Step Logic provides disaster tolerance of RGS Bank IT infrastructure

2021: Building a disaster-tolerant network and computing infrastructure

STEP LOGIC November 9, 2021 announced the completion of the project to build a disaster-tolerant network and computing infrastructure. CSG Bank To ensure continuity, business processes IT the services bank were separated into two geographically distributed ones. DPC

Based on the Cisco ACI network solution, a fault-tolerant IT foundation has been created for the further growth and development of the bank's services.

STEP LOGIC specialists were tasked with building a fault-tolerant IT foundation that supports current information security technologies, with which the bank can not only ensure minimal downtime and continuous availability of existing IT services, but also quickly increase capacity to increase the speed of implementation of new services and customer service.

As part of the project, a geo-distributed virtualization cluster was created in two data centers - the main and the backup - and synchronous replication was configured between storage systems.

The data center network is implemented on the basis of an ACI factory - a set of switches under the control of one APIC cluster. With Cisco ACI, you can manage your network as a single entity based on a policy model, providing tight integration with different computing infrastructure virtualization environments, the ability to build your IB according to the concept of zero trust, quickly scale network capacity, and reduce labor and risk during network operation.

We not only integrated the ACI factory into the existing solution, but on its basis we rebuilt the architecture of the entire bank's data center network. At the same time, the previous logic of network interaction was preserved, which made it possible to quickly implement the architecture without interrupting existing business processes, "commented Dmitry Lopatkin, expert on network solutions for STEP LOGIC data centers. - Considering that at the same time about one hundred information systems were migrated, our specialists had to carry out a lot of preliminary work. Plans were prepared for 65 stages of the transition to the target infrastructure, each of which was worked out in detail and tested in the laboratory.

We initially focused on creating a geographically stretched cluster, since one of the most important conditions for the bank's effective operation is the reliability and continuity of services provided to customers. The created disaster tolerance model guarantees the safety data and minimum downtime of information systems without the need for technical personnel to intervene in case of an emergency in one of the data centers or channel accidents. communications In addition, we have received a platform that takes into account current trends in the management of network infrastructure, information security and computing technologies, which will allow us to keep up with the times and make our services even faster and more convenient, "said Igor Mushakov, Director of Information Technology at CSG Bank.