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China Railway Technographics
Discover the latest software purchases and digital transformation initiatives being undertaken by China Railway and its business and technology executives. Each quarter our research team identifies on-prem and cloud applications that are being used by the 2000000 China Railway employees from the public (Press Releases, Customer References, Testimonials, Case Studies and Success Stories) and proprietary sources.
During our research, we have identified that China Railway has purchased the following applications: VMware GemFire for Database Management in 2011 and the related IT decision-makers and key stakeholders.
Our database provides customer insight and contextual information on which enterprise applications and software systems China Railway is running and its propensity to invest more and deepen its relationship with VMware by Broadcom or identify new suppliers as part of their overall Digital and IT transformation projects to stay competitive, fend off threats from disruptive forces, or comply with internal mandates to improve overall enterprise efficiency.
We have been analyzing China Railway revenues, which have grown to $174.00 billion in 2024, plus its IT budget and roadmap, cloud software purchases, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions for China Railway intention to invest in emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Blockchain, Autonomous Database or in cloud-based ERP, HCM, CRM, EPM, Procurement or Treasury applications.
IaaS
Vendor |
Previous System |
Application |
Category |
Market |
VAR/SI |
When |
Live |
Insight |
Insight Source |
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| VMware by Broadcom | Legacy | VMware GemFire | Database Management | IaaS | International Integrated Systems Egypt | 2011 | 2013 | In 2011, China Railway implemented VMware GemFire to support its online ticket reservation system. The deployment targeted nationwide scale, instrumenting the reservation workflow that serves 5700 stations across China to absorb massive seasonal demand spikes. VMware GemFire was deployed as an in-memory data grid providing distributed caching, data partitioning and synchronous replication to preserve availability and consistency for transactional ticket calculations. The project used the Database Management capabilities of VMware GemFire to colocate processing with cached datasets, reduce network hops, and support low-latency query routing for pricing and seat-availability logic. Configuration emphasized node-level caching, partitioned region design and high-availability replication to keep reservation operations responsive under extreme concurrency. The implementation was executed with International Integrated Systems Egypt as the systems integrator and was integrated into the existing online reservation stack to handle front-end booking requests and backend ticket calculation services. Rollout was nationwide across China Railway infrastructure and included staged validation that demonstrated sustained production behavior through peak holiday sales periods. Explicit production outcomes reported by the project include 50–100x faster ticket calculations and maintained latencies in the 10 to 100 ms range under load, with confirmed production performance by the 2013 holiday period. VMware GemFire was central to scaling the ticketing business function and to enabling consistent, low-latency reservation processing across the national footprint. |
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