DevOps cloud for financial services

Challenge: Transformation without a full rip and replace

Financial services firms can have complex environments with multiple silos. While a silo provides operational efficiencies or isolates a network environment for an acquired company, problems arise when the enterprise strategy demands a globally consistent experience for end users and partners. IT organizations face a quandary — how to transform operations without a complete rip and replace of each silo.

Solution: Platformized infrastructure for DevOps

Financial services firms can move to a platformized infrastructure that leverages both best-of-breed commercial alongside open source products. Broad environment support includes multiple virtualization approaches, such as VMware, KVM, Xen, and containers and cloud management systems, such as OpenStack and VMware. All the above helps transform legacy to a global DevOps cloud — without rip and replace.

As shown in Figure 1, the foundation for the DevOps cloud is a robust and unified software defined networking and software-defined WAN approach from Nuage Networks (a subsidiary of Nokia). With APIs based on developer-friendly standard REST, a wide variety of security and special-purpose appliances can be integrated into the application logic.

Cloud consumption interfaces enable public cloud resources to be leveraged as well as leading development tools, such as Kubernetes and Mesos. The operations scalability interface provides communications with tools that provide mapping between physical and virtual resources along with other DevOps tools and approaches.

Lastly, the flexible network interface ensures that the environment can overlay even the most sophisticated and complex network environment without requiring a forklift upgrade. At the top communication layer, the Nokia Rapport platform provides device support for a wide range of devices - from mobile through ATMs to distributed information kiosks. This platformized stack enables critical communications from financial services firms to customers, from firms to partners, and within the firm in real time or near-real time.

Figure 1. Nokia transforms your legacy environment into an application-friendly cloud architecture

How our approach changes the game

This innovative approach provides a DevOps cloud that can leverage the latest tools used by webscale companies. These capabilities can enable your development team to leapfrog the competition.