ING Vysya Bank Implements Sanovi DR Solution

Sanovi offers solutions to proactively manage disaster recovery (DR) environments to ensure that business applications can be recovered in compliance with service level agreements.

The Bank’s treasury department is using Kondor from Reuters for its treasury-related applications. To meet with regulatory prescriptions of the Reserve Bank of India towards enabling Disaster Recovery (DR), ING Vysya Bank was in search for a suitable DR solution.

“Given the nature of treasury applications, it is a complex implementation with multiple databases, multiple application processes on multiple servers and multiple start stop scrip, using off-the-shelf host or storage-based replications. Our experience in creating DR solutions for the banking sector has helped ING Vysya in implementing the best-of-breed DR management solution,” says Subramanian Parameshwaran, CEO, Sanovi Technologies.

CVG Prasad, CIO of ING Vysya Bank, said, “We are very impressed with the coverage provided by Sanovi’s DR software on all aspects of the DR lifecycle. The Treasury application is DR-ready thanks to the automation and dashboard provided by Sanovi’s software”.

Sanovi identified the areas of application, which needed to be DR ready like identifying and removing hard-coded IP address references and documentation of all the steps for fail over and DR drill so that they could be automated.

Sanovi DRM completely automates the switchover and switchback test and ensures zero data loss when services transition takes place from the primary to DR and then back to the primary.

Sandeep Kaul, Unit Head, IT Service Delivery, ING Vysya Bank, who was involved in the implementation of the DR software, said, “Sanovi DRM exceeded our expectations. We were able to deploy the DR solution for our treasury application and do the DR drill all within a week. I thank Sanovi for their professional competence and customer centricity”.