CU*NorthWest, an information technology CUSO based in Liberty Lake, Washington participated in a successful production rollover test involving client credit unions and third party connections on November 22-23, 2014. Ten CU*NorthWest clients participated directly in the rollover test.

The test is part of the company’s ongoing disaster recovery strategy that includes out of region high availability replication, EFT switch and credit union branch connectivity redundancy. CU*NorthWest is a partner/owner of its own production center CUSO (Site-Four) in Yankton, SD. Site-Four maintains high availability systems in Grand Rapids, MI with CU*Answers—also a partner/owner of Site-Four.

The rollover testing continuously improves disaster recovery and business continuity strategies and operates at near immediate failover recovery with state-of-the-art data replication technologies. In addition to full rollover tests conducted several times a year, individual external network rollover tests are conducted on an ongoing basis.