In today’s digital era, data flows like blood—keeping every part of an enterprise alive and moving. But when the data flow slows down, gets stuck, or breaks, operations become like a blindfolded giant stumbling in the dark. This is especially true in SAP HANA environments, where pushing data in real time to Kafka message queues becomes a high-difficulty challenge.

As a leading gas energy enterprise, this company is committed to enhancing operational efficiency and decision-making through digital transformation. However, as its business expanded, it faced a growing need for real-time synchronization of massive production data—particularly seamless, efficient data sync between its SAP HANA database and Kafka message queue.

To support real-time decision-making and minimize the impact of synchronization on production systems, the company urgently needed a high-performance and stable data synchronization solution.

Two Failed Attempts—Where Did Things Go Wrong?

In its pursuit of SAP-to-Kafka data synchronization, the company tried two different solutions. Unfortunately, both fell short of expectations.

Solution 1: SAP Data Intelligence Cloud + Kafka

The first attempt used SAP’s official Data Intelligence Cloud tool along with Kafka for synchronization. While this solution was theoretically viable, it ran into major issues in practice:

• Significant impact on production performance:

  This solution relied on trigger-based mechanisms, which severely affected the performance of the production environment—especially when handling large volumes of data, resulting in noticeable delays.

• Complex configuration and maintenance:

  SAP’s Data Intelligence Cloud required complex setup and specialized technical personnel, making routine maintenance burdensome and time-consuming.

Solution 2: SAP Tools → MySQL/Oracle → (Third-Party Tools) → Kafka

To avoid the drawbacks of the first solution, the company explored a second option: syncing data from SAP to MySQL or Oracle first using SAP’s tools, then forwarding it to Kafka via third-party tools. However, this approach had several issues:

• Unnecessary intermediary layers:

  Data had to pass through MySQL or Oracle before reaching Kafka, adding complexity and increasing maintenance overhead.

• Latency and consistency challenges:

  Multiple transfer layers introduced latency and raised concerns about data consistency—failing to meet the enterprise’s strict real-time and reliability requirements.

A Game-Changer: i2Stream by Information2 Delivers Real-Time Success

After the two failed attempts, the company turned to i2Stream by Information2 as its data synchronization solution. By directly analyzing HANA database logs to capture change data—and with full support from SAP HANA—i2Stream achieved remarkable results.

i2Stream efficiently parses source database logs to capture real-time changes, and utilizes stream data processing to achieve high-speed synchronization across both homogeneous and heterogeneous databases. It supports big data platforms and delivers second-level sync even in high-concurrency scenarios—ensuring complete data integrity and consistency. Both DML and DDL operations, as well as data and schema changes, are synchronized in real time.

Key Advantages of the Project

1. Minimal Impact on Production

Unlike trigger-based methods, i2Stream captures incremental data by analyzing SAP HANA database logs, significantly reducing the load on the production system. This allows synchronization to proceed smoothly without interfering with daily business operations.

2. High-Efficiency Real-Time Synchronization

Leveraging SAP HANA’s ODP (Operational Data Provisioning) technology and interfaces likeODP_RESET,ODP_OPEN, andODP_FETCH, i2Stream achieves rapid and precise data sync to Kafka—meeting high demands for both real-time processing and performance.

3. Flexible Custom Development

i2Stream also offers highly customizable development to fit customer-specific needs—whether adjusting sync frequency or supporting specific data formats. This flexibility ensures synchronization processes remain stable and reliable.

By integrating JCO drivers with ODQMON and ODP technology, i2Stream successfully achieved incremental data synchronization from SAP HANA to Kafka. Throughout the project, its efficiency and stability were clearly demonstrated. With simple configuration and high execution performance, it not only minimized impact on the production system but also ensured data accuracy and timeliness.

Every detail of data synchronization can impact business decision quality and operational efficiency. With its powerful capabilities and real-time sync solutions, i2Stream is a vital ally in digital transformation—helping enterprises maintain fast, consistent data flow and gain a competitive edge through more precise decision-making.

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Is Storage Snapshot Enough for Data Protection?

Is Remote Data Replication Truly Foolproof?

Does Every Piece of Data Require Real-Time Protection?

In today’s digital era, data has become one of the most valuable assets for enterprises. Whether in finance, healthcare, manufacturing, or the internet industry, efficient data protection and management are essential.

Enterprise data protection relies on three core technologies: data replication, snapshots, and backup. But what are their differences? How do they function? And how should businesses combine them for optimal protection?

Data Replication: Real-Time Synchronization for Data Consistency

Data replication refers to real-time or near-real-time copying of data from one storage device to another.

At its core, data replication ensures multiple copies of data remain highly consistent by transferring data across different storage nodes in real-time. It plays a crucial role in disaster recovery and business continuity, allowing seamless failover to backup nodes in case of primary node failure.

Advantages:

• High Real-Time Performance: Data is synchronized to the backup system almost instantly.

• Disaster Recovery: The backup node can quickly take over business operations in the event of a primary system failure, ensuring continuous operation.

