Providing Database Managed Services to Nepal’s first commercial data center

ASPL Info has provided Data Management and Data Recovery services to Nepal’s first commercial data center for over a decade. With changing technology ecosystems, our scope of work expanded to include Data Centre protection services as well.

Being the only data center provider in Nepal meant that our client dealt with significant amounts of data. While they had sufficient managed services and infrastructure monitoring, they needed an exhaustive disaster management system. Without in-house resources to manage their database, they were at risk of compromising their security as well. These facets created a large gap within their operations and ability to scale.

Building an extensive and uber-functioning recovery system and data center required us to establish and fulfill a range of technical parameters. We then:

• Created a data recovery center that focused on replication and downtime scenarios.
• Tested and implemented a plan of action before deployment.
• Prioritized applications that maintained business continuity.
• Automated tasks with DR/DC scripts.
• Continued to provide new ideas and solutions for seamless maintenance checks and management.
• Tracked gaps and lags between the center and recovery to quickly address issues.

By automating DR/DC scripts and enhancing the client’s business continuity plan, we have met their business goals. Some of the benefits include:

• Increase in timely DR/DC gap email alerts leading to issues resolution.
• Increase in business performance with enhanced data security.
• Cost reduction because of better capacity planning and resource utilization with DR/DC scripts automation.
• Reduction in investment on both DR and DC resources.
• Reduction in yearly investment on monitoring solutions.
• Increase in goodwill by being the first commercial data center to provide database and data security for financial institutions in Nepal.