Atos Accelerates Banco Mercantil's Cloud Journey
January 15 2025 - 9:00AM
UK Regulatory
Atos Accelerates Banco Mercantil's Cloud Journey
Press Release
Atos Accelerates Banco Mercantil's Cloud
Journey
The partnership resulted in the migration of
more than 750 virtual machines to Google Cloud in 12
months.
São Paulo, Brazil, and Paris, France,
January 15, 2025 - Atos, a global leader in digital
transformation, was chosen by Banco Mercantil to support its cloud
adoption journey through the Google Cloud. The agreement, a
five-year term between the bank and Google Cloud, involves an
investment of millions of Brazilian reais to migrate all of the
bank's data center servers to the cloud. The project was divided
into phases according to the appropriate strategy for each type of
workload, aiming to modernize the bank's operations and optimize
its entire technological infrastructure.
Banco Mercantil, a financial institution focused
on the 50+ demographic, aims for faster application migration and
implementation, as well as centralized data security, providing a
more efficient and innovative experience for all areas of the
institution and its customers throughout Brazil. Currently, its
portfolio includes over 8.7 million customers, primarily serving
the population aged 50 and over.
As one of the most established financial
institutions in the country, Banco Mercantil took an important step
towards digital transformation and efficiency gains by partnering
with Atos for the implementation of the first phase of its cloud
migration, from planning the migration strategy and governance to
execution, relying on several cloud specialists dedicated
specifically to the project.
After twelve months of execution, the first
stage was completed in December 2024 and relied on Atos' expertise
to successfully migrate over 750 machines from Banco Mercantil's
data center, based on the on-premises VMware environment, to Google
Cloud using Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) technology, currently
considered as a major market differentiator.
The transformation was carried out in several
waves, with Atos working on all fronts and creating a robust
migration plan to ensure the scalability and security necessary
allowing Banco Mercantil to establish itself as an institution with
a modern and agile IT infrastructure.
“Since our first contact with the bank, the
intention has been to align strategy and planning to the point that
the institution itself was able to raise its digital maturity
throughout the project and, with that, was gaining even more
autonomy in this new cloud technology platform” reports
Fabio Beato, Director of Cloud Computing at Atos for South
America.
Banco Mercantil is now preparing for the final
phases of the project, which involve the migration of 400 to 500
more machines from data centers. These steps are expected to be
more complex and should happen in the long term, benefiting from
the scalable infrastructure of Google Cloud and the continuous
support of Atos, which plays a key role in the customer's gradual
evolution process in the cloud environment.
“With the first step successfully completed,
we reflect on the commitment of both Atos and Banco Mercantil to
ensuring a secure and efficient transition, driving digital
transformation even more strategically in order to allow a unique
experience for the bank's customers and employees” concludes
Fabio Beato.
“The collaboration with Atos reinforces our
commitment to adopting cutting-edge technologies and ensures that
our transition to the cloud is secure, scalable, and aligned with
market best practices. This partnership underscores our vision for
the future, prioritizing value delivery to our clients, partners,
and employees" highlights Ramon Oliveira, IT
superintendent of Banco Mercantil.
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About Banco Mercantil
Banco Mercantil (B3: BMEB3, BMEB4) has been
undergoing a significant transformation in recent years, based on
investments in innovation, data, technology, and people. Serving
over 8.7 million customers, the bank focuses on people aged 50 and
over, and carries in its DNA the purpose of offering its customers
a unique experience.
Sustained by its talents, the growth in numbers
has been accompanied by prominent positions in the rankings of best
companies to work for in Minas Gerais and in 5th place among the
largest payers of social security benefits in the country. The
institution has a network with more than 300 service points
distributed in almost 250 cities across the country.
About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital
transformation with c. 82,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €
10 billion. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and
high-performance computing, the Group provides tailored end-to-end
solutions for all industries in 69 countries. A pioneer in
decarbonization services and products, Atos is committed to a
secure and decarbonized digital for its clients. Atos is a SE
(Societas Europaea) and listed on Euronext Paris.
The purpose of Atos is to help design
the future of the information space. Its expertise and services
support the development of knowledge, education and research in a
multicultural approach and contribute to the development of
scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the
Group enables its customers and employees, and members of societies
at large to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and
secure information space.
Press contact: Laurent Massicot
| laurent.massicot@atos.net | +33 (0)7 69 48 01 80
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