Solution name: 21 Smart Clouds – IBM System X, P and I with a Global Footprint   

Customer’s industry: Banking   

Pepper’s business: Pepper Australia provide a great range of award winning, flexible home loans for the self-employed and the growing number of customers who are finding it difficult securing a home loan through the banks and other tradition lenders

Pepper Australia recently purchased an AUD $5.3B mortgage portfolio in Australia and New Zealand from GE Capital. In order to quickly realise ROI on their investment, Pepper needed to migrate the IBM Web Sphere customer portal and backend systems from GE into a new environment, in less than six months.

VirtualoOffis was selected to help Pepper migrate 14 Intel and 3 IBM System I servers - from four locations and lock them down with the best-in-class security levels expected of any bank with billions of dollars worth of assets under management.

However, it wasn't just the infrastructure or service that really won over Pepper HomeLoans. it was also the skills, internally and externally that Virtual.Offis were able to bring to the table. Virtual.Offis is viewed by Pepper Homeloans as a trusted partner and advisor to their technology team, not simply a hosted services provider.  

The entire solution was delivered using Virtual.Offis'21 SmartCloud services with hybrid Private/Public Cloud and Intel/System I infrastructure.