Information2 Case: Data Disaster Recovery Center of CEA

In the era of digitalization and intelligence, the security and stability of earthquake monitoring data form the cornerstone of national emergency response, public safety, and disaster prevention.

To address increasingly complex data protection requirements and realize efficient disaster backup and data recovery on the cloud, the National Earthquake Data Disaster Recovery Center (hereinafter referred to as “the Center”) partnered with Information2 to jointly build a multi-layered, efficient, flexible, and compliant data protection system, ensuring the security, integrity, and high availability of national earthquake data.

The Core of Seismic Disaster Prevention

Earthquake data serves as a core asset in disaster prevention and mitigation. With the application of big data, cloud computing, and other emerging technologies, the Center has integrated advanced information technologies to promote the intelligent, visualized, and standardized management of seismic data.

Currently, the Center possesses over 5PB of storage capacity, bearing the critical mission of safeguarding the national earthquake data repository and ensuring its long-term security and efficient circulation.

It aggregates multi-source data—including seismic monitoring, geophysics, and GNSS—from earthquake bureaus nationwide, and provides robust cloud computing support for national seismic monitoring. Its cloud platform has become one of the largest cloud storage and computing platforms in China’s earthquake industry, powering emergency response and scientific research tasks across the country.

01. Needs Analysis

As the scale of the cloud platform expands, the Center faces multiple challenges in cloud data protection, disaster recovery management, and business continuity. Key requirements include:

Massive Data Backup and Recovery: The platform’s massive storage capacity requires highly efficient PB-level data backup while minimizing performance impact on production systems.

Backup and Protection in Virtualized Environments: With nearly a thousand virtual machines deployed on the cloud, the Center needs efficient and rapid backup and recovery solutions for its virtualized workloads.

Compliance and Data Integrity: In accordance with the Data Security Law, Cybersecurity Law, and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Regulations, the Center must ensure data traceability, security, and compliance.

Continuous Data Protection: To defend against ransomware, cyberattacks, and other threats, the Center requires real-time protection and rapid recovery capabilities to minimize business disruption.

02. Information2 Solution

During a data corruption incident on the earthquake industry’s cloud computing platform in 2022, Information2 provided immediate and comprehensive technical assistance. Building upon that experience, and under the national megaproject framework, Information2 in 2024 designed a comprehensive cloud backup protection mechanism tailored to the earthquake industry’s unique needs.

Project Architecture Diagram

The solution integrates real-time data backup, virtual environment protection, and continuous data protection, ensuring data security, integrity, and compliance while significantly improving recovery efficiency and platform availability. It sets a new industry benchmark for seismic data protection and business continuity.

Efficient Data Backup and Recovery

Information2 deployed its i2BOX Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliance, capable of supporting real-time PB-level data backup and recovery. The appliance ensures data integrity and availability while meeting compliance requirements under the Data Security Law for disaster recovery and backup protection.

Virtualization Protection and Optimization

Using i2VP Agentless Backup, the Center efficiently backs up virtualized resources without installing agents inside VMs. This reduces administrative workload and minimizes performance impact on virtual machines, aligning with best practices for virtualization environments and enhancing operational efficiency.

CDP and Recovery

Powered by i2CDP (Continuous Data Protection), Information2 enables the Center to recover data to any point in time even in cases of ransomware attacks or system failures. This minimizes downtime and business disruption, ensuring business continuity and compliance with industry standards.

PB-Level Long-Term Data Protection

To address the challenge of backing up large volumes of unstructured data, i2Backup helps the Center efficiently manage PB-scale data backups while ensuring traceability and long-term compliance in accordance with national data protection standards.

03. Customer Benefits

Through Information2’s disaster recovery and backup solutions, the Center has significantly enhanced the security, reliability, and performance of its national earthquake data platform:

Data Security and HA: The solution ensures data safety and rapid recovery in emergencies, maintaining uninterrupted access to critical national earthquake data.

Regulatory Compliance: Information2’s solution fully complies with China’s data protection regulations, passing compliance audits and mitigating potential legal risks.

Resilience Against Threats: Whether facing ransomware attacks, hardware failures, or human error, Information2’s backup and recovery capabilities minimize downtime and data loss.

As a pioneer in China’s disaster recovery industry and the first company listed on the STAR Market in this field, Information2 continues to lead in disaster recovery technologies. With its proven success across state-owned banks and other critical sectors, the company has developed a nationwide benchmark solution for integrated disaster recovery and backup.