CCB Community Bank Case Study

The Issue at Hand
- CCB found it necessary to replace aging infrastructure. The C-Suite wanted to look at the Cloud.
- Strengthen data protection by ensuring proper financial security compliance with international, federal, and local laws, industry standards and advisory regulations.
- Establish a Cybersecurity Policy and Incident Response Plan outlining clear action scenarios for different situations that CBB may find itself in.
Evaluating Their Options
- CCB C-Suite management requested hardware and cloud quotes to financially and technically analyze the vital IT expansion
- IT Expansion Requirements: 13 Servers, 180 Cores, 69 Windows VMs, 1.66TB RAM, 57TB SSD Storage
- C-Suite management was overwhelmed with the cost for the Azure public cloud solution
180 Cores, 1.66TB RAM,
69 Windows VM’s w/HA,
57TB SSD Storage with Backup
69 Windows VM’s w/HA,
57TB SSD Storage with Backup

Cost Options
Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud
Turnkey Solution
$19,102
per month
$26.15 per hour
✔ Affordable Business Continuity
✔ GEO-Redundancy Included
Compute and Backup
✔ Rapid Rollback
✔ World Class Intel Hardware
Azure Cloud Services
Plus Managed Services
$45,448
per month
$62.22 per hour
✘ Overpriced Business Continuity
✘ GEO-Redundancy – Additional Charge;
Zone Redundant Storage Only
✘ Time Consuming Backups
✘ Hardware Unknown
Conclusion: Nfina Hybrid Cloud Turnkey Solution
- High performance and low latency: < 5 ms on-prem vs ~100 ms cloud
- More copies of their data plus cluster-to-cluster replication reduces risk
- $26,346 monthly savings; $1,580,760 5-year savings for Nfina’s Hybrid Cloud
- Eliminated the need and expense of in-house IT Staff
- Hyperscale cloud infrastructure is much more expensive

“We were looking for someone to support the solution across the life cycle of the products. We are overjoyed that we selected Nfina.”
– Joey Watson, VP of Information Technology,
CCB Community Bank