Transforming Global Payments and Container Platforms at HSBC

HSBC needed to modernize its global infrastructure with Kubernetes to deliver mission-critical services at massive scale. By partnering with Portworx, the bank has created a scalable, flexible foundation for containerized applications—empowering their developers, accelerating innovation, and securing critical financial systems worldwide.

The Challenge

HSBC, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations, set out to modernize its infrastructure and increase efficiency across its application platform. With over 600 production services deployed on more than 200 Kubernetes clusters and 13,000 nodes, the bank required a resilient, scalable foundation for containerized workloads. The team was looking for a solution that could help them reduce operational overhead, support compliance and data integrity requirements, and provide flexibility in running Kubernetes across environments.

Business Transformation

To support its large-scale Kubernetes operations and meet the demands of a global financial institution, HSBC turned to Portworx by Pure Storage. With Portworx, HSBC was able to reduce operational overhead. Portworx also addressed HSBC’s stringent compliance requirements with enterprise-grade capabilities for data protection and disaster recovery. These features were critical for supporting essential services such as the bank’s global payments systems, which process millions of transactions and trillions in payments every year.

Delivering a Reliable Platform at Scale

Since deploying Portworx, HSBC has transformed how it runs and scales applications:

• Supports nationally critical, highly regulated payment systems with confidence
• Runs trillions in payments and millions of transactions daily with resilience
• Reduces operational and upgrade overhead
• Gains flexibility to run in any environment, ensuring performance and cost-efficiency
• Enables full developer self-service for faster time-to-market