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Data determine the life and death of a company.

Over the past two decades, numerous real cases in reality tell us that companies with disaster preparedness protection often encounter emergencies and can achieve business recovery in a short period of time; while companies without disaster preparedness protection encounter disasters, resulting in the loss of business data, and ultimately can not escape the fate of bankruptcy liquidation.

Today, data is more important than ever. It is not only one of the most important factors of production, but also the basis of all applications. However, the difficulty of data protection is no longer what it used to be. In recent years, cloud computing technology is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, hybrid cloud model is popular, big data applications are blooming everywhere, artificial intelligence is in the ascendant, the rise of these new technologies directly drive the application has undergone earth-shaking changes. application types are not only complex and diversified, but also bring unprecedented challenges to the protection of data and applications.

When application diversification started computing diversification, Huawei attached great importance to the data and application protection of Kunpeng computing industry users from the very beginning, and joined hands with professional disaster recovery manufacturers such as British software in Kunpeng ecology. through close cooperation in products, solutions and services, we can bring comprehensive and reliable protection to Kunpeng users.

New disaster recovery in the era of Multivariate Computing

In retrospect, in the user environment of many industries, including finance, manufacturing and government, minicomputer + database + centralized storage has been a typical configuration of users for a long time. With the rise of cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, this centralized configuration mode has been difficult to meet the needs of various new business scenarios.

Take banks as an example, in the fierce market competition, we need to use strong AI computing power to continuously train various business models to understand users and insight into risks; we also need to use container technology to achieve standard delivery independent of the environment, so that we can easily use computing resources on the public cloud to start various businesses and achieve rapid development, deployment and distribution of various services, thus greatly improving business efficiency and increasing market reaction speed.

"the business model of users has fundamentally changed." Zhou Hua, the British software CTO, said, "now users have more and more extensive business models, such as local, hybrid cloud, public cloud, and so on. Many business architectures have adopted a distributed architecture, and business response speed is also required to be faster and faster."

British software CTO Zhou Hua

As a matter of fact, more and more users need to face different application scenarios of cloud, edge and end, and the scenarios often need to cooperate with each other, which not only brings the demand of multiple and heterogeneous computing power, but also brings new challenges to data protection and disaster recovery.

Zhou Hua believes that complex business scenarios, large amount of data and high real-time requirements are the main factors driving the change of disaster recovery. "in the past, the heavyweight disaster recovery service was very bulky, inflexible, divided into modes and levels, and it is a trend to formulate corresponding disaster recovery strategies according to different applications and scenarios."

In the view of the British software, the trend of disaster recovery in the future is mainly reflected in three aspects:

First of all, a unified data management platform is the trend of the times, through the platform can achieve structured, unstructured, semi-structured, big data and a series of management and control.

Secondly, the core system usually has high requirements for real-time data, while the peripheral system needs to form a data lake to gather and distribute all the data, which often involves data replication and management. including data synchronization, transformation, clarity and other processes, often need to be able to integrate and communicate with each other.

Third, cloudy will become a trend, and many users will require distributed resource points to be applied in the future to form a disaster recovery pipeline for interconnection and data flow.

"disaster recovery is not just about protecting data, it needs to help data get through, flow and use to meet the new needs of the business." Zhou Hua said.

The British side who is "prepared"

British Software, founded in 2011, is a basic software manufacturer specializing in data replication, dedicated to the research and development and promotion of dynamic files, database log replication and cloud data replication technology. The products involve operating system, middleware, database and other aspects, and can be widely used in disaster recovery, data security, data governance, business continuity management and other fields.

British software product line

At present, the British software already has comprehensive products including i2COOPY real-time replication, i2Availability high availability, i2CDP continuous data protection, i2Share document sharing and disaster recovery, i2Cloud cloud disaster recovery, i2Move system migration, i2Box disaster recovery and so on. It can provide users with omni-directional, multi-level and multi-strategy disaster recovery solutions: disaster recovery protection from data to applications, from physical machines to virtual machines, from local to remote or public clouds, from private clouds to public clouds, and from stand-alone to clusters.

The reason is that the British software not only has comprehensive products and solutions, but also embodies the ecological cooperation with Huawei in Kunpeng computing industry incisively and vividly.

The cooperation between British Software and Huawei dates back to 2014, from the earliest single-sector and single-product cooperation to the current cooperation with BG, Cloud and Computing BG, from the domestic market to overseas markets, the two sides have done a lot of work for Kunpeng computing industry. Zhou Hua said frankly: "in recent years, the British software and Huawei have carried out a lot of deep integration and development."

