China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation

China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (SINOSURE) is a central financial enterprise and one of China’s four policy-based financial institutions. It is the only policy-based insurance company in China responsible for handling export credit insurance business.

Corporate Development Strategy Drives the Construction of SINOSURE Cloud Platform

To implement SINOSURE’s new development strategy and enhance overall service capabilities through digital transformation, SINOSURE plans to build a secure and reliable cloud platform over the next 3-5 years. This platform will be highly compatible and scalable, free from being bound to a single technical route or product, ensuring the high-quality development of the company’s business. To achieve this goal, SINOSURE has decided to initiate the “SINOSURE Cloud” construction project.

The cloud infrastructure will meet national standards and security requirements, supporting business applications in the production and development/testing areas. It will integrate with existing PaaS cloud platforms, big data, containers, microservices, and other capabilities. The platform will also manage current virtualization and PaaS platforms. To further enhance the cloud infrastructure’s capacity, SINOSURE aims to expand and optimize the SINOSURE Cloud platform, meeting the needs of a dual-track parallel architecture for business systems and financial technology applications, while planning for multi-center resource deployment.

ZStack Cloud Platform Realizes Large-Scale Multi-Center SINOSURE Cloud

To address business continuity and national standard requirements, SINOSURE has planned three data centers at its headquarters, dual-active data rooms, and remote testing and development centers, for the deployment and delivery of the entire platform. The ZStack Cloud platform pools physical server resources such as computing, storage, and networking, enabling unified management and scheduling of resource pools. Through the ZStack CMP multi-cloud management platform, it integrates with existing PaaS cloud platforms, big data, containers, microservices, and other platforms, allowing for the management of virtualization resources and PaaS platforms.

Additionally, SINOSURE has built a second disaster recovery cloud node at its headquarters in the same city, realizing the “dual-active” operation architecture for the cloud platform, ensuring high availability of business operations. To address the complexity of equipment and system platform operations, SINOSURE has built a cloud operations and maintenance system that manages the underlying hardware and software resources. This operations system interfaces with the ZStack CMP multi-cloud management platform, providing a unified operations interface.

ZStack Cloud Platform Brings Multiple Benefits to the Client

The ZStack Cloud platform not only meets SINOSURE’s cloud platform construction goals but also realizes the unified operations and maintenance planning of devices and systems across the entire cloud platform. The following benefits have been realized for the client:

• Same-city Dual-active, Secure and Compliant: Meets data security regulations for both same-city and remote locations.
• From Chip to Cloud, Embracing the Ecosystem: Compatible with all mainstream x86 and non-x86 chips and operating systems, with a complete ecosystem that meets the requirements for system integration and adaptation, free from being tied to any specific hardware or software vendors.
• Heterogeneous Platforms, Unified Management: Achieves unified construction standards, management norms, service operations, and resource delivery. It also supports fast and flexible delivery.
• Multiple High-Availability, Ensuring Business Continuity: Supports high availability from the host layer to the virtualization layer and PaaS, seamlessly supporting PaaS, and enabling both traditional disaster recovery and distributed extension cluster disaster recovery.
• Rapid Deployment, Continuous Evolution: Supports hundreds of types of domestic software and hardware, simplifies the installation process, supports seamless upgrades across versions, and enables elastic scaling anytime, anywhere, without requiring downtime.