Snapshot Technology: Capturing Moments for Rapid Recovery

Snapshot technology records the state of a storage system at a specific point in time, creating an instantaneous image of the data.

There are two main types of snapshots: Copy-on-Write (COW) and Redirect-on-Write (ROW). By capturing the state of a storage device at a given time, snapshots provide a lightweight form of data protection. In cases of accidental deletion, misoperation, or application crashes, snapshots enable near-instant data recovery.

Advantages:

• Efficiency: Snapshots are created quickly without affecting active systems.

• Flexible Recovery: Enables quick restoration to a specific time point, making it easier to troubleshoot issues or roll back operations.

Backup: Long-Term Data Protection and Recovery

Backup involves creating complete or partial copies of data and storing them offsite or on offline media to prevent data loss.

As one of the most traditional yet reliable data protection methods, backup ensures an independent copy of the original data. Backup strategies often include full backups, incremental backups, and differential backups.

Advantages:

• Data Integrity: Ensures historical data is not lost and can be fully restored after disasters.

• Flexibility: Different backup strategies can be tailored based on data change frequency and recovery needs.

Choosing the Right Data Protection Strategy

By now, it’s clear that data replication, snapshots, and backup serve different purposes:

• Replication focuses on real-time synchronization for disaster recovery and high availability.

• Snapshots capture the current state efficiently, enabling frequent recovery and testing.

• Backup provides layered historical protection for long-term data retention and disaster recovery.

Enterprises should evaluate their business needs, data update frequency, system performance, and disaster recovery requirements to formulate an optimal data protection strategy. By integrating these technologies strategically, businesses can build an impenetrable data security fortress.

For instance:

• If basic data retention and recovery is the goal, a snapshot + backup combination is ideal.

• If minimizing downtime is critical, data replication is essential to ensure continuous business operations.

AI-Powered Data Protection Solutions for the Future

As data security and high availability demands continue to rise, Information2 leverages its three core data replication technologies to deliver disaster recovery, high availability, and backup solutions. These solutions help enterprises establish an unbreakable defense, ensuring data safety in the digital transformation era.

Data Backup and Recovery

i2Backup provides centralized backup management for diverse data sources, integrating LAN-free backup strategies and deduplication compression for efficiency. With storage-level ransomware protection and NetBackup (NBU) strategy migration, it enables unified control across multiple centers and storage units. Cross-domain cascading replication and backup policy version tracking ensure historical rule modifications are recorded for easy auditing. Supporting D2D2T (Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape) with automated tape archiving, i2Backup delivers exceptional PB-scale backup performance for large-scale data archiving.

Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

i2CDP offers byte-level replication for uninterrupted protection of critical data. It logs and saves every data change in real-time. In the event of accidental deletion or ransomware infection, users can restore data to any point before the incident with precision down to a fraction of a second.

Real-Time Data Replication

i2COOPY utilizes data serialization transmission to ensure strict data consistency and integrity between production and target systems. Built on Information2’s proprietary byte-level replication technology, it captures new data at the byte level, ensuring high real-time performance with minimal resource consumption. It operates seamlessly across heterogeneous environments, supporting diverse storage hardware and virtual/physical infrastructures for efficient data replication.

A Decade of Innovation: Leading the Industry in Data Protection

With over a decade of expertise, Information2 remains committed to technological innovation, establishing a comprehensive data management ecosystem across finance, government, healthcare, education, and energy sectors.

To address enterprise data security challenges and data silos in intelligent transformation, Information2 has pioneered AI-enhanced data protection solutions. Built on DeepSeek, Qwen, and other intelligent frameworks, these solutions:

• Intelligently predict potential risk points

• Dynamically optimize backup strategies

• Enable second-level emergency response

By integrating AI-driven automation and intelligent document collaboration, Information2 delivers end-to-end lifecycle protection for enterprise data assets, ensuring data safety in the AI era.

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• Documents scattered across shared directories, external hard drives, FTP servers, personal cloud storage, and other locations make efficient management and collaboration difficult.
• Issues such as ransomware, accidental deletions, and other security threats can lead to document loss or damage, posing serious risks to data integrity.
• Chaotic document version management and lack of effective permission controls result in inefficiencies.
• Documents are not effectively retained or utilized, hindering the development of an enterprise knowledge base.

To address these challenges, i2Share File Sharing and Management Platform leverages Information2’s file-level data capture technology and continuous data protection mechanisms, with a core focus on “security” and “convenience,” provides a one-stop solution to meet the diverse needs of the digital era, spanning file storage, security, collaboration, and knowledge mining.

Product Highlight Features

Full Lifecycle Management, Enhanced Efficiency

• Lifecycle Management from Storage to Deletion: Comprehensive coverage of file storage, access, version control, transfer, recovery, and auditing.
• Unified Management: Centralized control over distributed files, simplifying the complexity of decentralized storage.

Efficient Collaboration, Optimized Team Productivity

• Real-time Sharing and Collaboration: Supports multi-user online editing, document commenting, and group discussions, enhancing team collaboration efficiency.
• Granular Permission Management: Ensures data security during collaboration through role-based permissions and outbound approval processes.

