OREANDA-NEWS. RosEvroBank and CROC have jointly designed and deployed a disaster tolerant infrastructure based on primary and backup data centers. Overall, 40 key business systems are now highly available at RosEvroBank as a result of the project. In force majeure circumstances, including man-made accidents, the performance of critical information systems and services can be recovered within one hour.

“To ensure business continuity, a significant portion of the existing infrastructure had to be transformed and optimized. As a result, we now have the tools to protect automated banking, resource management, and financial management systems from prolonged downtime, and to also improve their manageability, scalability and efficiency,” said Roman Smirnov, IT Department Deputy Director, RosEvroBank.

The solution offered by CROC is based on two geographically dispersed data centers both located in Moscow, 20 kilometers from each other. Approximately 10 software and hardware solutions from different manufacturers were deployed, including Hitachi Data Systems, Brocade, Oracle, Symantec, Cisco, MRV, VMware, etc.

“During the project, the joint RosEvroBank and CROC team upgraded data networks, storage systems and servers, created independent backbone links between an existing primary and a backup data center, optimized the database management system and implemented a backup system and a set of software solutions to automate availability management for the bank's key business applications,” said Dmitry Yakovlev, Corporate Account Director, CROC.

“Whatever reliable hardware is used in a data center, the bank needs to always be prepared for any unforeseen circumstances affecting computer system operation. For this purpose, the project team developed a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) for situations disrupting the data center operation, including its complete breakdown. As a result, the DRP has become a sort of road map for the IT team on how to detect, react and eliminate failures due to disasters or emergencies in a timely manner. For example, the plan accounts for employee movements and also details their roles in system recovery down to specific actions and commands to be executed by administrators. With such an elaborated DRP, IT teams can satisfy business requirements with regard to business continuity and reduce business application downtime in the case of failure,” adds Ruslan Zaedinov, Deputy Director General, Head of Data Centers and Cloud Computing, CROC.