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HPE Simplivity Boosts High Performance at A. K. Capital

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • Asia
Country
  • India
Product
  • HPE SimpliVity
Tech Stack
  • Data virtualisation platform
  • Data protection
  • Disaster recovery
  • Security and compliance
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Cost Savings
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
  • Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions
  • Business Operation
Use Cases
  • Cybersecurity
  • Predictive Maintenance
Services
  • System Integration
About The Customer
A. K. Capital Services Ltd. is one of the most trusted bond houses in India, proficient at providing services for the fixed income market through management of private placements as well as public issues. Incorporated in 1993, it is the flagship company of the group with a vision to operate and develop the Indian debt capital markets. Over 25+ years of its existence, A. K. Group has built a wide portfolio of services including debt capital market, brokering and distribution, advisory, retirement trust solutions, project financing, wealth management and more, catering to institutions, corporates and individuals. With a client base comprising the largest Indian banks and government entities, A. K. Capital has been the fund mobiliser for some of India’s largest public debt issues, tax‑free bonds and private placement of debt. Listed on BSE since 1995, A. K. Capital has delivered consistent shareholder value, leveraging innovative solutions to fuel steady expansion and growth. The group has made an indelible mark in investment banking with a range of debt financial products, tapping new investor and issuer segments and expanding the secondary markets for corporate bonds.
The Challenge
A. K. Capital Services Ltd. operates in a highly competitive market environment where systems must be up and running at all times. With high volumes of transactions at nanosecond speed, there is no room for latency and downtime. Any disruption could damage A. K. Capital Services’ reputation and market standing, and cause huge financial loss to clients. With increased connectivity and digitalisation, high availability and system accessibility became the foundation for business growth and credibility. However, with expanding operations and volumes, it became increasingly difficult for A. K. Group to manage disparate systems while ensuring uptime, efficient system utilisation and keeping cost under control. The application environment was highly complex as some applications were deployed on legacy systems and could not be integrated, causing serious performance issues. The company wanted a simple solution to manage the complex environment by consolidating all applications on a single platform and improve manageability to deliver a uniform and consistent experience to users at all times. As a player in financial services, ensuring data availability and data protection was a serious challenge. At the same time, the regulatory environment became more stringent and compliance guidelines were mandatory. Given the financial implications of transactions, A. K. Group could not afford downtime, and business continuity and disaster recovery were critical considerations for A. K. Group.
The Solution
A. K. Capital Services Ltd. conducted thorough and extensive due diligence to identify a solution that would deliver resilient systems with built‑in failover, data protection and high‑application performance to help meet its business objectives, and HPE SimpliVity met its requirements. A. K. Capital Services Ltd. migrated all its applications along with its dependencies to the HPE SimpliVity platform. This included Connect, its ERP system; CRM; business intelligence systems and its data warehouse to seamlessly integrate all applications. The unified environment was thus enabled by HPE SimpliVity facilitated administration with a single interface and increased visibility. This enhanced compliance and security posture of the company reduced overall cost of operations and enabled efficient utilisation of IT infrastructure. Robust security is achieved with IAM‑based access, ensuring authorised employees have access to specific assets and resources. The platform provides full data backup with near zero loss and data protection with in‑line deduplication and compression across primary storage and backup. The deployment has been designed to deliver high availability across three nodes, two of which are in Mumbai in active‑active mode and the third node in Delhi that is designed to operate as disaster recovery wherein data is continuously replicated. The self‑healing architecture will ensure high performance and system availability even in case of failure.
Operational Impact
  • Maintain market leadership position with new products and services backed by robust technology infrastructure that facilitates high‑volume transactions.
  • Meet compliance requirement with IAM‑based access, data protection and high visibility in systems.
  • Automated business continuity with highly available infrastructure and disaster recovery capabilities.
  • Empowered IT team with one simplified rack significantly reducing complexity in infrastructure management. The team is able to focus on more critical issues, such as business expansion, customer support and facilitate frequent innovation.
  • Deliver superb customer experience with high‑performance of applications.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Cost savings accrued due to operational efficiency and data compression technology, which reduced capacity requirement for storage.

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