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Safe Systems' Continuum for Disaster Recovery
This solution was designed to significantly speed up the recovery process for community banks that have been impacted by a disaster or an unplanned business interruption and to allow them to quickly restore bank operations. Continuum is a managed data protection, replication, failover and recovery solution that continuously protects business-critical data and banking-specific applications.
During a normal business situation, the bank’s servers are constantly replicated to a dedicated virtual server environment in Safe Systems’ secure, SAS 70 Type II fully redundant data centers. In the event of a disaster, the bank will be able to recover its servers from anywhere with Internet access, whether that be a mobile banking unit, a branch of their bank or even the local coffee shop.
Safe Systems coordinates all core processor communication in the event of a disaster, provides annual documented testing of IT recovery procedures, and provides a fully staffed network operations center providing expert support to help facilitate the bank’s full recovery from a disaster.
Four points that explain why Continuum warrants an Innovative Solutions Award:
1. Community banks will save money. Continuum is a fraction of the overall costs compared to traditional disaster recovery solutions — in some cases a fifth of the cost of previous disaster recovery solutions.
2. Recovery times of bank operations reduced to hours vs. days (we guarantee a 24-hour SLA, but in every disaster recovery test we have performed, the recovery time has been two hours).
3. Banks save time. Continuum eliminates the complexities and burdens of banks managing their own DR failover data centers.
4. Continuum was developed exclusively for community banks with built-in compliance features such as a Compliance Director to assist each Continuum client with passing their IT audits and exams.
Safe Systems Inc.
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