In the wave of digital transformation, Information2, with its exceptional data disaster recovery and backup solution, has built an unbreakable data security wall for the Hebei financial system, significantly enhancing its business continuity and jointly opening a new chapter in data security and business development.

With the continuous penetration of digital construction in various production fields, Hebei’s financial business has also ushered in unprecedented development opportunities. However, as business grows, data risks also emerge. To support the sustainable development of financial business, improving data disaster recovery construction has become a top priority. According to the Hebei Provincial Finance Department’s three-year work plan for information construction and the requirements for the construction of an integrated financial business system, Hebei’s financial system urgently needs to build a stable, efficient, and flexible data disaster recovery system to ensure business continuity and data security.

In response to the actual needs of Hebei’s financial system, Information2 designed a “Same-City Dual-Active + Remote Disaster Recovery” construction solution. This solution leverages Information2’s core technologies to provide a comprehensive and efficient data disaster recovery solution for the Hebei Provincial Finance Department and its eleven prefectural-level cities.

• Same-City Dual-Active Construction: Information2’s i2Active technology is used for local fault-tolerant dual-active construction of the core database system. Through this technology, even in the event of a catastrophic incident, second-level takeover can be achieved to ensure the continuity of systems at both municipal and provincial levels.
• Remote Disaster Recovery Construction: Data from the eleven prefectural-level cities is synchronized to the provincial disaster recovery data area in real-time through Information2’s data replication technology. This measure not only ensures data security but also improves business continuity.
• Cross-Platform Compatibility and Cost Optimization: Addressing the issue of different operating system platforms and database versions between Hebei’s financial system and the data disaster recovery area, Information2 provides cross-operating system platform/database version disaster recovery replication technology. This technology enables real-time synchronization of core production database data to the disaster recovery database, reducing hardware costs and facilitating database version upgrades and iterations.

Decentralized Management and Simplified Operations and Maintenance: The province-wide database disaster recovery platform is built using Information2’s i2UP unified management platform, enabling multi-tenant decentralized management and operations and maintenance across prefecture-level cities. The fully graphical interface monitoring makes operations and maintenance more intuitive and simpler, significantly improving operational efficiency.

Stable Operation and Excellent Performance: Information2’s full/incremental synchronization performance is excellent, with low transactional replication latency, achieving second-level RPO (Recovery Point Objective). This performance ensures rapid data recovery after a disaster, safeguarding business continuity.

Separation of Primary and Backup Databases, Enhancing Efficiency: Without affecting the source-end business, Information2 enables read-write separation between the primary and backup databases. The backup database, which is always in an open state, can handle query tasks, reducing the reporting business access pressure on the primary database and improving the overall system’s operational efficiency.

Flexible Cross-Platform Compatibility: Information2’s cross-operating system platform/database version disaster recovery replication technology enables seamless integration from Unix systems to Linux systems. This technology not only reduces hardware costs but also enhances system flexibility and scalability.

Customer Evaluation

Information2’s “Same-City Dual-Active + Remote Disaster Recovery” solution not only meets our needs for data security and business continuity but also improves system operational efficiency and flexibility. Through the implementation of this solution, we have successfully built a stable, efficient, and flexible data disaster recovery system.

In the wave of digital transformation, by deeply integrating the two-site, three-center disaster recovery strategy, Information2 has not only enhanced the data security level of Guangxi Government Cloud but also provided a robust guarantee for its continuous and stable business operations.

As an important part of Guangxi’s information construction, Guangxi Government Cloud carries numerous government business system operations and data storage tasks. With the continuous development of business systems and the rapid growth of data volume, ensuring data security and business continuity has become a significant challenge for Guangxi Government Cloud.

To improve the resilience of critical information systems against disasters and major incidents and reduce losses caused by them, Guangxi Information Center decided to build a locally unified and real-time data disaster recovery and backup system for business data.

In response to the needs of Guangxi Government Cloud, Information2 proposed a two-site, three-center disaster recovery solution. This solution leverages Information2’s unified management platform, integrating dynamic file byte-level, database semantic-level, volume block-level, and other data replication technologies to achieve hierarchical disaster recovery management, remote disaster tolerance with high availability (HA), reverse data failover, real-time business synchronization, and other functions.

