Title: Johan%20Devriendt,%20hoofd%20midtiersystemen%20Johan.Devriendt@kbc.be
 1Storage  DatamanagementOpen SystemsKBC
- Johan Devriendt, hoofd midtiersystemenJohan.Devri
endt_at_kbc.be 
  2Agenda
- Introduction KBC Group ICT
 
Storage  datamanagement Open 
Systems
Questions  Answers 
 3Agenda
- Introduction KBC Group ICT
 
Storage  datamanagement Open 
Systems
Questions  Answers 
 4KBC Bank  Insurance Group
- Ranking 
 - One of the top 2 banks in Belgium 
 - One of the top 3 insurers in Belgium 
 - One of the top 20 banks in Europe 
 - Leading financial group in Central Europe 
 - Market share in Belgium 
 - Banking  20-25 
 - Insurance  9 (non-life) 22 (life) 
 - Head office in Brussels 
 - 50.000 employees 
 - 13.000.000 clients
 
  5Organizational structure
KBC Group
Secretariat of the Board of directors  the 
executive Committee
Group Secretary
A. Bergen
Group HR
COOKBCGroup
CFROKBCGroup
EuropeanPrivate Banking
Merchant Banking
Belgium
Central Europe
Group Strategy
F. Florquin
J. Vanhevel
E. Verwilghen
G. Segers
C. Defrancq
H.Agneessens
Group Communication
GroupAudit
GroupCompliance
a multinational group structure
CentralInvestment
DistributionLeadershipCentre 
 6Market capital Ranking in Euroland
31-01-06
Dec 2004
Jan 2006
Dec 2002
1 BNP Paribas (35 bn) 1 BSCH (57 bn) 1 BSCH (74 bn) 
2 BSCH (31 bn) 2 BNP Paribas (48 bn) 2 BNP Paribas (63 bn) 
3 BBVA (29 bn) 3 BBVA (42 bn) 3 Unicredito (62 bn) 
4 Deutsche Bank (26 bn) 4 Deutsche Bank (35 bn) 4 BBVA (57 bn) 
5 ABN AMRO (25 bn) 5 Crédit Agricole (35 bn) 5 Deutsche Bank (50 bn) 
6 Société Générale (24 bn) 6 Société Gén. (34 bn) 6 Société Générale (48 bn) 
7 Unicredito (22 bn) 7 ABN AMRO (32 bn) 7 Crédit Agricole (44 bn) 
8 Fortis (22 bn) 8 Unicredit (27 bn) 8 ABN AMRO (44 bn) 
9 Crédit Agricole (14 bn) 9 Fortis (26 bn) 9 Fortis (38 bn) 
10 Dexia (14 bn) 10 Intesa BCI (21 bn) 10 Intesa BCI (33 bn) 
11 Intesa BCI (12 bn) 11 Dexia (18 bn) 11 KBC (31 bn) 
12 Allied Irish Banks (12 bn) 12 KBC (18 bn) 12 San Paolo IMI (26 bn) 
13 Bank of Ireland (10 bn) 13 San Paolo IMI (15 bn) 13 Dexia (23 bn) 
14 KBC (9 bn) 14 Allied Irish Banks (12 bn) 14 HVB (19 bn) 
15 SanPaolo IMI (9 bn) 15 HVB (12 bn) 15 Commerzbank (19 bn) 
16 Banco Popular (8 bn) 16 Bank of Ireland (11 bn) 16 Allied Irish Banks (16 bn) 
17 HVB (7 bn) 17 Bco Popular (10 bn) 17 Erste Bank (14 bn) 
18 Mediobanca (6 bn) 18 Commerzbank (9 bn) 18 Capitalia (14 bn) 
19 Bca MPS (6 bn) 19 BA-CA (9 bn) 19 Bank of Ireland (13 bn) 
20 Bco Popular (5 bn) 20 Mediobanca (9 bn) 20 Nat. Bank of Greece (13 bn) 
DJ EuroStoxx Banks constituent 
 7Unique Multi-Channel Distribution Platform in 
Belgium
KBC Group
Leasing/Factoring
