Customer Case Study: Multi-Terabyte Database Backup and Restores Over High Speed

A customer case study providing perspective on Discover Financial Services (DFS) OLTP database backup and restore evolution from a “traditional” enterprise tired storage model to leveraging dedicated low latency networks. DFS has evolved to an OLTP database backup and restore environment that went from days to hours and hours to minutes for 24x7x365 mission critical production environments. The increased resiliency has provided DFS with the ability to keep more data online in OLTP and decision support systems allowing for improved customer experiences and the ability to bring new products to market.

Discover Financial Services (DFS) is a credit card issuer and electronic payment services company. DFS has many brands that are household names including the Discover Card, the Discover (formerly Novus) network, Diners Club International, the Pulse debit network, Discover Bank, and issues student, personal, and home loans.

Learning Objectives

Requirements gathering process
Architecture creation process
Deploying a solution that meets / exceeds the evolving expectations of IT execut
Continuous improvement process for IT deployments through automation