Shanghai Stock Exchange
Founded in 1990, the Shanghai Stock Exchange
(SSE) is directly governed by the China Securities
Regulatory Commission. Its main function is to
create a transparent, open, safe and ecient market
environment that protects the interests of investors.
Since its inception, SSE has become the leading
market in mainland China. Recent gures showed it
had 894 listed companies, 938 listed stocks and a
total market capitalisation of 17.900724 trillion Yuan.
Globally, it ranks fourth with a total stock nancing
of 553.214 billion Yuan.
SSE trading volumes have continuously increased in
line with 30 years of sustained development in the
domestic securities industry. In recent years, there
has been a signicant increase in the volume of data
relating to stock trading, block trading and T-bond
trading. SSE has also seen a need for real-time
processing and an increased requirement for data
security and system stability. Any error would have
serious consequences so to meet these challenges
and prepare for international development SSE must
constantly upgrade its trading systems.
Objective
Enable new platforms to meet the business
application requirements of the Shanghai Stock
Exchange (SSE)
Approach
Sought hardware vendors to provide a suitable
foundation for a high-quality monitoring
simulation and testing platform
IT improvements
• Simulates an open x86 platform so SSE can
evaluate the possibility of migrating its
monitoring systems to that platform and ensure
they will be foolproof once online
• Improves system security and stability, reduces
online system risks and thus ensures the
continuous development of SSE
Business benets
• Allows SSE to cope with signicant trading
growth, real-time processing and increased data
security challenges
• Provides an IT base for SSE to develop
internationally
• Supports listed companies and investors through
more ecient stock trading management
HP customer
case study
HP servers
provide reliable
platform for vital
trading system
development
Industry
Financial services
Shanghai Stock Exchange streamlines
services with new testing platform
“The HP Superdome 2 and HP ProLiant DL980 servers we use in our
monitoring simulation and testing system have extremely good
performance and meet our requirements in terms of reliability and
high availability.”
—Zhong Yimin, senior manager, System Operation Department,
Shanghai Stock Exchange