As China Southern Power Grid Peak Shaving and Frequency Regulation Power Generation Co., Ltd. advances its digital transformation in power dispatching, it has partnered with Information2 to achieve high availability and disaster recovery for massive virtual machines. This collaboration enables one-click failover and failback without manual intervention, significantly improving operational efficiency and accuracy. Furthermore, the solution enhances data security and business continuity, supporting China Southern Power Grid’s digital transformation.

The company’s business systems operate on China Southern Power Grid’s cloud platform, but high availability (HA) had not been established. With increasing digitization, ensuring business continuity became an urgent priority. Any cloud platform failure could lead to a shutdown of critical business systems, resulting in incalculable losses. The company sought a disaster recovery solution to maintain business continuity by enabling failover from cloud to on-premises systems.

After evaluating the existing platform and environment, Information2 helped the company establish an on-premises VMware virtualization platform and implemented a one-to-one cloud-to-local disaster recovery solution using high availability software. The steps included:

• Deploying an On-Premises Virtualization Platform: Using existing hardware, software, and network resources, Information2 set up a VMware platform in the customer’s data center.
• Migrating Virtualized Systems: Using Information2’s professional migration tools, nearly 100 virtualized systems were safely and efficiently migrated to the local platform, ensuring consistency between cloud and on-premises environments.
• Disaster Recovery and High Availability Management: After deployment, data consistency checks ensured synchronization between cloud and on-premises systems. High availability policies were configured to enable one-to-one disaster recovery failover.

Cloud-to-local disaster recovery involves large-scale system migration, network accessibility, platform deployment, and maintenance. With i2Availability, once disaster recovery policies are set, any unplanned system failure or downtime will trigger an automatic failover, ensuring continuous business operations.

By implementing Information2’s migration and high availability solution, the company successfully reused existing data center infrastructure to build a multi-layered protection mechanism for its core business systems. This minimized the risk of downtime caused by single-system or cloud platform failures. The solution also improved overall system reliability and availability without requiring significant additional hardware investments, achieving both economic and operational benefits.

Customer Evaluation

As digital transformation accelerates, disaster recovery and high availability are becoming critical for our core business systems. By adopting Information2’s solution, we have significantly improved business continuity management. The system is now more stable and reliable, ensuring uninterrupted operations even in unexpected situations.

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Information2’s CloudCDM cloud disaster recovery solution, with its innovative hybrid IT architecture, successfully addresses PAMA’s challenges in data backup and disaster recovery, providing robust data security for PAMA’s digital transformation journey. At the same time, it reduces management and operational costs, helping PAMA continue to lead in the mining industry.

As a leading enterprise in the Indonesian mining industry, PAMA boasts rich mineral resources and a wide business layout. With the continuous expansion of its business, the surge in data volume poses higher requirements for PAMA’s data management and disaster recovery capabilities. Traditional local disaster recovery solutions are not only costly but also difficult to ensure immediate data recovery and business continuity in the face of potential risks such as natural disasters and human errors. Therefore, PAMA urgently needs a new disaster recovery solution that can both ensure data security and reduce costs while improving efficiency.

In response to PAMA’s specific needs, the CloudCDM cloud disaster recovery solution emerged. This solution adopts a hybrid IT architecture, cleverly combining local and cloud resources to achieve seamless data migration and efficient management. Specifically, the CloudCDM solution builds a powerful cloud disaster recovery system for Specific Steps includes:

• Cloud Data Backup: Leveraging advanced cloud technology, CloudCDM real-time replicates PAMA’s critical business data to cloud EVS disks. With their high performance, reliability, and scalability, EVS disks ensure secure storage and rapid access to data.
• Hybrid IT Architecture Integration: The CloudCDM solution fully leverages the advantages of the hybrid IT architecture, effectively integrating PAMA’s local IT infrastructure with resources from cloud service providers such as Huawei Cloud. This architecture retains the flexibility and control of the local IT environment while leveraging the elastic scalability and cost-effectiveness of the cloud.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: The disaster recovery center established in the cloud provides PAMA with powerful disaster recovery capabilities. In the event of data loss or system failure, PAMA can quickly recover data from the cloud disaster recovery center to ensure continuous business operations and reduce losses.
• Simplified Management and Operations: The CloudCDM solution achieves centralized monitoring and management of the disaster recovery system through a unified cloud management platform. This not only reduces operational costs but also improves management efficiency, allowing PAMA to focus more on the development of its core business.

