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Case Studies
China Railway Corporation's OpenStack-based Industrial Cloud for Modern Logistics Business Development
Overview
China Railway Corporation's OpenStack-based Industrial Cloud for Modern Logistics Business DevelopmentOpenStack |
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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud | |
Railway & Metro Transportation | |
Logistics & Transportation Maintenance | |
Inventory Management Transportation Simulation | |
Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration | |
Operational Impact
The application of China Railway Cloud has transformed the construction model of China railway information system from the traditional project-driven to platform-driven. It has better supported business transformation, booming development, and the extended business with the railway information infrastructure based on the cloud platform. The passenger services of China Railway have extended to train catering, hotel bookings, tourist supermarkets, vehicle reservations, concierge service, and other related services. Freight transportation services have extended to electronic tickets, block trades, logistics services, warehousing services, multi-modal transportation, etc. The diverse business services also cover on-board commercial services, land development, insurance, financial planning, material procurement, and other areas. The successful deployment of China Railway Cloud has not only provided a more efficient, more convenient, and environmentally friendly IT infrastructure for China Railway but also provided useful references for other enterprises and industries. | |
Quantitative Benefit
China Railway Cloud has been deployed on about 5000 physical server nodes, including about 800 KVM nodes and about 730 VMware nodes. | |
20PB SAN storage and 3PB distributed storage (Ceph) have been deployed. | |
An additional 2000 physical server nodes are to be deployed toward the end of 2017. | |