Successful DR site transfer: Scotland to London

LONDON: Calastone, the independent cross-border transaction network for the mutual funds industry, has reached successful hosting transition to London site from Scotland with retention of previous site for DR requirements.

In December 2008, Calastone selected iomart Hosting to provide its primary hosting facilities and successfully transitioned to iomart’s central London location in April this year. As part of this strategic development, Calastone has retained its previous data centre as a fully functioning disaster recovery (DR) site and will continue to invest further to ensure its capability to handle primary data centre volumes.

This will mean that, should DR ever need to be invoked; the impact to customers will be minimized. Calastone’s new primary data centre is located in London, with the DR data centre located in Scotland. This distance between Calastone’s data centers is part of the design to ensure, should operations across London be subject to a major incident, that the potential impact to Calastone’s DR site, and therefore customer service, are minimized.

Kevin Lee, Managing Director of Calastone added, “Our new data centre  delivers on Calastone’s strategic promise to customers and the market as a whole, to support its rapid growth in the connected customer community. By connecting to Calastone’s global transaction network, participants will benefit from fully electronic STP throughout the transaction lifecycle, with their preferred messaging protocol.”

Its data centre outsource provider, iomart Hosting , has been named Data Centre Operator of the Year 2009 in the annual ‘Storrie’ awards, a press release highlights.