Traditional Retail/SMEBanking
MerchantBanking
CapitalMarkets / Trading
Asset Mgt. / PrivateBanking
Insurance/ Re-insurance
Stock Brokerage
Products
892 retailbranches
29 corporatebranches
25 privatebankingbranches
584 tied insuranceagents
723 Centea bank agents
Distribution
Internet / electronicchannels
2.700.000 retail clients 13500 corporate 
clients 800 multinationals 19000 private banking 
clients 
Clients
dd.31-12-2005 
 8Geographical presence in Europe
Top-3-player in BelgiumRetail bancassurancePriva
te bankingCorporate banking
Top-3 bank/insurance player in CEE-5Czech 
RepublicHungarySlovakiaPolandSlovenia
European private banking network gt100 locations 
across 9 other countriesFrance and 
MonacoGermanyItaly (sold to BANIF)LuxembourgNe
therlandsSwitzerlandUK
Selective corporate banking network selective 
presence in 6 countries outside Belgium and 
CEEFranceGermanyIrelandNetherlandsUK
 looking for more investments in Central and 
Eastern Europe 
 9KBC Group's current presence in Central Europe
Poland (banking) Ranking  9th Market share 
 4 Clients  0.9 m. Branches  333
Poland (non-life/life insur.) Ranking  2nd / 
8th Market share  11 / 2 Clients (est.) 
 1.8 m.
Czech Republic (banking) Ranking  2nd 
Market share  21  Clients  3.0 m. Branches 
 218 ( 3400 points of sale-PO)
Czech Republic (non-life/life insur.) Ranking 
 6th / 4th Market share  4 / 9 Clients 
 0.7 m.
Slovakia(non-life/life insur.) Ranking 6th / 
8th Market share  4 / 4 Clients  0.2 m.
Slovakia (banking) Ranking  4th Market share 
 7 Clients  0.2 m. Branches  99
Hungary (non-life/life insur.) Ranking 6th / 
6th Market share  4 / 4 Clients  0.4 m. 
Hungary (banking) Ranking  2nd Market share 
 11 Clients  0.8 m. Branches  158
Slovenia(non-life/life insur.) Ranking  - / 
4th Market share  - / 8 Clients  0.1m
Slovenia (banking) Ranking  1st Market share 
 42  Clients  2.0 m. Branches  395
Market share is average of share in customer 
credits and in customer deposits 
 10KBC outside Europe
 Tehran
NanjingShanghai Taipei Kaohsiung Taichung Hong 
Kong Shenzhen Labuan Kuala Lumpur Singapore 
New York Los Angeles Atlanta 
Mumbai
Chennai 
 11KBC Group ICT 
 12ICT in a bank boring or not? 
 13Group ICT
- Employees 
 - Belgium 1.820 KBC  500 external consultants 
 - Central Europe 1.300 KBC 
 - India 250 Valuesource (100 daughter of KBC) 
 - Services 
 - Delivering end-to-end ICT solutions (software, 
hardware, service)  - Maintenance of ICT solutions 
 - Hosting services 
 - Network  infrastructure management 
 - Clients 
 - KBC Group Belgium 
 - KBC Group international 
 - Other corporate clients in the Benelux (Orbay, 
IFB, )  - Turnover  650 mn 
 
