By adopting i2COOPY, a real-time data replication software from Information2, Disha Bank has successfully implemented real-time disaster recovery for its data, which not only enhances data security and business continuity but also improves management efficiency, providing a solid guarantee for the safety of customers’ assets.

Disha Bank, as a leading financial service provider in India, is dedicated to providing personalized financial planning and wealth management services to over 500 clients globally. Through its advanced online platform, clients can enjoy personal login facilities and access real-time updated data analysis dashboards anytime, anywhere, gaining insights into their investment and insurance status. Disha Bank not only provides detailed reports and analyses but also actively guides clients in investment and financial management, continuously creating long-term value for them.

With the continuous growth of Disha Bank’s business, its demand for data security and business continuity has become increasingly urgent. Especially in the face of potential risks such as natural disasters, human errors, or cyberattacks, ensuring the security and availability of customer data has become an urgent issue for Disha Bank. To achieve this goal, Disha Bank decided to implement an efficient real-time data disaster recovery solution to achieve seamless synchronization and backup of data between heterogeneous platforms.

Information2’s i2COOPY, with its powerful heterogeneous platform data synchronization capabilities, has become a core component of Disha Bank’s real-time data disaster recovery solution. i2COOPY can real-time back up Disha Bank’s local virtualized platform data to the disaster recovery center on Huawei Cloud International, ensuring real-time synchronization of data even when there are differences in physical server models, configurations, and virtualization platform host layers.

This solution not only meets Disha Bank’s requirements for real-time data but also greatly simplifies the complexity of disaster recovery management. With i2COOPY, Disha Bank can achieve offsite data backup without affecting business operations, effectively reducing the risk of data loss.

Enhanced Data Security: The real-time replication function of i2COOPY ensures seamless synchronization of Disha Bank’s data between heterogeneous platforms, allowing for rapid business recovery and safeguarding customer asset security even in the event of catastrophic incidents.

Improved Business Continuity: By implementing real-time disaster recovery, Disha Bank’s business continuity has been significantly enhanced, ensuring service continuity and stability even in the face of emergencies.

Increased Management Efficiency: i2COOPY provides an intuitive management interface, enabling Disha Bank to easily monitor and manage the data synchronization process, significantly reducing operational and time costs.

Future Scalability: With the continuous development of Disha Bank’s business, the heterogeneous platform synchronization capabilities of i2COOPY provide flexibility and scalability for its future business expansion and upgrades.

Customer Evaluation

Information2’s i2COOPY has not only successfully implemented our real-time data disaster recovery but also significantly enhanced data security and business continuity. Additionally, its intuitive management interface has greatly improved our management efficiency. Furthermore, the heterogeneous platform synchronization capabilities of i2COOPY offer great flexibility and scalability for our future development.

The combination of Information2’s real-time data replication software i2COOPY and Huawei Cloud International provides Saggraha with an efficient and reliable real-time data disaster recovery solution, offering solid data security assurance for its digital transformation journey.

Saggraha, a leading financial service provider in India, is dedicated to offering comprehensive financial solutions to customers. With the deepening of digital transformation, Saggraha’s business scale has continuously expanded, and its data volume has grown exponentially. To ensure business continuity and data integrity, Saggraha urgently needs to establish an efficient and reliable data disaster recovery system. However, traditional disaster recovery solutions often suffer from data synchronization delays and long recovery times, unable to meet Saggraha’s high requirements for data real-time performance and availability.

For Saggraha’s actual needs, Information2 provides a real-time data disaster recovery solution based on i2COOPY. This solution deploys the i2COOPY software on Saggraha’s local production servers, enabling real-time replication of core data at the host layer. i2COOPY captures changes in data on the production servers and transmits these changes in real-time to the disaster recovery center at Huawei Cloud International. In the disaster recovery center, the data is securely stored and always remains consistent with the production end. Specific Steps includes:

• Real-time Data Replication: i2COOPY runs on the production servers, capturing data changes in real-time and transmitting them to the disaster recovery center at Huawei Cloud International through encrypted transmission.
• Data Consistency Assurance: i2COOPY employs advanced replication technology to ensure consistency between the production and disaster recovery ends. Even if anomalies occur during data transmission, mechanisms such as log retransmission ensure data integrity and accuracy.
• Disaster Recovery Center Management: Huawei Cloud International provides a stable and reliable disaster recovery center environment for Saggraha. Saggraha can monitor and manage the data in the disaster recovery center through the cloud management platform, ensuring data security and availability.

