Forging a robust IT infrastructure to support 24/7 steel production.

Jinnan Steel Group is one of China’s leading iron and steel manufacturers. Headquartered in Linfen, Shanxi Province, the company employs over 6,000 people and produces more than 30 million tons of iron and steel products each year. When the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) underpinning its business systems began to experience performance bottlenecks and bandwidth issues, the company’s IT team knew it had to act fast to cut the risk of downtime for its critical ERP and MES applications. With a new all-flash HCI based on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR590 V2 servers and VMware vSAN software, Jinnan Steel Group benefits from better performance, stability, and reliability as well as easier resource management and scalability—helping to keep production lines rolling around the clock.