Bank of Scotland International has chosen Manx Telecom to host its new offshore online banking service.
With HBOS Group's online services continuing to show dramatic growth, Bank of Scotland International wanted to partner with a dependable offshore provider with the capability to deliver the highest quality, most secure hosting of its online systems. In a search that included a range of other offshore and Island-based service providers, they found what they were looking for in Manx Telecom.
"It was vital to us to engage the best possible hosting solutions provider to enable this platform and support our in-house IT team, said Haydn Jones, IT development manager at Bank of Scotland International. "When we visited Manx Telecom's purpose-built central datacentre in Douglas and viewed the world-class technology on offer, we were assured they could meet our initial requirements and had the resources available to support future plans. Manx Telecom won the contract on the basis of both cost and outstanding service.
Roberta Castle, business account manager at Manx Telecom, added: "We recognise how important online banking services are to Bank of Scotland International. Following what has been an extremely thorough evaluation programme, we are delighted to have been chosen as their technology partner.
Manx Telecom's network is designed to deliver unprecedented levels of service and infrastructure security in order to meet the quality, speed and resilience goals online operators demand: the aim being to rule out user disruption in the case of network device failure or a degradation in Internet performance by global carriers.
In delivering fully resilient multi-site hosting for Bank of Scotland International, Manx Telecom will provide hosting facilities, Internet connectivity, private circuit connectivity, 24 x 7 x 365 on-site remote hands services, specialist technical engineering support and detailed performance monitoring of hosting services delivered to the bank's infrastructure.