CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned CUSO, is extremely proud to announce it has gone over twenty months with 100% scheduled uptime for its iSeries server as well as server-based systems such as It’s Me 247 online banking and CU*Talk audio banking.

Does 24 by 7 really mean 24 hours every day and 7 days a week every week? It might, depending on who you ask, but the one thing on which everyone agrees is that computers cannot run without occasional maintenance, upgrades, or even replacement. So what does 24×7 mean to CU*Answers? In their case, it means CU*Answers puts into place many different controls to allow its system to be running as many hours of the day, week by week, as they possibly can, while still allowing time for routine maintenance and necessary upgrades to hardware, communications and software systems.

CU*Answers has made system availability an extremely high priority for its credit unions, and has implemented a multi-site High Availability solution to maintain its high standard for Disaster Recovery.