Aiming to streamline IT infrastructure with business growth, Ratnakar Bank has announced the large-scale implementation of Citrix desktop virtualization solution. In effect, the Bank replaced its traditional desktops with Citrix XenDesktop, thereby enabling central management and supporting seamless transition to a new core banking platform.
Anup Purohit, Head – IT, Ratnakar Bank, said, “The adoption of Citrix XenDesktop solution is a milestone in our technology transformation journey. The IT centralization process aided by desktop virtualization has significantly improved process efficiencies and service effectiveness, while boosting our strategic and operational imperatives as a Bank.”
Sanjay Deshmukh, Area Vice-President, Citrix India, said, “Our association with Ratnakar Bank testifies the increasing trend of banks embracing technologies such as desktop virtualization to reinvent end user computing. Through this partnership, we are pleased to support the bank’s transformational initiative towards achieving greater productivity, efficiencies and delivering a high-quality banking experience to its stakeholders.”
As part of the desktop virtualization rollout, over 1,250+ users from 150+ branches across India, National Operations Center and Regional Processing Center in Mumbai transitioned from a physical infrastructure to a cloud-based one. To ensure optimized end-user experience, the implementation of the Citrix solution went through custom designing of application delivery architecture using private cloud based solutions on extensive user-profiling. By leveraging Citrix’s Flexcast technology which allows different types of desktops delivery according to the role of the user, Ratnakar Bank assigned desktops as per the needs of the user.
Ratnakar Bank has also been able to benefit from reduction in power consumption by over 65 per cent and cooling requirements by as much as 50 per cent.
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