Failure is no option at SwiftÆs control centre

Operation hubs can be fun. Sitting down at one of the nearly identical, open plan workstations and staring at the large LCD displays showing critical system statistics easily lulls you into daydreams of how one small deviation could critically impair millions of financial transactions. But then you snap out of it and realise the quiet room -- Swift's Asia-Pacific central control centre (CCC), which smells slightly of new car -- is actually a model of efficiency and the image of today'…