U.S. Bancorp

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24/7 Data Migration for U.S. Bancorp

The Business Need

An $86-billion diversified financial institution, U.S. Bancorp, serves businesses, government entities, and individuals through U.S. Bank and other subsidiaries. For millions of customers in the West and Midwest, the bank provides investment banking, asset management, private banking and electronic payment services.

Over the past several years, U.S. Bancorp realized the need to move massive volumes of data that resided on a variety of storage subsystems from multiple vendors. This typically occurred when a lease terminated on an existing subsystem, which would be replaced by more advanced technology.

Data migration is a common activity for financial institutions -- but the bank required that the operation happen during normal business hours.

The Solution

"Fujitsu Softek's data migration solution, Softek TDMF, Mainframe Edition lets us hold the line in terms of staff people and time required for the migration," explained Scott Coryell, the bank's manager of capacity planning. "Right away, it was a tool that made the most of the resources we had."

"What used to take 20 weekends now can happen in the course of a week, moving data four volumes at a time," he said. Softek TDMF also enables the data center to monitor performance as migrations are occurring. "Performance isn't an issue," Coryell said. "We can handle any type of data migration, at any volume, and with any hardware or software upgrades."

Developed in direct response to the needs of its major telecommunications clients, Softek TDMF storage management is the industry's first independent, non-disruptive data migration utility. Software-based, Softek TDMF moves data from one storage volume to another while allowing simultaneous read/write access and unimpaired response time. Softek TDMF supports data integrity on both the source and target systems. The software ensures 24/7 availability and reduces the costs of administrative and systems administration. Some 400 of the world's 1,000 largest organizations use Softek TDMF with an unprecedented degree of satisfaction. The package helps these institutions manage their staggering volumes of data generated by today's e-commerce environment.

The Results

Softek TDMF enables U.S. Bancorp to perform migrations during the day with no performance degradation. "Our migrations can involve a terabyte of data or more -- up to 400 volumes," Coryell said. "Before we had Softek TDMF, we would have to shut down center operations and move data on the weekend. This involved scheduling standalone time, staff overtime, and service interruptions. With Softek TDMF we can do migrations dynamically, anytime we need them, which means we can be up 24/7."

Softek TDMF Benefits

• Fast Copy option -Speeds migrations, decreases costs
• Pacing options - Enables continued migration during heavy production
• Offline Volume Access (OVA) - Eliminates need for second OS
• Auto-operations interface - Saves time, increases productivity
• Dynamic Suspend - No restart needed; save valuable time and money during extended-distance migrations