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With the continuous in-depth development of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" services by financial institutions at all levels in China, and the continuous expansion of the coverage of basic financial services, the development of rural banks has also ushered in an excellent historical opportunity. A national village bank, together with GDS, a domestic provider of high-grade data centers and leader in highly available IT services, through one-stop escrow service and IBM Global Asset Renewal Services Department (GARS) IT financial leasing service, completed the whole process of data center "from scratch, from excellent to excellent, from excellent to fine" with minimum upfront input cost.

Self-building or outsourcing

As a newly established village bank in China, the early construction of the data center has become a top priority to ensure the smooth opening of the bank, and careful decisions are needed at the fork in the choice of "self-building" or "outsourcing". Set up a data center within the bank to provide on-demand access and sharing of configured computing resources to support the growing real-time business needs of local branches in the future. This model may be a longer-term strategy that, if properly managed, will reap huge benefits in a few years' time. However, for the fledgling village bank, the high initialization cost may slow down the rapid development of the enterprise and miss the best time to seize the market opportunity.

The head of the bank's data center construction said: "from the perspective of operational management and cost-effectiveness, as a newly established company, adopting the full production outsourcing model allows us to quickly obtain the latest IT resources to support the development of the enterprise, and get the technical and experience support of professionals, at the same time, we will pay more attention to our core business and survive and develop in the fierce market competition. At the beginning, we were looking for multiple partners in terms of planning, integration, data center services, and so on. However, this may put itself in a more chaotic situation in the later stage of management, because the joint provision of services by multiple service providers will lead to disunity of service interface and unclear definition of service scope, thus passing the buck and wrangling with each other, resulting in very difficult management coordination. Therefore, we must choose a service provider with the strongest comprehensive strength to avoid these problems. After a comprehensive investigation of our competitors in the same industry, we chose the most experienced outsourced services and the best reputation of Wanguo data, which of course has a lot to do with the equipment leasing method provided by Wanguo data and its strong IT operation and maintenance level. "

Combination of production outsourcing and equipment leasing

On the basis of fully considering the needs of users, Wanguo data provides the village bank with one-stop full production outsourcing services, including consulting planning, data center construction, integrated implementation, and the lowest cost input scheme to obtain the required resources in the form of leasing. Considering that village banks are in a period of rapid growth, which requires flexible, stable and efficient IT resources as a guarantee for business development, Wanguo data has adopted a mature and scalable IT architecture at the beginning of its design, including virtualization and cloud computing applications, and helped the bank's IT department to work out a data center construction plan suitable for the next three to five years.

From the way of obtaining IT equipment, GDS and IBM GARS financial leasing departments have carried out in-depth cooperation, providing the bank with capital and technical guarantee for the initial construction of IT, providing users with the required IT equipment by way of financial leasing, and IBM GARS also provides ICPE- IBM officially certified remanufacturing equipment, which not only saves costs but also responds to the call of energy saving and environmental protection on the premise of ensuring the performance of IT equipment. Users can easily enjoy all IT resources and services by paying the corresponding rent every month, which avoids the huge investment in the initial stage of IT construction, and at the same time has the highest level of data center hardware and software service resources in the industry.

In terms of IT operation and maintenance business continuity compliance, according to the advanced ITIL operation and maintenance management standards and ISO quality management system, Wanguo data has signed a SLA (service level agreement) with the village bank, and has formulated strict standards and requirements in IT resources and operation and maintenance. Among them, the centralized monitoring service of Universal data provides 7 × 24-hour real-time monitoring and timely alarm service for the equipment hosted by the bank through personalized monitoring indicators, monitoring threshold, sampling frequency and alarm level. At the same time, the IT operation and maintenance personnel also carry out regular health maintenance and testing of the server hardware, and carry out monitoring, operation and maintenance and timely change management for the remote data replication system to ensure the integrity, consistency and real-time validity of the bank's backup data. In addition, the data center business continuity management service of Universal data fully meets the requirements of the China Banking Regulatory Commission's "guidelines on the Supervision of Commercial Bank data Centers" and "Commercial Bank Business continuity Supervision guidelines". The fully reliable "rear area" enables users to devote more energy and financial resources to their core business.

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