Dual Assurance of Business Continuity and Data Security: The CloudCDM cloud disaster recovery solution effectively ensures PAMA’s business continuity and data security. Even in extreme situations, data can be quickly recovered to ensure normal business operations, enhancing customer trust in the company.

Significantly Enhanced Digital System Security: Through storage backup on cloud EVS disks, PAMA’s overall digital system security has been significantly improved. Encrypted data transmission and storage further enhance data security, preventing risks of data leakage and tampering.

Significant Reduction in Management and Operational Costs: The unified cloud management platform of the CloudCDM solution simplifies PAMA’s IT operations and reduces operational costs. At the same time, the flexibility of the hybrid IT architecture enables PAMA to dynamically adjust resources according to business needs, improving resource utilization.

Customer Evaluation

This solution achieves secure data backup and efficient management through a hybrid IT architecture, significantly reducing operational costs, ensuring business continuity, and providing robust data security for PAMA’s digital transformation journey.

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In the wave of digital transformation, Information2, led by technological innovation, has worked hand in hand with China Southern Power Grid to build an efficient and intelligent disaster recovery system. This collaboration provides a solid guarantee for the construction of Digital Southern Power Grid and opens a new chapter in the digital transformation of the energy industry.

Under the ambitious blueprint for digital transformation and the construction of a digital power grid, China Southern Power Grid launched the 4321 Informatization Construction Project in 2019. This project aims to achieve full perception of the power grid’s status, full online management of enterprises, comprehensive control of operational data, a new customer service experience, and win-win cooperation in energy development through the deep integration of digital technology and business operations.

However, with the continuous improvement of informatization levels, power grid data and system security face unprecedented challenges. To ensure business continuity and data security, China Southern Power Grid urgently needs to build an efficient and reliable disaster recovery system to cope with various potential data risks.

In response to China Southern Power Grid’s needs, Information2 has provided a customized disaster recovery solution. The solution mainly includes the following aspects:
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• Data Replication and Drill Planning: Information2 provides streamlined data replication capabilities and drill planning functions based on the characteristics of different data components, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of data during replication. Meanwhile, through diversified drill modes, the pertinence and effectiveness of disaster recovery drills are improved.
• Disaster Recovery Switchover Management: Information2 electronically enters various basic information involved in the disaster recovery process into the platform, including participants, hardware resources, software resources, and switchover steps, achieving standardization and normalization of disaster recovery switchovers. At the same time, it provides a global view and a disaster recovery switchover command view to provide strong support for decision-making.
• Disaster Recovery Monitoring and Verification: Information2 provides disaster recovery monitoring functions to conduct real-time monitoring and early warning of the disaster recovery status of the production center and the local disaster recovery center. Through the drill effectiveness verification function, the effectiveness and reliability of disaster recovery drills are ensured.
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  Enhanced Data Security: Data replication and drill planning ensure the integrity and accuracy of data, reducing the risk of data loss and damage.

  Strengthened Business Continuity: The standardization and normalization of disaster recovery switchover management improve the recovery speed and quality of business operations in the event of failures, ensuring business continuity and stability.

  Optimized Disaster Recovery Monitoring and Verification: Through real-time monitoring and early warning, potential disaster recovery risks are identified and addressed promptly. Through drill effectiveness verification, the effectiveness and reliability of disaster recovery drills are ensured, providing a strong guarantee for business continuity.

  
  Customer Evaluation

  

  Information2’s disaster recovery solution has built an efficient and reliable disaster recovery system for us, significantly improving our data security and business continuity levels. Information2 is our capable assistant on the path of digital transformation and digital power grid construction. Their professional technology and excellent service fill us with confidence and anticipation for the construction of Digital Southern Power Grid.

  

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