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No More Loading Circles This Black Friday
Online Black Friday is no news. But this year's is not like anything we have seen before.
Black Friday came at a good time this year, with many people in lockdown having more time to swipe on their phones. It is easy to picture banks gearing up for this event, in preparation for mass online transactions. No banks want to upset customers with all the »Loading…« and »Payment Failed« messages at their last critical moment.
The key to preventing this is in the underlying storage. Due to limitations in many aspects, traditional storage systems have caused banks to lose customers and profits. That's why in recent years, many banks have started to upgrade to all-flash systems.
Huawei OceanStor Dorado is one of the all-flash systems that customers use to handle surging transactions this Black Friday. In fact, for many times its superb performance has helped banks through the Shopping Festival, processing hundreds of thousands of orders every second. Before we go any further, let's take a look at how storage systems are related to online shopping.
After you tap Pay on your phone, the payment platform immediately sends the payment information to the transaction systems of banks, which are required to handle it right away.
Let's take a major bank for example. In the first few seconds after 12:00 a.m on this Black Friday, the bank had to process approximately 20,000 transactions per second, 30% more than last year and 10 times more than the previous day, placing its storage system under a 10-time higher workload pressure than usual.
If we compare transaction processing to driving on a highway, then a transaction request is a car and the storage system bandwidth is the highway. In off-peak hours, there are few transaction requests and each request is processed quickly, allowing you to drive freely on an empty midnight highway. However, when Black Friday sales begin, huge volumes of transaction requests are sent at the same time, turning the storage system into a »rush-hour city road.« Anyone who has been stuck in traffic before knows how this feels, so banks must take preemptive measures to ensure this doesn't happen.
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