Data Security Assurance, Digital Defense

• Robust Security Mechanisms: Combines sliced storage and encrypted transmission technology with real-time virus scanning to prevent file leaks and malicious attacks.
• Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and Version Control: Supports one-click recovery of historical versions, addressing accidental deletions and ransomware threats.

Mobile Office, Flexible Business Response

• Anytime, Anywhere Access: Supports mobile file preview, editing, and sharing, enhancing remote work efficiency.
• Cross-Platform Compatibility: Supports multiple operating systems and devices, meeting enterprise needs across various scenarios.

AI Empowerment, Unlocking Knowledge Management Potential

• Intelligent Semantic Search: Quickly locates file information through natural language understanding, improving search efficiency.
• Knowledge Base Construction: Transforms documents into valuable enterprise knowledge assets, supporting semantic Q&A and intelligent analysis to aid in decision-making.

Core Application Scenarios

Scenario 1: File Sharing and Management – Redefining the Collaboration Experience

Pain Points:

• Files scattered across multiple devices and systems with complex permission management.
• Chaotic document versions and inefficient multi-user collaboration.

i2Share Solution:

• Supports multi-node deployment architecture for unified management and permission control.
• Integrates OA approval processes for granular outbound control.
• Provides real-time virus scanning and full-directory historical version recovery, eliminating file loss risks.

Scenario 2: Endpoint Data Protection – Immune to Data Threats

Pain Points:

• Data loss due to employee accidental deletions or ransomware attacks.
• Lack of file security protection mechanisms after desktop virtualization.

i2Share Solution:

• Provides real-time backup and Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for desktop files, supporting one-click and batch recovery.
• Independently stores and manages virtual desktop files, preventing virus spread and data leaks.
• Offers flexible permission control and audit log functionality, enhancing compliance and security.

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Janny Jiang, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Information2, and Samuel Hui, Shareholding Manager and Chief Strategy Officer of HKBNES, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective companies. Justin Hu, Chairman and General Manager of Information2, and Denis Yip, President and Chief Operating Officer of the HKBN Group, along with relevant representatives from both sides, attended and witnessed the signing ceremony.

As a pioneer in the domestic data replication field, Information2, relying on its outstanding technical capabilities and rich industry experience, has successively served overseas government agencies, the financial services industry, telecommunications, energy, and other industry customers. In June this year, with the joint witness of the governments of the two places, Information2’s wholly-owned subsidiary in Hong Kong officially commenced operations. Subsequently, the Hong Kong subsidiary quickly established a localized operating team, recruiting several senior experts who have deep roots in the Hong Kong market for many years. Currently, Information2 has successfully provided products and services to a well-known financial services industry.

According to the IDC report titled “China Data Replication and Protection Software Market Competitive Landscape, Vendor Revenue, 2024H1,” Information2 ranks first among “China’s professional disaster recovery software vendors” with a market share of 10.7%, demonstrating the company’s leading position in the field of data replication and management in the mainland. However, from a global perspective, the Chinese market only accounts for 8.6% of the global market, showing a significant gap compared to developed countries in Europe and North America. This also means that the overseas market holds immense potential for development. In this context, with Hong Kong serving as a key gateway to overseas markets, Information2 will strive to deepen its service capabilities in the local market and build a comprehensive support network, aiming to use Hong Kong as a base to radiate globally and realize its grand blueprint for international development.

HKBNES specializes in developing enterprise solutions and is a leading ICT system integrator. This powerful alliance with Information2 marks the introduction of Information2’s industry-leading data replication technology by HKBNES, significantly enhancing its service capabilities and support network in the local market. By integrating Information2’s advanced technology, HKBNES will be able to provide customers with more seamless and efficient data protection and management solutions, helping them improve business continuity, enhance operational resilience, and cope with increasingly complex and volatile market environments.

Denis Yip, President and Chief Operating Officer of the HKBN Group, said:

“HKBNES is committed to invest on sales, presales and services resources to promote information2 products and solutions. This cooperation with Information2 introduces industry-leading data backup and disaster recovery technology, further strengthening our support network in the local market. This collaboration will provide customers with seamless support for data protection, real-time data migration, database synchronization, replicated data management, etc., helping them enhance their operational resilience and maintain a competitive advantage in the rapidly changing market environment. In the future, we will continue to strive to develop more innovative services and work with the industry to create a bright future for the digital economy.”

Justin Hu, Chairman and General Manager of Information2, said:

“Since the inception, Information2 has had a global vision, not just limiting ourself to the mainland. Our team and products fully support the English environment, and we began exporting to countries along the Belt and Road Initiative in 2014. The soul of software lies in services. Good products must be accompanied by good service. We are honored to establish a partnership with HKBNES, a locally leading integrated telecommunications and technology service provider. We believe that this will bring diversified and multi-layered data protection and management solutions to various industries in Hong Kong. Together, we will enhance customers’ operational resilience and business resilience.”