Real-time Data-level Disaster Recovery: Through i2COOPY’s real-time replication feature, Saggraha successfully achieves real-time data-level disaster recovery. Even if catastrophic failures occur on the production end, data can be quickly recovered from the disaster recovery center, ensuring business continuity and customer trust.

Enhanced Data Availability and Security: i2COOPY’s real-time replication and encrypted transmission features ensure data availability and security. Even if anomalies occur during data transmission, mechanisms such as log retransmission ensure data integrity and accuracy. Additionally, the disaster recovery center environment at Huawei Cloud International provides additional security for the data.

Reduced Operational Costs: Through the cloud management platform, Saggraha can easily monitor and manage data in the disaster recovery center, reducing operational costs. Meanwhile, Information2’s i2COOPY also provides a simple and user-friendly management interface, making it easy for operational personnel to perform data replication and disaster recovery switching operations.

Customer Evaluation

The combination of i2COOPY’s real-time replication and Huawei Cloud provides Saggraha with efficient and reliable data security, reduces operational costs, ensures business continuity and data integrity, and supports its digital transformation journey.

Royal Exchange, a leading integrated insurance group in Nigeria, faced security challenges during business expansion and digital transformation. In collaboration with Information2 and Huawei Cloud, Royal Exchange successfully implemented a cloud disaster recovery solution based on a hybrid IT architecture, effectively enhancing data security and business continuity, and achieving an efficient and resilient cloud-based disaster recovery mechanism.

Royal Exchange, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, has evolved from Nigeria’s earliest insurance company into a comprehensive insurance group integrating general insurance, life insurance, foreign exchange finance, healthcare, and bank loans since its listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on December 3, 1990. As a national brand enterprise in Nigeria, Royal Exchange is actively leveraging digital technology to drive continuous innovation in products and services, aiming to build a sustainable corporate image.

With the continuous expansion of its business scope and deepening digital transformation, Royal Exchange faces increasingly severe security challenges, including network virus attacks, system scaling and upgrades, operational management vulnerabilities, and natural disasters. Meanwhile, the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) requirements for business systems and data security are becoming increasingly stringent. Any unplanned business downtime or data damage could result in severe economic losses and reputational harm to Royal Exchange.

Furthermore, the evolving hybrid IT architecture of Royal Exchange complicates the storage, backup, and recovery management of structured and unstructured data. Adopting local or remote disaster recovery models to ensure business continuity and data security would involve long-term construction issues such as site selection, planning, construction, and link design for disaster recovery centers, along with high upfront construction and ongoing maintenance costs, making it difficult to match the rapid business development and overall security goals.

Addressing Royal Exchange’s needs, Information2 provided a cloud disaster recovery solution based on a hybrid architecture combining local and Huawei Cloud resources. The solution utilizes CloudCDM software to enable rapid backup and recovery of local data to Huawei Cloud, supporting rapid migration of critical businesses to the cloud while featuring high reliability, cost-effectiveness, and agile management.

• Data Backup and Migration: Users utilize CloudCDM software to transmit business application data from the local data center to Huawei Cloud’s Johannesburg data center in an encrypted manner, achieving data storage backup on Huawei Cloud EVS disks. Through an initial full backup followed by permanent incremental backups, a snapshot policy with a one-minute interval ensures hot backups of data.
• Secure Operating Environment: To enhance the security of CloudCDM software, administrators use Huawei Cloud’s local security group policies to provide a secure operating environment for the entire disaster recovery setup. Meanwhile, Information2 employs real-time byte-level encrypted replication technology to ensure data security during transmission.
• Rapid Business Takeover: When the local production environment fails, Royal Exchange can quickly switch business operations to Huawei Cloud through the CloudCDM platform, enabling rapid business takeover. Leveraging the disaster recovery model on the cloud and the advantages of elastic and agile cloud resources, Royal Exchange can easily conduct disaster recovery drills and tests on Huawei Cloud without affecting the local production system. Drill reports can be automatically generated, reducing the need for excessive resource investment in availability validation.
• Unified Maintenance and Management: Administrators can access the CloudCDM platform via encrypted HTTPS and perform easy operations on its graphical management interface for unified maintenance and management of the platform. This greatly facilitates the adjustment and maintenance of cloud-based disaster recovery strategies.

