Backup like a startup

Minimising downtime is a complex challenge for banks, particularly banks with large legacy IT estates. At the heart of operational resilience is business continuity, and there’s a modern approach to this that any bank can adopt.

We are in a new era. Banks and other financial institutions operating in the UK must now comply with the UK Operational Resilience framework, and institutions that also provide services in the European Union must comply with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

The standard approach followed by many banks is to replicate key systems as standby systems hosted on different premises from their primary IT infrastructure. Tested less frequently, these systems are more likely to be error-prone, resulting in a heightened risk of data loss. But what's the alternative?