customer demand

PICC Property and Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd. is the landmark main business of PICC, and enjoys a prominent reputation in the domestic and foreign peer markets. On November 6, 2003, the company successfully went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, becoming the "first stock" of a large state-owned financial enterprise in mainland China to be listed overseas. With its comprehensive strength, PICC Property&Casualty Insurance has successively become the insurance partner of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Shanghai World Expo 2010, providing comprehensive insurance services for Beijing Olympic Games and Shanghai World Expo.

In recent years, information technology and traditional industries have continued to penetrate and integrate, and application scenarios and services have gradually become Internet based. PICC P&C Insurance has begun to expand its Internet business, and is committed to providing users with more convenient and efficient insurance processing channels. However, with the continuous growth of Internet users, the data volume of the insurance image platform has soared, which puts forward higher requirements for the underlying storage, mainly in the following aspects:

Data Security Challenges

Due to the openness of the Internet, Internet business transactions face many security threats such as operating system failure, hacker intrusion, virus infection, etc. If user data information is deleted or leaked, it will cause great losses.

Storage expansion challenge

Massive unstructured data, such as electronic contracts, bills, ID cards and photos, generated by Internet business, is inconvenient to expand the capacity of traditional SAN/NAS and other special storage devices. Once the service life is approaching, it will face large-scale data migration. At the same time, there will be a risk of data loss, and storage needs to be able to expand elastically.

Business continuity issues

Internet business has a high demand for instant storage availability. Once the hard disk or server of traditional storage is damaged, it needs to wait for the manufacturer's personnel to repair it. The downtime for maintenance is long, which has a great impact on Internet business. Therefore, a storage solution is needed to ensure the continuous availability of Internet insurance business.

Customer Action

After comparison and testing by many companies, SandStone MOS has finally been recognized by PICC Property and Casualty Insurance in terms of high performance, high reliability, scalability, and high security, and is used to deploy the image data storage platform for the Internet business of Guangdong Branch.

PICC Property&Casualty Insurance Guangdong Branch uses SandStone MOS to build multiple general-purpose x86 architecture servers into a storage resource pool, which solves the problems of ECM system expansion and backup, and provides an integrated solution of data storage, management and mining for Internet business.

The SandStone MOS interface for storing massive objects in Shanyan is open and connected to the imaging platform of PICC Property&Casualty Insurance Guangdong Branch. It enables fast reading and writing of upper level business system data, supports multi terminal access, and real-time retrieval of image data.

Customer revenue

Data security and reliability, achieving business continuity without interruption

When storing files, PICC Guangdong Branch uses SandStone MOS MD5 value verification to prevent data tampering, replacement, and theft, ensuring that user data is not leaked; After data storage, a multi replica mechanism is adopted to ensure that data is not lost even if individual nodes or hard drives fail, ensuring high reliability and continuity of the business system.

Capacity can be linearly expanded to ensure rapid business development

SandStone MOS can easily build a large storage resource pool above EB level. It supports online expansion of nodes without planning in advance. Its performance expands linearly with the number of nodes, meeting the demand of PICC Property Insurance Guangdong Branch for elastic expansion due to the rapid development of Internet business.

Support multi terminal access, real-time read/write, and real-time retrieval

SandStone MOS, through distributed deployment, can maximize server performance and easily achieve millisecond level file read and write data. Using RESTful API, the business system is accessed through HTTP protocol and can support various terminals such as PC and mobile phone. PICC Guangdong Branch can directly pull data from storage to achieve real-time retrieval of image data.