As the cloud infrastructure provider for the CloudCDM solution, Huawei Cloud provides Royal Exchange with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Technology as a Service (TaaS), and Experience as a Service (EaaS). This meets the solution’s requirements for low-latency network transmission and high-stability computing power. Meanwhile, leveraging Huawei Cloud’s capabilities in system integration, software, hardware, and service partnerships ensures Royal Exchange’s rapid future expansion needs in computing, storage, networking, and security.

1. Adopting a hybrid IT architecture addresses Royal Exchange’s challenges with data backup and disaster recovery from local to cloud centers, significantly enhancing the overall security of its digital systems.

2. Through CloudCDM’s advantages in data extraction, backup strategies, and drill testing, Royal Exchange achieves a more agile cloud-based disaster recovery mechanism, greatly improving the total cost of ownership (TCO) for backup and recovery system construction.

3. Compared to locally deployed CDM appliances, CloudCDM leverages Huawei Cloud’s elastic cloud infrastructure resources and CloudCDM’s replica management capabilities for massive data, enabling Royal Exchange to easily achieve elastic scaling of disaster recovery resources and ensuring the security of more systems and data in the future.

Customer Evaluation

The hybrid IT cloud disaster recovery solution implemented by Information2 and Huawei Cloud significantly enhances data security and business continuity, reduces TCO, achieves efficient and resilient cloud-based disaster recovery, and provides solid support for future business expansion. Royal Exchange is very satisfied with the cooperation results.

In the wave of digital transformation, China Construction Bank (CCB) has partnered with Information2 to build an offsite cloud file disaster recovery system based on Tencent Cloud COS Object Storage. This system effectively ensures CCB’s data security and business continuity, setting a new benchmark for digital transformation in the financial industry and pushing the data security protection system to a higher level.

As a leading financial institution in China, CCB has extremely high requirements for data security and business continuity. Currently, the bank uses Tencent Cloud’s COS Object Storage to store backup data generated daily by tenants using the TDSQL database. The production environment is located in Beijing, and data is synchronized to Tencent Cloud’s COS Object Storage in Shanghai through DTO replication.

However, with the development of business and the growth of data volume, CCB realized that the existing data synchronization method could no longer meet the high requirements for data disaster recovery. Therefore, the bank decided to build a comprehensive offsite disaster recovery system to enhance the data security level of COS Object Storage and ensure that data can be quickly recovered in the face of various disastrous events, thereby safeguarding business continuity.

To build the offsite disaster recovery system, CCB chose Information2’s i2DTO tool as the primary tool for data offsite disaster recovery. This tool has the following characteristics:

• Incremental/Differential File Transfer: By scanning and comparing, i2DTO can accurately obtain incremental or differential files and perform efficient data transfer, reducing data transmission redundancy.
• Data Not Landing on Disk: During data transmission, data does not land on the host storage where i2DTO is installed, avoiding the risk of data leakage and loss.
• Concurrent Synchronization: Supports the use of multiple synchronization hosts for concurrent synchronization, improving scanning and synchronization efficiency, and shortening synchronization time.
• Graphical Configuration: Provides a fully graphical configuration page, making operations more intuitive and convenient, and reducing the difficulty of operation and maintenance.

During the construction process, CCB deployed synchronization nodes and management nodes of i2DTO in Tencent Cloud’s COS Object Storage in Beijing and Shanghai, respectively, and configured corresponding synchronization policies. Meanwhile, to ensure system stability and reliability, data synchronization nodes and management nodes adopt a cluster mode.

Enhanced Data Security: Realized timed and automatic backup of data from Beijing’s COS Object Storage to Shanghai’s COS Object Storage, forming a geographical dual guarantee and improving data security and reliability.

Strengthened Business Continuity: In the event of a failure at a certain node, the synchronization link can quickly switch to other normally operating nodes, without affecting the normal operation of data synchronization, thereby ensuring business continuity.

Improved Management Efficiency: i2DTO provides an intuitive management interface, enabling CCB to easily monitor and manage the data synchronization process, reducing operation and maintenance costs and time costs.

Customer Evaluation

By building an offsite disaster recovery system for Tencent Cloud COS Object Storage, we have not only upgraded our data security level but also greatly enhanced our business continuity and stability. The efficient, stable, and user-friendly features of Information2’s i2DTO tool have provided strong support for our data disaster recovery work. In future development, we will continue to strengthen data security and backup work to provide a more solid guarantee for the digital transformation of the financial industry.