About HKBN Enterprise Solutions Limited

HKBN Enterprise Solutions Limited (“HKBNES”), a subsidiary of the HKBN Group, specializes in developing enterprise solutions and is a leading system integration ICT service provider. Leveraging its professional team and rich experience, combined with the unique triple fiber network coverage advantage of HKBN across Hong Kong, HKBNES provides enterprises with one-stop comprehensive digital transformation solutions, including cloud and data centers, network security, intelligent and digital solutions, AegisConnect, and IT solutions for SMEs. For more information about HKBNES, please visit www.hkbnes.net.

About Information2 Software Ltd.

Information2 Software Ltd. is a subsidiary of Shanghai Information2 Software Inc. (688435.SH) established in Hong Kong. Information2 is a foundational software enterprise focusing on data replication, dedicated to the research and promotion of dynamic file byte-level replication, database semantic-level replication, volume layer block-level replication, and other information technologies. Its products are widely used in disaster recovery, data protection, cloud data management, big data, and other fields, helping various users break down data islands, achieve data interconnectivity, and safeguard the development of the digital economy. The photo of the signing ceremony is as follows.

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Recently, the CloudCDM cloud replica management solution, jointly developed by Information2 and Huawei Cloud, has been successfully deployed at Royal Exchange Insurance (Nigeria) Plc (hereinafter referred to as “Royal Exchange”). This marks the first CloudCDM case for Huawei Cloud in the overseas cloud disaster recovery field.

Royal Exchange, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Royal Exchange Assurance Plc in London, was officially listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on December 3, 1990. Through years of dedication and strategic reorganization, Royal Exchange has evolved from Nigeria’s earliest insurance company into a comprehensive insurance group offering general insurance, life insurance, foreign exchange financing, healthcare, and bank loans. As a significant national brand enterprise in Nigeria, Royal Exchange is continuously innovating its products and services through digital technology to build a sustainable future.

01 Security Challenges in Digital Transformation

With the expanding business scope and deepening digital transformation, Royal Exchange faces increasing security challenges such as cyber virus attacks, system scaling and upgrades, operational management vulnerabilities, and natural disasters. Meanwhile, the requirements for Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for business systems and data security are becoming more stringent. Any unplanned business downtime or data damage can result in economic and reputational losses.

Moreover, Royal Exchange’s evolving hybrid IT architecture complicates the storage, backup, and recovery management of structured and unstructured data. Implementing local or remote disaster recovery models to ensure business continuity and data security involves long-term construction issues such as disaster recovery center selection, planning, construction, and link design. Both initial construction and ongoing operation and maintenance costs are high, making it difficult to easily and agilely align with its business development and overall security goals.

02 Agile, Secure, and Sustainable CloudCDM Solution

Cloudification of Royal Exchange’s business systems is a key strategy supporting its digital transformation and security development. Choosing a hybrid architecture with local and Huawei Cloud for cloud-based backup and recovery is the preferred choice for quickly deployable, feature-rich, highly reliable, and cost-effective cloud disaster recovery. This enables important businesses to rapidly migrate to Huawei Cloud while achieving agile management of Huawei Cloud-based backup and recovery, ensuring that CloudCDM can quickly take over in case of local system failures.

Information2 is a leading software enterprise in China for disaster recovery and database replication. Its powerful byte-level replication, database semantic-level replication, and volume block-level replication technologies provide multi-layered, long-distance, and narrow-bandwidth data extraction and replication capabilities for the CDM strategy. Through the first full-quantity + permanent incremental method, Royal Exchange can achieve hot backup targets with a snapshot strategy every minute during data backup migration from the local site to Huawei Cloud. Specific steps include:

First, users utilize the CloudCDM software to transmit business applications from the local data center to the Huawei Cloud data center in Johannesburg through encrypted transmission, enabling data storage backup on Huawei Cloud’s Elastic Volume Service (EVS) hard disks.

Second, to enhance the protection of the CloudCDM software, administrators use Huawei Cloud’s local security group policies to provide a secure operating environment for the entire disaster recovery environment. Information2’s real-time byte-level encrypted replication ensures data transmission security.

Third, when the local production environment fails, Royal Exchange can quickly switch its business to Huawei Cloud through the CloudCDM platform, enabling rapid business takeover. Additionally, leveraging the innovative cloud disaster recovery model and elastic and agile cloud resource advantages, Royal Exchange can perform disaster recovery drills and tests on Huawei Cloud at any time. The entire process does not affect the local production system, and drill reports can be automatically generated, making availability demonstration achievable without excessive resource investment. 

Fourth, if administrators need to adjust and maintain the cloud disaster recovery strategy, they can access the CloudCDM platform through encrypted HTTPS and perform simple operations on its graphical management interface for unified platform maintenance and management.

In this solution, Huawei Cloud, as the cloud infrastructure provider for the CloudCDM solution, provides Royal Exchange with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Technology as a Service (TaaS), and Experience as a Service (XaaS), meeting the solution’s requirements for low-latency network transmission and high-stability computing power. Meanwhile, leveraging Huawei Cloud’s capabilities in system integration, software, hardware, and service partners, it ensures Royal Exchange’s future rapid expansion needs in computing, storage, networking, and security.

