Based on the new generation of IT technologies, CRHC builds a secure, advanced and flexible cloud platform that provides full-stack cloud services such as computing, storage, network and security and realizes multi-tenant, visualized and cross-platform life-cycle management of cloud resources. This improves the digital infrastructure and technical capabilities of CRHC and promotes its digital transformation and upgrading.

China's digital economy has ushered in a new era of development. Given that SOEs occupy an important position in the industrial chain, their digital transformation plays an important role in reshaping China's global economic competitiveness.

China Reform Holdings Corporation Ltd. (CRHC) is a central enterprise under the direct supervision of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. In early 2016, it was identified as a pilot company for state-owned capital operation by the Leading Group for State-owned Enterprise Reform under the State Council. CRHC has formulated, printed and distributed the Action Plan for Constructing a Digital China Reform Holdings Corporation Ltd. 2020-2022, which expressly proposes to build a CRHC digital private cloud. Under planning and design, the CRHC cloud platform will be equipped with advanced infrastructure that integrates various new generation of information technologies such as cloud computing, big data, IoT, mobile Internet, AI, and blockchain.

 By adopting the new-generation information technologies and leasing China Telecom's high-grade data centers, China Reform has expanded its capacity for computing, storage and network resources and built a cloud management system, achieving unified cloud management, visualized allocation of cloud resources and cloud tenant self-services. Based on eSurfing Cloud, it realizes the unified management of heterogeneous cloud platforms and intra-city and cross-resource pool disaster recovery and backup, thereby providing a strong support for CRHC's digital transformation and state-owned capital operations and serving as valuable experience for the cloud migration of state-owned capital operations.

Security and Efficient

Restructuring CRHC platform

In response to the needs of CRHC, eSurfing Cloud has reconstructed its original digital cloud platform and adopted the mainstream open-source technical route and high-scalability architecture. For the first time CRHC owns a domestically-leading private cloud platform featuring advanced technology, open architecture, security and controllability.

With regard to infrastructure, eSurfing Cloud has built a secure and controllable cloud base for CRHC by relying on its platform advantages such as independent research and development and certified trusted cloud security services, which offers dozens of IaaS layer cloud services including computing, storage, network, and security.

In terms of business continuity, CRHC is equipped with an active IDC and a standby IDC, to provide cross-IDC backup capabilities and realize intra-city and cross-resource pool disaster recover and backup for the group's management and control system and service systems relating to state-owned capital operations.

As for security and controllability, CRHC cloud is designed according to MLPS Level-3 standards, which provisions three-layer protection of border security, platform security, and tenant security based on self-developed and controllable products. eSurfing Cloud provides a variety of security services for cloud tenants to ensure the security of cloud applications and data.

When it comes to business scenarios, CRHC cloud carries the operations of the group's digital middleground, management and control platform and service systems, and offers services such as data aggregation, data governance, big data application, cloud native technology, integrated development and O&M, and low-code development of the data middle tier and technology middle tier. The cloud solution enables the integrated management and control of the group's various platforms with being horizontally to the edge and vertically to the bottom, and supports the efficient operation of various service systems relating to state-owned capital operations.

Five innovations

Lay a solid foundation for the cloud platform

At present, Phase 1 of the CRHC private cloud platform has gone live, with domestically-leading advanced technologies and security.

Overall, the CRHC private cloud platform boasts five major innovations:

Innovation in operation model: The private cloud adopts the unified operation model for all systems of CRHC.

Innovation in construction model: CRHC Data has adopted the lease model to build the private cloud.

Innovation in technical architecture: The private cloud is integrated with the upper-level technologymiddleground and data middle tier; the technical layers are independent of each other while maintaining the integration and collaboration among components.

Innovation in O&M: CRHC Data uniformly manages the private cloud while China Telecom is responsible for specific O&M.

Innovation in multi-resource pool management: Based on the self-developed cloud platform of China Telecom, the CRHC private cloud has established a production cloud platform and a disaster recovery cloud platform, which are integrated and can be managed and monitored on the unified cloud management platform while maintaining independence.

In recent years, both government departments and local enterprises lean toward the advanced, autonomous and open cloud architecture in the choice of cloud strategies. For companies running state-owned capital, accurately grasping the trend of digital transformation and actively promoting IT innovations may help them improve management efficiency, better play a functional role, accelerate the reasonable flow of state-owned capital, and facilitate layout optimization, efficiency improvement, and value preservation and increase.