On January 15^th, 2019, according to the latest announcement of China Enterprise IT Award Committee, the Shanghai Data Solution Co., Ltd. (SDS) proudly received the “2018 CEIA: Best Data Center Service Provider” award! 

♥2018 CEIA: Best Data Center Service Provider Award Certificate

High Availability Is the Lifeblood of Business Operation

To finance industry, high availability is the lifeblood of its business operation. But to futures industry, there is something a little different. For example, it’s required to build a low-delay, stable and fair network architecture that is independent from other financial networks. More specifically speaking, it needs a special network built for special purpose. And, it’s prohibited to share its underlying resources with any other customer. It is expected to serve as a stable, low-delay and fast communication platform linking suppliers with the Big-4 Chinese futures exchanges so that both futures companies and futures exchanges could enjoy a lower interconnection cost. Also, it should comply with all the self-regulation rules of Chinese futures industry association and all compliance requirements of China Securities Regulatory Commission. In addition to all that, the SDS has years of experience in helping with the auditing in the futures industry.

Four Strategies to Ensure Secured and Reliable Futures Business Operation at a Lower Cost

The requirements that the futures industry put on network service could be boiled down to following points. First, the network resource should be totally isolated from non-futures users, or simply, not to be shared. Second, all network O&M works could only be carried out in time windows between trading sessions. Third, all maintenance work should meet the special standards unique to the futures industry, or, in other words, be maintained at the same level of the computing rooms of futures exchanges. That’s why all futures service providers would rather use full redundancy design for their network and O&M architectures and low-time-delay network equipments to sustain microsecond application even when it leads to extra operating & maintenance costs. 

The SDS 4-step strategy is designed to ensure a low-cost, secured and reliable network service for the futures industry. Specifically, it includes：

1. Advanced Equipments: SDS purchased advanced expensive equipments to ensure low time delay and meet the expectations of users in futures industry;

2. Dedicated O&M Team, plus CSM*2 (for exchanges and futures companies only) to assign extra men to ensure maintenance works done in non-trading hours;

3. Authentications: Build professional business process meeting the higher standards upheld in the finance industry with ISO 27001 certificate and ISO20000 and ISO 22301 certificates (in application process);

4. Audit: Set up a Customer Service Department and a team of audit experts to help futures companies with their audit-related work;

In addition, to catch up with the rapid growth of futures industry, SDS expanded the capacity of its data centers, built a LanGuang Finance Network, developed a range of new access options for futures companies to meet business growth needs, and purchased new firewalls boasting of the lowest time delay in the industry to further cut down transaction delay. In 2019, SDS launched another project to optimize the network architecture of its JinQiao Finance Network and broaden its redundancy.

Fame Follows Merit: SDS the Best Financial Data Center Service Provider

Now, SDS owns several data centers in Shanghai and Beijing and tremendous network and broadband resources. Among them, designed and built exactly in accordance with the Tier 4 ANSI/TIA-942 standard, the highest telecommunication infrastructure standard for data center in the world, the IDX International Data Center is an industry-leading data center in the world. 

After fulfilling his appraisal duty as a member of the judging panel of the 2018 CEIA, Mr. He Tiejun, the Chief Technology Officer of HAITONG FUTURES (a SDS customer), said, “Since it started formal operation, except in scheduled maintenance periods, the SDS’s fast communication platform has never gone offline for any serious failure, instead, it has maintained a service availability level of 100.000%. Based on that, the platform service team successfully developed a great, continuous and professional communication with exchanges and futures companies. Soon, the communication extended to preliminary consultation, troubleshooting, drill practicing, survey by questionnaire, technical exchanges and industrial forum, and other areas. And, the cooperation extended to service availability maintenance jointly implemented with Futures News Platforms. In addition to the original computer cabinet leasing and data services, it is now able to provide high SAL Cloud service to meet the diversified service needs of different futures companies. Last but not least, as a service provider for the finance industry, SDS has established a good fame for its service capacity and quick response. That’s why the 2018 CEIA China Enterprise IT Award event chose to grant it the ‘Best Data Center Service Provider’ to SDS!”

The ‘2018 CEIA China Enterprise IT Award’ is sponsored and held by D1Net, a Chinese IT media for IT directors of state-owned enterprises and institutions. It is one of a few awards that trust the appraisal to a judging panel completely made up of CIOs in business organizations. Currently, the Award is recognized by most Chinese IT directors as a major reference and one of the most authoritative awards in SOE market. 

About the CEIA China Enterprise IT Award

Taking into consideration its predecessors i.e. CCCA (China Cloud Computing Award) and CENA (China Enterprise Network Communication Award), the CEIA has already been held for many years. The CEIA appraisal is carried out in two steps. The first step is an online voting that usually involves tens of thousands of participants. Via the voting, the participants determine the top 3 winners of each award. Then, in the second step, a judging panel of 150 CIOs from related enterprises will conduct a second round of appraisal to determine the specific ranks of winners from five perspectives, i.e. applicability, stability, availability, maintenance and service; 

About Shanghai Data Solution Co., Ltd. 

The Shanghai Data Solution was founded in ZJ Science City, Shanghai, n 1999. It is a high-class data center and Cloud service operator engaged in data center, network communication, Cloud service, value-added telecommunication service, and other IT services. Upholding the core values of ‘Customer First, Operation Integrity, People Oriented, Efficiency and Effectiveness’, it is committed to business innovation, operation perfection and continuous improvement to provide customers with the best possible services in the industry.