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Case Study - Shenzhen Airlines Cargo
Shenzhen Airlines Cargo
Founded in 1994, Shenzhen Airlines Cargo Co. Ltd (Shenzhen Airlines Cargo
in short) subordinates to Shenzhen Airlines Ltd (Shenzhen Airlines in short).
Relying on strong transport capacity of Shenzhen Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines
Cargo offers professional air transport services, standardized airport ground
service and diversified logistics supporting services since it is an airlines
cargo business with a complete sales and delivery network covering all over
China and APJ and a powerful operation capability worldwide.
By March 2014, Shenzhen Airlines Cargo covers 28 cargo centers in major
cities like Guangzhou, Wuxi, Nanjing, Nanning, Shenyang and Xi’an, and
boasts over 100 aircrafts such as Boeing 737 families, Airbus 320 and 319,
running more than 200 air routes at home and abroad. In addition, it has a
truck fleet consisting of 100+ vehicles.
With rapid and stable development these years, Shenzhen Airlines Cargo
adheres to principles of leading market with featured services, improving
values with professionalism, and creating brand with honesty and trust
under the guidance of “Passengers and Cargo Are of Equal Importance”
strategy. Complying with service rules of “Creating a great airline for you at
any time”, Shenzhen Airlines Cargo has stayed itself to innovative service
and extending. It is the first to promote airline electronic cargo and partner
with Airline China Cargo. Shenzhen Airlines Cargo wins wide praise from all
industries of society and builds up good reputation with secure and quick
cargo shipping, warm hospitality and quality service.
IT Challenges
As one of China’s largest airlines, ensuring high availability and fast
performance for all mission-critical systems was crucial for maintaining
its high customer approval rating. But the existing storage and server IT
infrastructure was very complex and inefficient, making the goals of high
performance and 7x24x365 operations very challenging for the airline’s IT
team.
In addition to the performance and application availability issues, Shenzhen
Airlines Cargo’s expanding business requirements were also presenting
significant challenges. To solve these issues, the airline’s IT team developed
plans to deploy new and more powerful servers, to launch a VMware
virtualization project, and to add networked storage. With so many complex
projects to complete, the IT team started looking for a different approach to
infrastructure that would be easier to deploy and manage.
The Nutanix Solution
After hearing about the Nutanix solution with web-scale technology from its
partner, Enabletek Technology and conducting hands-on testing, Shenzhen
Airlines Cargo made the decision to purchase and deploy a Nutanix NX-
3000 solution for the airline’s IT modernization project. Shenzhen Airlines’
existing servers have now been virtualized using VMware vSphere, and the
majority of the airline’s primary applications, including its office automation
(OA) system, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle databases, and other web
applications, are now running smoothly on the Nutanix systems.
Shenzhen Airlines Cargo Chooses
Web-Scale Architecture for
Mission-Critical Operations
Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure Simplifies
Management, Increases Application Performance,
and Provides Higher Availability for Key Airline
Systems
• Nutanix NX-3000 series
• VMware vSphere
Transportation and Logistics
Solution
Industry
• Increased application performance,
reducing the time to create reports by
80%
• Decreased datacenter footprint and
power consumption by 50%
• Allow for zero management and
maintenance for storage and servers
• Enabled easy scalability
Benefits
Needed storage and server infrastructure
that would provide higher availability for
all business-critical airline IT systems.
Business Needs

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Nutanix Benefits
The Nutanix systems have provided a wide range of benefits for Shenzhen
Airlines. After a fast and easy installation, all IT operations are now much
more stable with the new hyperconverged storage and server solution and
performance of the company’s core business systems have been greatly
enhanced. For example, the time required to produce the airline’s detailed key
operational reports has been reduced from 90 minutes to less than 20 minutes,
an improvement of nearly 80%.
System availability and reliability have also improved with Nutanix. Prior to
deploying the Nutanix appliances, Shenzhen Airlines Cargo was relying on
separately managed servers and storage infrastructure with its own availability
challenges. The Nutanix converged and distributed storage service with self-
healing capability and VM-centric operations provides much greater protection
for the airline’s IT systems, reducing the risk of any failed single systems.
The airline’s IT team reports that Nutanix systems are also very easy to manage
and maintain, requiring far less administrative effort. And finally, the space-
efficient Nutanix systems have also enabled Shenzhen Airlines Cargo to reduce
its storage and server footprint and lower power consumption by 50% in the
corporate datacenter, helping contribute to their environmental goals.
“We are very pleased with our decision to deploy the Nutanix systems,” stated
Cao Zhi, IT manager at Shenzhen Airlines Cargo. “The hyperconverged solution
has enabled our airline to achieve higher levels of performance and availability.
The systems are performing so well that we are now planning to expand our
useof Nutanix for disaster recovery facility in the near future.”
Working with a Trusted Partner, Enabletek
Technology
Shenzhen Airlines Cargo works in partnership with local IT services provider
and Nutanix Partner, Enabletek Technology. The IT professionals at Enabletek
Technology recommend and purchase the most appropriate solutions for the
airlines, conduct product testing and evaluation, and install and test all new
applications and system upgrades in conjunction with the local Nutanix team.
Enabletek Technology recommended the Nutanix solution to Shenzhen Airlines
Cargo. “Nutanix is a very well recognized and successful technology company
in China, so no other solutions were considered for the IT upgrade,” noted
Lu Zhaoming, Sales Engineer at Enabletek Technology. “The Nutanix systems
provide much higher availability and better performance than many other
server and storage solutions. They also provide flexible modular scalability,
which will simplify system expansion for Shenzhen Airlines Cargo in the future.”