Gifore Technology has always attached importance to the IT construction of the enterprise and firmly believes that sound IT system support is indispensable for business growth and development. In the past, Gifore Technology's local data center at its headquarter in Chengdu was equipped with more than 40 servers and storage devices to support its businesses across the country. However, due to the various limitations of local data centers, Gifore Technology's IT department is facing many challenges. Firstly, the high cost for infrastructure construction and O&M. "We have invested a lot of money in building our own data center, including hardware procurement and computer room management," said Jiang Tao, director of Information Department of Gifore Technology. "In order to better support the business, the company once invested heavily in the purchase of in all-in-one equipment. However, with the aging of the equipment, we have to face the problem of updating the computer room. If the self-built mode is still be used, we will not only undertake the expensive financial expenses and sharp increase in depreciation of fixed assets, but also face IT problems such as lack of flexibility and agility of physical servers, etc. Secondly, the stability of service is easily affected by poor operator network, power supply system failure and various other factors. In severe cases, interruption of IT services will have a great negative impact on business operation and user experience. "

On the other hand, the problems of network latency, reliability and capacity, etc. in Gifore Technology's local data center also make it unable to meet the new requirements for its business globalization. For Gifore Technology, which has been developing for more than 20 years, its core competitiveness can only be maintained through continuous revolution based on market demand. Therefore, under an industry-wide trend towards digital transformation, Gifore Technology's IT team decided to replace its local data center with a public cloud, and planned to migrate its Kingdee ERP system and OA office automation systems to the cloud. By introducing more cloud innovations technologies, Gifore hopes to provide a better service experience for internal and external users to realize agile IT operation of light assets.

In the process of selecting a cloud service provider, Gifore Technology invited a professional team of consultants to carefully evaluate the cloud service providers in the market from many aspects, such as technical background, security, service stability levels, etc., and Amazon Web Services was selected finally. The reason why the management and IT team of Gifore Technology especially favor Amazon Web Services is that they value the advantages of Amazon Web Services in the following aspects:

Relying on the infrastructure and enterprise-level SLA commitments from Amazon Web Services, Gifore Technology has realized stable operation of its business architecture after migrating to the cloud. This not only provides Gifore Technology a more flexible IT environment, but also improves the stability and sustainability of its business. "After migrating Kingdee ERP and OA systems from the on-premises data center to Amazon Web Services, we broke through the hardware and software limitations of all-in-one units. The Amazon Linux AMI running in the Amazon EC2 instance can realize the performance of the dedicated Solaris operating system in the original all-in-one unit, and we do not need to pay additional cost for software licensing. " Director Jiang Tao said, “We can leverage Amazon Web Services automation tools to scale IT resources in real time based on the needs of business growth to provide better protection for the business. " In addition, Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD provides comprehensive coverage for major market areas of Gifore Technology. This not only enabled most branches and distributors of Gifore Technology to achieve lower latency when accessing business systems, but also significantly improved the experience of business users and greatly increased the efficiency of enterprise operation teams.

After replacing the on-premises data center with Amazon Web Services, Gifore Technology's data disaster discovery capability and reliability have been further improved. This enables Gifore to better accumulate and use historical data and reduce the cost pressure caused by archiving massive data. In data disaster recovery applications,Amazon Glacier enables Gifore Technology’s IT teams to securely store archived data in the cloud at a lower cost. "Compared with traditional on-premises storage, using Amazon S3 Glacier can give us the advantages of off-premises data disaster preparedness and multiple copies at a very low price. Now, we can regularly complete data backup and recovery drills to verify the reliability of archived data without affecting the normal production environment. "Jiang Tao said," We can also query and retrieve data in Amazon S3 Glacier so that historical business data can be used by the company continuously in the future. "

Moreover, Gifore Technology will rapidly embrace the trend of digital transformation and bring more innovative technologies and solutions to enterprise applications. Fully uncover the value behind big data and provide reliable insight for enterprise decision-making and agricultural development "Amazon Web Services provides huge computing power so that we can quickly build a big data analysis platform and use it on demand. This has completely solved the problem of lack of local big data processing capability in the past. "Jiang Tao, director of IT Department of Gifore Technology, said, "Historical data can provide us with sufficient business insight and reference, assist in business decision-making, help us understand the output of crops and predict the development trend of agriculture. We believe that Amazon Web Services will help us better serve agriculture, rural areas and farmers. "

In the future, under the guidance of the "The Belt and Road" initiative, Gifore Technology will continue to develop its business in overseas markets including Southeast Asia and Europe. Based on its experience of successful application of Amazon Web Services cloud services in China, Gifore Technology will continue to maintain a good cooperative relationship with Amazon Web Services and APN Partners Agile Cloud to realize the rapid deployment of business applications overseas and provide faster services for local distributors and farmers.