  14Our ICT organisation
- Client focused 
 - Strong governance  business-ICT alignment 
 - Best-in-class ICT services 
 - Organisation 
 - Process driven 
 - Matrix organisation  project approach 
 - Fast growing international project portfolio 
 - Technology  architecture 
 - Fast follower in new technologies 
 - High availability 
 - Architecture driven 
 - Integrator of components 
 - Multi-sourcing 
 - Core business by our own people 
 - Fixed price outsourcing  package solutions for 
non-core (e.g. SAP)  - External consultants for temporary needs 
 - India for technical implementations  conversions
 
  15A multi-channel distribution platform requires 
Head office
Clients
Distribution Channels
Product factories 
 16 a 3-tier architecture
 ? Mainframe Bank ? 
Mainframe Insurance ? 
Mainframe FinForce ? Kennisbank
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
IntegrationSteering
Presentation
Business Logic  Data
(frontend)
(midtier)
(backend)
Data transport
Belgacom
Telindus
Browser in 
Branches  online (PC)
Server park (Unix)
Central Servers (mainframe, Unix) 
 17ICT infrastructure (Belgium only)
1000 network printers  multifunctionals
KBC Datacenter is one of the largest in Belgium 
 18Our ICT organisation
Datacenter
Applications Development
Work preparation
Work preparation
Projects
Projects
Service
Service
Support for ICT processes  tools
Support HRM, Finance, Procurement, Security, 
Communication 
 19Functions in ICT  Belgium (numbers)
Datacenter
Applications Development
Business analyst (65)
Work preparation
Work preparation
Technology Analyst (15) System Analyst (15)
Program manager (35) Project Leader (100) Analyst 
(300) Technical Designer (210) Programmer (250)
Projects
Projects
Project Leader (20)
Team Leader (40) Service Delivery Owners 
(11) System Engineer (280) Operational System 
Engineer (200) Operator (150)
Service
Service
Team Leader (40) Application Engineer 
(300) Programmer (250)
Architect (12) Support data  process modelling 
(50) Support methods (40) Support tools (50)
Support for ICT processes  tools
HRM Resource Manager (12) Trainer  Knowledge 
Manager (15) Financial Analyst (12) Procurement 
(10) Information risk  Security (10)
Support HRM, Finance, Procurement, Security, 
Communication 
 20The ICT offices 
Antwerpen
Brugge
Gent
Hasselt
Mechelen
Roeselare
Aalst
Leuven
Brussel
Head officesData centersLocal offices 
 21Vision on HR
- Knowledge management 
 -  Internal  external training 
 -  e-learning 
 -  Knowledge management  communities 
 -  Technical  personal skills 
 -  Mentors  coaching 
 -  Open university (Open Leren)
 
- Communication 
 -  Intranet 
 -  Newsletter ICT 
 -  Newsletter KBC 
 -  Video news KBC 
 -  ICT Forum 
 -  Technology Forum
 
Motivated people with the right skills, at the 
right moment, at the right place, now and 
tomorrow.
- Career development 
 -  Performance appraisals 
 -  Assessments 
 -  Talent management 
 -  Function descriptions 
 -  Career paths 
 -  Career coaching by  resource manager
 
- Staffing 
 -  Internal vacancies published 
 -  Central staffing of all projects by resource 
managers  -  Active rotation of people
 
  22Agenda
- Introduction KBC Group ICT
 
Storage  datamanagement Open 
Systems
Questions  Answers 
 23Storage  datamanagement agenda
- Some thoughts about datacenter strategy 
 - What can you find in our datacenter? 
 - What does this mean for storage? 
 - What are the challenges for today and tomorrow? 
 - How do we start with it?
 
  24Datacenter strategy some thoughts
- KBC ICT  preferred supplier of ICT services for 
KBC Bank  Insurance  - Bank  Insurance  main customer of datacenter 
activities  - But also shift of focus towards 
 - Insourcing 
 - Companies member of KBC Group (e.g. KBC Lease) 
 - Non KBC companies (e.g. Orbay) 
 - Central Europe 
 - Hosting group wide applications in Belgium 
 - Providing server infrastructure services abroad 
 
  25Whats in our datacenter?
- Server infrastructure number of operating 
systems  - Unix 
 - Sun-Solaris /- 500 (essentially application  
web servers)  - HP-UX /- 100 (essentially Oracle database 
servers)  - IBM-AIX /- 20 
 - Windows /- 700 (essentially application  SQLS 
database servers)  - VMWare ESX /- 50 (virtualizing 230 Windows 
o.s.)  - Mainframe z/OS
 
  26What about storage?
- The facts for storage open systems 
 - 2 storage clouds 
 - Front end storage by NAS appliances 
 - delevering storage for our 20000 desktops 
 - Back end storage by SAN infrastructure 
 - delevering storage for our 1400 Unix and Windows 
servers  - All backup up by a central automated tape 
infrastructure  - SAN storage cloud 
 - Dispersed over 2 datacenters (Mechelen  Leuven) 
 - With a little help from our DWDM network 
infrastructure  - All our production data is synchronously 
replicated from Mechelen to Leuven!!  - Fibre channel protocol 
 - Dual fabrics for redundancy 
 - High end storage arrays 99.999 availability 
 - NAS storage cloud 
 - Will be DRP enabled in 2008 
 - Clustered NAS appliances for high availability
 
