Having chosen world digital transformation firm Atos to assist its cloud adoption journey by way of the Google Cloud, Banco Mercantil has efficiently accomplished the primary part of its cloud migration.
In a transfer emigrate all of its knowledge centre servers to the cloud, Banco Mercantil penned a five-year settlement with Google Cloud. With the financial institution seeking to modernise its operations and optimise its whole technological infrastructure, it divided the mission into numerous phases in response to the suitable technique for every sort of workload.
For the implementation of the primary part of its cloud migration, Banco Mercantil partnered with Atos to assist it with planning the migration technique, governance and execution, with quite a few cloud specialists devoted particularly to the mission. The financial institution says that this partnership marks an essential step in direction of finishing its digital transformation and realising vital effectivity beneficial properties.
After twelve months of execution, the financial institution accomplished the primary stage in December 2024, counting on Atos’ experience to efficiently migrate over 750 machines from Banco Mercantil’s knowledge centre, primarily based on the on-premises VMware setting, to Google Cloud utilizing Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) know-how, at the moment thought-about as a serious market differentiator.
“Since our first contact with the financial institution, the intention has been to align technique and planning to the purpose that the establishment itself was capable of elevate its digital maturity all through the mission and, with that, was gaining much more autonomy on this new cloud know-how platform,” defined Fabio Beato, director of cloud computing at Atos South America.
Complexity in future plans
Banco Mercantil is now making ready for the ultimate phases of the mission, which entails migrating between 400 to 500 extra machines from knowledge centres. It expects the following steps to show extra complicated and estimates it’ll occur in the long run, benefiting from the scalable infrastructure of Google Cloud and the continual assist of Atos, which performs a key function within the buyer’s gradual evolution course of within the cloud setting.
Beato concluded: “With step one efficiently accomplished, we replicate on the dedication of each Atos and Banco Mercantil to making sure a safe and environment friendly transition, driving digital transformation much more strategically with a view to permit a singular expertise for the financial institution’s prospects and workers.”
“The collaboration with Atos reinforces our dedication to adopting cutting-edge applied sciences and ensures that our transition to the cloud is safe, scalable, and aligned with market greatest practices,” Ramon Oliveira, IT superintendent of Banco Mercantil, additionally added. “This partnership underscores our imaginative and prescient for the long run, prioritising worth supply to our shoppers, companions, and workers.”
Banco Mercantil, a monetary establishment targeted on prospects aged over 50, goals for sooner utility migration and implementation, in addition to centralised knowledge safety, offering a extra environment friendly and revolutionary expertise for all areas of the establishment and its prospects all through Brazil. At the moment, its portfolio contains over 8.7 million prospects.
