Polish Transportation Services employs KAYTUS servers to establish virtualized data centers to support the train scheduling and ticketing systems.

The newly implemented data center leverages KAYTUS servers, boosting computational power by 30%, optimizing resource utilization by 20% with virtualization solutions, and intelligently adjusting computing capabilities to accommodate peak and off-peak periods to ensure the smooth operations of train services.

Customer Introduction

The client is a public transportation service company with a history of over 140 years and is committed to providing people with the highest standard of travel.

In the coming years, public transportation will be developed in the direction of greater intelligence and convenience. The promotion of multimodal transportation, seamless mobile payments, data-driven management, intelligent scheduling, and the growing need for information sharing will present elevated challenges for the data center of this railroad company. By gradually updating the infrastructure of the data center, the customer expects to meet the extreme demand for back-office business support capability for public transportation development.

Project Background

The local government actively promotes green travel, and the community increasingly embraces the concept of sustainable green mobility. Furthermore, the intelligent development of transportation makes traveling through public transportation more convenient. As a result, they will choose public transportation as the first option when they need to travel around. 

In recent years, the customer's business has experienced significant growth while the existing data center equipment is limited in scale and performance is not sufficient.  Serious equipment resource island phenomenon, low resource utilization rate, poor business flexibility, the contradiction between all these problems and the business development is prominent.  In response, the customer aims to establish a new virtualized IT infrastructure to support their train scheduling and online ticketing systems. The new cluster must exhibit exceptional scalability and flexibility while considering key factors such as capacity, performance, stability, and ease of management to ensure the smooth operation of the business system and enhance user satisfaction.

Challenges

1) Existing equipment cannot meet the growing business needs.

The customer's existing infrastructure cannot meet the continuously increasing business demands. The train scheduling system has a certain amount of latency, and the lag phenomenon will occur in the user online ticketing system due to the tremendous workloads. Consequently, there is an urgent need for updating hardware equipment.

2) The servers of existing data centers confront the challenge of resource silos, uneven load distribution, and low resource utilization....

The current data center of the customer is experiencing severe resource isolation and limited scalability. The customer urgently needed new servers and other infrastructure, combined with virtualization solutions, to alleviate the load pressure during peak hours of online ticketing and train scheduling system usage, and avoid resource waste during the off-peak hours.

3) The existing data center is poorly managed and difficult to operate and maintain.

The current data center suffers from a lack of centralized management, resulting in low efficiency and high difficulty in operation and maintenance, which consumes a lot of energy from the IT department. In these circumstances, there is a pressing demand for automated tools to achieve intelligent operation and maintenance.

KAYTUS Solution

1) Build a new data center architecture to enhance business support capabilities.

Taking into account the trend of customers' current and future business development, KAYTUS has designed a complete data center hardware architecture with 2U2S KAYTUS KR2280-V2 servers, storage, and high-speed network equipment to support train scheduling and ticketing services. The high-performance servers ensure the smooth operation of the online ticketing system, while the high-speed network effectively reduces data latency, and the train scheduling system can be updated in real time. Moreover, the solution provides high-capacity data storage to meet the information storage needs brought about by the surge in user numbers.....

2) Collaborate with virtualization solutions to improve resource utilization

Proposed highly efficient hardware resources combined with the VMware virtualization technology enable excellent computing, storage, network hardware resource pooling, and centralized management. The pooling resource can be adjusted in real-time based on peak and off-peak train usage, avoiding resource silos, and achieving efficient data utilization.

3) Improve data center management capabilities.

By using KAYTUS data center management software InManage, data center centralized remote management can be achieved, thus operational difficulties are reduced, and significantly enhanced operational flexibility.

Customer Benefits

1) KAYTUS servers deliver cost-effective computing resources and storage capacity, elevating overall computing power by 30% and expanding storage capabilities by 50%. This not only addresses the current business demand of the customer but also ensures a solid foundation for future business growth.

2) By seamlessly integrating virtualization solutions with hardware devices, efficiently mitigating potential risks stemming from load issues in core business operations, ensuring business continuity. At the same time, resource pooling management intelligently adjusts the computing power and network resources based on peak and off-peak periods of vehicle usage. Employ more resources during peak driving hours and intelligently activate some resources during low driving hours, effectively improving equipment utilization by 20%, and meeting business needs while reducing equipment energy consumption by more than 25%.

3) The data center management software InManage leads to the achievement of unified management of KAYTUS and other vendors’ equipment. As a result, the operation and maintenance efficiency has been improved, and reduced the related cost by about 30%.