Project Overview

China’s agricultural data have a long history, large volume and many types, but suffer from an unclear baseline, missing core data, low data quality, insufficient sharing and openness, and inadequate development and use, and cannot meet the needs of agricultural and rural development. Faster rural network infrastructure and rapid growth in internet users, especially the rapid development of mobile internet, cloud computing, big data, IoT and other next-generation information technologies, have provided a sound foundation and the conditions to develop agricultural and rural big data.

Customer Requirements

The big-data center business platform Sugon built for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (the agriculture big-data platform) supports collection, processing, analysis, release and service of agricultural and rural big data. The platform can fuse and share government data resources of agricultural departments with data from agriculture-related departments, social data and internet data, helping government departments clarify the baseline of agricultural data resources. As the core of the overall solution, storage equipment with stable performance, a secure architecture and scalability is the foundation for providing rich, accurate data resources to agriculture big-data applications.

Solution

In this project Sugon used the ParaStor series of distributed unified storage systems and the DS800 series of multi-controller unified storage systems as storage resources for the agriculture big-data platform.

The ParaStor series has extremely strong scalability, providing a centralized storage pool for massive data, with online expansion at any time as business data grow. Extreme storage performance provides faster response for reading and writing massive agricultural data.

The DS800 series has elastic scalability that fully meets the capacity requirements of cloud-computing resource pools for storage, ensuring smooth and stable operation of the agriculture big-data platform. The DS800 storage system also provides full protocol support for blocks and files, meeting connection requirements of all hosts on the platform, technically breaking data silos, and achieving full sharing, unified management and centralized scheduling of group data.

Solution Value

Successful deployment of the agriculture data platform has substantially raised the capability and level of intelligent agricultural production, networked operations, efficient management and convenient services. It effectively promotes the agricultural and rural digital economy, high-quality agricultural development and lower production costs, and uses big data to drive agricultural and rural modernization and rural revitalization.