Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. (the “Company”) was incorporated on September 1, 2001 through a business combination involving exchange of the Company’s common stock with the former shareholders of Shinhan Bank, Shinhan Investment Corp., Shinhan Capital Co., Ltd. and Shinhan BNP Paribas Investment Trust Management Co., Ltd.
The Company was formed with W1,461,721 million of initial capital stock for the purpose of providing management services and financing to affiliate companies. The Company’s shares were listed on the Korea Exchange on September 10, 2001.
On September 16, 2003, the Company’s American depository shares were listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
As backup data volumes continued to grow, Shinhan Bank faced increasing pressure to expand capacity while maintaining strict cost control and service reliability. The new solution needed to meet immediate storage demands with approximately 30TB of usable capacity, while also enabling seamless future expansion without disruption. At the same time, the platform had to remain simple to manage, highly reliable, and scalable enough to support long-term business backup operations.
Working with trusted partner KazProfTech, QSAN delivered a unified storage platform purpose-built for Shinhan Bank’s current and future backup requirements. The system provides 33TB of usable capacity—exceeding initial targets—and dual controllers to ensure continuous availability for business-critical protection.
A hybrid HDD architecture with 1.92TB SSD cache accelerates backup and restore performance while keeping costs optimized. With support for up to 20 expansion shelves and 8 × 10GbE connectivity, the platform delivers seamless scalability and sufficient bandwidth to maintain stable and efficient backup operations.
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