Modern institutions are looking for top-tier security, performance, and the ability to scale without sacrificing cost efficiency. At Pismo, we have embraced a cloud-native, API-based approach that empower our clients—ranging from small-scale banking institutions to large global banks—with the tools they need to meet these demands.
By leveraging the full potential of cloud infrastructure, we ensure that our platform is resilient, scalable, and optimised for cost, while delivering mission-critical services to financial institutions worldwide.
Here’s a deeper dive into how Pismo’s cloud-native approach benefits financial services providers.
Resilience at every layer
At Pismo, resilience is foundational to our platform’s architecture. We ensure that it is embedded across every layer, from infrastructure to application to operational processes.
At the infrastructure layer, we deploy using fault isolation boundaries, or zones, within the cloud. This means we host our infrastructure across multiple zones that operate independently. If one zone encounters an issue or fails, the others remain unaffected, ensuring minimal disruption to service.
Where needed, we extend this further by deploying across multiple isolated regions, providing a greater safety net in case of regional impairments. This multi-region, multi-zone architecture supports that failures are contained and mitigated, keeping systems running smoothly for our clients.
On the application side, we increase resilience by building on top with distributed services and microservices architecture. Each service can scale and fail independently, reducing the likelihood of widespread service interruptions.
Every service is designed with redundancy in mind. That means if one component fails, there’s a backup. This is key to maintaining high availability, particularly in financial services where downtime could lead to major operational and financial impacts.
Take advantage of cloud scalability
One of the core benefits of the cloud is its ability to provide on-demand scalability. Pismo takes full advantage of the cloud’s elastic nature, allowing us to scale resources horizontally or vertically as needed. Whether our clients are handling daily operations or experiencing a sudden surge in demand, our cloud infrastructure enables them to scale up or out without compromising performance or availability.
This scalability is particularly useful as the volume of transactions can fluctuate dramatically based on market conditions or customer behaviour. By utilising the cloud’s flexibility, we allow our clients can continue to provide effective experiences to their customers, regardless of spikes in transaction volume or other demands on their systems.
Cost optimisation through scale
Resilience and scalability are important, but they must also be achieved in a cost-effective manner. This is where the cloud’s cost optimization capabilities come into play, and Pismo excels in passing these benefits to our customers. Running on the cloud allows us to access a wide range of pricing points and economies of scale that are often difficult to achieve with traditional on-premises or self-managed infrastructure.
By carefully optimising our use of cloud resources, we can reduce operational costs while still delivering the high-performance infrastructure that our clients need. The flexibility of cloud pricing allows us to scale resources dynamically, ensuring that costs align with actual usage. This means our clients can benefit from a resilient, secure, and scalable platform without facing the high costs typically associated with maintaining an on-premises data centre.
Automating for speed
The cloud isn’t just about resilience and cost savings; it’s also about speed. At Pismo, we’ve fully automated the deployment of infrastructure and applications, allowing us to quickly roll out changes and updates to our production systems. This automation reduces the risk of human error and helps us to deploy at a pace that meets the dynamic needs of our clients.
Automation also allows us to react more swiftly to emerging issues, ensuring that our clients benefit from continuous improvement and rapid response times. Whether it’s rolling out a new feature or addressing a potential vulnerability, our cloud-native platform allows us to operate with the speed and agility that today’s financial services demand.
Pismo offers every advantage
In an era where financial services need to be always-on, resilient, and scalable, Pismo’s cloud-native, API-driven platform is designed to meet these demands head-on. By leveraging the unique strengths of cloud infrastructure—fault isolation, microservices, elastic scalability, and cost efficiency—we provide our clients with a platform that is not only secure and reliable but also optimised for cost and performance.
Pismo’s platform is built to deliver the resilience, scale, and cost savings that can power your growth. It’s all about ensuring that our customers can focus on what matters most—delivering world-class financial services to their customers—while we take care of the infrastructure behind it.
