Project Requirements

The provincial grain cloud platform (the “provincial platform”) is a key link in a province’s grain-industry informatization system—the province’s grain-related data management center, application innovation center, decision and command center, market monitoring center, and social service center. The provincial platform must cover grain administration and public services and provide all-round services to city and county grain administrations, grain-related enterprises and institutions, grain-selling farmers, and consumers. Through public or dedicated networks it connects to grain reserve depots at all levels, grassroots collection and storage enterprises, wholesale markets, trading centers, and key processing enterprises, enabling information collection, aggregation, analysis, and use, and providing information support for grain administration, social services, macro-control, emergency support, and grain purchasing.

Solution Design

Build a provincial grain management platform that integrates grain administration, business management, early warning and emergency management, and social services. Interconnect with the national grain management platform and with collection and storage enterprises, wholesale markets, trading centers, key processors, emergency distribution centers, and quality-inspection institutions at all levels, to collect, aggregate, analyze, and use grain information.

Sugon fully understood the customer’s technical requirements and used advanced concepts and technologies to design a solution that meets business needs. After a comprehensive analysis of the current state, the plan was to build a cloud resource platform in the existing production equipment room and, in future, a remote disaster-recovery center in the province with remote data replication.

The existing production equipment room serves as the primary production center, running all daily business systems. When a single device fails or power is interrupted, the virtualization platform’s high availability restores business systems quickly. The solution also upgrades local data protection for the production systems by configuring a backup system so that logical errors caused by human or malicious operations can be recovered from local backup.

The project deploys an active-active disk-array system at the production center. Mirroring keeps a real-time copy of critical data across the active-active pair; failure of either array does not affect upper-layer applications, making it an ideal platform for disaster recovery.

At the backup layer, a DBstor100 backup appliance is configured for the production systems to back up databases, critical documents, images, and operating-system data.

Solution Value

The provincial grain bureau is the grain-business authority of a major grain-producing province. The advanced nature, security, and reliability of its information systems relate directly to national food security. The provincial Grain Security Project informatization cloud platform is built on modern science and information technology, with the goals of “scientific grain storage, informatized management, and intelligent supervision,” and will be built step by step into a remotely controlled provincial informatization cloud platform for the Grain Security Project. It is closely tied to the bureau’s future informatization.

The provincial grain informatization cloud platform built on Sugon’s solution ensures business continuity. For the same data, both backend storage devices can provide access; failure of any component or of an entire storage device does not affect normal data for applications at the center.