Serbia | Financial Institutions

Banka Postanska

S&T Serbia secures Postal Savings Bank data


The customer


The Serbian Postal Savings Bank (Banka Postanska stedionica a.d.), established
in 1921, is today the leading bank in Serbia, with every second
Serbian included in its 1.7 million residential and 4500 business customers
concluding their financial transactions through the bank. The bank engages
1400 employees and has a nationwide network of 4 subsidiaries and 27
branch offices. The bank‘s head office is in Belgrade. The Postal Savings
Bank handles more than 300,000 transactions daily.

The challenge


Data Security is very important for the Serbian Postal Savings because just a
partial loss of data would be seriously damaging and could even result in the
loss of clients. S&T has already successfully completed a number of projects
for the company and was therefore also given the task of planning and implementing
this ‘Disaster Recovery’ solution.

The project


S&T Serbia had to implement its solution, tailored for the Postal Savings Bank,
under normal operating conditions – without restricting the bank’s day-to-day
business. Each implementation phase was tested extensively and optimizations
were carried out on the basis of these tests. Complex, networked applications
were migrated and integrated into the system.

The Postal Savings Bank’s ‘Disaster Recovery System’ is based on IBM solutions
for data security and encompasses the bank’s entire information system.
The system is mirrored with two FAST4700 Express Storages – one for the
production server, the other for stand-by operations. Data is replicated remotely
and online from one Storage System to the other. On the one hand, this
ensures round-the-clock data integrity, data security and data availability. On
the other hand, data can be restored within minutes in the event of an emergency,
and business operations can continue seamlessly.

The solution designed for flexibility covers a wide range of potential disruption
scenarios and contains a well thought-out back-up and archiving strategy
for the bank‘s data. The intrinsic ‘single points of failure’ present before system
conversion now have been eliminated and data processing speed has
been significantly increased. In addition, operations control and maintenance
is now simpler and more cost-effective.

Benefit to the customer


  • ‚single points of failure’ eliminated
  • faster data processing
  • round-the-clock data integrity, data security and data availability
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