Canara Bank selects Red Hat for automation

Canara Bank has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform to automate more than 1,000 branches across the country. This marks the largest rollout of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Indian BFSI vertical so far.

The bank has a network of 2,508 branches across India. The value of the deal has not been disclosed.

Total Branch Automation (TBA) is taking place through an in house developed package. The package has been ported to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform by Canara Bank's subsidiary, CanBank Computer Services Ltd.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, will be deployed in more than 1,000 servers and 10,000 desktops at Canara Bank to provide a robust, secure and scalable solution for powering the bank's IT infrastructure.

Under the first phase of deployment, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been rolled out at approximately 500 branches in a record time of three months. Close to 500 Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers and 5,000 Red Hat Desktops have been deployed in this phase.

Javed Tapia, Director, Red Hat India, said, "We share a similar vision as Canara Bank to reach out to the masses by providing an affordable means to access the benefits of technology. Canara Bank's TBA modernisation is the largest Enterprise Linux deployment of its kind in the Indian BFSI segment and we are proud to be associated with the project."