FRP Makes Systems Disaster-Tolerant
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As Cambridge’s Brendan Cully and Andrew Warfield put it, “Disaster-tolerant systems are complex and expensive constructions that have hitherto been the provision of only the very rich or the very scared.”
Banks can very properly be in both groups.
We’re not suggesting that banks are lacking in courage, but that they realize that even a brief problem with their information systems can have very severe consequences.
One of our clients is an IT provider specializing in banking. They serve hundreds of community banks, providing solutions for all their technology needs. FRP is used to replicate backups of systems across virtual machines for redundancy. Since FRP uses the least possible resources through bit-level encryption and bandwidth throttling, FRP makes this a practical approach.
Even for companies that are neither very rich or very scared.