TMB secures transactions through Riverbed

BANGALORE: Riverbed Technology today announced that the Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Ltd (TMB) has 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 center and Bangalore disaster recovery center.

"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, he added.

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 center to its Bangalore disaster

recovery center. After following installation of the Steelhead appliances, the time to replicate TMB's banking transaction data dropped from 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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