03 Enabling Customers to Enjoy More Convenient and Secure Disaster Recovery Services

The CloudCDM solution has been deployed and operational on Royal Exchange’s local and Huawei Cloud systems. Its success means that users who have chosen or will choose Huawei Cloud can easily and quickly establish backup and recovery relationships between their local data centers and Huawei Cloud, as well as between Huawei Cloud and other clouds, achieving cloud-based management and protection of important data. Its value includes:

a. Utilizing a hybrid IT architecture to solve the challenge of data backup and disaster recovery from Royal Exchange’s local site to the cloud center, significantly enhancing the overall security of its digital systems.

b. Leveraging CloudCDM’s advantages in data extraction, backup strategies, and drill testing to help Royal Exchange achieve a more agile cloud disaster recovery mechanism, greatly improving the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for backup and recovery system construction.

c. Compared to locally deployed CDM appliances, CloudCDM leverages Huawei Cloud’s elastic cloud infrastructure resources and CloudCDM’s replica management capabilities for massive data, enabling Royal Exchange to easily achieve elastic scaling of disaster recovery resources and ensuring the security of more systems and data in the future.

04 User Testimonial

Whether in insurance and financial business or digital infrastructure support and digital service capabilities, Royal Exchange has always invested continuously in innovation. CloudCDM is a backup and recovery solution with strong innovative spirit. Its emergence not only solves the problem of local data backup and rapid recovery but also provides us with new ideas for data value mining and data reuse. Just as our business is increasingly moving towards digitization, in the data era, it is a trustworthy product.

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Revolutionary Architecture Upgrade for Backup Management

The new backup products adopt a cutting-edge technical architecture, enabling unified scheduling and monitoring of all backup system tasks. With features such as cross-domain replication and unified management of multiple backup domains, enterprises can effortlessly manage backups in large data centers. Whether it’s files, objects, databases, big data, entire machines, or cloud/virtualized environments, the backup products offer comprehensive backup support. 

Extreme D2T Backup Performance for Enhanced Efficiency

In addition to excellent D2D (disk-to-disk) performance, the new backup products have achieved remarkable improvements in D2T (disk-to-tape) backup performance. By optimizing backup algorithms and transmission mechanisms, the system significantly enhances backup speed and efficiency, thereby shortening backup windows and reducing the impact on production systems. Furthermore, the system supports various backup media types, including disk storage, object storage, NAS storage, tape libraries, etc., providing enterprises with flexible and diverse backup options.

LAN-Free Backup Without Disk Mounting for Simplified Operations

The new backup products support LAN-Free backup functionality without the need for disk mounting. This feature utilizes the SAN (Storage Area Network) as the backup transmission network, eliminating the need for clients to mount disks during the backup process, thereby avoiding additional risks and complexities associated with disk mounting. Additionally, the system supports both iSCSI or FC (Fiber Channel) protocols, further enhancing backup flexibility and reliability.

NBU Policy Migration and Data Migration to Reduce Costs

To meet enterprises’ needs for migrating existing backup systems, the new backup products support NBU policy migration and data migration functionality. This means enterprises can seamlessly migrate their existing NBU backup policies and data to the Information2 backup system without reconfiguring backup rules and tasks. This feature significantly reduces the costs and risks associated with migrating backup systems while preserving the integrity of enterprises’ original backup policies and data.

Centralized Management of Backup Sets and Breakthroughs in Heterogeneous Storage Replication

The new backup products support centralized management of backup sets, with multi-condition search capabilities for backup set queries. They display the total data size as the sum of all backup set sizes and support extending backup set expiration times, immediately expiring backup sets (deletion), manual replication of backup sets, validation of backup set validity, forced cleanup of backup set records, and other operations.

Additionally, the products boast leading heterogeneous storage replication capabilities, supporting the replication of backup set data from local disks to tape libraries or from object storage to local disks.

Intelligent Data Deduplication Technology for Significant Storage Cost Reductions

The new backup products achieve significant improvements in storage efficiency through advanced intelligent data deduplication technology. This technology identifies and deletes duplicate data blocks, greatly reducing the redundancy of backup data and lowering storage costs. The products also support source-side deduplication and target-side deduplication, as well as fixed-length and dynamically variable-length block deduplication, further enhancing storage efficiency.

Data Security and Compliance (Anti-Ransomware)

The new backup products utilize kernel-level immutable storage technology combined with strict access control mechanisms and enhanced data deletion permission management to ensure that backup data has high security and immutability at the storage level. The tamper-resistant drive design is difficult to uninstall, and backup data cannot be deleted arbitrarily, effectively guarding against internal and external malicious tampering or deletion. This not only meets data compliance requirements but also ensures data security and rapid business recovery in the event of attacks such as ransomware, minimizing losses.

