Soneri Bank Limited, operating nationwide through 90 branches and a comprehensive network of 99 ATMs, has contracted TPS to provide High Availability solutions ranging from centralized backup to clustered solutions. These solutions will proactively monitor the status of applications and resources to enable the bank to reduce services downtime. This indeed is a milestone for TPS and Soneri Bank as clustering of such critical servers will be done for the first time in Pakistan. TPS, being the Silver Partner of Symantec, has the business and technical expertise needed to analyze, design, implement and support Symantec solutions.
The bank’s countrywide operations are controlled through two critical systems, namely the web-based online centralized core banking software applications incorporating the retail banking, trade finance, corporate and commercial finance, consumer finance, foreign exchange & treasury modules; and the ATM switch. Since even a few minutes of downtime is unaffordable and any data loss could be potentially catastrophic, ensuring end-to-end data protection and 24×7 availability of these mission-critical systems is indispensable to the bank’s enterprise- wide remote banking operations.
Ensuring High Availability with Veritas Storage Foundation
TPS will execute clustering for bank’s critical applications through industry’s leading cross-platform clustering solution, Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation. Monitoring the status, health & performance of the services and swiftly switching the services on another server in the event of a fault will greatly minimize application downtime, be it planned or unplanned.
