Case Study: Major Australian Bank achieves 4x faster SWIFT recovery with Veritas Technologies InfoScale Enterprise

Major Australian Bank Achieves a 4x Faster Recovery Time Objective for Its “SWIFT” Payment Platform using Veritas InfoScale Enterprise

A major Australian bank that runs SWIFT Alliance Access — processing up to US$713 billion in interbank transfers per day — faced unacceptable risk from manual, two-hour failovers across a complex AIX/Linux multi‑tier environment with 60 interdependent services. Interruptions risked up to US$30 billion per hour in exposure and regulatory reporting if outages exceeded three hours, so the bank needed a faster, repeatable high‑availability solution.

The bank deployed Veritas InfoScale Enterprise and InfoScale Operations Manager with Veritas Consulting and partner Insentra to automate and orchestrate cross‑platform, site‑to‑site failovers and service sequencing. The solution cut RTO from two hours to 30 minutes (4x faster), reduced failover test time and staffing by about 67%, maintained zero RPO via EMC SRDF, enabled repeatable automated recoveries and reduced planned downtime — delivering an immediate, highly favorable payback.