ChinaCache Launches Banking Acceleration Solution, Speeding up New Internet Finance

On May 13 to15 (Beijing time), the 5^th Cloud Computing in Financial Institutions 2015 organized by Belgium Lnoppen Group was held in Haikou. During the conference, a comprehensive analysis was presented about current status and development trend of banking information construction under new situations, to clarify development directions of security-controllable strategies, and speed up security-controllable IT operational mechanism.

Internet content and application delivery services in China, was invited to attend the conference again and give a speech by Gao Junliang, CMO of ChinaCache, on Speeding up Finance Internet+. During the conference, ChinaCache launched its banking network acceleration solution specifically built for financial industry for the first time, raising broad industry attention.

With the rapid development of Chinese economy, global banking landscape is changing deeply and accordingly. Emerging markets, especially China, are becoming an important force in global banking industry. In the report of national new economy strategy of "Internet +", Li Keqiang, Chinese Prime Minister, mentioned "Internet finance" twice, with requirements to promote healthy development of Internet finance. Internet-enabled banking industry, as the core force for the growth of Chinese economy, can make the consumers truly experience the convenience in life brought by the integrations and innovations of Internet and financial industry.

 For the Internet-enabled development of the banking industry, user experience is the core competitive strength. At present, banking business is expanding rapidly towards PC and mobile terminals. According to the statistics in the annual reports of listed banks, it showed that the number of mobile banking users of ten listed banks had exceeded 540 million, a year-on-year growth of 33.62%. The sudden burst of user accesses has resulted in huge network challenges, including jammed webpage viewing, slow webpage viewing, system collapse, online banking plug-in updates, heavy pressure on source sites due to new version online, core data security guarantee. Facing these “obstacles” in banking Internet-enable process, ChinaCache is the first to release the banking network acceleration solution to solve clients’ difficulties, integrating high efficiency, stability and professionalism and agility, assisting the banking industry to grow in a positive way.

ChinaCache’s banking network acceleration solution works at four core levels including guaranteeing finance industry business Internet implementation, ensuring stable operating activities, ensuring security and stability of key data, and promoting focus more on business and less on operation, to effectively solve tricky network problems faced by the banking customers, and provide banking institutions with more efficient, stable and rapid Internet access support services.

At the level of guaranteeing banking business Internet implementation, ChinaCache’s banking network acceleration solution can avoid the impact on access due to Internet fluctuations through private physical lines and with broad coverage of node resources, while, on the premise of high security, prompting banks to implement financial business in a rapid and sensitive way for the whole Internet business chain started from their portals.

In terms of ensuring data security, this solution can support HTTPS trusted site services and conduct high security protection strategies such as source site health check, data center hiding, hotlink prevention, tamper proofing, DNS attack warning switch, and IPS rule squelching, to effectively and completely guarantee stable and secure operation of the banking business, and ensure users' access credibility and access speed;

In the cases of monthly and quarterly banking operations, major version updates and business promotion opportunities, short-term operations and a large number of user updates and applications will result in tremendous pressure on data center infrastructure and exit bandwidth. Therefore, ChinaCache has released its banking solution dedicated for the banking industry, to create banking-level service system, achieve short-term rapid, stable and accurate operations in terms of resource reserves and manpower cooperation, and establish complete emergency response services through on site support for operation activities;

At the level of focusing more on business and less on operations, ChinaCache’s banking network acceleration solution can unload heavy investments on data center from the banks, while utilizing existing resources in more important dynamic data transmission, to invest the saved resources into enhancing interactive experience of the portals and business pages. During the whole operation, ChinaCache’s big data analysis will offer valuable information on user behaviors without the need to plant plug-ins in pages.

The banking industry has made significant achievements on mobile payment and mobile banking, driven by Internet waves and under high attention from the state. With over 7 years experience in financial industry, the banking network acceleration solution provided by ChinaCache will further speed up the development pace of Internet-enabled and mobile Internet-enabled banking, to guarantee secure and stable operations in complex network environments, and accelerate mobile new financial reform.