Four Steps to Understand I2 Products and Solutions

One platform: i2UP Unified Data Management Platform. Mo Tao, Information2 senior technical engineer, stated that all products of I2 are uniformly managed by this one platform, which has global data management functions and is applicable to business scenarios such as big data platforms and multi-cloud platforms. The platform integrates all software products of I2, enabling multi-level data replication and multiple policy data management, reducing the difficulty of customer operation and maintenance management, and helping users achieve efficient and intelligent data management.

Two benefits: Ensuring data security and compliance; revitalizing isolated data assets. Based on data replication, the related products developed by I2 assist various industries in data security and business continuity, while helping various users break data silos, achieve data interconnection, maximize data value, and safeguard the development of the digital economy. 

Three technologies: Database semantic-level replication, OS-level data replication, and data block-level replication. With the characteristics of high real-time performance, strong stability, reliability, and security, the three core technologies of I2 can adapt to complex production environments such as high-intensity and high-concurrency, massive data, and cross-different architectures, meeting the needs of autonomy, security, and controllability in the key links of domestic informatization, and leading in the field of enterprise business continuity and data replication management.

Four scenarios: Disaster recovery, backup, cloud disaster recovery, and big data. Based on the three core underlying replication technologies, I2 has developed and launched related products covering four major scenarios such as disaster recovery + backup + cloud disaster recovery + big data. Specific products include: i2COOPY Real-time Data Replication, i2CDP Continuous Data Protection and Recovery, i2CDM Data Copy Management, i2Active Homogeneous Database Dual-Active Replication, i2Stream Data Flow Replication Management, etc.

Three Migration Scenario Solutions

Mo Tao stated that the current migration solutions of I2 include three major categories: entire machine migration, unstructured data migration, and database migration. Migration tools include: operating system online hot migration system, cloud-native database migration system, object storage migration system, data migration system, ferry machine migration system, etc., which can basically cover the migration needs of mainstream users in the wave of domestic substitution.

01 Entire Machine Migration

Existing problems: Under the digital wave, data centers are strengthening the usages of virtualization, such as virtual machines, hyper-convergence, public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. However, during the cloud migration process of enterprise institutions, they face many problems such as a large amount of service migration work, significant impact of downtime, and difficulty in finding drivers.

Real-time data synchronization and migration

As a classic product of I2, i2COOPY, based on byte-level replication technology, can be combined with i2Move to form an entire machine migration solution or meet the data flow needs of users. For example, when video and image unstructured data needs to be migrated from platform A to platform B, it can be achieved through i2COOPY.

i2COOPY mainly provides users with real-time byte-level data replication services. It relies on data serialization transmission technology to strictly ensure the consistency and integrity of data at the production end and the target end. It can capture new data at the byte level, has high real-time performance, small transmission data volume, and low resource occupation of the production server.

Overall migration

i2Move provides users with the entire machine hot migration service from the production server to the local or cloud target server. Different from other migration methods that package the system, i2Move can complete the entire machine migration during the process of real-time data synchronization.

i2Move can realize real-time replication of the system and data without stopping the business. After the replication is completed, the system can be quickly switched, and the new host can take over the business. The migration process is not limited by the form of the server and ensures real-time consistency between the production server and the target server.

02 Unstructured Data Migration and Synchronization

Existing problems: Problems of synchronizing and backing up large numbers of small files, realizing the transformation from NAS block storage to ECS object storage, online data synchronization and migration, data consistency requirements, real-time synchronization under narrow bandwidth…

Synchronization and migration of object storage

The migration of unstructured data is mainly applied in the migration of different object storages and different storage platforms.

i2DTO can copy or migrate data on local storage to object storage, or restore data on object storage to local storage. It helps users centrally back up massive unstructured data to object storage, thereby improving the retrieval and access performance of unstructured data. It not only reduces operating costs but also improves data security.

03 Database Migration, Synchronization, Disaster Recovery, Aggregation, Distribution

Existing problems: Dual-active databases, data collection/distribution, heterogeneous data interaction, data collection of big data platforms…

Real-time synchronization, disaster recovery, and migration of homogeneous databases

i2Active is a real-time data replication and synchronization software at the database language level. It realizes full and incremental synchronization of databases in high-concurrency transaction scenarios of the database, and ensures the final consistency of transactions at the source and target ends of the database through synchronization verification. At the same time, it provides advanced functions such as standby database takeover and incremental rollback, helping users complete data integration tasks such as disaster recovery backup of databases, heterogeneous data migration, data distribution, and construction of data warehouses in complex application environments.

Real-time synchronization and migration of heterogeneous databases

Based on data sharing technology, i2Stream can achieve bidirectional synchronization of data at the database level, schema level, and table level between databases, realize the extraction, replication, and management of structured data, and is compatible with distributed message queues such as Kafka, providing users with flexible high-availability solutions.

Mo Tao stated that currently, for Amazon Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, JD Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Baidu Cloud, Tianyi Cloud, Unicom Cloud, Inspur Cloud, etc., I2 can provide migration and cloud services. Finally, starting from the practical implementation, he shared the successful cases of I2 in various industries. Typical cases include:

Hot migration of a municipal government cloud in Guangxi, with a migration service of 1,000 virtual machines, involving applications such as medical care, real estate, and government portal websites, including multiple provincial-level units;

Overall business migration of Changsha Bank. The IT environment consists of multiple basic platform architectures such as Alibaba Cloud, EasyStack, VMware virtualization, and physical machines. The number of business system hosts is approximately 1,000+. The migration scenarios involve underlying data, applications, databases, virtual machines across heterogeneous platforms, and other levels;

Sinotrans – Cross-platform business system migration, Chengdu Government Cloud – Migration of thousands of systems on heterogeneous platforms, China Sky Eye FAST Observatory – Ultra-high-speed data migration, etc.

On the conference, Information2 also showed the entire series of product services, solutions, and successful cases implemented in Guangxi. To accelerate the digital transformation, we will unswervingly focus on customers and continuously promote the upgrade and iteration of product technologies, seeking innovation and change.