BNP Paribas is to dedicate a new area in its data centres for IBM Cloud services as part of an effort to strengthen resilience and meet new laws under the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (Dora).
BNP Paribas has been hosting IBM Cloud in its data centers since 2019.
Scheduled for implementation in 2028, the new investment aims to enhance the bank's resilience and is designed to provide the necessary redundancy for uninterrupted continuity of critical banking services such as payments, while maintaining the security of customer data and the bank’s information systems.
The renewal and expansion of the partnership with IBM will also allow the bank to take advantage of GPUs on IBM Cloud as part of its cloud infrastructure. These complementary resources aim to support business units in experimenting and deploying generative AI use cases.
Application modernisation is additionally a key area of focus, entailing the use of microservices via Red Hat OpenShift, IBM’s Kubernetes container management platform. This will help the bank to develop modular, scalable, and portable applications, and allow for the deployment of new applications, particularly in payment and payment systems.
“We continuously invest in cutting-edge technologies to strengthen the resilience of our infrastructures and drive innovation for our clients, employees, and partners” says Marc Camus, chief information officer of BNP Paribas. “By combining GPUs as a service, a dedicated, state-of-the-art environment within our data centers, and a cloud-native infrastructure, we are strengthening our technological foundation, as well as the security and the compliance of our information systems.”