At present, the British products are fully compatible with Huawei Taishan server, Huawei Cloud and other products and services. The British software is not only a well-selected supplier of Huawei Cloud, but also deeply integrated and bundled at the product and solution level. Take Huawei Cloud as an example. A number of British software products such as i2COOPY, i2Availability, i2CDP, i2Share, i2DTO, i2FFO and other products have been launched in Huawei Cloud, providing users with solutions at different levels of disaster preparedness, covering remote disaster preparedness in the same city, double activation in data centers, cloud disaster preparedness, smart city, government cloud and other areas.

In addition, Huawei Yun and the UK jointly created a hybrid cloud disaster recovery solution and jointly launched a cloud disaster preparedness white paper in 2017.

Zhou Hua said bluntly that now is a data era, more and more data are generated and distributed more and more widely, the original single and simple model can not meet the needs of new disaster preparedness, and ecological partners are needed to work together to create perfect solutions.

The major is responsible to the users.

Disaster recovery is a very professional and accurate field in the field of storage, and even a small error in the data may have an important impact on the business. Because of this, companies in the field of disaster recovery often have a very high degree of technology and professionalism.

"Specialty is the greatest responsibility to users." Zhou Hua said frankly, "the British side is focused on the field of disaster recovery and is impressed by Huawei's professionalism of improving things in its cooperation with Huawei."

For example, when the British side was shortlisted for Huawei Cloud to strictly select suppliers, Huawei conducted a very strict full-process audit of the British side, covering everything from R & D system, testing system to sales system and business system. Very professional guidance and advice are given on the audit of related products, security vulnerabilities and so on. Zhou Hua said bluntly: "in the process of ecological cooperation with Huawei in Kunpeng, it has greatly improved the British side's own product design, and Huawei has also given strong support in terms of platform and hardware equipment."

This kind of professional cooperation between the two sides has received very good feedback in serving users. For example, in the field of government cloud, the British software has conducted in-depth cooperation with Huawei.

As we all know, the cloud in government affairs is the trend of the times, but there are great differences in environment, many application systems and large amount of data related to the entrusted offices and bureaus. You will encounter a series of problems, such as how to put the data on the cloud, how to move the data, how to ensure the security after the data is on the cloud, how to plan for data disaster recovery, how to comply with the latest equal insurance rules, how to maintain the interoperability between the cloud and local data, and how to ensure the data security across the cloud.

How to eliminate the fear of government cloud users going to the cloud and making good use of the cloud, a perfect government cloud disaster tolerance solution is essential. Through the close cooperation between the British software and Huawei, the two sides have helped users solve these problems on a number of government cloud projects in Guangxi, Jiangsu and other countries. Not only that, both sides have been using professionalism to allay users' fears about the cloud. "you need to prove that cloud disaster recovery is right. Therefore, the UK and Huawei will always test the accuracy and availability of data and applications."

"I'm glad to have a partner like Huawei. In many projects, Huawei's team is on call and often works overtime all night. After several years of close cooperation, the British side and Huawei have risen from a cooperative relationship to a collaborative relationship, working together and cooperating to provide users with the most professional services." Zhou Hua said.

Make the future ready

"Kunpeng computing industry is not only technologically solid, but also highly forward-looking. In the future, both computing and data need to be closely focused on major trends such as big data and AI. Kunpeng computing industry is very consistent with the future direction, which is also the reason to attract the British side to cooperate with Huawei for a long time." That's what Zhou Hua said.

Indeed, the current computing industry is in a critical period of transformation to multi-heterogeneous computing, and the forms, application scenarios and solutions of computing products are becoming incomparably rich. long-term technology planning and open ecological strategy will undoubtedly be the key to the sustainable growth of the computing industry.

After nearly six years of running-in, a full tacit understanding has been formed between the British side and Huawei. Zhou Hua revealed that the British side and Huawei will continue in-depth cooperation in Kunpeng Ecology, including products, solutions, consulting services and other aspects.

Specific to the product level, the British side will expand cooperation with Huawei-related products. For example, the British side will provide corresponding data protection and migration services for databases, operating systems and other products in the next step. In addition, such as data management, big data and other aspects will continue to carry out product integration and development.

The British side and Huawei Cloud have cooperated with Huawei Cloud in cloud disaster recovery services for a long time and have a good basis for cooperation. In the next step, the British side and Huawei Cloud will continue to optimize the previously jointly built Cloud CDM cloud disaster recovery exercise to gradually build an integrated module for cloud disaster recovery exercise.

In order to further increase the collaborative relationship between the two sides, the British side and Huawei will also deepen cooperation in disaster preparedness consultation and services, do a good job in their division of labor, and jointly provide users with the best services.

"Kunpeng ecology is a truly open ecology, and all partners in the system can benefit, which will promote the orderly and healthy development of Kunpeng computing industry. in the future, Kunpeng computing industry will become more and more important, and the British side will continue to participate and participate in the ecology of Kunpeng computing industry." Zhou Hua finally said.

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