Tag Archives: converged infrastructure

Accelerating digital banking through convergence of technology

South America, and Brazil in particular, are going through a huge set of changes in the banking sector.  Most recent example of HSBC’s decision to sell off assets in Brazil (and Turkey) are only a single indicator of unique market conditions and influence of global interconnectedness.  With government banks accounting for roughly 50% of market share, […]

Achieving Speed of Scale by unifying Big Data and Enterprise Data

A few week’s ago our team at VCE had been honored to present an innovative solution to Wall street technologists on the subject of handling a myriad of data ingestion challenges coupled with unique ways to address platform convergence.  The presentation was part of an all-day event organized by the Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) […]

DBaaS DevOps convergence in Investment Banking

At Oracle OpenWorld last week, Christian Bilien – Head of Database team from Société Générale, a French investment bank, talked about reducing complexity and accelerating business transformation through agility of DevOps.  The following are noteworthy metrics from their experience: 1,600 developers 70,000 database refreshes each year 14 zettabyes of data Status quo: a “huge strain on storage […]

Starting with a vision

It was years ago when I was introduced to, and witnessed challenges associated with deploying infrastructure in large organizations. For the end users, the merits of open systems seemed two fold: expect vendors to interoperate with each other – for the greater good of the consumer, and assume i.e. expect an implied nature of having to engage in integration upon […]