During the 2025 China Energy Network and Information Security Technology Exchange Conference, Huang Jisheng, Senior Technical Director at Information2 Software (info2soft), delivered a keynote speech titled “Building Dual Protection for Energy Network Security and Disaster Recovery Based on Data Replication.” He shared the company’s technological advantages and innovative practices in the field of energy data disaster recovery and mobility.
As digital transformation accelerates, data has become a critical asset in the energy industry—not only underpinning technical infrastructure but also influencing operational efficiency and business continuity.
Against this backdrop, info2soft, leveraging its leading expertise in data replication, disaster recovery, data mobility, and migration, helps energy enterprises effectively address data resilience challenges in their digital transformation journey.
Multi-layered Data Replication to Build a Comprehensive Data Protection System
info2soft’s disaster recovery capabilities are built around data replication as the core, offering comprehensive protection through multi-layered replication technologies at the byte, block, and semantic levels.
The solution is deeply compatible with both domestic and international ecosystems. Whether involving local databases, domestic hardware, or global cloud platforms and storage devices, info2soft ensures seamless integration and unified management, guaranteeing data security, integrity, and recoverability.
Specifically, with products such as i2Availability (for high availability and disaster recovery) and i2Stream (for data stream replication), enterprises can achieve full-scale disaster recovery management—from databases to application systems. Even in cross-regional or cross-platform disasters, data integrity and consistency are maintained, ensuring rapid system failover and minimizing downtime.
In addition, the i2Backup solution provides robust backup and recovery management and can seamlessly integrate with traditional backup tools such as Veritas NetBackup (NBU). Enterprises can easily migrate their existing NBU backup strategies into info2soft’s system, enabling efficient data offloading and compatibility within the new disaster recovery framework.
Through products like i2CDM (data copy management) and i2NAS (mass data disaster recovery management), info2soft also provides multi-tiered disaster recovery capabilities that extend from local to cloud environments. This comprehensive architecture allows energy enterprises to quickly and accurately restore critical business operations and data in the face of any failure.
Breaking Data Silos and Building an Efficient Data Mobility Platform
Energy enterprises often operate complex IT environments with multiple heterogeneous platforms, databases, and applications, making inter-system data exchange difficult. info2soft addresses this challenge with powerful data mobility capabilities that eliminate data silos and enable seamless cross-platform and cross-database data flow.
1. Cross-domain Data Mobility: Seamless Connection between Domestic and International Databases
i2Stream enables real-time parsing and replication across heterogeneous databases, supporting seamless compatibility with diverse data sources. Whether it’s domestic databases like DM (Dameng) or Kingbase, or international databases such as Oracle and SQL Server, info2soft bridges the gap between platforms, enabling real-time data sharing and interoperability.
For example, in a real-world implementation for a major energy enterprise, info2soft successfully achieved real-time synchronization between domestic and international databases, effectively overcoming the challenge of cross-domain data mobility. This not only eliminated the “data island effect” in domestic databases but also provided a solid data foundation for cross-platform business applications.
2. Intelligent Data Distribution: Enhancing Business Responsiveness
Beyond data mobility, info2soft’s i2Distributor provides intelligent data distribution capabilities, allowing enterprises to distribute data in real time according to business needs. Data can be shared across departments, applications, or endpoints, ensuring that critical information supports decision-making and operations at key moments.Through this intelligent data mobility mechanism, energy enterprises enhance overall agility and responsiveness, optimizing both operational efficiency and data utilization.Secure, High-efficiency Cross-platform Migration to Accelerate Energy DigitalizationAs digital transformation progresses, data and application migration has become an inevitable challenge for energy enterprises. Whether migrating from on-premises data centers to the cloud or moving across heterogeneous environments, info2soft provides efficient and secure migration solutions.
1. Full Machine Live Migration: Zero Downtime and Seamless Transition
i2Move enables full machine live migration without service interruption. Both source and target systems continue to operate during migration, and the target system takes over seamlessly once migration completes. It supports heterogeneous virtualization, on-premises to cloud, and cross-cloud migrations, widely adopted in scenarios such as government clouds, banking private clouds, and telecom cloud platforms.2. Unstructured Data Migration: Intelligent Synchronization, Fast and Efficient
i2DTO delivers high-performance file migration capabilities, supporting various migration modes including object-to-object storage and local/NAS to object storage. Through intelligent synchronization and batch archiving, it ensures orderly and efficient data movement with second-level synchronization and file filtering, meeting complex migration requirements.3. Heterogeneous Database Migration: Real-time Synchronization with Guaranteed Consistency
i2Stream also supports real-time heterogeneous database migration by capturing source-side data changes in real time, ensuring data consistency. Its agentless design eliminates the need to modify the source database and supports active-active architectures and two-city-three-center disaster recovery, enabling efficient and reliable business data migration.As digitalization accelerates across the energy sector, data security, mobility, and migration capabilities have become increasingly critical. With its advanced technologies, Information2 Software (info2soft) not only ensures high data availability but also facilitates seamless data flow, providing robust business continuity and operational efficiency for energy enterprises.