Cedacri S.p.A., one of the top data centers in Italy, handles 40 million transactions a day, 40,000 information system users, and 30,000 million instructions per second on more than 4,000 mainframe servers. Cedacri is part of Cedacri Group, which began more than 30 years ago and is now a market leader in developing applications and infrastructure outsourcing solutions. Cedacri Group provides 150 clients—including banks, financial institutions, and industrial and service companies—with a complete range of integrated solutions, including full outsourcing for facility and desktop management, vertical application solutions, business process services, prepayment cards, and business information services. It has an annual turnover of $US359 million and employs more than 1,400 workers in its seven branches, located at Collecchio, Parma, Castellazzo Bormida, Bari, Milan, Brescia, and Buccinasco Italy, as well as Chisinau, Moldavia. With its rapid business growth, Cedacri needed to redesign its data center’s technological infrastructure and adopt a high-performance, scalable, and easy-to-manage storage solution.

Challenges
- Adopt a mainframe storage solution to support information system and business evolution with the ability to serve midsize and large banks, as well as other sectors, such as manufacturing, services, and public administration
- Deploy data protection and backup technologies that ensure the high level of security required for a multibank information system
- Deploy a disaster recovery solution with efficient backup operations to guarantee business continuity and service availability to customers
- Ensure logical and physical separation of data between external clients and improve security measures