Autonomous and Controllable Backup Systems

In today’s increasingly complex and volatile international environment, strengthening local technological innovation capabilities and autonomy has become a core national strategy. Information2 backup products have achieved autonomous and controllable core competitiveness through continuous technological research and development and upgrades. In domestic environments, they can meet the upgrade and replacement needs of backup software for government, finance, transportation, energy, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, education, and other sectors, realizing autonomous and controllable data backup.

A skyscraper starts from the ground! The data backup and recovery software is an important milestone for Information2 in “disaster recovery + backup” development strategy. Facing significant demand areas such as government and finance, with the accelerated construction of the information and innovation system, Information2‘s new backup products will leverage their outstanding performance and stability to help customers upgrade and replace their backup software.

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During the exhibition, we showcased the data replication product series and solutions to the global market in collaboration with IT Force, helping global clients achieve efficient and reliable data management and accelerating their digital transformation process.

At the exhibition site, Information2 attracted numerous overseas peers and users for communication. Meanwhile, Information2’s series of solutions, including real-time data replication, scheduled data backup and offsite protection, cloud-native backup, disaster recovery with high availability and data rollback, and virtualization disaster recovery, won widespread praise for their powerful functionality and flexibility.

Five Representitive Solutions: Accelerating Users’ Digital Transformation

• Real-Time Data Replication

The real-time data replication solution leverages byte-level replication technology to achieve efficient data transmission with low latency and bandwidth usage. It supports data replication for various application systems and database services, meeting the needs of complex scenarios such as one-to-many and many-to-one.

• Scheduled Data Backup and Offsite Protection

The scheduled data backup and offsite protection solution provides flexible backup methods and multiple backup storage media options, ensuring comprehensive data protection and offsite disaster recovery capabilities.

• Cloud-Native Backup

The cloud-native backup solution is characterized by safety, reliability, and load balancing, providing robust support for data protection in cloud environments.

• Disaster Recovery with High Availability and Data Rollback

The disaster recovery with high availability and data rollback solution ensures business continuity and data recoverability through real-time replication of operational IO, comprehensive monitoring, and flexible switching strategies.

• Virtualization Disaster Recovery

The virtualization disaster recovery solution, featuring no agents, automation, and cross-platform compatibility, provides an efficient and convenient disaster recovery solution for virtualized environments.

Practices Across Multiple Industries: Recognized by Global Clients

Information2’s successful practices in multiple industries worldwide further demonstrate its overseas capabilities. From financial services and telecommunications operators to energy and automotive services, Information2’s products and technologies have been successfully applied in numerous large overseas projects, providing solid support for clients’ digital transformation and business development.

• In the real-time disaster recovery solution for Indian financial service provider Saggraha, Information2’s real-time data replication software i2COOPY ensured data consistency between the production and disaster recovery ends, safeguarding its digital transformation. 
• For Saudi telecommunications operator Zain’s offsite high availability disaster recovery solution, Information2 used i2COOPY for real-time data backup and i2Availability for high availability systems, effectively mitigating the risk of business interruption.
• In Indonesian mining giant PAMA’s CloudCDM cloud disaster recovery solution, Information2, based on a hybrid IT architecture, achieved data storage and backup on cloud-based EVS hard drives, solving the challenge of data backup and disaster recovery from local to cloud centers.
• For Chilean automaker Grupo Automotriz Cordillera’s high availability disaster recovery solution, Information2’s high availability disaster recovery management software i2Availability monitored the system operation status of the production server in real-time and could switch the application to Huawei Cloud’s international disaster recovery center with one click when detecting various anomalies causing the source end to be unreachable.

In addition, Information2 has served numerous other large overseas clients, including Malaysia’s LPPSA Phase, Nigeria’s Royal Exchange, Thailand’s AIS, India’s Disha Bank, and Qatar’s Meeza.

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In-depth layout is not accomplished overnight.

Back in 2014, Information2 had the foresight to collaborate with Huawei and land the first overseas disaster recovery project. In 2016, it reached a strategic cooperation with Drulogic Technologies to jointly explore Indian and Middle East markets. In 2018, Information2 was awarded “The Most Investment and Development Potential Software Enterprise” title in the Belt and Road Software Campaign, demonstrating our growing competitiveness and influence on the international stage……

Meanwhile, Information2 actively integrates into the global cybersecurity ecosystem. By participating in various international industry conferences and events, Information2 conducts in-depth exchanges with industry leaders, experts and scholars, as well as government and enterprise institutions, and jointly explores the future trends of data security and flow.

In Hong Kong, Information2 showed up at the Shanghai Huangpu – Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Industry Cooperation Promotion Conference. The deputy general manager Jiang Jun shared the enterprise’s growth experience at the conference and expressed high hopes for the cooperation prospects of the two cities, expecting to further expand the markets in the Greater Bay Area and overseas through this international window of Hong Kong.

In Southeast Asia, Information2 attended the Huawei 2024 Digital Intelligence Asia Pacific Summit held in Bangkok, Thailand. Li Wenjing, from the strategy department of Information2, elaborated on the company’s innovative solutions for data replication, migration and interconnection, and shared successful cooperation cases with Huawei Cloud in multiple fields, showcasing Information2‘s deep accumulation and wide influence in the regional market.

