Recently, Cloud Axis Technology (ZStack), together with Info2soft and LT ZERO, hosted a joint seminar in Hong Kong themed "Next-Generation IT Infrastructure Transformation for Business Continuity." The three parties exchanged insights on enterprise IT infrastructure modernization and business continuity, and jointly showcased an integrated solution combining virtualization, disaster recovery and storage.
As core business processes continue to undergo digital transformation, IT infrastructure transformation is no longer merely a like-for-like product upgrade. How to ensure the stable operation of production workloads, how to establish reliable data backup and disaster recovery mechanisms, and how to preserve critical data in a long-term, secure and cost-effective manner have become issues that enterprises must address simultaneously as they advance their infrastructure transformation.
To address the differentiated requirements of customers across industries in terms of business continuity, data protection, compliance and budget, ZStack, Info2soft and LT ZERO leveraged their respective capabilities in virtualization, data resilience and storage archiving, and showcased three typical reference architectures on site:
Architecture 1: Single-Site Data Protection — From Virtualization to Backup on Tape
For enterprises that want to accelerate their virtualization platform transformation while strengthening basic data protection capabilities:
ZStack ZSphere provides stable, high-efficiency virtualization infrastructure that hosts an enterprise's core VMs and business systems.
Info2soft i2Backup delivers centralized backup and recovery for VMs and business data.
LT ZERO Tape Library further undertakes long-term archiving and offline preservation of backup data.
Together, these form a complete data protection chain from production virtualization and online backup to tape archiving. Enterprises can not only reduce the complexity of virtualization infrastructure transformation, but also create offline data copies independent of the production environment on tape media, providing additional assurance for long-term data retention, compliance archiving and ransomware protection.
Architecture 2: Intra-City Dual-Data-Center Business Continuity — Cross-Site High Availability and Multi-Copy Protection
For industries with high demands on critical business continuity, such as finance, healthcare and manufacturing, a cross-site business continuity architecture can be further established:
ZStack Cross-Site High Availability builds the business continuity foundation of the virtualization resource layer.
Info2soft Backup and Backup Replication establishes data protection copies across different sites.
LT ZERO Archive-In-A-Boxp rovides capacity-tier and archive-tier capabilities, enabling enterprises to implement tiered protection across different media according to data value and access frequency.
This architecture focuses not only on "whether business can continue to run," but also on "whether data has independent, reliable, and long-term preservable copies," forming a multi-layered data protection system covering production, high availability, backup and archiving.
Architecture 3: Remote Disaster Recovery — Full Coverage of Production, Disaster Recovery and Long-Term Archiving
For group enterprises and industries with higher requirements on business continuity, data security and regulatory compliance, a cross-region disaster recovery system can be further established:
ZStack ZSphere provides unified virtualization infrastructure for both the production center and the disaster recovery center.
Info2soft Data Replication, Backup and Disaster Recovery establishes cross-site protection mechanisms for critical applications and data.
LT ZERO Enterprise Unified Storage and Block Storage can serve as the production storage choice for virtualization, while tape libraries further enable off-site and offline archive copies.
By incorporating production storage, virtualization hosting, online backup, remote disaster recovery and tape archiving into a unified business continuity architecture, enterprises can develop differentiated protection strategies for data and business of different tiers, providing multi-layered recovery assurance for critical business and data in the event of hardware failures, site-level disasters or even ransomware attacks.
Infrastructure Transformation: From "Platform Replacement" to Protecting the Complete Data Lifecycle
The value of this joint solution lies not in simply stacking the products of the three companies, but in the collaborative design around the complete lifecycle of enterprise production data — from creation, operation and protection to long-term preservation.
ZStack provides cloud platform and virtualization infrastructure, ensuring stable business hosting and continuous infrastructure evolution.
Info2soft provides data resilience capabilities covering backup, replication and disaster recovery.
LT ZERO extends data protection to tiered storage and long-term offline archiving through enterprise-grade storage, Archive-In-A-Box and tape libraries.
With the combined capabilities of the three parties, enterprises migrating from traditional virtualization platforms such as VMware can simultaneously establish a complete business continuity system spanning "virtualization → backup → disaster recovery → archiving", balancing stable operation of critical business with data security, long-term preservation, compliance requirements and total cost of ownership (TCO).
Co-hosting this seminar with Info2soft and LT ZERO marks the starting point of ZStack building solutions together with regional ecosystem partners around local customer needs. Going forward, ZStack will continue to deepen collaboration with technology and ecosystem partners, delivering more complete, open and sustainably evolving IT infrastructure options for enterprises around virtualization replacement, private cloud construction, and the evolution of cloud and AI infrastructure.
If you are evaluating VMware replacement options, or looking to further enhance your enterprise's data protection, disaster recovery and long-term archiving systems, you are welcome to contact the ZStack team to learn more about joint solutions and reference architectures.
About ZStack
Founded in 2015, Shanghai Cloud Axis Technology Co., Ltd. (ZStack) is a national-level key "Little Giant" specialized and innovative enterprise and a company under Alibaba Cloud, committed to becoming a globally leading provider of foundational software in the intelligent computing era, delivering digital-intelligent computing platforms to users.
ZStack ranks in the TOP 5 of the IDC Cloud System Software Market Report, ranking first among independent cloud vendors*; it is a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Server Virtualization, a leader in CCID Consulting's China Virtualization Market Report; a Representative Vendor in Gartner® Innovation Insight for AI Infrastructure in China, and a major vendor and technology representative in the IDC report on China's generative AI application development platforms.
ZStack's product matrix comprehensively covers intelligent computing center software infrastructure, including cloud platforms, virtualization, distributed storage, hyperconverged infrastructure, container cloud platforms, service hubs, cloud management platforms, database cloud platforms, and the AIOS platform.
ZStack has been widely deployed globally, achieving large-scale international expansion across 30+ countries and regions, empowering the digital transformation of over 5,000 enterprises across 10+ industries including government, telecommunications, finance, energy, transportation, healthcare, education and manufacturing.