Industry
Financial
Customer Overview
The Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited (CDC) stands as the infrastructure backbone of Pakistan’s Capital Market, serving as a central securities depository for equities, debt instruments, and mutual funds. Over the past two decades, CDC has evolved into one of the most prestigious and diversified financial services organizations in the country. While its roots lie in depository services, CDC has continuously expanded its business footprint, offering a range of technology-driven financial solutions to institutional and retail customers.
Challenges
With growing business diversification and an increasingly digital ecosystem, CDC faced the challenge of ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability of its mission-critical systems.
As a financial market enabler, even minor downtime or latency could impact transaction processing and customer confidence. The organization required an infrastructure platform that could support next-generation workloads, maintain robust security, and seamlessly integrate with evolving application environments.
Key challenges included:
- Need for higher compute performance to support modern workloads.
- Ensuring business continuity and resilience across all critical applications.
- Laying the foundation for future-ready modernization in both infrastructure and software ecosystems.
- Reducing operational costs while enhancing efficiency and agility.
Solution
To meet these objectives, CDC selected the IBM Power 10 platform — one of the world’s most advanced enterprise-grade computing technologies — to power its next phase of digital transformation.
The deployment, delivered by Innolytix Pakistan, a Gold Business Partner of IBM, marks CDC as one of the pioneers in Pakistan to adopt IBM Power 10 technology.
IBM Power 10 systems are designed to:
- Accelerate performance with industry-leading per-core efficiency.
- Support hybrid cloud environments and containerized workloads.
- Enhance security through memory encryption and AI-driven threat detection.
- Improve scalability for database, ERP, and core financial applications.
The migration was planned and executed to ensure seamless transition with zero disruption to ongoing business operations.
Implementation
Innolytix Pakistan provided end-to-end solution delivery, including:
- Solution design and architecture.
- Installation, configuration, and optimization of IBM Power 10 servers.
- Integration with existing storage and networking infrastructure.
- Testing, validation, and knowledge transfer to CDC’s IT team.
Leveraging its deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure and IBM technologies, the Innolytix team ensured that the implementation aligned perfectly with CDC’s performance and compliance requirements.
Results & Benefits
The adoption of IBM Power 10 has enabled CDC to:
- Boost system performance for mission-critical applications.
- Enhance reliability and uptime, ensuring uninterrupted financial operations.
- Optimize workload efficiency through better resource utilization.
- Strengthen security with advanced hardware-level protection.
- Lay a foundation for future innovation, including AI and hybrid cloud integration.
Conclusion
By choosing IBM Power 10 and Innolytix Pakistan as its trusted technology partner, CDC continues its legacy of pioneering innovation in Pakistan’s financial sector. This project underscores CDC’s commitment to excellence, performance, and modernization — setting new benchmarks for the capital market’s technology infrastructure.