Information construction of Baosteel stepped into "cloud era"

Baosteel Group was informed that a few days ago, Baosteel in the integrated "cloud management platform design and implementation", "cloud computing infrastructure research and application demonstration" and other key technologies on the basis of the comprehensive completion of the first phase of the domestic Steel Enterprise Cloud Center project Construction, and officially entered the commercial operation stage, It marks that Baosteel has made great breakthroughs in the field of digital construction, and has taken the lead in the "cloud era" in the transformation and upgrading of informatization.

Cloud computing is a convenient, on-demand network access to share the pool of configurable computing resources, with on-demand services, resource pooling, rapid expansion, extensive network access and other important features. It is predicted that cloud computing will become the next wave of IT technology change, which is expected to be the fourth it Industrial revolution after mainframe computers, PCs and the Internet. At present, foreign information industry powerful countries have taken cloud computing into the strategic industry scope, and some nations have begun to deploy national cloud computing infrastructure. In order to speed up the development of domestic cloud computing industry and key technology research, in 2010, the Ministry and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "on the cloud computing Services innovation and Development pilot demonstration work of the notice", and identified Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuxi five pilot cities, To encourage the backbone enterprises of domestic information services to actively explore various types of cloud computing service model, strengthen the massive data management and other cloud computing core technology research and development and industrial applications.

Large Enterprise group adopts the integrated operation mode of trans-region and multi-manufacturing unit, which has the characteristics of many users and large amount of business, which requires the information system to adapt to the business change quickly and embody the synergy effect. According to the mode of traditional information construction, information construction should be gradually covered by various production units, we must invest and construct information infrastructure separately, not only can not make full use of existing resources, but also make it difficult to keep abreast of the speed of business development and change. The use of shared cloud computing services in multiple business units within a group enterprise can overcome the drawbacks of the traditional mode information construction, such as long period, high input cost, low resource utilization and high energy consumption.

In order to accelerate the implementation of enterprise digital strategy, this year, Baosteel in the early stage information system platform technology, steel circulation supply chain SaaS platform technology, data center and Disaster Preparedness Center technology, such as the serialization of research results and industrial applications, the first in the domestic steel industry to start the "cloud computing industrialization of Baosteel key technology research and application "Innovative projects, identified the cloud computing infrastructure research and application demonstration 9 of major autonomous development, independent integration research and development focus and 82 sub-research topics, successively in the cloud computing virtualization technology and applications, database and middleware level expansion, multi-tenant development technology and other key technical areas to achieve a gratifying breakthrough, The initial formation of the virtualization environment in the highly available technology, such as 6 patented technology and SaaS multi-tenant data security isolation methods, and other 15 technical secrets, and successfully completed the first phase of the Cloud Center project construction.

At present, Baosteel Cloud Center has begun to provide cloud computing services to 5 users, Baosteel Group headquarters, Baosteel Project and Baosteel Metal. The practice of commercial operation shows that the investment of the cloud Center can improve the resource sharing and resource utilization of Baosteel information system, and shorten the data backup time greatly. Especially in Baosteel subordinate management business Unit new Information System Foundation environment delivery cycle, can improve the efficiency of more than 30 times times.

In the next stage, Baosteel will accelerate the construction of phase two project and its related function expansion, and gradually realize the process and automatization of Cloud Center platform management on the basis of the smooth completion and operation of the first phase of the Cloud Center project. In the industrial implementation, Baosteel, in addition to its own model, will also try to introduce a mutual win, cooperation and construction, mergers and acquisitions, and so on, quickly bigger and stronger cloud computing industry scale.