Established in August 1988 with approvals from the State Council and the People's Bank of China, Industrial Bank Co., Ltd. (CIB) stands as one of China's pioneering joint-stock commercial banks and the nation's first Equator Principles-adhering financial institution. Evolving into a nationally prominent joint-stock commercial bank with robust governance, distinctive operational strengths, substantial financial capacity, and superior service delivery, CIB has consistently ranked among the global top 50 banking institutions.

The resource pooling technology primarily based on virtualization has been widely implemented at Industrial Bank. While this approach enhances resource application processes and utilization efficiency, it still fails to fully meet user satisfaction requirements or accelerate innovation project timelines, indicating a gap from the bank's strategic objective of establishing group-wide cloud computing infrastructure.

Therefore, constructing a cloud platform is imperative to integrate underlying IT infrastructure across data centers. This initiative will achieve elastic provisioning, flexible orchestration, and dynamic metering of IT resources, deliver standardized IT services to business units, provide innovative user experiences and business models in the cloud era, and ultimately establish a unified group-wide shared data center with comprehensive cloud service capabilities.

1.The platform will manage resources primarily in Shanghai, Fuzhou, and Chengdu, including existing and upcoming x86 resource pools, PowerVM resource pools, converged resource pools, storage resource pools, x86 physical servers, and Power physical servers.

2.Achieve automated provisioning for computing resources, storage resources, network resources, ESXi/VIOS configurations, operating systems, and database instance deployments.

3. Implement advanced automation for Oracle database clusters, MySQL master-master/master-slave clusters, application load balancing, and disaster recovery services.

4. Deliver a service catalog supporting resource demand requests, allocation applications, reclamation workflows, elastic scaling, data-level disaster recovery, and application-level disaster recovery.

5. Provide resource quota management and self-service operation and maintenance (O&M) capabilities for tenants.

6. Enable multi-tenant management, analytical reporting, metered billing, and profit center statistics for administrators.

7. Support lifecycle management for hosts, virtual machines, capacity planning, and resource orchestration.

8. Integrate with existing systems—including ITSM, unified identity management, O&M control systems, availability monitoring platforms, CMDB, and large-screen displays—to achieve unified, automated workflows for processes, O&M, monitoring, and visualization.

Innovative Banking Revenue Models

Transform IT assets into marketable products, converting traditional IT departments from cost centers to profit centers. Drive IT economies of scale to reduce overall infrastructure development costs across the banking network.

Industry Leadership Positioning

Enhance internal IT capabilities through operational best practices while sharing management expertise to guide industry standard formulation. Elevate technology service levels for small and medium-sized banks through open architecture and knowledge transfer programs.

Accelerated Service Network Expansion

Optimize financial services via partnerships with custodian banks, connecting SMEs and individual users. Leverage massive customer data analytics to refine service offerings and expand branch coverage through intelligent resource allocation.