OREANDA-NEWS. May 06, 2009. SITRONICS Information Technologies, one of the leading suppliers of solutions, products and services in the field of information technologies in Eastern Europe and CIS countries, completed project for creation of IT infrastructure for JSC “ASTRA BANK”, within which it created data processing center (DPC) of the head office and single information network that unites head office of the bank with outlets in regional centers of Ukraine and with foreign offices of parent bank in European countries, reported the press-centre of SITRONICS.
 
ASTRA BANK is universal bank that provides comprehensive range of financial services to corporate clients, small and medium-sized businesses, and private persons. IT infrastructure created by specialists of SITRONICS Information Technologies allows us to provide clients with operational and quality service, orienting ourselves to European business dealing standards of Alpha Bank Group Greece: reliability, efficiency and technological effectiveness” – pointed out Viktoriia Tkachenko, Deputy Chairman of the Board of ASTRA BANK.
 
Software-hardware platform of IT infrastructure created for ASTRA BANK is based on virtualization technology. The approach applied has provided high level of applications availability, adaptability for changes of customer requirements and possibility of centralized management of the whole IT infrastructure of banking outlets. Besides, virtualization tools and blade servers allowed to reduce power consumption and heat abstraction.
 
“The most important characteristics of the implemented solution are operational data exchange and high level of information protection. Also this project took into consideration scalability capabilities of communication services of the created network”, –comments Anatoly Veres, General Director of SITRONICS Information Technologies in Ukraine.
 
Within the project network we also created structured cable system (SCS) for ASTRA BANK outlets. Network infrastructure was designed with due consideration of installation and launch of equipment for connecting of more than 2000 terminal user stations including instrumentation with IP phones of more than 700 working places of bank employees at all offices in the territory of Ukraine. Interaction between distributed offices is conducted by means of Dynamic Multipoint VPN that provides high level of information protection.
 
The basis for construction of the bank IT infrastructure was hardware and software by АРС, Cisco, Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, VMWare, R&M.