Hong Kong Financial Data Center Expansion with Infrastructure
Overview
A Hong Kong-based financial services company required a rapid upgrade of its data center infrastructure to support growing transaction volumes and real-time analytics.
Challenge
- Legacy infrastructure unable to handle high IOPS workloads
- Strict requirement for enterprise-grade original hardware
- Delivery timeline under 3 weeks
- Budget constraints compared to local authorized distributors
Solution
We delivered a scalable architecture built on Hewlett Packard Enterprise infrastructure, centered around the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen11 platform.
This server platform supports up to 8TB memory and high-speed PCIe Gen5 I/O, making it ideal for virtualization and data-intensive workloads .
Key deployment components:
- HPE ProLiant compute cluster
- Hybrid SSD + SAS storage architecture
- High-availability virtualization layer
Results
- 40% increase in processing performance
- 18% reduction in procurement cost
- Deployment completed within 14 days
- Successful long-term partnership established