Solution Sheets: CTERA Solution Sheet for Financial Services
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Financial Services
Replace Legacy NAS. Reduce Risk. Stay Compliant.
Modernize financial services data services across branches and teams without disrupting daily work.
Financial services organizations generate and rely on unstructured data across retail banking, investment firms, and distributed operations. Traditional NAS and site-by-site storage models struggle to keep up with rising security threats, audit expectations, and the operational complexity created by growth and acquisitions.
Financial Services Data Is Outgrowing Legacy Infrastructure
60%
of financial services CTOs say their legacy tech stack is too costly and inadequate for modern applications.
65%
of financial services organizations were hit by ransomware in 2024.
The average cost of a data breach for a financial organization is more than $6M, 22% higher than the global average.
THE BIGGEST DATA CHALLENGES IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
CTERA enables organizations to balance fast local access with centralized security, governance, and scalability, featuring:
Data silos
Distributed storage across branches, teams, and acquired entities creates inconsistent access, duplicated data, and limited oversight.
Distributed storage across branches, teams, and acquired entities creates inconsistent access, duplicated data, and limited oversight.
Poor multi-site access
Remote and cross-region work can become dependent on slow or brittle access models, which creates productivity drag and encourages risky workarounds.
Remote and cross-region work can become dependent on slow or brittle access models, which creates productivity drag and encourages risky workarounds.
Resilience gaps in ransomware scenarios
When protection and recovery are layered onto legacy systems, organizations struggle to minimize blast radius and restore operations quickly after an incident.
When protection and recovery are layered onto legacy systems, organizations struggle to minimize blast radius and restore operations quickly after an incident.
Operational complexity
Managing storage environments site-by-site increases manual effort, slows change, and makes it harder to maintain consistent policy enforcement across the organization.
Managing storage environments site-by-site increases manual effort, slows change, and makes it harder to maintain consistent policy enforcement across the organization.
Limited scalability
Growth, acquisitions, and new digital services increase capacity and governance demands. Legacy refresh cycles and overbuilding become expensive and slow.
Growth, acquisitions, and new digital services increase capacity and governance demands. Legacy refresh cycles and overbuilding become expensive and slow.
Readiness for analytics and AI initiatives
When unstructured data is scattered and inconsistently governed, it is harder to discover, secure, and operationalize responsibly.
When unstructured data is scattered and inconsistently governed, it is harder to discover, secure, and operationalize responsibly.
A BETTER MODEL FOR MODERN FINANCIAL SERVICES DATA
CTERA enables organizations to balance fast local access with centralized security, governance, and scalability, featuring:
- Centralized governance with distributed performance
- Built-in security and organizational resilience
- Compliance by design with policy-driven controls
- Minimal disruption to business workflows
- Flexibility to adapt to future demands, including AI readiness
HOW CTERA MODERNIZES FINANCIAL SERVICES DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Built for financial services environments that require centralized governance with distributed performance, security-first resilience, and audit-ready compliance.
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- Distributed edge services that deliver fast local access in branches and offices, with centralized control
- A unified global view of unstructured data to reduce silos and improve visibility across locations and teams
- Immutable protection and rapid recovery options designed for ransomware scenarios and operational continuity
- Policy-driven governance for retention, access controls, and audit trails that helps reduce manual oversight
- Elastic scalability through hybrid-cloud architecture by extending capacity with cloud or object storage as needed
THE CARLYLE GROUP
Enables instant business continuity for regional offices worldwide.
“The CTERA deployment is a huge win for us,” Pisano says. “We’re able to solve the problem of real-time data availability, strengthen our business continuity agenda, and save a lot of money in the process.”
Jeff Pisano, Vice President of IT, The Carlyle Group
Jeff Pisano, Vice President of IT, The Carlyle Group
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