OceanStor Pacific Storage for Financial Document Images

Realize the Importance of Unstructured Data

Unstructured financial data now derives from a diverse range of sources, from channel access and front-end systems, to e-commerce platforms and paperless transactions. Processed and stored by content platforms—for auditing, risk control, and operational analysis—its full value continues to be explored through technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data. In the interim, this much has become abundantly clear: Effective management, backup, and archiving of unstructured financial data should now be a key concern for every enterprise.

New Storage Challenges
With advancing financial digitalization, traditional scale-up array storage falls well short when handling growing volumes of mass data. And long-term retention of data, in order to comply with regulations, can lead to a substantial increase in information technology (IT) costs.

Data Silos from Production to Backup and Archiving
In traditional financial systems, different applications, access protocols, and storage devices create data silos, making data flow difficult. The read and write performance models of different applications in front-end input, risk management, and decision analysis systems interfere with each other, negatively impacting the user experience.

Unstructured Data Matters in Production Decision-Making
With unstructured data, such as videos and images, gaining importance in the analysis of key services, storage must be able to meet new, higher levels of security, reliability, and speed.

Application Reconstruction Is Complex as Architecture Evolves
Traditional network–attached storage (NAS)-based systems are unable to meet the demands of financial services running on multiple terminals and across multiple platforms, from mobile phones and point of sale (POS) machines, to automated teller machines (ATMs) and video teller machines (VTMs). Here, NAS systems are unable to offer interactive online data access, sharing, and management across multiple data centers.