Myanmar’s Kanbawza Bank (KBZ Bank) is collaborating with global cloud infrastructure firm VMware to virtualize its data center and meet the business demands of the country’s growing digital economy. The bank will be modernizing its IT infrastructure covering all its 482 branches and representative offices in Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia. The bank, Myanmar’s only bank with an international presence, hopes the virtualized and agile environment would provide its employees with a digital workspace and the freedom to work on any device, giving them more opportunities to collaborate internally with others at the bank. The bank’s CEO and advisor to the chairman Mike De Noma said his is just one of the many steps the bank will be taking to do its part to support the government’s efforts to make Myanmar a digital leader in the decade ahead and to maintain its position as a mobile first nation. VMware will be supplying its software-defined data center (SDDC) stack of solutions including vSphere with Operations Management, vCloud, vRealize Operations Advanced, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, AirWatch and Horizon to help the bank deliver more secure services and new applications to cater to the growing demand for digital services from corporate,SME and retail customers.
