Technical challenge
The bank’s primary and backup datacenters house around 2,000+ servers running more than 50 mission-critical applications. Given a complex web of hardware and software interdependencies, it was a huge – and largely manual – challenge for the bank’s IT staff to plan and test DR procedures and executions.
As the bank grew through acquisitions, the changing IT landscape added complexity and increased the inconsistencies between the two datacenters. DR runbooks were outdated, large teams of IT staff needed to be assembled for each DR test, and recovery times…