In North Africa, as a founding member of the Chinese ISV Ecosystem Alliance in Huawei Cloud North Africa, Information2 was invited to participate in the North Africa Huawei Cloud Chinese ISV Roundtable Forum and won the award. This is not only an affirmation of Information2‘s technical strength and service capabilities in the African market, but also a strong support for its joint exploration of the African market with Huawei.

Multi-field Practices &Demonstrating Strength

Get involved and work diligently.

From energy to finance and then to telecom operators, the successful landing of a series of overseas projects fully demonstrates Information2‘s profound accumulation and outstanding capabilities in product technology innovation, solution customization and international services. It sets a new benchmark for the industry and lays a solid foundation for our continuous expansion in the global market.

Financial Services – In the real-time disaster recovery solution for Saggraha (an Indian financial service provider), Information2‘s real-time data replication software i2COOPY is deployed on its local production server. Core data replication operations are carried out at the host layer, and the captured data changes are transmitted in real-time to the disaster recovery center of Huawei Cloud International Station for secure storage, strictly ensuring data consistency between the production end and the disaster recovery end, achieving real-time disaster recovery at the data level and escorting its digital transformation.

Telecom Operators – In the off-site high-availability disaster recovery solution for ZAIN (a Saudi telecom operator), Information2 installs the control machine on the Linux/Windows hosts in the Dammam disaster recovery center and uses i2COOPY for real-time data backup. It ensures that there is always a current and latest data available for immediate recovery at all times without a backup time window. The application high-availability management and monitoring platform is monitored by the Information2 control machine and uses i2Availability for high-availability system disaster recovery to ensure that in the event of any problems with the source production host, the corresponding business takeover can be manually grouped and switched to effectively avoid business interruption caused by source-end problems.

Energy – In the CloudCDM cloud disaster recovery solution for PAMA (an Indonesian mining giant), this solution uses a hybrid IT architecture to achieve data storage and backup on the EVS hard drive in the cloud, solving the problem of data backup and disaster recovery from the customer’s local to the cloud center. It effectively ensures the business continuity and data security of PAMA, significantly improves the overall security of its digital system, and greatly simplifies the management and operation and maintenance costs.

Automotive Services – In the high-availability disaster recovery solution for GAC (Grupo Automotriz Cordillera, a Chilean automotive manufacturer), Information2‘s high-availability disaster recovery management software i2Availability monitors the system operation status of the production server in real-time. When detecting various abnormalities (such as abnormal stop of the business system, network abnormality, hardware failure, etc.) that make the source business unreachable, the application can be switched to the disaster recovery center of Huawei Cloud International Station with one click, ensuring the business continuity of GAC and facilitating its business model upgrade and enhancement of core competitiveness.

In addition, Information2 has also served many large overseas users such as LPPSA Phase in Malaysia, Royal Exchange in Nigeria, AIS in Thailand, Disha Bank in India, and Meeza in Qatar.

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One platform: i2UP Unified Data Management Platform. Mo Tao, Information2 senior technical engineer, stated that all products of I2 are uniformly managed by this one platform, which has global data management functions and is applicable to business scenarios such as big data platforms and multi-cloud platforms. The platform integrates all software products of I2, enabling multi-level data replication and multiple policy data management, reducing the difficulty of customer operation and maintenance management, and helping users achieve efficient and intelligent data management.

Two benefits: Ensuring data security and compliance; revitalizing isolated data assets. Based on data replication, the related products developed by I2 assist various industries in data security and business continuity, while helping various users break data silos, achieve data interconnection, maximize data value, and safeguard the development of the digital economy. 

Three technologies: Database semantic-level replication, OS-level data replication, and data block-level replication. With the characteristics of high real-time performance, strong stability, reliability, and security, the three core technologies of I2 can adapt to complex production environments such as high-intensity and high-concurrency, massive data, and cross-different architectures, meeting the needs of autonomy, security, and controllability in the key links of domestic informatization, and leading in the field of enterprise business continuity and data replication management.

Four scenarios: Disaster recovery, backup, cloud disaster recovery, and big data. Based on the three core underlying replication technologies, I2 has developed and launched related products covering four major scenarios such as disaster recovery + backup + cloud disaster recovery + big data. Specific products include: i2COOPY Real-time Data Replication, i2CDP Continuous Data Protection and Recovery, i2CDM Data Copy Management, i2Active Homogeneous Database Dual-Active Replication, i2Stream Data Flow Replication Management, etc.

Three Migration Scenario Solutions

Mo Tao stated that the current migration solutions of I2 include three major categories: entire machine migration, unstructured data migration, and database migration. Migration tools include: operating system online hot migration system, cloud-native database migration system, object storage migration system, data migration system, ferry machine migration system, etc., which can basically cover the migration needs of mainstream users in the wave of domestic substitution.

