<p><img src="https://obs-cn-shanghai.yun.pingan.com/pcp-portal/20180301095837-11a8438997f6.png" /></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ping An Cloud was honored as one of the Top 10 Cloud Computing Cases in 2015 and granted the Linyun Award by ZDNet, which recognizes Ping An Cloud&#39;s innovation in financial cloud computing.&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </strong>Reason:</span></span></p> <hr /> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Industry:</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Finance</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Project background:</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Fast-growing internet finance services make it urgent for us to transform the traditional architecture. Because of the restrictions on the traditional architecture for the financial industry, we need to purchase many systems externally. It is relatively complicated for one architecture to support different application systems. Thus, through architecture model selection, Ping An Technology hopes to make management easier and achieve elastic expansion for internet finance business.</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Project target:</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">To develop Ping An FinCloud to tackle operation and maintenance difficulties brought by diverse storage products, and to meet business divisions&#39; various internet finance business requirements.</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Project effects:</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ping An Cloud was created based on storage. Ping An FinCloud, developed through FAS Series + E Series storage solutions including NetApp FAS8000 Series, has solved the problems below:</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NetApp storage and cluster architecture have achieved pooled management of storage resources and met the technical requirements for online expansion, including the requirement for elastic supply of cloud platform resources;</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; QoS of the NetApp storage system, by managing performance of different applications&#39; storage resources, supports the performance of different applications;</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FlexArray of the NetApp storage system, by integrating resources of other storage systems, saves equipment costs for cloud platforms;</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cluster virtualization of NetApp provides third-party storage platform access to meet management requirements for enterprise storage services in various scenarios.</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Source: http://www.zhiding.cn/zdnet/2015/1222/3070045.shtml</span></span></p>