Sangfor Technologies Strengthens Smart Healthcare with Foundational Infrastructure and Security Solutions

As a provider of products and services focused on enterprise-grade security, cloud computing, and IT infrastructure, Sangfor Technologies enjoys a strong reputation within the IT community. Recently, the 2019 Sangfor Innovation Conference, themed “Imagine,” attracted more than 2,000 IT managers from various industries and Sangfor’s partners.

Leveraging its IT DNA, Sangfor has long been deeply rooted in the healthcare sector.

Since 2016, Sangfor has been exploring the healthcare information sector and conducting market research. After formally establishing its Healthcare Business Unit in 2017, Sangfor rapidly launched a series of solutions for key healthcare scenarios in response to market demands and policy directives, includingInternet + Healthcare Solutions, Medical Consortium/Community Health Alliance Solutions, National Health Information Platform Solutions, Hospital Ransomware Protection Solutions, CDR and Integration Platform-Based Data Center Construction Solutions, Healthcare MLPS 2.0 Compliance Construction Solutions, Smart Hospital Solutions, and Other Scenario-Specific Solutions。

At the Medical Industry Sub-venue of the 2019 Sangfor Innovation Conference, Zhao Jianchu, General Manager of Sangfor’s Healthcare Division, presented the division’s performance achievements over its first two years of operation:

When asked about the reasons for venturing into the healthcare sector, Zhao Jianchu stated,Prior to the formal establishment of its Healthcare Business Unit in 2017, Sangfor Technologies had already accumulated substantial experience in the healthcare sector, with its various IT products already serving more than 5,000 medical institutions., previously focusing on providing IT products and security services to customers. As the company has increased its investment in the healthcare industry, our understanding of the sector has deepened, leading to the continuous launch of solutions tailored to specific business scenarios. Sangfor’s offerings have gained widespread recognition from a large customer base, laying the foundation for its rapid growth over the past two years.

Additionally,Since 2016, the entire healthcare IT industry has experienced rapid growth.. Many hospitals’ core business systems require updating. The development of internet-based healthcare and the growing importance of medical data to medical research have driven healthcare informatization beyond merely meeting the operational requirements of basic business processes. All aspects of clinical diagnosis and treatment, as well as disciplinary research, now rely on informatization, shifting from a passive support role in the past to proactively leading business development.

Additionally,In recent years, the frequent occurrence of ransomware has led to growing emphasis on medical data security and patient privacy.. The hospital’s previous network system could no longer meet security requirements, and cybersecurity construction has received top-down attention. Not only has the state promulgated the Classified Protection 2.0 standards, but major hospitals are also strengthening their own cybersecurity infrastructure.

These factors have all driven Sangfor, with its inherent strengths in IT infrastructure, cloud computing, and enterprise-grade security, to establish a strong presence in the healthcare sector, providing medical information and security services to hundreds of thousands of healthcare institutions across China.

With the implementation of the tiered evaluation standards for smart hospital services, an increasing number of hospitals are accelerating the improvement of their information systems, leading to a growing demand for healthcare informatization.However, Zhao Jianchu stated that Sangfor Technologies differs from traditional IT vendors in that it does not engage with upper-layer SaaS applications, but instead focuses on infrastructure and security systems.。

Unlike other vendors that merely emphasize product and architectural performance and technology,。Sangfor focuses more on the requirements and pain points of customer business applications for IT infrastructure, as well as how to address these issues. Better assisting customers in realizing business value is the core philosophy behind our solution design.。

Sangfor provides a hyperconverged IT architecture with excellent business scalability and high reliability.Traditional IT architectures require extensive upfront planning to support business growth over a certain period, whereas hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) can be flexibly scaled according to evolving business needs. Hardware resources can be added or expanded as required without disrupting ongoing business operations.

Leveraging the disaster recovery capabilities of the hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform, second-level data synchronization is achieved for critical business systems. In the event of a failure at the primary data center, the disaster recovery site’s replicas can be promptly activated to restore data and business operations, ensuring system safety and reliability.

Meanwhile, in the broader field of business security, the logical boundaries between various business systems have become increasingly blurred following the adoption of virtualized deployments. This is particularly evident with east-west traffic, which has now emerged as the most vulnerable aspect of healthcare cybersecurity.

Under the hyper-converged platform,Sangfor’s cloud-native security solutions fully leverage the inherent security capabilities of cloud environments, offering security resource pools and east-west traffic micro-segmentation to meet customers’ security requirements in cloud-based or new business scenarios.。

Zhao Jianchu told VCBeat that DeepTrust starts from the challenges faced in the daily operations of medical institutions. By integrating its seven major scenario-based solutions with its core business platform, it aims to build a truly secure, stable, and efficient digital platform. This initiative supports the integration of medical resources, enhances work efficiency and management standards, and constructs “Smart Hospitals” that deliver tangible value to healthcare operations.

National Health Information Platform: Building a full-stack cloud platform and comprehensive security system for smart city healthcare, continuously safeguarding public health services.

Internet + Healthcare Solutions: Leverage situational awareness and artificial intelligence technologies to establish a proactive defense security system spanning from the hospital’s internet-facing networks to its core intranet, thereby comprehensively safeguarding information security in healthcare institutions.

