IBM Services have disclosed an agreement with Japan-based Fukui Bank to migrate its distributed processing system to IBM Cloud.
The move aims to help “drive operational transformation to address customer needs” whilst also helping the Japanese bank enhance its initiative to support local community development.
As Fukui Bank continues to move data, applications and associated services from its existing infrastructure to the cloud, it will use the IBM Cloud Migration Factory to take a “multi-pronged approach to re-host, re-platform, re-architect, and modernise its infrastructure.”
With the deal in mind, the bank is looking to reduce migration costs and time with plans to start operations on IBM Cloud in the first half of this year.
Besides its core banking system, Fukui Bank uses several hundred other distributed systems that have been built by its headquarters and various divisions for their individual operations.
The bank is adopting IBM Cloud to run its distributed processing systems and plans to migrate these mission-critical workloads using IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions.
Securing this agreement will also allow the bank to build a “next-generation virtual infrastructure environment” on IBM Cloud, which means future cloud usage, such as hybrid cloud adoption, can be more easily performed.
IBM and Fukui Bank signed this transaction in Q4, 2018.
