Truckee River Bank, located high in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, is a Unisys A4FS system user processing with ITI banking software. Software enhancements have placed increased demands upon the bank's processor and disk subsystem. Faced with a need to complete more work in less time, Truckee River Bank turned to the Storage Computer, and the Macro team for help.
First, the bank used a MacroDAT subsystem to reduce backup times from 2 hours to 30 minutes, substantially increasing system availability. Second, the bank installed a Storage Computer RAID 7 subsystem with 6GB of storage which further reduced nightly batch processing by 3 hours - a 27% reduction! I/0 wait time was reduced by up to 75%. All this from a CPU that's "maxed out" says Truckee River Bank's Lise Jorgensen, VP/Director of Data Processing. "We knew our old disk was slow but it's hard to believe how fast our processing gets done now. Best of all, no program or operational changes were needed. It's like a dream come true." She contacted other ITI/RAID 7 users to find out how RAID 7 performed in their environments. "What they told us convinced us that we'd see the same performance gains that they saw. They were right," adds Lise. "I know that there are users struggling with nightly batch processing windows who could really benefit from RAID 7. We've already had several other banks call and/or visit us to see our RAID 7."
In addition to enhanced performance, Truckee River Bank benefits from the security of full data fault tolerance for all of the bank's information. In the event of a disk failure, the RAID 7 will continue to respond to all I/0 requests while automatically rebuilding to a standby drive. The RAID 7 can also be attached to open systems or networking environments to further protect the bank's investment.
For more information about how RAID 7 performance and data fault tolerance can benefit your processing environment, call us at 1-603-880-3005 and let Storage Computer give you a strategic advantage.
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