Background

With the rapid development of cloud computing, big data, IoT, and other new technologies, and in light of railway business needs, a foundational support platform with strong elastic computing, highly shared infrastructure, and intelligent, dynamic, on-demand cloud-resource allocation—a railway cloud-computing platform—is needed to raise infrastructure utilization, promote interconnection among railway business systems, support rapid business growth, and fully unlock the potential value of railway data. Building an efficient, green, energy-saving cloud data center for China Railway is therefore an urgent need for railway modernization and intelligence, and a sound choice for China Railway informatization.

Requirements Analysis

China Railway’s primary data center is located in Jingjin Gaocun Science and Technology Innovation Park, Wuqing District, Tianjin. It is used mainly for storage of core railway-industry data and for storage and exchange of 12306 website data.

As the production and operations center of China Railway information systems, the primary data center has the important mission of keeping core railway business safe and stable, and undertakes railway information-resource services, critical business computing, and data storage and backup.

Solution

Build an integrated platform. Achieve data, application, and process integration to support business-application systems.

Use cloud computing to provide unified compute, storage, and network resource pools. Achieve unified platform management and lay the foundation for a later active-active backup center.

Build a unified operations support platform, using an IT service-management system for traditional-environment operations and a cloud-management platform for cloud resources and services. Manage non-cloud physical devices and cloud virtual devices on the same cloud-management platform, achieving automated operations monitoring, process-based services, and interactive presentation.

As Sugon’s new-generation high-end server, the Tiankuo I620-G30 two-socket server stood out among competing products for energy efficiency, stability, reliability, and intelligent ease of use. It mainly meets core-application requirements for high performance, high reliability, high scalability, and high manageability, providing more efficient, secure, reliable, and stable hardware and technical support for intelligent railway construction.

Customer Benefits

The China Railway data center will effectively raise railway information-infrastructure service capacity, achieve system interconnection, a high degree of information sharing, full resource integration, full realization of data value, and deep integration of technology and business, providing strong support for headquarters production and operations, customer service, and open sharing.

Sugon has always focused on core technology and quality service, has a deep grasp of industry trends, and provides China Railway with more complete IT products, solutions, and high-quality technical services, helping China Railway informatization move from digitalization into the intelligent era.