Overview
Yunnan International Trust Co., Ltd.
Country: China
Industry: Financial Services / Trust Banking
Solution: Dual-Active Database Disaster Recovery + Offsite Backup
As a leading trust financial institution, the company faced increasingly strict requirements for business continuity, data security, and compliance. Trust services rely heavily on core databases with zero downtime tolerance, demanding a dual-active architecture and offsite disaster recovery to ensure uninterrupted business operations.
Customer Challenge
- High availability — Database downtime would cause severe financial and operational impact; required dual-active architecture for immediate failover.
- Data consistency — Needed strict transaction-level consistency across dual-active databases to avoid data loss or conflict.
- Performance impact — Dual-active systems consume significant system and network resources.
- Complex management — Configuration and management complexity of multi-site database synchronization.
- Data security — Ensuring data integrity and confidentiality during cross-site transmission and storage.
- Cost control — Offsite backup requires balancing storage costs with resilience needs.
- Recovery speed — Remote recovery may be limited by network bandwidth, affecting business resumption.
I2 Solution
- VMware replication: Leveraged i2VP to replicate VMware virtual machines from Shanghai primary data center to Yunnan remote site.
- Database synchronization: Performed scheduled synchronization of multiple databases to the offsite environment.
- Dual-active architecture: For core databases, deployed i2Active to achieve dual-active high availability. Enabled real-time synchronization under high-concurrency transaction loads, with verification technology to ensure strict transaction-level consistency between primary and standby databases.
Solution Effects
- Business continuity — Achieved seamless failover and near-zero downtime for mission-critical systems.
- Data security — Protected integrity and confidentiality of VM, physical server, and critical database data.
- Simplified management — Unified disaster recovery platform reduced complexity for IT operations.
- Regulatory compliance — Encryption and version control ensured compliance with financial data regulations.
- Cost optimization — Intelligent storage management reduced long-term disaster recovery costs.