Leveraging IBM Guizhou Mobile to build cloud computing services Platform

Guizhou Mobile Cloud Platform project has been on-line 36 information Service system, successfully implemented IAAS services model

By leveraging IBM's cloud computing technology, Guizhou Mobile cloud Platform project has been successfully online including the "new agricultural cooperation" and other 36 information services system, Guizhou farmers through a new type of rural cooperative medical card, you can realize online compensation settlement, so that the "small disease not out of the village, big disease not out of the county."

May 2009, Guizhou Province Health department and China Mobile Guizhou Company (hereinafter referred to as Guizhou Mobile) signed a strategic cooperation agreement, hoping to rely on the state mobile communication network, improve the new agricultural integration information level, building a large platform for health information to promote the process of health information construction.

According to the plan, the system will take the Guizhou Province Health Department as the center, including 4 cities (prefecture, state), 4 counties (districts), 60 townships, 56 management agencies, 84 medical institutions of the new farming business management system of the comprehensive pilot operation. The whole province, city, County, township, village Five network of new farming system, can achieve the province's on-site cross-district direct replenishment, accurate calculation, real-time compensation, simplified the treatment reimbursement process.

For the project construction, Guizhou Mobile Data Center General Manager Wenhua introduced, Guizhou Mobile realizes, "the traditional IT resource construction pattern investment is dispersed, the resource sharing is poor, the resource utilization rate is low; with the increase of the number of business systems, it investment has been increasing, the overall resource utilization rate is declining." and the traditional mode of business system construction process cycle is long, inefficient, business online slow, customer perception is poor, it is difficult to form a rapid market response mechanism. "Based on this, the Guizhou Mobile Data center is located in the new high starting point, designed to pass the advanced it concept of cloud computing and perfect IT environment to meet the new needs of enterprise customers for information services, at the same time expand the diversification of Guizhou mobile value-added business market."

November 2009, Guizhou Mobile and IBM contracted to build a cloud platform for infrastructure architecture. Complete virtualization of the IBM Power server and XIV grid storage through POWERVM server virtualization technology and SVC storage virtualization to form a virtualized resource pool and effectively integrate the TPM, TSM, and LTM management modules through a customized, unified management platform Form a unified resource management Service platform.

The overall architecture of the cloud platform can be divided into three tiers: the most basic layer is the host, storage and network, mainly from the combination of physical resources; The second layer is the cloud computing management platform, which is based on the "Blue Cloud" cloud computing management platform, can realize virtual server, virtual storage and virtual network; The top tier is the operations management system, Mainly by the operation Management, the business management, the resource management and the network management four main modules compose. In addition, throughout the platform system also has a sound information security system.

"IBM POWERVM delivers excellent virtualization performance, greater scalability, greater flexibility, and greater security," said Hou, general manager of the Telecommunications industry and OEM Affairs of the IBM Systems and Technology Division. It, together with SVC and Systemdirector and TPC, constitutes IBM's ' intelligent operation ', helping Guizhou Mobile to easily build the cloud infrastructure. ”

Wenhua said, "Compared with the traditional IDC room, the cloud computing IDC energy consumption is only one-fourth, the staff input reduced by two-thirds, and the space is only one-eighth of the original, greatly saving the operator's TCO." "At the same time," cloud computing IDC Model effective integration of soft and hard manufacturers, developers, operators and users, the formation of a new information industry chain model to achieve efficient, high-quality information applications and service market integration. ”

Through the "New agricultural combination" platform of Guizhou mobile construction, farmers ' medical reimbursement at the village level can be reimbursed in real time, through the card, the system will each farmer's medical information to the background and real-time operation, and then the feedback back to the terminal, the realization of the Farmer doctor prescribe a one-stop flow of medicine reimbursement.

At the same time, for some remote villages in Guizhou province (wired network can not be covered), Guizhou Mobile also adopted a wireless network coverage, the village station most of the medical system equipment are connected to the TD-SCDMA network to complete the real-time transmission of medical data. In this way, not only solves the health system Information coverage problem, another convenient also promotes its own TD network, realizes altogether wins.

IBM System and Technology division of Greater China Powersystems Server product director Li Hong said: "Guizhou Mobile cloud Platform case of the valuable is the technical concept and customer demand close contact, which to a large extent also for other operators to establish a ' cloud ' benchmark-not only in the technical level, More in the emphasis on the cloud understanding, set the application and promotion model of the benchmark. And this new technology on the landing of people's livelihood, the development of public service ideas, but also with IBM ' wisdom of the Earth ' advocated by the service concept coincide. ”

In the May 2010, some of the business of the new farming industry began to migrate to the clouds. As of June 2011, Guizhou Mobile Cloud Platform project has successfully launched 36 information-based business systems, including the medical industry's "new agriculture and the" Management platform, transport industry, two processing centers, tourism electronic ticket system, tourism industry, Agricultural machinery purchase subsidy management system and the roaming weather forecast service system for individual mobile customers.

For the cloud platform evolution Direction. Guizhou Mobile Data Center General manager Wenhua that, first of all, enhance the cloud platform operational capabilities, to achieve multi-level, multi-content cloud computing business services, and secondly, expand the existing cloud platform scale and functionality, and finally, to achieve IaaS, PAAS, SaaS coexistence of multi-level cloud computing architecture.

"At present, Guizhou Mobile has successfully implemented the IaaS service model", Wenhua said, "The next step, the planning of Guizhou Mobile cloud platform, through virtualization technology, to achieve business model and operation management changes, enhance the operational capabilities of the cloud platform to achieve multi-level, multi-content cloud computing business services, to achieve IaaS, A multi-level cloud computing architecture that is co-located with PaaS and SaaS. According to his introduction, Guizhou Mobile will also build a second cloud computing IDC, but also want to achieve the two data center resources of the unified remote scheduling.