Case Study: Alfa-Bank achieves 24/7 nonstop banking continuity with Vision Solutions (MIMIX HA)

Alfa Bank - Customer Case Study

Alfa-Bank, one of Russia’s largest privately owned banks headquartered in Moscow with 205 branches and extensive ATM and internet banking channels, faced a critical availability problem: routine “end of day” processing, maintenance and occasional hardware/power failures forced planned and unplanned downtime that prevented customers from accessing accounts and transactions. With expansion across multiple time zones, the bank needed a proven, easy-to-manage high-availability solution that would protect its Misys Equation banking application and eliminate service interruptions.

Alfa-Bank selected Vision Solutions’ MIMIX HA for i5/OS, implemented with IBM Russia, including a joint 24x7 Continuous Processing Facility for Misys. MIMIX maintains a switch-ready real-time backup server so EOD tasks, upgrades and failures occur transparently, preserving continuous ATM, internet banking and transaction access. The result was fast implementation, round-the-clock business continuity across time zones, continuous protection of critical financial data, and the ability to test and upgrade systems without customer impact.

Alfa Bank