Building Private Cloud Platform to Centralize IT Resources
Over the last few years, public sector organizations have strived to innovate their business, eliminated their old equipment and replaced with new ones in order to take steps towards E-government; as a result, new equipment requires new platforms which equip with the features of scalability, manageability, high efficiency, security, and high availability.
Government organizations are centralizing their IT resources, which is in need of improving the efficiency of resource utilization and integrating infrastructure resources to form a shared resource. The evolution of E-government minimizes the number of infrastructure equipment, raises the server to administrator ratio, and reduce data center space, power consumption, as well as management cost. Meanwhile, government agencies are accelerating development and deployment associated with test environments since they depend on the horizontal scalability to meet the requirements of future integration and expansion with other remote storage resources.
Building OpenStack to establish a private cloud platform can help clients achieve the above-mentioned objectives. inwinSTACK assists our clients in adopting virtual network technologies by providing Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS), isolation of internal and external network, as well as separation of development, test and production environment. These allow our clients to provide shared resources for both development and production environment, to improve resource utilization rate, and to enhance network security.
inwinSTACK offers design and development, consultations, on-site services, and training services. All these enable organizations to get complete assistance during runtime. We also appreciate our clients’ determination to promote cloud platforms. However, a cloud computing project cannot be done without the support from government officials. With fully, bilateral communication and interaction, we are able to put ourselves in clients’ shoes. Along with our clients, we can promote technological nation together and make Taiwan more competitive in information technology.
Challenges
Scalable cloud storage architecture
Cloud storage system which features reliability and high availability
Ability to integrate with other storage resources
Cloud file Sharing services
Cross-platform and cross-device functions
Solutions
Integration of ownCloud and Ceph
Distributed storage system built by rack servers and scalable up to 10PB
Provide REST API, object and block API for integration with other storage resources
Integrate with existing single sign on (SSO) and providing users online file sharing and management functions
Provide UI for cross-platform and cross-device usage which allows users to access and store data via mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer
Results
Faster, more convenient and stable file sharing and storage services for teachers and students
Abundant storage spaces for teachers and students
Cost reduction on software and hardware implementation and maintenance