Sanovi Creates Customised DRM Solns For ING Vysya Bank

Sanovi Technologies, a Disaster Recovery Management and Business Continuity Products company, has announced an effective solution for the treasury departments of banks that use Kondor application from Reuters.

Kondor is an application for treasury departments of different banks. By its very nature, a treasury application is a complex implementation, with multiple data bases, multiple application processes on multiple servers and multiple start/stop scripts, using off the shelf host or storage based replication.

Kondor treasury application uses Sybase as its database. The business process requires the use of non-logged operations on the database. Any replication technology that makes use of Sybase transaction logs to replicate data from the primary database to the DR server is not suitable when non-logged operations are in use.

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Sanovi DR solution for Kondor solves this problem in a unique manner. When normal database operations are in force, Sanovi’s in-built file replication copies the database transaction logs from the primary database to the DR server, where the logs are applied to the DR database.

Sanovi DRM software is able to detect when non-logged operations on the database commence. The software stops replicating the transaction logs once transaction logs operations are detected. After the completion of non-logged operations, Sanovi DRM makes a complete backup of the primary database. The complete database is copied to the DR server and recovered. All of these operations are completely automated and do not require user intervention.

Sanovi engages with its customers to help identify areas of the application that need to be redesigned to be DR ready. This includes identifying and removing hard coded IP address references and documentation of all the steps for fail over and DR drill such that they can be automated.

Sanovi DRM for Sybase monitors the disk usage on the folders where the transaction logs are dumped; the bank’s operations staffs are alerted if the disk usage exceeds 80%. A policy has been configured that automatically deletes old transaction files when the disk usage alert is raised.

“DR drill is a very manual and people intensive process. With the implementation of Sanovi DRM for the treasury application, the banks are able to implement various kinds of test scenarios. Fail over Drill can be done without shutting down the production server; taking a backup of the DR database before the drill does this. Switch over and switchback drills tests the complete scenario of providing application services from the DR side and then resuming services from the primary site to mimic the scenario where primary comes back after an outage”, says Mr. Chandra Sekhar Pulamarasetti, Founder & CTO, Sanovi Technologies.

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

Consequently, the operations team finds the learning curve on Sanovi DRM to be short; the user interface intuitive and easy to use. Database administrators are also comfortable with the flexibility and ability to customize the workflow based on end user needs.

Commenting on the project implementation for ING Vysya bank, a customer for whom Sanovi DRM was customised for Kondor, Mr. 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 DR life cycle. The Treasury application is DR ready thanks to the automation and dashboard provided by Sanovi’s software”.

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