• Local to Same-City Heterogeneous Platform Core Business High Availability Disaster Recovery: Between the local data center and the same-city data center, high availability disaster recovery for core business on heterogeneous platforms is achieved. Through Information2’s disaster recovery technology, the rapid switchover and recovery of core businesses between same-city data centers are ensured.
• Physical Server Backup and Continuous Data Protection: Full backups of critical physical servers are conducted, and continuous data protection is implemented. In case of data anomalies or loss, data can be quickly restored to ensure business continuity.
• Real-Time Database Synchronization: Important databases are synchronized in real-time to ensure consistency among database data across multiple data centers. In case of database failure, a switchover to the database in another data center can be made swiftly to maintain business continuity.
• Same-City to Remote Full Server Backup and Continuous Data Protection: Between the same-city data center and the remote data center, full server backups and continuous data protection for critical systems are implemented. Through Information2’s backup and replication technology, data security storage and rapid recovery in the remote data center are ensured.
• Local to Remote Internal and External Network Data Real-Time Replication: Through a converged server, real-time replication of data between the local data center’s internal and external networks to the remote data center is achieved. This ensures secure data transmission and synchronization in different network environments.

By implementing Information2’s two-site, three-center solution, Guangxi Government Cloud successfully built a locally unified and real-time data disaster recovery and backup system. This system not only improves the resilience of critical information systems against disasters and major incidents but also reduces losses caused by them. At the same time, it ensures data security and business continuity of information systems, guaranteeing data integrity. Additionally, the system enhances the reliability of business systems and reduces economic losses from data loss and system failures.

Customer Evaluation

Information2’s two-site, three-center solution provides Guangxi Government Cloud with a comprehensive and efficient data disaster recovery and backup solution. Through the implementation of this solution, we have successfully built a locally unified and real-time data disaster recovery and backup system. This not only improves the security and reliability of our information systems but also lays a solid foundation for our future information construction.

Meeza, in collaboration with Information2, has innovatively created a Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution, achieving a comprehensive upgrade of its disaster recovery services. This not only improves its service capabilities but also provides a powerful boost for its global market expansion.

Meeza, a leading operator in the Middle East and North Africa, offers a range of services including managed IT services, data center services, cloud services, and IT security services, dedicated to providing comprehensive, efficient, and secure IT solutions to clients.

Facing growing business demands and technological innovations, Meeza understands that traditional disaster recovery services are no longer adequate to meet current and future challenges. Its vast IT network, including interconnected, highly resilient, and geographically diverse data centers, provides powerful disaster recovery and business continuity support for clients in Qatar and the Gulf region. However, Meeza’s zero-tolerance attitude towards business interruptions drives it to continuously explore upgrades and innovations in disaster recovery services, aiming to modernize its disaster recovery solutions, enhance service levels, and overall efficiency.

Against this backdrop, Meeza leverages its strong resource advantages and collaborates deeply with Huawei Cloud and Information2 to jointly create a new DRaaS solution. Through Information2’s disaster recovery products, including i2Move, i2FFO, i2CDP, and i2Availability, Meeza tightly integrates the cloud platform with disaster recovery products, ensuring real-time backup of local core data to cloud servers without downtime, enabling recovery of historical data at any point in time and takeover of application systems at the disaster recovery end.

• i2Move: Enables one-click migration of system data and operating systems to the cloud without downtime, ensuring business continuity.
• i2FFO: Provides timed backup protection for entire systems under Linux/Windows systems, with recovery possible on the DRaaS cloud platform.
• i2CDP: Based on byte-level replication, provides real-time data protection, reducing bandwidth and system resource usage, enabling data recovery at any point in time.
• i2Availability: Application high availability software that monitors the source end in real-time and switches to the disaster recovery server immediately upon detecting anomalies, ensuring business continuity.

This project has brought a new approach to disaster recovery protection for Meeza and its clients in the surrounding areas, addressing key issues such as business system migration to the cloud, real-time data backup, continuous protection, and post-disaster recovery and business takeover within seconds, effectively reducing economic losses due to data loss and business interruptions.

Through a unified data management platform, Meeza can predict and visualize the implementation of disaster recovery solutions, monitor and graphically display all aspects in real-time, helping clients efficiently and intelligently manage data.

This collaboration not only enhances Meeza’s disaster recovery service capabilities and breaks the shackles of traditional disaster recovery models but also allows clients to enjoy the on-demand combination of cloud platforms and disaster recovery services, with one-click deployment and minute-level readiness. DRaaS has become a powerful weapon for Meeza’s expansion in Qatar and the surrounding regions as well as the international market, providing a strong boost to its further development in the disaster recovery field and accelerating its global market layout in cloud business.

Customer Evaluation

This project is undoubtedly a revolutionary upgrade of disaster recovery services. It has significantly enhanced Meeza’s disaster recovery service capabilities and provided unprecedented security for our clients. From one-click migration, real-time backup, to business takeover, every detail demonstrates Information2’s professionalism and strength. We are very satisfied with this collaboration and look forward to future partnerships between Meeza and Information2.