Vinchin provided China Unicom with a unified, scalable data protection solution, ensuring seamless backup and disaster recovery across hybrid environments

We find Vinchin very easy to use. The clean interface and simple setup save a lot of time. It helps most with scheduled backups, cross-platform management, and data compression. Overall, Vinchin is reliable and efficient for data protection.

IT Manager

China Unicom

Business Challenge

China Unicom (China United Network Communications Group) is one of China's major telecommunications operators, providing services including mobile communications, broadband, and data communications. It operates a vast server network to support its operations, with these servers responsible for processing user communication data, internet access requests, and other related services. Unicom Cloud, a cloud service brand under China Unicom, serves millions of enterprises and developers nationwide and globally as a world-leading cloud computing service provider. It offers diversified cloud services including cloud hosting and cloud storage.  

When supporting a data protection project for a hospital in Xinjiang Province, China Unicom identified critical challenges: The hospital’s complex IT environment—comprising Oracle clusters, VMware virtualization platforms, and physical servers—faced risks of prolonged recovery periods and data consistency issues in case of hardware failures or logical errors. These risks threatened core services such as patient registration and electronic medical record retrieval. Local backup capacity could no longer accommodate the rapid growth of medical data, while existing solutions lacked efficient off-site replica synchronization mechanisms to transmit critical data to Xinjiang Unicom Cloud in real time. Additionally, decentralized backup management in hybrid environments and insufficient disaster recovery capabilities for core systems (e.g., HIS, PACS, regional imaging systems) jeopardized healthcare continuity. The hospital urgently required a next-generation backup solution to unify multi-environment data management and achieve elastic scalability with high availability through a powerful architecture.

Vinchin Solution

Vinchin partnered with China Unicom to design a tailored data protection solution addressing the dual challenges of hybrid environment backup and off-site disaster recovery. First, Vinchin implemented robust database protection, fully compatible with scheduled full and incremental Oracle backups in CentOS environments, ensuring data integrity and consistent recovery points. Second, to resolve the complexity of decentralized management across VMware, physical servers, and other hybrid infrastructures, Vinchin delivered a unified backup platform. Vinchin Backup & Recovery supports agentless virtual machine backups on a scheduled basis, physical machine backups, and centralized Oracle backup policy configuration. It also enables real-time, cross-environment backup task monitoring via an intuitive visual interface, significantly reducing operational complexity and administrative overhead.

In addition, Vinchin established a seamless data flow through an integrated "local + cloud" architecture. The locally deployed Vinchin Backup & Recovery system manages all production data backups, while automatically compressing and deduplicating critical data before securely transmitting it to Xinjiang Unicom Cloud to generate off-site backup copies. This architecture not only ensures rapid data recovery at the local site in case of accidental loss or corruption but also provides a reliable off-site disaster recovery option. Both the on-premise appliance and the cloud storage platform support horizontal scalability, allowing flexible, cost-effective expansion as medical data volumes increase—ensuring sustainable data protection and business continuity over the next 3 to 5 years.

Result

Vinchin's solution stands out by turning complex, multi-platform data protection into a smooth, unified process. With smart scheduling, centralized control, and seamless local-to-cloud backup flow, it helps organizations reduce risks, cut downtime, and scale with ease—making reliable protection effortless.

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