S U C C E S S S T O R Y Hitachi Data Systems Karnataka Bank Limited INDUSTRY Banking SOLUTIONS Business Continuity and Replication (Three Data Center), Enterprise Platform Hardware — Hitachi Universal Storage Platform ® V (Sun 9990V) Software — Hitachi In-System Replication software bundle (includes Hitachi ShadowImage ® Heterogeneous Replication and Hitachi Copy-on-Write Snapshot software); Hitachi Virtual Partition Manager and Hitachi Tuning Manager software “Our banking environment requires real time access to information with no room for data loss. We chose Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V storage systems because they provided us with enterprise-class functionality and data availability, which resonated with our business mission and provided the reliability we required for business continuity.” Anantha Krishna Chairman Karnataka Bank Limited
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A Three Way Solution for Rapid and Effective Disaster RecoveryKarnatakaBankevaluatedthesolutionsfromEMCandIBM,aswellasHitachiDataSystemsforprice,supportquality,perfor-mance,manageability,highavailabilityandreliability.“WechosetheHitachiDataSystemssolutionastheyweresuperiortoothersolutionstechnocommercially,”saysAssistantGeneralManageratKarnatakaBank,AnanthaPadmanabhaUpadhya.SunMicrosystemswasthepartnerofHitachiDataSystemsinthisexercise.
Business ProblemKarnatakaBankrunsvariouscriticalapplications,suchasOracle,FinacleandMicrosoft®SQLServer®,whichmadethedisasterrecoveryprocessverytediousandtime-consuming.Thebank’sdisasterrecoverydrillinitiation,whichhandledthehandovertothedisastersite,applicationbyapplication,withseparateprocesses,tookthreetofourhourstocomplete.
”We chose the Hitachi solution as it was superior to other solutions techno commercially.” Anantha Padmanabha UpadhyayAssistant General ManagerKarnataka Bank Limited
Hitachi Data Systems Consolidates the Storage SetupThesolutionusedarangeofHitachi(re-brandedbySun)hardwareandsoftwareforthedisasterrecoveryandstoragesetup.
■■ 100 percent data availability with zero data loss. Withathreewaydisasterre-coverysetup,redundanciesbuiltineverylevelanduseofreplicationsoftwarethatensureshighspeeddatareplication,thebanknowhasadisasterrecoverysetupthatensureszerodataloss.
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■■ Ensured long distance data recovery. Despiteremoteoperationsandworkinginmulitpleapplications,thebanknowhasasystemthatensuresthatdatacanberecoveredquickly,withminimalornodowntime.
■■ Significant reduction in disaster recovery initiation time.Fromanexist-ingdisasterrecoveryinitiationtimeofthreetofourhoursfollowingatediousprocess,adisasterrecoverydrillnowkicksoffinjust15minutes,withallap-plicationsanddatabeingmadeavailableinthisspan.Thisplanensuresthatworkisnotdisrupted,andusersdon’tevencometoknowthattherehasbeenasystemchange.
■■ Meeting storage and recovery goals.WiththeHitachisolution-baseddisasterrecoverysysteminplace,thebankhasmetitsrecoverypointobjectiveofhavingzerodataloss,andrecoverytimeobjec-tiveofunder30minutes.
■■ 20 percent increase in performance.Thebankhasseenasignificantincreaseinperformanceinitscorebankingenvironmentbecauseofthereplicationofdatahappeningsynchronously.Thisisdespitethefactthatsynchronousdatareplicationrequirestheactionofstoringtotwoplacessimultaneously,whichmeansalongerprocesstime.