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Czech National Bank (CNB) Virtual Web Hosting

Data Center and Cloud

The CNB is the of the and the supervisor of the Czech . Its primary objective is to maintain price stability. As an independent institution, the CNB sets , issues and and manages the circulation of currency, the payment system and settlement between banks. It also performs supervision of the banking sector, the , the insurance industry, pension funds, credit unions and electronic money institutions, as well as foreign exchange supervision. As a central bank the CNB provides banking services to the state and the public sector. The CNB’s headquarters is in . Seven regional branches are located in Prague, Ústí nad Labem, Plzeň, České Budějovice, Hradec Králové, and Ostrava.

CNB // The Challenge

CNB operated an external web with communication issues among the and was not sufficiently flexible content management systems three parties and unclear split for applications with varying on three dedicated servers. of responsibility. requirements.

The solution had 2 subcontractors The original solution was not Finally, the system did not give (web servers and WCMS – able to cope with varying loads enough security and control Web Content Management of the web traffic during different over testing and develop- System) and CNB experienced periods of the day /month / year ment environment. Customer reference

Why gTS // The SOlUTION GTS // SOlUTION DIagRaM The solution of private virtual data Internet center for Czech National Bank utilizes GTS Virtual Hosting built on the cloud environment of GTS IaaS platforms and existing redundant IPv4/IPv6 infrastructures which Edge router A Edge router B are also components of the cloud environment. Guaranteed basic computing and storage capacity: IP Loadballancer A IP Loadballancer B

● 12 vCPU ● 48 GB RAM ● 2 TB of data storage capacity ● 2 × IP A/A loadbalancer SW A SW B (IPv6 support)

Online performance monitoring with customer access and enhanced performance in case of need are a part of the solution. CNB 1 CNB 2 CNB 3 application application database The solution includes data storage, server server server backup and archiving where internal resources can be doubled fl exibly LAN in case of arising requirements.

Customer Benefi ts

● Flexible computing resource for trouble shooting before use ability of electrical power, allocation. in a live production site. cooling and Internet connectiv- The Private Cloud solution ity. The solution design increas- allows the customer to add or ● Simpler and more effi cient ven- es its resistance to failure and drop computing resources to dor management with single GTS 24x7x365 proactive accommodate varying levels end-to-end responsibility. hardware monitoring minimizes of WEB traffi c at different The selection of GTS as the restoration time. periods thus improving the user exclusive provider of hosting as well experience for visitors of www. as CMS parts resulted in simpler ● Reduction of CAPEX and cnb.cz. and more effi cient communication overall TCO. compared to the previous two- Thanks to improved utilization of ● Improved process of system vendor solution. A single provider computing resources and better change implementation. of comprehensive services with resource planning, the GTS The GTS solution separates a guaranteed SLA provides clear virtualization solution brought production and test environment responsibility for the whole service. a signifi cant reduction in the TCO resources. Independent test for ČNB’s WEB environment. resources permit CNB to ● Improved service availability. It also helps the customer implement any reconfi gurations, The Private Cloud solution is reduce IT CAPEX. modifi cations and adjustments hosted at a GTS Data Centre within a secure test environment providing uninterrupted avail-

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