Published on 28-Dec-2011
"The implementation of a cloud computing solution has allowed us to reduce waste and support local businesses, which is critical for our city’s economy." - Chinese municipal government official
Customer:
Chinese municipal government
Industry:
Government
Deployment country:
China
Solution:
Automation, Cloud Computing, Collaborative Lifecycle Management, Energy Efficiency, Learning and Training, Cloud & Service Management, SaaS, Server Consolidation, Service Management, SmartCloud - Foundation
Overview
A municipal government in China manages a city with a population of over one million residents. With its proximity to oil fields and wetlands, the city’s main industries include oil and gas and tourism. It was ranked among “Top 100 Cities of China” by economic strength and was evaluated by Forbes as one of the best cities for setting up of factories in China. Recently, the city’s GDP hit 206.5 billion yuan, or about USD11,201 per capita.
Business need:
To construct the city’s burgeoning outsourcing and software park, the municipal government needs an energy-efficient public computing platform to expand the capabilities of its cloud computing center. The government wants to accelerate business development for its investors by pursuing a service-led economy, providing application services powered by real-time cloud computing. The city aims to propel sustainable economic growth in six new high-end industries including high-tech and advanced manufacturing, in addition to its long-standing local oil and gas production activities.
Solution:
The city’s municipal government asked IBM Global Technology Services - Integrated Technology Services to implement the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst appliance as the integrated hardware, software and middleware platform for the cloud computing center. The IBM appliance offering included hardware, software and IBM QuickStart services. Once deployed, CloudBurst helped the city establish a new cloud computing platform with an integrated development/test platform to provision IT resources to its software customers and service providers, in order to meet computing needs on demand initiatives.
Benefits:
· Provides an energy-efficient computing environment to reduce data center overhead
· Delivers computing power and application services on demand in the cloud, providing shareable resources for e-government, healthcare and digital city initiatives
· Improves resource allocation for software customers and service providers
· Enables accurate business planning without a considerable up-front investment in IT capital
· Integrates development and testing platforms for the city’s software developers and service providers
Case Study
A municipal government in China manages a city with a population of over one million residents. With its proximity to oil fields and wetlands, the city’s main industries include oil and gas and tourism. It was ranked among “Top 100 Cities of China” by economic strength and was evaluated by Forbes as one of the best cities for setting up of factories in China. Recently, the city’s GDP hit 206.5 billion yuan, or about USD11,201 per capita.
Challenge
To construct the city’s burgeoning outsourcing and software park, the municipal government needs an energy-efficient public computing platform to expand the capabilities of its cloud computing center. The government wants to accelerate business development for its investors by pursuing a service-led economy, providing application services powered by real-time cloud computing. The city aims to propel sustainable economic growth in six new high-end industries including high-tech and advanced manufacturing, in addition to its long-standing local oil and gas production activities.
Solution
The city’s municipal government asked IBM Global Technology Services - Integrated Technology Services to implement the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst appliance as the integrated hardware, software and middleware platform for the cloud computing center. The IBM appliance offering included hardware, software and IBM QuickStart services. Once deployed, CloudBurst helped the city establish a new cloud computing platform with an integrated development/test platform to provision IT resources to its software customers and service providers, in order to meet computing needs on demand for e-government, public healthcare and digital city initiatives.
The IBM team built the solution using two BladeCenter H Chassis. One BladeCenter H Chassis contains 4 IBM BladeCenter HS22 servers, while the other chassis contains 10 BladeCenter HS22 servers. These new BladeCenter servers host a variety of IBM Rational development tools, including IBM Rational Asset Manager, IBM Rational ClearCase®, IBM Rational ClearQuest®, IBM Rational Method Composer, IBM Rational Software Architect, IBM Rational Team Concert™ Express and IBM Rational Test RealTime software. IBM Rational Software Services - Deployment Services helped deploy the Rational tools into the new environment.
Two IBM System x3950 M2 servers, 10 IBM System x3850 M2 servers, and 2 IBM System p5 570 servers host the solution’s IBM DB2® data server technology, which functions as the database for the city’s web applications. Each of these servers runs the Red Hat Linux operating system, which the city uses as a virtualization hypervisor for virtual machines.
The Integrated Technology Services team helped deploy an IBM System Storage® DS5300 system, which is connected to the new server environment using IBM SAN switches—an IBM System Storage TS3200 tape library provides backup storage. A suite of IBM Tivoli software, deployed by IBM Software Services for Tivoli - Lab Services, delivers monitoring and automation capabilities, as well as installation and monitoring for both physical and virtual machines and database and file backup capabilities. Finally, IBM WebSphere Application Server software functions as the middleware platform for the management stack.
Benefits
· Provides an energy-efficient computing environment to reduce data center overhead
· Delivers computing power and application services on demand in the cloud, providing shareable resources for e-government, healthcare and digital city initiatives
· Improves resource allocation for software customers and service providers
· Enables accurate business planning without a considerable up-front investment in IT capital
· Integrates development and testing platforms for the city’s software developers and service providers
· Reduces power costs and floor space requirements by unifying data that otherwise would be siloed
· Optimizes workloads by provisioning software automatically based on real-time end-user data to support application runtime
· Enables high-performance environments for database applications that simplify IT management
Products and services used
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
Hardware:
BladeCenter H Chassis, BladeCenter HS22, BladeCenter running Linux - Red Hat, BladeCenter running hypervisor - VMware, Power Systems, Power Systems running AIX 5, Power: System p5, Storage: DS5300, Storage: TS3200 Tape Library, System p: System p5 570, System x, System x: System x running Linux - Red Hat
Software:
Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks, Rational Test RealTime, Rational ClearCase, Rational Team Concert Express, Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery, Tivoli Provisioning Manager, Rational Method Composer, Tivoli Storage Manager, Rational Asset Manager, Linux, WebSphere Application Server, Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Software Architect, Tivoli Monitoring, DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows
Service:
GTS Data Center Services, GTS ITS Middleware: Middleware Implementation Services, GTS ITS Server: Server Product Services for Power Systems, GTS ITS Server: Server Product Services for System x
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