Gravic, Inc. Announces Availability Modernization Success Story for Royal Bank of Canada

March 19, 2010 - PRLog -- Gravic, Inc., the makers of the Shadowbase® data replication product line announces an availability modernization success story for the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Gravic is in the final stages of converting an active/passive - uni-directional DR replication environment into an active/active Shadowbase-based bi-directional continuous availability environment.
   
RBC operates the largest ATM/POS network in Canada. The ATM/POS network is divided into five BASE24 processing regions and utilizes a dual data center network for potential disaster tolerance. The bank was motivated to modernize its active/passive DR architecture to take advantage of concurrent processing at both data centers while having the databases synchronized for full redundancy. After an extensive vendor evaluation process, the Shadowbase replication solution was selected as the replication architecture to satisfy the active/active requirement. In addition to achieving the goal of replacing the older model passive backup architecture, the network is now able to split the processing of the regions across the systems with two regions in one data center and three regions in the second data center while maintaining a single consolidated database. This availability modernization project thus utilizes the IT infrastructure at full active capacity with no dedicated idle backup required, and provides peace of mind in case of a datacenter loss, as the failover will always be to a known-working environment.

RBC was the first financial institution in that country to integrate systems so that clients could use a single logon to access their checking, mortgage, investment, and line of credit accounts. Currently, the RBC Financial Group has approximately 2.3 million online customers and a total customer base of approximately 12 million. RBC is the largest financial institution in Canada, measured by deposits, revenues, and market capitalization. The bank serves seventeen million clients and has 80,100 employees worldwide. The bank serves approximately ten million Canadian clients through its network of 1,197 branches. RBC is listed as the largest Canadian company by revenue and market capitalization by The Globe and Mail and is ranked at number 55 on the Forbes Global 2000 listing. The company has operations in Canada, the United States, and 48 other countries.

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Gravic, Inc. is a privately-held corporation located in Malvern, PA, about twenty miles west of Philadelphia, PA, USA. Gravic makes a number of computer software products for data collection, transformation, and distribution uses. Customers of its Shadowbase data replication products include banks, financial and brokerage firms, insurance companies, stock exchanges, electric utilities, and telecommunications companies. For more information on Gravic and our data replication solutions for BASE24 please visit www.gravic.com/shadowbase or email us at shadowbase@gravic.com.