Case Study about Southern Federal Credit Union
The Southern Federal Credit Union (TSFCU) was formed in 1963 to help a group of Federal Aviation Administration employees secure more competitive financial services. Over the years, TSFCU has expanded its charter, growing to serve more than 22,000 members and more than 190 employee groups throughout the southern crescent metropolitan Atlanta, including the National Weather Service, Chick-Fil-A and the Southeastern region of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Headquartered in Fayetteville, TSFCU operates full-service branches in six locations.
The Challenge: One of the first problems the team had uncovered was that nightly incremental backups were encroaching into the production environment. “Clearly we couldn’t do backups during the day – but managing the time-consuming effort starting at 8:00 p.m. each night became a huge problem, both at our headquarters and our branch offices,” recalls Gill. To alleviate the strain, the team was forced to back up only the most critical data on a regular basis. “Babysitting the backups became a dreaded job,” says Gill. “And restores exacerbated our problems. It was actually harder to pull a file off a tape than to make the tape in the first place. keep reading..
