As artificial intelligence and data-driven operations continue to transform industries, financial services organizations are leading the charge in adopting technologies that deliver reliability, performance, and growth. At the heart of this transformation is object storage, the preferred choice for organizations looking to unlock the full potential of advanced data analytics and AI technologies. The global scale-out object storage market continues to experience robust growth, with spending projected to rise at an impressive compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.3% through 2028.¹
Dell ObjectScale stands at the intersection of technological leadership and financial innovation, offering a storage platform purpose-built for institutions aiming to stay ahead of fast-moving markets and ever-evolving customer needs. With its massive scalability, ease of management, rich metadata capabilities, API integration, and cost efficiency, object storage provides the foundation for modern data strategies. Its horizontal, scale-out architecture and single, global namespace enable seamless expansion without compromising performance, making it an essential tool for financial institutions navigating today’s data-driven world.
Object storage designed for the pace of global finance
When we say Dell ObjectScale can scale to exabytes, the proof lies with real-world customers. Consider the global financial services and investment center deployment that showcases Dell ObjectScale’s capabilities: 1,400+ total nodes delivering over 400 PB of total capacity across multiple sites in the US, UK, and Asia. This implementation handles 1.473 billion daily requests and processes 394 TB of daily ingestion, numbers that demonstrate Dell ObjectScale’s ability to operate at enterprise scale, handling massive transaction volumes and supporting data-hungry applications without compromise.
The system is engineered for both scale and complexity, managing 1,800+ namespaces and 1,300+ users across 3.6 million buckets. What began with just two racks in 2018 now supports more than 1,000 mission-critical applications ranging from real-time trading to risk analytics, illustrating a growth story unfolding over seven years of reliable, enterprise-grade operation. With its capacity to scale to exabytes, without technical bottlenecks, your infrastructure is not the limiting factor in your institution’s ability to innovate or serve your clients.
Proven protection for regulated markets
Trust and security are non-negotiable in financial services. Dell ObjectScale delivers robust data protection features including FIPS 140-2 validated encryption, erasure coding, triple mirroring, and advanced retention policies to ensure data is both secure and compliant, even as regulatory environments evolve.
ObjectScale’s multi-tenancy and role-based access controls empower organizations to confidently segment data, support different business units, and ensure that only the right people have access to sensitive financial records. Logging, audit trails, and indexing make it easy for compliance teams to rapidly locate data and demonstrate best practices during audits.
AI-optimized architecture for financial workloads
Financial services leaders know that AI is central to transformation, from fraud detection algorithms to predictive analytics. Dell ObjectScale is architected to help financial organizations realize these benefits with native support for leading AI frameworks like TensorFlow and high-throughput, object-based data access, which is tailored for rapid model training and inference.
Efficiency is woven into the platform’s core. Performance matters when milliseconds impact transactions or compliance windows. Dell ObjectScale’s all-flash options, SSD metadata cache, and support for thousands of concurrent requests provide the throughput and low-latency required in today’s digital finance world. Service-level flexibility (T0-T3) allows banks and investment firms to match storage performance and cost to each application’s criticality from ultra-fast trading engines to secure, long-term data archives.
Dell ObjectScale now delivers even greater deployment flexibility and confidence for enterprise environments. Organizations benefit from:
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- Enhanced Global Federation: Site-to-site federation with support for up to 8 interconnected sites, so data and workloads can be managed and synchronized across the world.
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- Expanded Protocol Support: Seamless operation with S3, CAS, Swift, and NFS, making it easier for teams to integrate both cloud-native and legacy applications.
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- Flexible Service Tiers: Support for T0-T3 service levels to align performance and cost with specific business needs.
With these upgrades, even the largest and most distributed financial institutions are empowered with holistic, real-time access to information, operational stability, and the agility needed to respond to rapid market shifts.
Accelerating financial development and agility
Dell ObjectScale integrates with modern development practices across both cloud-native and on-premises environments so financial organizations can innovate with agility. Self-service portals enable teams to rapidly provision storage as business demands evolve, while native S3 compatibility future-proofs investments and removes cloud migration barriers.
The result: faster product development cycles, more responsive digital banking services, and less complexity for IT and risk teams alike.
The foundation for financial AI success
In an industry where accuracy, speed, and trust matter most, Dell ObjectScale offers financial services organizations the confidence to scale, simplify, and lead. Its long-running deployments and proven benefits position financial clients to harness AI, automate securely, and set the standard for what’s possible, today and for the future.
No matter how fast your financial organization grows or how demanding your workloads become, Dell ObjectScale provides the robust, proven foundation for AI-powered progress. There’s virtually no limit to what enterprises can achieve with next-level ObjectScale scalability.
Are you ready to unlock new possibilities, accelerate innovation, and realize the next chapter in financial services? Discover how Dell ObjectScale reshapes the future of data and empowers organizations to achieve extraordinary outcomes, wherever financial markets and technology converge.
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1[Source: IDC, Worldwide File- and Object-Based Storage Market Update and Forecast, 2024–2028]
