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Case Study: Cognizant achieves faster, always-on database availability with Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn
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Cognizant - Customer Case Study
Cognizant, a leading global provider of IT and business process services, faced significant challenges with database availability and disaster recovery for its critical OneCognizant platform. Their legacy Log Shipping configuration between data centers in Chennai and Pune caused regular, disruptive outages during data synchronization, creating a bottleneck for business continuity and demanding extensive manual monitoring. To address this, they approached Microsoft Corporation for a more seamless solution.
Microsoft implemented its SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature, a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution. This provided Cognizant with multiple synchronous data replicas, practically eliminating the time lag and data unavailability experienced previously. The solution drastically reduced the time to switch between data centers from hours to just 15 minutes, freed up bandwidth, and enabled real-time reporting from the disaster recovery servers, significantly improving overall system performance and data accessibility.
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Cognizant
Jayashree Sridharan
Cognizant