Case Study: Shenzhen Stock Exchange achieves 90% faster application response and 30% lower systems costs with Mirantis OpenStack Platform

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Builds Innovative Industry Cloud to Meet Explosive Demand for High Performance Systems

Shenzhen Securities Communication Co. (SSCC), the IT arm of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, faced surging demand as China’s fast-growing investment industry required scalable, high-performance, and secure infrastructure to support millions of trades and advanced use cases like algorithmic trading. Legacy client-server systems could not meet performance, elasticity, openness or regulatory-security requirements, so SSCC set out to build an industry-first, vendor-agnostic financial cloud to serve fund managers and other market participants.

SSCC selected Mirantis to design and deploy a highly available OpenStack cloud—using Intel servers, Ceph and SAN storage pools, Juniper Contrail in HA, and Mirantis Fuel with Murano and Sahara—to run across Dongguan and regional data centers. The deployment cut application response times by 90%, reduced system costs by about 30%, supports large-scale market data and fund-management workloads, and is being expanded (adding 600 nodes for 12,000 VMs now, with plans for 3,000 nodes/60,000 VMs) to meet ongoing industry growth.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange

David Ke

Deputy GM