PULSE, a Discover Financial Services company, has selected an HP Converged Infrastructure to meet consumer debit card usage while delivering efficient transaction processing services to clients.
The debit/ATM network, PULSE, worked with HP Technology Services to evaluate its business needs and develop a technology strategy that deliver nearly five times more transaction processing than its previous platform.
PULSE has also leveraged HP NonStop technology to eliminate unplanned downtime, enhancing client satisfaction, while reducing processing costs.
The Discover Financial Services company has selected an HP Converged Infrastructure consisting of three mission-critical HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem infrastructure platforms to support its DebitProtect fraud detection system.
HP Converged Infrastructure offers a combination of servers, networking and storage that scales and eliminates unplanned downtime.
Each PULSE data centre features dedicated systems for production transaction processing, certification and development and benchmarking.
PULSE increased its flexibility at 25% of the previous processing cost by using HP’s multicore processing capabilities and the average transaction processing time was reduced by 75% as well as the total cost of ownership was lowered by approximately one-third.
The company relies on ongoing support from the HP Technology Services Consulting group, HP Account Support Management (ASM) and HP Mission Critical Services to maintain enhanced infrastructure performance.
PULSE is also planning to deploy ReD’s real-time transaction monitoring and risk management software application, ReD PRISM, implemented on HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem NB54000c and HP Integrity NonStop NS2200 servers for the DebitProtect application.
The combined application will deliver the scalability and performance necessary to protect financial institutions’ cardholder transactions at the ATM and point of sale from the threat of fraud.
