Dhaka Stock Exchange Builds a Data Center Virtualization Platform with Huawei DCS

The benefits are already evident through improved market accessibility, faster transactions, and enhanced transparency. DSE now focuses on leveraging data and advanced analytics to enable informed decision-making, predictive insights, and differentiated services for investors and market participants, moving beyond a one-size-fits-all approach.

DSE encountered three critical technology challenges. First, increased licensing and support costs of core trading, clearing, and virtualization platforms placed significant pressure on IT operating budgets. Second, aging compute and storage infrastructure reached end-of-support, creating performance bottlenecks, limited scalability, and heightened operational risk to mission-critical market systems. Finally, the rapid evolution of cyber threats exposed gaps in existing security architecture, particularly in ransomware detection, backup immutability, and recovery capabilities.

Huawei delivered a data center solution tailored to the specific operational and regulatory requirements of DSE, incorporating Huawei eDME, DCS, and OceanStor Dorado 5000 New-Gen All-Flash Storage. The integrated solution effectively addressed DSE's infrastructure, performance, and resilience challenges through the following advanced technologies:

Efficient data center management engine (eDME)

• Virtualization management: eDME provides a unified virtualization service management platform to help DSE quickly and intuitively complete O&M management of virtualization resources. On this virtualization management platform, DSE can quickly view the VRM information, cluster information, host information, and key performance metrics of virtualization services.

• Centralized alarming: By providing alarm filtering, query, compression, and customized rules, centralized alarm monitoring enables O&M administrators to quickly locate and handle any alarms that they are concerned with.

Huawei DCS Full-Stack Data Center Solution

• High resource utilization: Unified pooling of compute, storage, and network resources significantly improves infrastructure utilization (up to 70–80%), reducing idle capacity and optimizing TCO.

• Simplified IT operations: Centralized management and monitoring of virtual machines and workloads, with automation minimizing manual intervention and operational risk.

• High availability and business continuity: Built-in high availability, live migration, and disaster recovery capabilities ensure uninterrupted operation of mission-critical systems such as trading, clearing, settlement, and market surveillance, supporting 24/7 market availability.

• Scalable architecture: Seamless scalability enables DSE to accommodate increasing transaction volumes, market participants, and data growth without service disruption.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado 5000 New-Gen All-Flash Storage

• Ultra-low latency performance: Sub-millisecond (< 1 ms) latency delivers exceptional performance for high-IOPS workloads, including trading engines, real-time market data processing, and analytics platforms.

• Enterprise-grade reliability and data protection: 99.9999% availability through active-active architecture and end-to-end redundancy, complemented by advanced snapshot, replication, and backup capabilities, ensures data integrity and rapid recovery.

• Energy efficiency and sustainability: All-flash design with intelligent deduplication and compression reduces storage footprint, power consumption, and cooling requirements, supporting DSE's sustainability objectives.

• Future-ready platform: NVMe-based architecture and AI-driven intelligent management provide a strong foundation for advanced analytics, regulatory technology, and future capital market innovations.

Huawei Professional Services delivered deep customization and solution design to ensure seamless integration with DSE's existing network and legacy systems. The team also executed a carefully planned migration strategy, enabling a smooth transition with minimal risk and zero service disruption, thereby guaranteeing business continuity for mission-critical capital market operations.

By deploying the Huawei DCS Full-Stack Data Center Solution, DSE realized significant business value:

• Accelerated market modernization: Supports DSE's strategy to modernize trading, clearing, settlement, and surveillance platforms, enabling faster introduction of new digital market services, data products, and analytics capabilities.

• Enhanced market participant experience: Ultra-low latency and high availability ensure faster order execution, real-time market data access, and minimal service interruptions for investors, brokers, and regulators.

• Optimized total cost of ownership (TCO): Higher consolidation ratios reduce infrastructure footprint, power, and cooling costs, while centralized DCS management streamlines operations and lowers ongoing operational expenses.

Future Outlook

DSE will continue to strengthen its strategic partnership with Huawei, leveraging Huawei's data center and digital infrastructure platforms to build more intelligent, resilient, and data-driven capital market systems. This collaboration will support market innovation, enhance regulatory efficiency, and promote sustainable development of Bangladesh's capital market, contributing to greater market accessibility and investor inclusion across the region.