Financial Services Cloud & IT Infrastructure

Financial Services

Lightweight, decoupled, and stable enterprise cloud platform.

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Benefits

Enterprise Cloud

Core Apps and Databases

VMware Alternatives

Backup and Disaster Recovery

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SmartX works with 450+ financial institutions - banking, insurance, securities, futures, fund, trust, supporting core systems and production databases. It efficiently supports big data platforms, cloud-native applications, and AI workloads.

Benefits

Fully controllable. Self-developed distributed storage, with a code autonomy rate exceeding 99%¹.

Stable yet lightweight. Starts with 3 nodes and scale easily, steadily evolving for long-term support of core production and databases during cloud transformation.

Open and decoupled. Product modules can be combined as needed, supporting heterogeneous deployment within the same cluster without being tied to specific hardware or software stacks.

Highly productized. Deployment or scaling at the hourly level is easy to get started with, supported by a documentation center, development center, upgrade center, and inspection center, allowing users to truly manage their own operations.

Fine-tuned operations. Invest as needed, with the option to purchase product modules on demand, allowing for component-level and single-node scaling, and repurposing existing servers.

¹ Data source: SAICT Laboratory of the China Electronics Standardization Institute.

Preferred Vendor for Lightweight Cloud Infrastructure in Financial Sector

450⁺

Financial Institutions

1800⁺

Max Single Customer Nodes

7500⁺

Fully Domestic Infra Nodes

15000⁺

Total Deployed Nodes

9⁺

Years Proven in Production

Ensure reliable performance that meets industry standards.

Data statistics as of Q2 2025

Enterprise Cloud

SmartX offers a flexible cloud-building approach for the financial industry, combining computing, storage, networking, and security with lower initial costs. It supports traditional, modern, and AI applications across various scenarios, aiding digital transformation and reducing complexity and ownership costs.

Solution

Enterprise Cloud

Stuck with high costs and vendor lock-in of private clouds? Select the right cloud solution for your business needs.

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Success Story

Guotai Junan Futures

Building a Lightweight Cloud Foundation via SmartX ECP

Given its proven performance and stability in production, the firm continues to leverage SmartX ECP to drive its transition.

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Guotai Haitong

Building a Distributed Enterprise Cloud with 1800+ Nodes

Forming a distributed enterprise cloud capable of supporting multiple core business systems on a unified cloud architecture.

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Bank of Lanzhou

Accelerate the Transition to Domestic IT Infrastructure

Recognized the performance and stability of SmartX products, selecting it as one of its partners for building the cloud platform.

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Core Apps and Databases

SmartX has proven its value in finance, supporting scenarios like trading, TA registration, and BI reporting. This enhances performance and simplifies infrastructure. After 8 years, SmartX's strong performance in database environments is validated by institutions in banking, insurance, and funds.

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Driving Cost-Efficiency in Banking: Running Oracle ADG on SmartX ECP

ADG latency and stability on SmartX ECP not only significantly surpassed the vSAN environment but also rivaled the performance of mid-to-high-end all-flash centralized storage.

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VMware Alternatives

SmartX offers a full-stack VMware alternative with virtualization, storage, management, container management, networking and security, and data protection. It has already helped numerous leading financial clients achieve "production-grade" alternatives to vSphere/ESXi, vSAN, and even NSX and Tanzu.

Solution

VMware Alternatives

Flexibly replace VMware virtualization and upgrade full-stack products.

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Why Enterprises Choose SmartX ELF Virtualization as a VMware Alternative: Five Customer Stories

Dive into the advantages of ELF virtualization as an alternative to VMware virtualization.

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Replacing VMware vSAN with SmartX Distributed Storage: Comparable Features with Optimized Performance and Stability

SmartX ECP can achieve superior performance and stability than vSAN.

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Backup and Disaster Recovery

SmartX allows users to achieve backup and disaster recovery, including active-active, asynchronous recovery, and continuous data protection. It uses hyper-convergence for a flexible disaster recovery resource pool.

Solution

Disaster Recovery

Reliable infrastructure and flexible recovery plan ensure business stability.

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Success Story

Caida Securities

Implementation and Testing of Active-Active HCI Clusters

Caida Securities explored metro-area active-active cluster solutions and validated SmartX ECP active-active architecture.

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GF Futures

Building an Integrated Enterprise Cloud Platform

To address the multiple needs of disaster recovery, ITAI transformation, and production support, GF Futures implemented the SmartX ECP.

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Dev & Test

SmartX enhances virtual desktop use, speeds up applications, simplifies IT architecture, cuts costs, and allows easy scaling.

Solution

VDI

Fast, scalable, and cost-effective desktop cloud with mainstream VDI integration and hyper-converged infrastructure.

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Bank of Tianjin

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Accelerates the Development of Innovative Applications

Virtual desktops still run smoothly even when the CPU and memory usage of HCI cluster exceeds 90%.

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Network Security

Financial users adopt SmartX Everoute for micro-segmentation in virtualized environments, enhancing cloud data center security.

Product

Everoute

Networking and security for both virtualization and Kubernetes workloads.

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