You Can’t Always Bank On Replication – But you can depend on Database Virtualization
Thursday, February 26, 200911:22 am EDT
In recent conversations with a major North American bank, it was made clear to me that legacy style replication doesn’t always cut it. What the bank in question lamented was that in order to access transactional data for anti-fraud analytics, it had to jump through big hoops, resulting in significant grief. The bank follows standard best practices, using log replication to keep a Disaster Recovery copy in near-sync. However, due to governance and latency issues, access to that DR site for business reporting is a challenge. This put a crimp in the bank’s efforts to deal with fraud. Enter xkoto’s active-active GRIDSCALE clustering solution. Once bank representatives heard our message, lights went on as they immediately recognized that with multiple, up-to-date copies of data available locally, reporting could happen without all of the technical and organizational gymnastics, and, accessing transactional data for anti-fraud analytics would be much easier.
