IBM to hand in the road of the cloud

As it analysts, industry and business leaders and others are also talking about cloud computing, IBM has worked with customers to make cloud computing a success for business operations.

As the world's first enterprise cloud computing project, the IBM Greater China Cloud Computing Center (IBM Cloud Labs &hipods) offers a comprehensive upgrade of the ERP system in the group and deploys the ERP system to the cloud spanning two data centers. Realize the smooth transition of the ERP system upgrade, and make the enterprise internal IT infrastructure and all kinds of software applications can run more flexible in the future.

ERP Opportunity in China

Under the State Council SASAC supervision of the state-owned important backbone enterprises, the business is mainly concentrated in agriculture, energy, chemical, financial and real estate five industries, currently employs more than 20,000, business covering Europe, the Americas, Asia and Hong Kong and other regions, is a global large-scale multinational companies.

The characteristics of the group is to dare to try new technologies and ideas to meet business needs. Medium-scale IT infrastructure maturity, has been in the industry's leading position. In the middle, IT department has gone beyond the "logistics" and "fire brigade" role, as the backbone of business innovation and strategic development. Any business adjustment is synchronized with the information construction, especially in the period of rapid development of the enterprise, it should make very fast response.

1999, the group began to implement SAP ERP system, after ten years, fruitful. At present, the Chinese group of ERP coverage has been as high as 93%, involving more than 200 legal entities. If the figure of 93% means only a superficial figure, the "essence" of the informatization construction of the group is that it has established a centralized and unified operation management system in the world.

However, when it systems are operational, there will always be 20% to 30% of all devices on standby, and for security and reliability reasons, standby equipment needs to be built for backup and offsite disaster recovery. Therefore, in the process of innovation, we hope to maximize the use of these devices without affecting their own work.

IBM Enterprise Cloud

Based on the full depth of the existing IT situation and business development needs of the 6+1, and referring to the scenario design in the IBM Blue Cloud solution, IBM built the Enterprise cloud computing platform for the medium-scale. This enterprise cloud model enables large enterprises to maximize the value of previous IT investments while reducing operating costs at this stage.

IBM Powersystems Virtualization technology enables a higher level of hardware virtualization in an IBM-built enterprise cloud computing environment. Because of the high openness of IBM's cloud computing technology, the platform also manages all systems in the middle-level IT environment. This increases the level of server virtualization from percent to 50-60% in the system. In addition to the virtualization technology of Ibmpower Bae, IBM also has Ibmtivoli automation software for the cloud computing environment, enabling the central development team to access the required software environment (such as WebSphere Java application Deployment platform) and manage the entire process.

"The Cloud Enterprise cloud computing platform is China's first corporate cloud success story and is a leading global cloud implementation case," said Ms. Zhu Bunzhi, director of IBM Labs &hipods. Although cloud computing has become a recognized trend in the industry, the industry needs a successful case to prove the power of cloud computing and promote its development. The success of this process will be an inspiration to IBM and even the entire IT industry in the field of cloud computing. IBM Greater China Cloud Computing Center (IBM Labs &hipods) has been focusing on the in-depth development of cloud computing technology since its inception. We believe that with IBM hardware, software and service advantages, we will be able to help China's customers to create support for enterprise sustainable development and global expansion of the cloud computing environment! ”

To realize the smooth upgrade of ERP is only the beginning of cloud computing applications, the Chinese group is embarking on the preparation of enterprise information portal, the existing system for effective integration, the formation of the entire enterprise Information System portal, so as to obtain information, running the required applications. Because the number of landings, the required applications are dynamic changes, everything will depend on the "cloud" to achieve. The establishment of enterprise "cloud" will bring the long-term benefits to the group.