June 2016

A Provincial Waterway Bureau in China -- Part 1 of 2

The Customer :

Our case subject is a Chinese Provincial Waterway Bureau. As a branch of the Provincial Department of Transportation, it is responsible for construction, maintenance and administration of all provincial waterways, to assure safe and clear passage. To protect its privacy, our customer has requested that we write this story under a pseudo name. We honor that request and from here on out, will simply refer to it as CSWB, short for Case Study Waterway Bureau.

Based on the water systems, CSWB further sets up 16 regional water bureaus and a survey & map center. Its primary tasks include maintaining and managing all local waterways, such as waterway maintenance and remediation, dredging and reclamation, earthwork, hydraulic engineering, highway engineering, municipal engineering, water power engineering, rescue and salvage, coastal harbor and inland river waterway measurements, navigation aid settings, wharf and port waterway engineering survey and design, protection against theft and vandalism, etc.

Background:
Need for Protection and Intelligent Management of Mission-Critical Data

CSWB is at the heart of information exchange for all regional bureaus that are spread across the entire province. It supports several business sub-systems for mission-critical applications, such as Uniform Identity Authentication, Office Automation, Documentation Exchange and Documentation Management; it also serves as the window for inter-departmental communications with other provincial agencies.

As information technologies advance through the years, CSWB absorbs, adopts and progresses along the way, which makes it become increasingly dependent on the smooth operation of its IT infrastructure. Should any of its business sub-systems fail, there would be severe disruption to its daily operation.

A primary objective of its new data storage center, therefore, is to assure that the bureau’s mission-critical data stays protected at all times, and is managed intelligently for optimal availability.

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