Overview
China Water & Power Press Co., Ltd.
Country: China
Solution: i2Box All-in-One Disaster Recovery Appliance (i2Availability + i2CDP)
As a central-level science and technology publisher, the Press faced growing challenges brought by the publishing industry’s digital transformation. Due to the special nature of its content storage and transmission, the Press relied on a large number of distributed hosts, which made data management more complex and increased risk exposure. Data loss could cause key business systems to shut down, resulting in significant economic and reputational damage.
Customer Challenge
- Distributed environment — Multiple hosts deployed across sites increased management difficulty.
- Business continuity risk — Data loss or downtime could halt critical publishing operations.
- High economic impact — Potential service interruptions could cause severe losses.
I2 Solution
- Implemented a host-based real-time data replication disaster recovery solution using i2Box appliances.
- Built a mirrored DR server environment, with i2Box serving as the DR site.
- Application-level protection — i2Availability monitored core business systems (1–6). In case of outage at the production center, workloads could automatically or manually failover within seconds to the DR site.
- Data-level protection — i2CDP captured I/O log changes in real time and transmitted them to another i2Box, enabling rollback to any point in time with microsecond-level granularity.
- Unified DR management — A DR control machine provided centralized configuration, monitoring, traffic tracking, and recovery via a web interface.
Solution Effects
- Delivered an integrated software + hardware all-in-one DR solution with i2Box.
- Enabled seamless and dynamic failover of production applications to the DR center.
- Ensured continuous business operations with advanced byte-level incremental replication and continuous data protection.
- Strengthened the Press’s resilience against data loss and operational risks in the era of digital publishing transformation.