Outcomes
- 10-minute guaranteed recovery time during failover and failback activities.
- 100% automation of monthly and quarterly DR drills.
- Predictable, low-error recovery operations with end-to-end orchestration across all critical apps.
Client Bio
One of India's top three asset management companies operates in a highly regulated financial sector, managing billions of assets for customers nationwide. It runs mission-critical applications on VMware-based infrastructure across two data centers in Mumbai.
Situation
To meet business continuity and regulatory compliance mandates, the company conducted regular DR drills. However, these were highly manual and operationally intensive, requiring coordination across multiple teams. The variability in execution time and error rates posed risks to compliance SLAs, creating uncertainty around recovery success.
Impact
Before Datamotive, DR drills were error-prone and unpredictable, increasing the operational burden and putting compliance goals at risk. Inefficiencies drove up costs through increased time, resources, and oversight needed to manage manual recovery workflows. The potential for errors during drills added reputational and compliance risk.
Solution
The firm implemented Datamotive's Easy DR platform to simplify and standardize disaster recovery across its VMware-based environment. Datamotive provided complete orchestration of full and test recoveries, automating steps such as hostname/IP reconfiguration, domain join, IIS setup, and SSL binding updates. Sysprep-based isolation ensured that test drills could be performed regularly without affecting production. The result: predictable recovery times, reduced human errors, and a fully automated DR drill process that met internal and regulatory expectations.