China Academy of Environmental Sciences

Overview

China Academy of Environmental Sciences (CAES)

Country: China

Industry: Environmental Research / Government

Solution: i2Move Migration, i2CDP Continuous Data Protection

The China Academy of Environmental Sciences, under the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, conducts major scientific research in support of China’s sustainable development strategy. With the rapid expansion of digital research activities, legacy IT infrastructure could no longer meet growing demands. To support a new data center upgrade, CAES needed to migrate business systems and data to a new facility while ensuring disaster recovery protection for mission-critical databases.

Customer Challenge

• Aging infrastructure — Legacy systems unable to support new research workloads.
• Data center upgrade — Required seamless migration of business systems into a new data center environment.
• Heterogeneous platforms — Migration needed across Citrix virtualization, physical servers, and VMware virtualization.
• Business continuity — Ensure uninterrupted services during migration.
• Critical data protection — Safeguard key Oracle and MySQL databases with disaster recovery.

I2 Solution

• Utilized i2Move hot migration software to migrate Citrix virtual machines and physical server systems to VMware virtualization in the new data center.
• Enabled online migration without service interruption, ensuring business continuity during the transition.
• Implemented i2CDP continuous data protection for MySQL and Oracle databases, providing real-time backup to eliminate data loss risks.

Solution Effects

• Completed seamless hot migration, greatly simplifying the data center upgrade process.
• Overcame platform heterogeneity challenges while reducing overall migration time.
• Established real-time protection for key research databases, ensuring integrity and availability.
• Enhanced business resilience and provided a reliable IT foundation for future environmental research initiatives.