Overview
Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
Country: China
Industry: Manufacturing / Heavy Machinery
Solution: i2Backup & i2CDP Disaster Recovery Platform
Zoomlion needed to implement unified disaster recovery (DR) management across geographically distributed data centers, ensuring local, intra-city, and remote DR capabilities to protect against potential threats such as ransomware attacks, system failures, and natural disasters.
Customer Challenge
- Geographically dispersed IT environments — Physical and virtual machines located in multiple sites with heterogeneous systems (X86, VM, AIX).
- Cost control — Achieve maximum DR utilization with minimal investment.
- Business continuity — Ensure zero data loss and fast failover during unplanned outages.
I2 Solution
- Deployed Information2 DR management clusters at the Lukou and Quantang data centers to manage unified backup and recovery for physical and virtual servers across finance and non-finance server rooms.
- Established a remote DR platform at the IDC data center to receive replicated backup data from Lukou and Quantang storage systems.
- Implemented centralized storage management and periodic DR drills in a dedicated IDC rehearsal zone to verify data availability and integrity.
Solution Effects
- Achieved a two-location, three-center DR architecture with unified management.
- Reduced investment while maximizing disaster recovery utilization.
- Ensured critical systems can failover seamlessly in case of unplanned downtime.
- Guaranteed zero data loss for key business systems.