Operational continuity guaranteed for the digital bank illimity Bank.

Illimity is the first Italian digital cloud-native bank. Founded in 2018, it has built its architecture on Microsoft Azure. Today, it provides credit to small and medium enterprises with high potential, acquires and manages Distressed Corporate Credit, and offers innovative digital direct banking services to retail and corporate clients.

Like all Italian banking entities, illimity must comply with the “Guidelines for Operational Continuity” outlined by the Bank of Italy, which require intermediaries to prepare emergency plans for information systems capable of ensuring, when necessary, the continuity of vital operations for the company and a return to normal operations within a reasonable time frame.

Being a bank that predominantly provides digital banking, illimity had additional project constraints to keep the business operational even during Disaster Recovery, including: the need to minimize (to less than 4 hours) the Recovery Point Objective (RPO), which is the time between the production of data and its securing; reduce the Recovery Time Objective (RTO), i.e., the time that can elapse between the stopping of a System and the recovery of its operability; and manage to execute the failback from the DR site to the primary site within 24 hours.