STRATEGIC PARTNERS
December 27, 2001
PHILIPPINES -- The Bank of the Philippines Islands (BPI) is upgrading its fault-tolerant Stratus servers to accommodate more ATMs and point-of-sale terminals and to deliver faster connections to its depositors, according to a report in Computerworld.
The systems are being upgraded by The Online Advanced Systems Corporation, a business partner of Stratus Computer Systems.
Ramon P. Sales, senior vice president for information technology at the Bank of the Philippine Islands, told ComputerWorld that the bank is replacing the two Stratus R330 servers which were installed in 1989 with Stratus Continuum Model 1219 servers.
BPI, which currently has 965 ATMs and 7,000 POS terminals, has outgrown its system. Sales said the bank expects to add 200 ATMs a year for the next several years.
The Stratus R330 servers can only accommodate 1,000 ATMs each. The new models, the C1219, can connect to more than 3,000 ATMs.
The upgrade is being done in phases, with switches followed and POS terminals the first to migrate to the new system. ATMs will be moved to the new servers in batches of 200, and databases will be the last to migrate to the new models.
