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ING Direct moves into the cloud

ING Direct has moved its entire banking system to a private cloud service, claiming to be the first Australian bank to do so.The bank worked on the project with a number of technology companies, including Dimension Data, Cisco, NetApp and Microsoft.ING Direct chief operating officer Simon Andrews said in a statement yesterday that the bank had been working on the project - Zero Touch - for the past 12 months.Andrews said: "We see cloud as a real enabler. Completing the project has opened up space for us to innovate and create, rather than simply operate and maintain the supporting infrastructure."The ZT platform has been built using FlexPod and Microsoft FastTrack reference architectures.

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