A Indonesian Fintech Company

Background & Challenge

A leading Indonesian FinTech company provides core banking, mobile banking, and digital finance ecosystem services to over 100 financial institutions. With its business supporting millions of transactions daily, service stability and user trust are paramount. As the company expanded, its infrastructure, comprising multiple, disparate versions of VMware, presented significant pain points: complex management, high operational costs, and a lack of a cohesive backup strategy.

This fragmented environment was ill-equipped to meet stringent financial-grade disaster recovery (DR) requirements. The company urgently needed to break free from vendor lock-in by implementing a VMware alternative. The goal was to build a high-availability architecture that would improve resource efficiency and fully comply with Indonesia’s strict financial data localization and security regulations.

Solution

The client chose ZStack Cloud to drive its infrastructure modernization and VMware alternative strategy. The comprehensive solution included:

High-Availability (HA) Foundation: A multi-node management HA architecture was deployed in conjunction with VM HA functionality. This design ensures that if a physical host fails, business services are automatically migrated to another node, eliminating single points of failure.

Intelligent Hardware Repurposing: The company repurposed its existing fleet of dozens of older Intel and AMD servers, consolidating them into a unified resource pool. ZStack seamlessly integrated and managed the multiple legacy VMware clusters, enabling the V2V migration of core services like OA and mobile banking.

Optimized Storage Integration: Existing SAN storage was integrated as the primary storage pool, while legacy NAS devices were repurposed to serve as cost-effective backup storage.

Financial-Grade Data Protection & Compliance: ZStack’s native backup module enabled agentless VM backups and point-in-time recovery. To meet regulatory requirements, independent Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) were created for each financial institution, ensuring strict data isolation and compliance.

Customer Benefits

Significant Cost Optimization: By leveraging its multi-architecture compatibility to repurpose existing hardware, the company avoided vendor lock-in and reduced its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 40%. Unified management of its legacy VMware platforms further lowered administrative costs.

Uninterrupted Stability and Resilience: The multi-node HA architecture supports 24/7 operations, achieving over 300 days of continuous, failure-free uptime. Rapid, 30-minute lightweight deployments and seamless upgrades minimize service interruptions.

Accelerated Business Agility: The time required to deploy new business services was drastically reduced from weeks to minutes, empowering the platform to handle millions of daily transactions with ease. The ability to perform minute-level backups and second-level recoveries for critical services meets demanding financial-grade DR standards.

Streamlined Operations & Compliance: A unified monitoring dashboard provides real-time, visual control over the entire infrastructure, boosting operational efficiency by 40%. The native agentless backup solution delivers financial-grade RPO/RTO guarantees, while the use of independent VPCs ensures full compliance with local data sovereignty laws.