Empowering Global Payment Leader: Building Next Generation Data Cloud

Client Overview

This leading global payment and card issuance organization stands at the forefront of financial technology innovation, with a network spanning over 180 countries and regions, providing critical infrastructure for global digital payments. As a clearing hub connecting more than 300 financial institutions, the organization has issued over 9 billion payment cards and processes more than 50 billion transactions annually, securing its position as a global payments network leader. Through the years, they have consistently driven payment technology innovation, making significant contributions to the development of the global digital economy.

Business Challenges

In today’s rapidly evolving digital economy, the organization faced unprecedented growth pressures. The explosive growth of e-commerce, widespread adoption of mobile payments, and continuous expansion of cardholder base exposed the limitations of traditional data infrastructure. Significant challenges emerged in areas of elastic scalability, resource utilization efficiency, and operational costs.

To achieve their digital transformation objectives, the organization needed an entirely new data processing infrastructure. This new architecture needed to incorporate advanced private cloud and cloud-native technologies to enhance system flexibility and scalability while maintaining deep control over the technology stack to optimize costs. After extensive market research and evaluation of various solutions, the organization selected Syntropy’s UPM for Enterprise as the core technology foundation for building their next-generation, large-scale cloud data processing platform.

Solution Implementation

Through intensive collaboration between both technical teams, the DBScale data services cloud platform was successfully built on UPM for Enterprise. The platform’s design philosophy transforms complex database operations and management requirements into intuitive user experiences. Through its user-friendly portal interface, teams can easily deploy and elastically scale various data services, including MySQL and Redis.

A notable technical highlight is the platform’s powerful adaptation capabilities. Beyond supporting standard database architectures, it accommodates customized requirements for specific business scenarios. Through UPM for Enterprise’s highly customizable interfaces, the organization successfully integrated their internally developed financial-grade distributed MySQL database into the platform, providing reliable support for business systems with stringent security and scalability requirements.

Equally impressive is the platform’s system integration achievements. Through meticulously designed elastic interfaces, the DBScale platform achieved deep integration with the organization’s existing data center systems, including storage systems, backup solutions, and monitoring and alerting frameworks. This seamless integration not only ensures data service security and reliability but also significantly enhances daily operational efficiency, creating a more streamlined data center operation.

Achieved Results

After ten years of stable operation and continuous optimization, the DBScale platform has become the core infrastructure of the organization’s data center, achieving remarkable results:

In terms of scale, the platform currently supports the stable operation of over 100,000 data system containers, serving more than 50 core business groups within the organization. These containers host a diverse array of database services, including MySQL service clusters with various operational topologies, thousands of Redis service nodes, and various database middleware services. Most impressively, the platform has maintained zero major production incidents throughout its decade-long operation.

Regarding efficiency gains, the DBScale platform has delivered substantial value to the organization. Through advanced container technology and intelligent resource scheduling mechanisms, the platform has elevated hardware resource utilization to unprecedented levels. The introduction of unified management platforms and automated operational tools has dramatically reduced manual maintenance costs. Additionally, the platform’s efficient operation has optimized software licensing costs, ultimately achieving significant reductions in total ownership costs.

In terms of business support, the platform’s flexibility and reliability have provided a solid foundation for the organization’s digital transformation. Business units can rapidly access required data service resources, significantly improving response times and providing robust support for business innovation.

Future Planning

Building on a decade of collaboration and deep mutual trust, the organization and Syntropy are advancing their partnership to new depths. The technical teams from both sides are jointly planning the platform’s next phase of development, with innovations planned across multiple directions: They will continue to optimize the platform’s core functionality, elevating system automation and intelligence levels, while actively exploring new technology applications to prepare for future business scenarios. This strategic partnership, built on extensive technical expertise and mutual trust, will continue to propel the organization’s leadership in digital financial innovation.