IBM and statistics to create a "statistical cloud"

The level of national data statistics is divided into national, provincial, land, county, township, village Six system, take the unified leadership, grading system, which also left a historical dilemma: at all levels of statistics in fact, the formation of a number of systems, the application of scattered situation, not only the country is difficult to obtain comprehensive primary data resources, all over the county and even counties, Township to build their own computer room, which also caused a waste of resources. Although the National Bureau of Statistics information construction is very early, starting from the computer instead of the Abacus, but also in the domestic establishment of the first WAN, and thus solve the timeliness of data reporting problems, but since then, customs, taxation departments through the "gold project" have set up the online customs declaration, online tax and other unified business platform, The National Bureau of Statistics has been unable to achieve a nationwide unified statistical platform for a long time. The National Bureau of Statistics began in 2002, the integration of the independent system of server resources from various offices moved to the unified central room, but at that time virtualization, cloud computing technology is not enough to popularize and mature, physical unity does not guarantee business needs.

IBM helps to create a "statistical cloud" to crack down on data concentration in the National Bureau of Statistics

2011 IBM and the National Bureau of Statistics announced a common "statistical cloud." "Our virtualization is just the opposite of the average business," said Xu Jianyi, director of the Data Management Center at the National Bureau of Statistics. A small opportunity for a general enterprise to host multiple applications through virtualization, and our minicomputer is quite the opposite, in order to be able to replace large hosts, these minicomputer form the system resource pool through the cluster way to meet the demand of massive data and high concurrent processing. The system uses the latest technology from hardware to software. At present, the system of the Beijing node has been established, the country, including Beijing, will establish a total of five nodes, the future staff regardless of the area landing, as long as the entry into this system, will be in accordance with their role to complete their work. ”

IBM Cloud Computing Solutions

IBM has created a comprehensive "statistical cloud" for the National Bureau of Statistics. The system is based on IBM minicomputer, power infrastructure, the main value is the safety of minicomputer, reliable. At the same time in the system design fully consider the system's own security, to ensure that from an enterprise login to the final data submissions, and then to the data to write to the unified data center within the entire business process does not have a single point of failure. At the database level, the system uses four machines to make database rack to ensure the system does not have a single point of failure. At the storage level, the use of three high-end disk array, as well as a platform-side disk array, as well as the addition of a library, the formation of a unified storage system. And one of the two high-end disk arrays is a mirrored approach to ensure that when one disk array fails, another disk array automatically starts. Based on the idea of a cloud to build this core business system, the biggest advantage is that it is an open system, resources can be based on the needs of the business to achieve further horizontal vertical expansion. When the system's resources are scarce, you can add resources to it at any time to achieve efficient use of resources.

Customer Value

Through the project, the current National Bureau of Statistics Database resource pool through IBM based on Power minicomputer virtualization technology to achieve the entire database resource flexibility calls, and each resource pool through firewalls and other security means to achieve isolation. It also brings tangible benefits to operational personnel. First through the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Platform and automatic deployment function, the day-to-day management of technical staff is simpler. Second, the resource allocation is very flexible, although not fully realize the concept of private cloud services, but the real ability to achieve resources in a pool of flexible deployment to meet the needs of different businesses.