Datacraft and Indonesia's Bank Central Asia (BCA) have entered into a multi-million dollar contract that will see the IT solutions and services company design, build and support a next-generation data centre infrastructure for the financial institution.
The project entails the design and construction of two new next-generation data centres in Jakarta with high-speed connectivity. The infrastructure will support a multitude of applications, ranging from heavy web-based applications, delay-sensitive voice conversations, SNA packets for networking, high-bandwidth storage replication and encrypted financial transactions.
Datacraft Uptime service is highly flexible and can be tailored to meet the business needs as well as to support critical systems. In BCA's case, this will be complemented by a high-speed dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) link between the data centres that will ensure five nines services availability.
A notable highlight of the new design is its use of virtualisation which means that instead of having and maintaining an individual hardware platform for each functional department, application, customer or partner, the infrastructure can be used to provide the same level of service for numerous user groups simultaneously, each with its dedicated resources and configurations.
"High availability is built in the design, eliminating single-points-of-failures ranging from power outages to module malfunctions, equipment failures, link disconnections or software patches/updates. The flexibility of the design also allows BCA to conduct a partial or full disaster recovery between the centres or run both data centres in active mode simultaneously," Yakin explained.
BCA will also enjoy two other major benefits - namely accurate accounting and manageability as well as built-in security.
"End-to-end security is also put in place, extensively covering every point of vulnerability from user desktops to network access, link encryption, network perimeter security, one-time passwords, denial-of-service mitigation. This is backed by physical security solutions such as surveillance systems and door and equipment access," said Patrap Yakin, country manager of Datacraft Indonesia.