Case Study: Shanghai PPDAI Finance Information Service Co., Ltd. achieves 3× faster transactions and 60–70% cost savings with NetApp All‑Flash AFF8020

PPDAI Addresses New Market Challenges for Online Credit Lending Platform with NetApp All-Flash Array

Shanghai PPDAI Financial Information Service (PPDAI), founded in 2007, is one of China’s largest online credit lending platforms with over 16 million registered users and millions of transactions. Rapid business growth strained its legacy NetApp spinning‑disk storage—driving IOPS requirements toward 50,000–100,000 and demanding extremely low latency—so the company needed a scalable, higher‑performance storage solution while protecting prior investments and controlling costs.

PPDAI deployed NetApp All‑Flash FAS AFF8020 systems with clustered Data ONTAP, Snapshot, SnapMirror, SnapManager, and FlexVol, integrated with existing storage, Hyper‑V, and Microsoft SQL Server. The upgrade tripled transaction performance, delivered peak latency under 0.7 ms, cut storage costs by 60–70% versus the old spinning disks, and provided stronger data protection, easier management, and nondisruptive scalability for continued growth.

Shanghai PPDAI Finance Information Service Co., Ltd.

Zhenya Luo

IT Manager