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The 15 minute DRS
Iain Whyte
Abstract
Fortis Clearing Asia Pacific, as a financial services provider has some fairly strict regulations requiring Business Continuity. FCAP is extremely reliant on IT infrastructure for its business and daily operations. Marrying these two and solving the problem in a reliable and elegant way has been a long process over many years.
The final result is a Disaster Recovery system that can be brought up single handedly in about 15 minutes.
A technical overview of this solution is presented, with discussions of how to get there, and some of the dead ends explored.
Topics include - Storage Area Networks, Virtualisation, Data replication, Bridged networks, Tender processes, management buy-in and expectations management.
Presenter Biography
Iain is the Infrastructure and Systems Manager for Fortis Clearing Asia Pacific. Fortis Clearing is a global 3rd party provider of clearing, funding and custody services to large insitutional clients, such as stock brokers.
Iain has spent the last 7 years overseeing the technical design of FCAP's growth from a 17 person Sydney based branch to a 70 person team including branches in Singapore, Hong Kong and soon, Japan.
Involved in everything from programming trading interfaces handling billions of dollars a day to computer-room and office builds on two continents and 4 countries to shining a torch down fibre cables in the middle of the night, he doesn't get much sleep these days.
In what spare time he has left, Iain tries to go scuba diving whenever possible, is silly about photography, and enjoys spending time with his ever patient wife.