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Friday, January 05, 2007
BANGALORE: Riverbed Technology today announced that the Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Ltd (TMB) has selected and deployed Riverbed's Steelhead wide-area data services (WDS) appliances to ensure that its banking transaction data is secure and safely protected, should a disaster occur.
TMB has deployed the Steelhead appliances in the company's Chennai data centre and in its Bangalore disaster recovery centre.
"It is critical that we protect our banking transaction data," said Venkatesan, assistant general manager, Tamilnad Mercantile Bank, "We have designed our Disaster Recovery (DR) systems to ensure that we do not lose any data should disaster strike. Riverbed's Steelhead appliances are a critical component of our DR architecture."
During peak business hours, TMB generates a 100 MB log file every five minutes. To protect this critical banking transaction data, TMB replicates the files from its Chennai data centre to its Bangalore disaster recovery centre. Following installation of the Steelhead appliances, time to replicate TMB's banking transaction data dropped from over 10 minutes to two minutes, Riverbed said in a statement.
Data traversing the Wide Area Network (WAN) has dropped by over 65 per cent and WAN utilization is down to less than 50 per cent. Prior to installation of the Steelhead appliances, utilization was more than 90 per cent.
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