CEKAB Selects GoldenGate(R) Solutions for High Availability and Disaster Tolerance Across Critical Transaction Processing Systems; Major Swedish Banking Switch Plans to Use GoldenGate for Dual-Site Processing on Critical BASE24 Application.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- GoldenGate Software Inc., the leading provider of transactional data management solutions, today announced that Centralen for Elektroniska Korttransaktioner (CEKAB), the central processing center for electronic card transactions in Sweden, has selected GoldenGate's solution to support major business initiatives for high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and disaster tolerance of its critical BASE24 electronic payment system. Founded in 1989, CEKAB provides ATM, electronic funds transfer See EFT. (application, communications) electronic funds transfer - (EFT, EFTS, - system) Transfer of money initiated through electronic terminal, automated teller machine, computer, telephone, or magnetic tape. (EFT) and point of sale (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale ) transactions for Swedish banks and financial institutions. Because its secure processing environment maintains almost over 1 billion electronic card-based payment transactions a year, high availability and continuous operations are a top priority. "After evaluating a number of solutions, GoldenGate became the obvious choice -- we were impressed by the company's proven success in the industry sector and, more importantly, its unique product capabilities around dual-site processing for our core BASE24 transaction processing system A Transaction Processing System (TPS) is a type of information system. TPSs collect, store, modify, and retrieve the transactions of an organization. A transaction is an event that generates or modifies data that is eventually stored in an information system. ," explained Sissel Johnsen for CEKAB. "GoldenGate is flexible enough to be deployed across numerous phases of our project -- specifically system migrations to new HP Integrity NonStop servers, continuous operations and ultimately dual-site processing," added Johnson. "High availability of our mission-critical systems is the number one priority for the coming year, and we expect this initiative to positively impact overall customer satisfaction, ultimately creating a competitive advantage in the market." GoldenGate will augment CEKAB's current approach to disaster tolerance which is primarily based on disk mirroring. GoldenGate operates at the database transaction level, which allows for more flexibility and continuous operations, with the ability to immediately failover to a secondary site during planned and unplanned outages. Additionally, because GoldenGate enables dual-site processing across HP Integrity NonStop servers, based on the 64-bit Intel(R) Itanium2(R) processor, CEKAB can maximize their overall infrastructure investment across these high performance systems. Many of the world's leading banks and electronic payment networks are beginning to standardize on dual-site processing with GoldenGate and BASE24 for availability and performance benefits. "We are starting to see a number of customers transition to the HP Integrity NonStop platform and turn to GoldenGate to speed up this effort," said Tim Rathbun, executive vice president of marketing and product management for GoldenGate. "We are especially excited to work with CEKAB, a new GoldenGate customer who will roll-out our solution for minimal downtime migrations, high availability and dual-site processing over the coming months. GoldenGate has provided solutions for the banking and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. market for over a decade and we continue to evolve our products to better serve our customer needs." "The HP Integrity NonStop server platform offers enterprises world-class fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. and high availability, which is particularly critical for the banking, POS and financial industries," said Randall Meyer, head of product management and strategy for the NonStop Enterprise Division at HP. "With GoldenGate solutions combined with HP systems, leading organizations like CEKAB are leveraging this high-performance technology to help maximize return on investment." About GoldenGate Software GoldenGate Software Inc. is the leader in transactional data management. GoldenGate provides technology for capturing, transforming and moving transactional data in real time across major databases and environments. Fortune 500 companies use GoldenGate solutions to manage critical initiatives including high availability, disaster tolerance and real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. integration. Customers include Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Visa, Merrill Lynch & Co., Sabre Holdings, Comcast and Overstock.com. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key relationships with ISV's, database providers and systems integrators, including ACI ACI American Concrete Institute ACI Arch Coal Inc ACI Airports Council International (formerly Airport Associations Coordinating Council) ACI Automobile Club d'Italia ACI American Competitiveness Initiative Worldwide, GE Healthcare, MySQL AB, Teradata, a division of NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , and HP. A private company, GoldenGate is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found on the web at www.goldengate.com. |
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