DR tool is a must for business continuity

BANGALORE, INDIA: Lakshman Narayanaswamy, co-founder and VP, products, Sanovi Technologies in conversation with  PC Suraj of Dataquest talks about the importance of  disaster recovery solutions 

What should be the DR strategies for an IT driven organization?

First and foremost companies must have a disaster recovery (DR) plan. Having a right plan at the the right time is the need of the hour. Every business must do an audit of its critical applications and business processes and assign a recovery time objective for each of these processes. It is very important to have visibility and capability of the DR solution. Often companies deploy DR solutions, but if there is an outage they keep working on production. They need to invest in tools, provide visibility and automation tools to recover data. IT driven organizations need to take a holistic and a lifecycle approach. Customers have to see where they stand in the maturity curve and how they can progress.

What are the biggest problems that CIOs face regarding data recovery?

Most IT heads in an organization do not have much visibility, as to how much time would it take to recover the data and what data they are going to lose. Large enterprises have lots of resources and managing all resources is a big task. IT is moving towards 24x7 capability, but is struggling how to manage its data. Sanovi products give visibility to IT managers and CIOs. It also helps them to dramatically reduce the dependence on expertise by automating the whole step. However, DR is still a board level decision; but the importance of DR tools is being realized in several verticals. Most of the environments are heterogeneous, and there is a need for an expertise to address the challenges in such an environment.

Which verticles are you targeting? Who are your major customers?

Presently, we are targeting verticals such as BFSI, manufacturing, telecom, and healthcare. We are also working on some e-governance projects. APDRP project is one such project we are working on for the Ministry of Power. The goal of the project is to increase efficiencies in power transmission and distribution, and cut down losses to 10-15 per cent. We have successfully carried out a project for HDFC Bank where the organization was able to achieve 100 per cent increase in frequency of DR drills and reduce 85% application fail-over time. ICICI Bank, Corporation Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Vijaya Bank, Yes Bank, Bank of Baroda, L&T, and Essar are few of our clients. We are targeting SMEs as well.

Is Sanovis products market ready for the cloud?



Cloud is an exciting prospect for us and can provide new capabilities to enterprises. Sanovi had always anticipated of such services and we are cloud ready. Our software is web based that can be viewed, initiated, or tracked anywhere.