01 Entire Machine Migration

Existing problems: Under the digital wave, data centers are strengthening the usages of virtualization, such as virtual machines, hyper-convergence, public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. However, during the cloud migration process of enterprise institutions, they face many problems such as a large amount of service migration work, significant impact of downtime, and difficulty in finding drivers.

Real-time data synchronization and migration

As a classic product of I2, i2COOPY, based on byte-level replication technology, can be combined with i2Move to form an entire machine migration solution or meet the data flow needs of users. For example, when video and image unstructured data needs to be migrated from platform A to platform B, it can be achieved through i2COOPY.

i2COOPY mainly provides users with real-time byte-level data replication services. It relies on data serialization transmission technology to strictly ensure the consistency and integrity of data at the production end and the target end. It can capture new data at the byte level, has high real-time performance, small transmission data volume, and low resource occupation of the production server.

Overall migration

i2Move provides users with the entire machine hot migration service from the production server to the local or cloud target server. Different from other migration methods that package the system, i2Move can complete the entire machine migration during the process of real-time data synchronization.

i2Move can realize real-time replication of the system and data without stopping the business. After the replication is completed, the system can be quickly switched, and the new host can take over the business. The migration process is not limited by the form of the server and ensures real-time consistency between the production server and the target server.

02 Unstructured Data Migration and Synchronization

Existing problems: Problems of synchronizing and backing up large numbers of small files, realizing the transformation from NAS block storage to ECS object storage, online data synchronization and migration, data consistency requirements, real-time synchronization under narrow bandwidth…

Synchronization and migration of object storage

The migration of unstructured data is mainly applied in the migration of different object storages and different storage platforms.

i2DTO can copy or migrate data on local storage to object storage, or restore data on object storage to local storage. It helps users centrally back up massive unstructured data to object storage, thereby improving the retrieval and access performance of unstructured data. It not only reduces operating costs but also improves data security.

03 Database Migration, Synchronization, Disaster Recovery, Aggregation, Distribution

Existing problems: Dual-active databases, data collection/distribution, heterogeneous data interaction, data collection of big data platforms…

Real-time synchronization, disaster recovery, and migration of homogeneous databases

i2Active is a real-time data replication and synchronization software at the database language level. It realizes full and incremental synchronization of databases in high-concurrency transaction scenarios of the database, and ensures the final consistency of transactions at the source and target ends of the database through synchronization verification. At the same time, it provides advanced functions such as standby database takeover and incremental rollback, helping users complete data integration tasks such as disaster recovery backup of databases, heterogeneous data migration, data distribution, and construction of data warehouses in complex application environments.

Real-time synchronization and migration of heterogeneous databases

Based on data sharing technology, i2Stream can achieve bidirectional synchronization of data at the database level, schema level, and table level between databases, realize the extraction, replication, and management of structured data, and is compatible with distributed message queues such as Kafka, providing users with flexible high-availability solutions.

Mo Tao stated that currently, for Amazon Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, JD Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Baidu Cloud, Tianyi Cloud, Unicom Cloud, Inspur Cloud, etc., I2 can provide migration and cloud services. Finally, starting from the practical implementation, he shared the successful cases of I2 in various industries. Typical cases include:

Hot migration of a municipal government cloud in Guangxi, with a migration service of 1,000 virtual machines, involving applications such as medical care, real estate, and government portal websites, including multiple provincial-level units;

Overall business migration of Changsha Bank. The IT environment consists of multiple basic platform architectures such as Alibaba Cloud, EasyStack, VMware virtualization, and physical machines. The number of business system hosts is approximately 1,000+. The migration scenarios involve underlying data, applications, databases, virtual machines across heterogeneous platforms, and other levels;

Sinotrans – Cross-platform business system migration, Chengdu Government Cloud – Migration of thousands of systems on heterogeneous platforms, China Sky Eye FAST Observatory – Ultra-high-speed data migration, etc.

On the conference, Information2 also showed the entire series of product services, solutions, and successful cases implemented in Guangxi. To accelerate the digital transformation, we will unswervingly focus on customers and continuously promote the upgrade and iteration of product technologies, seeking innovation and change.

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The report also shows that in 2023, China’s data replication and protection (DR&P) market will increase by 3.1% compared to 2022.

In 2023, Information2  realized double growth in revenue and profit, with annual revenue of RMB 24,310.97 million, a year-on-year increase of 23.49%, and net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies of RMB 44,644.46 million, a year-on-year increase of 20.29%.

The outstanding performance of Information2 has not only won the recognition of the market, but also gained a number of honors and qualifications. The company has been recognized as a national specialized, special and new “small giant” enterprise, and its contribution to the localization of the big data industry has been widely recognized by the industry. In addition, Infosoft has actively expanded into the international market, establishing cooperative relationships with more than 400 domestic enterprises and successfully landing projects in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, demonstrating the competitiveness of Chinese enterprises in the global market.

Looking ahead, Information2 will continue to adhere to the innovation-driven and market-oriented approach, continuously strengthen its R&D strength, enhance product competitiveness, and expand its marketing network and service system, with a view to occupying a more favorable position in the global market and continuing the new chapter of Chinese enterprises going overseas.

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