more than 5,900 stores and the Internet (wellsfargo.com). As one of the leading corporate internet sites, Wells Fargo has the resources, experience and technology necessary to help businesses succeed both online and off.
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September 11, 2007
People's United Bank on EMC Smarts
“Our highly complex, ever-changing IT environment has to support critical business initiatives and adapt to frequent changes without impacting the level of service it provides. EMC Smarts' ADM is the first product we’ve found that gives us an accurate picture of how our infrastructure components and business applications relate to and depend upon each other. Having this knowledge can dramatically improve our problem response time for current critical business systems while helping us design and implement a more efficient, adaptive application infrastructure. We believe that ADM will help us realize a significant cost savings.”— Hari Makkala, CTO, People’s United Bank
Customer Profile - People’s United Bank is a diversified financial services company providing commercial, consumer, insurance, retail investment and trust services. Founded in 1842, it is the largest state-chartered bank in Connecticut with assets of $11 billion, 155 branches and more than 240 ATMs. People’s is a leader in consumer and commercial banking, residential lending, insurance sales and supermarket banking. People’s subsidiaries offer brokerage services, asset management, equipment financing and leasing, and insurance services.
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August 22, 2007
UMB Bank on Netscout Systems
“We're able to generate reports, monitor growth in traffic, and forecast based on the trends of the traffic, when upgrades to the network may be required. It's a very valuable tool from the engineering perspective because we can look and see what the current traffic situations are, and then model what a new application's impact may be to the network and how to design that particular circuit appropriately. There is just a host of value that is there today that we didn't have at our disposal ... The biggest surprise to us was how quickly we could drill down to a problem on the desktop. Before we would have to put analyzers on the circuit and then try to determine what the problem was. Whereas with the nGenius Solution, in just a matter of a couple of clicks we had drilled down to where the real root cause of the discrepancy was located and got it quickly corrected.”-- AVP and Manager of Network Services, UMB Bank
“It is a great tool for making sure the type of bandwidth you are putting out there is being utilized, and if not, letting you go back and configure the right bandwidth, ultimately improving our WAN budgeting.”
-- Network Engineer, UMB Bank
Customer Profile - UMB Bank is a subsidiary and the lead bank of UMB Financial Corporation which is a multi-bank holding company headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., offering complete banking, asset management and related financial services to both individual and business customers nationwide. Its banking subsidiaries own and operate 139 banking centers throughout Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Arizona. Besides UMB Bank, other subsidiaries of the holding company include an investment services group based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a trust management company in South Dakota and single-purpose companies that deal with brokerage services, consulting services and insurance.
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July 30, 2007
Canaras Capital on FireEye
“Traditional signature and anomaly based security tools are important but not sufficient to protect information technology property from directed attacks, particularly from well orchestrated attacks typical of those launched through botnets ... FireEye has given us a new level of protection, allowing us to proactively protect our network without impeding our operations. We've been impressed with its effectiveness.”-- Raffi Jamgotchian, CIO, Canaras Capital Management
Customer Profile - Founded in 2006, Canaras Capital Management LLC is an alternative asset manager specializing in credit markets. Canaras is able to mitigate certain risk and provide stable returns by employing fundamental market analysis and customized portfolio solutions. Canaras' primary focus is the management of leveraged corporate credit in both the par and distressed markets. Canaras manages structured transactions and low-levered accounts for institutional investors and private clients as well as retail funds, focusing on U.S. and European loan markets.
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July 24, 2007
Samlink on Network Physics
“NetSensory is the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use application performance management tool we have seen. Equally important is its rapid time to value, which derives from its ability to greatly accelerate problem-solving, and reduce the number of IT personnel who need to be involved.”
-- Jussi Räsänen, System Specialist-Network, Oy Samlink Ab
Customer Profile - Oy Samlink Ab is a leading supplier of banking services, both online and on-premise, to banks, credit institutions, and investment service companies in Finland. The company provides IT solutions for all phases of financial operation: banking services, such as loans, savings, and card transactions; systems for on-line and self-service banking; and value-added services, such as data storage and reporting, accounting systems, and financial management services. Samlink’s client banks serve more than one million users in 460 branches, and over 500,000 on-line users. The company employs 280 people in six offices throughout Finland.
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