Cooperative Bank of Oromia: Fortifying Core IT Infrastructure to Fuel Digital-Intelligent Evolution

While these technological advancements support expanding business operations, the bank's current IT infrastructure reveals critical optimization requirements to ensure sustainable growth capabilities.

The Cooperative Bank of Oromia's current storage infrastructure requires optimization in physical footprint and resource utilization efficiency to address escalating data storage demands. Concurrently, evolving transaction volumes and real-time processing requirements reveal performance bottlenecks in storage latency and I/O throughput, necessitating architectural refinements to maximize server compute potential. Furthermore, constrained data center rack capacity demands implementation of high-density storage solutions with elastic scaling capabilities.

Data constitutes the core asset of a banking institution, where optimizing storage efficiency, transmission reliability, and cybersecurity protocols fundamentally governs the executability of core banking operations and scalability of digital financial services. Huawei's OceanStor Dorado series all-flash storage system provides COOP Bank with high-performance capabilities through its end-to-end NVMe architecture. The SmartMatrix 3.0 fully interconnected active-active architecture combined with RAID-TP technology effectively addresses data protection requirements to ensure operational stability. Additionally, the system supports intelligent lifecycle management encompassing resource planning, service deployment, system tuning, risk forecasting, and fault diagnosis, enabling COOP Bank to proactively anticipate potential performance bottlenecks and hard disk failures. COOP Bank's implementation of Huawei OceanStor Dorado all-flash storage systems has enhanced storage performance while reducing SAN port requirements, power consumption, cooling needs, and rack space utilization, thereby lowering total storage operational costs.

Today, COOP Bank has achieved a comprehensive upgrade of its IT infrastructure, establishing a brand-new digital foundation that lays a solid groundwork for supporting the bank's digital and intelligent transformation, as well as the innovative development of its business.