Recently, the "BAIC Hybrid Cloud Platform (BPStack)" created by BAIC Blue Valley Information was awarded the 2021 IDC Future Enterprise Award - Future Digital Infrastructure Leader Excellence Award.
Behind the award, the hybrid cloud platform launched by Beiqi Blue Valley Information and JD Cloud has gained insights and solutions to the pain points such as high hardware costs, resource utilization and management system information level needing to be improved in the process of digital transformation of enterprises, which fully illustrates the important role of JD Cloud in exploring the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy. This case provides a model sample for entity enterprises in the deep water area of transformation and upgrading, and helps the real industry achieve high-quality development.
Cloud platform management has become a problem for enterprise transformation
With the advent of the era of intelligent vehicles, the pace of digital transformation in the automotive industry is accelerating, and the need for digital technology is more clear. It is understood that BAIC Group has already clarified the strategic goals and action plans for digital transformation and upgrading, and through BAIC Blue Valley, it has gained insight into the frontier needs of the market, integrated the information system resources of BAIC Group internally, fully promoted the transformation of enterprises, and built the core competitiveness of the intelligent automobile era.
In the construction and operation of the internal information system of BAIC Group, BAIC Blue Valley solves the challenges brought by the group's rich business types and very complex business scenarios, involving manufacturing, digital research and development, automotive aftermarket, e-commerce platform and shared travel, etc., by building a proprietary cloud, two OpenStack resource pools and introducing multiple public cloud vendor resource pools, and timely matches the needs of business scenarios.
"In the process of 'transformation to the cloud', the selection of the cloud management platform is one of the core problems faced by enterprises", BAIC said, although the original open source solution cloud platform is rich in module components, flexibility and scalability, but there are few commercial deployment cases, the technical complexity of implementation in the enterprise environment is high, and it requires strong independent research and development and technical maintenance forces, and the operation and maintenance costs are high.
In short, Beiqi Blue Valley believes that there is still room for optimization in the group's digital transformation scenario, and it is necessary to find a cloud computing technology service provider with strength and industry understanding for in-depth cooperation.
Therefore, JD Cloud, which has a certain cooperation foundation and understands business, has become the object of cooperation of BAIC Group. Since the signing of the strategic cooperation agreement between JD Group and BAIC Group in 2019, the two sides have carried out a number of cooperation in digital co-construction, vehicle marketing and channel cooperation, and mutual procurement of superior products and services between the two sides.
At the same time, JD Cloud's rich technology accumulation and industrial practice are also its advantages. In the past decade or so, JD.com has built a system covering the national social supply chain, connecting 9 million SKUs of self-operated goods and hundreds of thousands of brands and manufacturing enterprises behind it, and serving 532 million active consumers at the other end.
After experiencing the experience of complex business scenarios, JD Cloud has formed technical capabilities and solutions covering retail, logistics, finance, health, smart city, intelligent manufacturing and internet industries, and has established more than 50 urban service bases across the country, providing digital services for more than 780 financial institutions, more than 1,300 large enterprises, and more than 1.2 million small and medium-sized enterprises.
JD Cloud helps enterprises reduce costs and improve efficiency
It is understood that for information control, scalability, sudden demand, and failover requirements, hybrid cloud is the main model and development direction of cloud computing in recent years, which not only uses the security of private clouds to save important internal data in local data centers; but also mobilizes the computing resources of public clouds to complete the work more efficiently and quickly.
In this regard, JD Cloud created a "Blue Valley Cloud" platform for BAIC, using the "1 + N" model to achieve flexible deployment, a minimal cloud platform base, and an optional product collection of "N", and established a hybrid cloud platform for the automotive industry based on private cloud and expanded by public cloud.
It is understood that the hybrid cloud platform has improved storage capabilities, improved business access capabilities and availability, agility and flexibility. The second is to standardize the cloud interface, which facilitates the continuous expansion and docking of business systems and provides a highly available, scalable, and elastic infrastructure for the application architecture. The third is to decouple IaaS and PaaS, support independent deployment, and make it easier for enterprises to build an infrastructure architecture for cloud-native applications.
At the same time, the effectiveness of the "Blue Valley Cloud" platform is also very significant. In January 2020, Beiqi Blue Valley Cloud went online for operation, reducing the procurement of hardware resources such as servers by tens of millions of yuan to achieve cost reduction and efficiency increase. Among them, "multi-cloud integration" will BAIC 19 private clouds, 900 servers with different SKUs, with the JD cloud hybrid cloud platform as a unified entrance, saving 70% of the system repeated construction costs; for the 15 second-level subsidiaries of IDC unified benefits, without purchasing hardware, 15 agile proprietary clouds were obtained, saving 50% OF IT costs.
Cloud computing helps the development of the real economy
"At present, cloud computing is entering the second stage, enterprise informatization to digital transformation, which is also the process of cloud computing and industrial integration, industrial cloud is the future direction", Liu Chen, vice president of Jingdong Technology Jingdong Cloud Business Group, said that in the second stage, the overall service object of cloud computing technology is the industrial digital intelligence, digital intelligence covers the "thousands of industries" customers, Jingdong Cloud hopes to provide customers with services beyond cloud computing, to help customers achieve digital transformation at the same time, to achieve deep integration of customers and Jingdong business, Achieve the advantages of 1+1>2, provide strong support for government and enterprise customers, help the high-quality development of the real economy, and make a cloud that understands the industry better.
JD Cloud's "cloud that understands the industry better" comes from JD.com's physical attributes. "JD Cloud's experience is an in-depth insight into all aspects of the entity industry chain, derived from jd.com's successful experience in self-operated retail and self-operated logistics, which is innate and unmatched by other e-commerce companies, Internet companies and technology companies," Liu Chen said.
It is understood that the cooperation with Beiqi Blue Valley is only one of the many typical cases of JD Cloud's "helping reality with reality". Previously, JD Cloud provided a wealth of products and digital solutions for customers in the real economy industry of the automotive industry, manufacturing, retail, energy and building materials, logistics ports and medical industry, helping customers reduce costs and improve efficiency. These include successful cases such as hybrid cloud infrastructure for China Gold, smart retail for Deyi Dairy, and smart logistics for Dada Express.
The digitalization process continues to accelerate, the transformation and upgrading of enterprises has also made the industry scenario more diversified and complex, and in the future, more and more entity enterprises such as BAIC and China Gold will embrace digital technology, accelerate the pace of their transformation and upgrading, and implement the deep integration of business digitalization. In this process, JD.com, as a technology and service enterprise based on the supply chain, will also provide strong support for customers in all walks of life through solid infrastructure, efficient digital and intelligent social supply chain, innovative artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other technical service capabilities, and comprehensively help the high-quality development of the real economy.
Written by: Nandu reporter Chen Peijun