With soaring demand for contactless payments during the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korean fintech platform Kakao Pay required expanded storage to support its 2PB database while ensuring stability, efficiency, and sustainability.
Kakao Pay adopted Pure Storage FlashArray//X to optimize workloads primarily for its Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS). With the adoption of the Pure Storage platform, Kakao Pay was able to reduce power consumption, minimise its footprint, and improve availability and performance.
"We are delighted with adopting Pure Storage, as it has significantly reduced power use and floor space, laying a solid foundation for sustainable operations. Moving forward, the Infrastructure Platform Division will continue to minimise resource waste and reduce environmental impact through sustainable IT infrastructure development," Joo-Seung Park, system engineer in the Infrastructure Platform Division at Kakao Pay, said.
Key benefits
With a modernised storage infrastructure, Kakao Pay has achieved remarkable efficiency gains. It has lowered power consumption by 75%, reduced rack space by 92%, and slashed carbon emissions from 202 to 41 tons.
Since its implementation, Kakao Pay has significantly reduced downtime. With Pure Storage's near-perfect availability,the fintech platform has also been able to simplify management with zero disruptions and eliminate downtime.
Database recovery time lowered from 12hours to just 3 hours, while data migration time fell from 12hours to under 1 hour.
