Sunflower Pharmaceutical

Background

Sunflower Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. is a large pharmaceutical manufacturer specializing in the production and sale of medicines, with about 7,000 employees. The group's headquarters systems and business departments generate massive data-transfer and backup demands, and around 1,000 employees handle a wide range of internal business documents and core data every day.

Challenges

Before adopting the QNAP solution, business departments relied mainly on Windows sharing to exchange files—an approach that was cumbersome to set up and offered no advanced permission control, resulting in poor security. In addition, each department had to buy as many as forty to fifty external hard drives for data backup, making management extremely inconvenient. On the data center side, traditional virtualization backup required purchasing specialized backup software, which was not only expensive but also subject to strict storage-capacity licensing limits.

Solution

Given QNAP's strong brand reputation, stable operation, and built-in software well suited to enterprise use, Sunflower Pharmaceutical progressively deployed eight QNAP TS-h1886XU-RP units between 2018 and 2026. The solution is equipped with a large combination of 16TB, 8TB, and 4TB enterprise-grade hard drives. These devices are widely used across the headquarters and business departments for file sharing, centralized data backup, virtualization backup, virtualization storage, and core use cases such as web hosting.

Results

The QNAP TS-h1886XU-RP fully addressed the pain points faced by Sunflower Pharmaceutical's business departments in file backup, fine-grained share-permission control, and web service deployment. The gains in cost savings and efficiency are significant: what previously required forty to fifty external hard drives to meet departmental backup needs is now handled by a single NAS equipped with eight 16TB drives. At the same time, QNAP's built-in free virtualization backup application freed the company from the licensing constraints of traditional professional software, saving about RMB 300,000 in virtualization backup expansion costs.