  27What about storage? (2)
- The naked numbers of our SAN-based disks (1Q07) 
 
Vendor Type Netto used capacity (in TB)
EMC² DMX3000 74
Hitachi Data Systems HDS9960 29
HP XP1024 23
IBM DS8300 106
IBM ESS-800 12
Hitachi Data Systems HDS9960 57
EMC² Symmetrix 8830 17
O.S.
M.F. 
 28What about storage? (3)
- Naked numbers of our NAS-based disks (1Q07) 
 
Vendor Type Netto used capacity (in TB)
NetApp FAS980C 23 
 29What about storage? (4)
- Naked numbers of our tape infrastructure
 
Vendor Type Netto used capacity (in TB)
Sun-Storagetek STK 9610 220
Sun-Storagetek SL8500 1600
O.S.
M.F. 
 30What about storage? (5)
  31What about storage? (6)
  32Storage challenges
- Controllable growth 
 - Efficient datamanagement 
 - Transparancy for storage admins 
 - Location independence 
 - No loss of critical data 
 - Multi customer 
 - Stable technology 
 
  33Controllable growth
- A spectacular storage boost 
 - Due to growth in 
 - Servers 
 - Email 
 - Files (Word, Excel, ) 
 - In other words doing more business!! 
 
2005 2007
SAN based disks 25 TB 126 TB
NAS based disks 6 TB 23 TB 
 34Efficient datamanagement
- Why?Spectacular growth on the same 
infrastructure means everything takes longer and 
costs more  - reponse time, backup, recovery, searches, data 
migration  - How? 
 - Information Lifecycle Management put the data on 
the right media according to its value  - Storage tiering 
 - Enormouschallenge!! 
 
  35Transparancy for storageadmins
- Whygrowth leads to diverse infrastructure which 
leads to potential inefficiencies in storage 
management  - How? 
 - Storagevirtualisation 
 - Further automation 
 - Uniformprocedures  methods
 
  36Location independence
- Why? 
 - Because we are becoming a European ICT group 
 - With different geographically located data 
centers  - With different people (language!) 
 - How? 
 - Working together with our CE colleagues 
 - International teams! 
 - Uniform procedures, tools  methods 
 - Consolidation
 
  37No loss of critical data
- Why? 
 - Our customers wouldnt be pleased if we did lose 
their data ?  - How? 
 - By designing a backup infrastructure thats up to 
the challenge!  - Best-of breed tape drives 
 - Disk-to-disk backups 
 - Data deduplication
 
  38Multi customer
- Why? 
 - Interference between different storage customer 
groups is not wanted  - Especially with non-KBC customers 
 - How? 
 - Redesign current storage infrastructure 
 - Security 
 - Encryption 
 - Separation of duty
 
  39Stable technology
- Why? 
 - Downtime is not acceptable anymore 
 - How? 
 - By making choices 
 - Going for mainstream technology 
 - Not being on the cutting edge of the technology 
market, but a close follower  - Market leaders
 
  40How do we start with all this?
- Some of the projects that will be started in 
2007-2008  - Pre study BLM (brol lifecycle management) 
 - Pre study SAN switches 
 - Pre study and project Very large database 
backup  - Pre study and project Backup end user data 
 - Pre study design storagecatalogue 
 - RFP new storagebox 
 - Pre study redesign tier 4 
 - Storage workshops with CE 
 -  
 
  41Agenda
- Introduction KBC Group ICT
 
Storage  datamanagement Open 
Systems
Questions  Answers 
 42Questions  Answer 
 43KBC werft 150 ICT-ers aan in 2007
Zin om te groeien ?
Solliciteren kan via mail met CV naar 
ictjobs_at_kbc.be of via www.kbc.be/jobs
- Wat bieden we? 
 - Een ruim opleidingsaanbod en doorgroeimogelijkhede
n in ICT en business  - Ruimte voor specialisten en generalisten 
 - Een professionele ICT-omgeving met een ruime 
waaier aan technologieën, processen en business 
projecten  - Lokale en internationale mogelijkheden 
 - Een competitieve verloning met extralegale 
voordelen