Integrated Platform and CDR Scenario Solutions: Build an integrated, multi-dimensional, and comprehensive information integration platform to establish a robust healthcare data application service system.

Medical Alliances and Medical Communities: Centered on the “One Cloud, One Network, One System” framework, construct the foundational infrastructure for overall business applications, establish a comprehensive security system spanning from primary healthcare institutions and tertiary hospitals to the medical consortium platform, and create an optimized “ecosystem” for various applications within medical consortia and medical communities.

Level Protection 2.0 Solution: Sangfor provides healthcare institutions with the “Xsec All-in-One Appliance” for one-stop Classified Protection compliance construction. While meeting the requirements of China’s national Classified Protection 2.0 policy, it enables simplified deployment, significantly reduces the procurement and operational costs of security equipment, and makes security infrastructure development easier.

Hospital-Wide Data Center Construction: Build a unified, rational, and highly scalable infrastructure to enable rapid deployment, migration, and switchover of hospital services, making operations and maintenance management simpler and more efficient.

Smart Hospital Integrated Solution: New architectural design spanning application architecture, data architecture, and IT architecture to build a stable and efficient smart hospital platform.

Desktop Cloud:As hospitals expand in scale, the development of healthcare informatization faces numerous challenges, particularly multiple difficulties in terminal scenario management. For instance, the large number of computers creates significant pressure on daily operations and maintenance, complicates data security control, renders new hardware incompatible with the Windows 7 operating system, and involves a vast array of business systems, resulting in a substantial workload for upgrades and maintenance.

Therefore, hospitals need cloud desktop systems to improve management efficiency, reduce resource investment, and ensure data security.

Zhao Jianchu stated that cloud desktops constitute a broad category encompassing various architectures. These different architectures have distinct application scenarios, varying strengths and weaknesses, and target different customer segments.

From a global technology trend perspective, Sangfor believes that VDI is currently the mainstream development trend. Furthermore, through Sangfor’s continuous efforts in recent years, compatibility issues with business systems and external peripherals—long-standing challenges for customers—have been resolved within the VDI architecture. This has alleviated customers’ past concerns about whether cloud desktops are viable and user-friendly.

Additionally,From primary healthcare institutions to top-tier (Grade 3A) hospitals across various provinces and cities, Sangfor has numerous successful case studies. By delivering a superior user experience through its Desktop Cloud solution, Sangfor has cultivated strong word-of-mouth within the medical community, thereby influencing the adoption of desktop cloud technology by other healthcare institutions.。

Weixin Cloud:“WeiXinCloud” Full-Rack Integrated Delivery Solution is essentially a super data center, integrating hyper-converged infrastructure, desktop cloud, and security protection systems into an efficient and stable business hosting platform.。

“Weixin Cloud” consolidates Sangfor’s years of R&D expertise in security, cloud computing, and infrastructure, along with Winning Health’s extensive experience in medical software. By achieving deep integration at the code level, it enables Sangfor’s hardware to seamlessly adapt to Winning Health’s HIS, integration platforms, and other software solutions. This ensures optimal convergence and compatibility, safeguards business stability, and facilitates standardized, integrated delivery.

To drive the development of the entire industry, the efforts of a single enterprise are limited. Only by building an ecosystem of collaborative partnerships and leveraging multi-party resources can we bring greater vitality and value to the healthcare industry as a whole.

Zhao Jianchu stated that Sangfor’s partners refer not only to hospitals themselves but also to the extensive network of partners Sangfor has in the market.

Sangfor’s security system leverages the strength of its partners, integrating expert security experience, machine learning evolution, and 24/7 operational capabilities in the cloud.

Through 24/7 monitoring via the security operations platform, users are helped to continuously assess risks; through 24/7 cloud-based standby by senior security experts, users are assisted in continuously combating attacks and responding rapidly. Offline, partners are established across China, with many having local operational staff stationed at hospitals. These partners can quickly respond to hospital security incidents through Sangfor’s security service system. By integrating online and offline resources, strategies are adjusted in a timely manner to eliminate risks.

Take a city like Shenzhen as an example. When a security incident occurs at a hospital, Sangfor Technologies, leveraging its human-AI collaborative intelligence model in partnership with its ecosystem partners, can now respond to the hospital’s risk events immediately. In contrast, traditional emergency response often requires dispatching experts to the onsite location, which can take over an hour—a delay that may cause the organization to miss the optimal window for containment and remediation. Therefore, Sangfor is committed to building a human-AI collaborative intelligence system together with customers and partners to minimize security response times and resolve clients’ security issues more rapidly.

In addition to its partners, Sangfor Technologies aims to establish a business ecosystem partnership framework to achieve win-win collaboration and better serve hospitals. Currently, this ecosystem comprises three components:

First,Achieved deep integration with ISVs. To create an integrated smart healthcare solution that combines “hardware and software” with deep integration for medical services. For example, collaborating with Winning Health to launch “Winning Cloud,” and partnering with Xinyi International to develop telemedicine services.

Second,Collaborate with industry regulators, industry media, and associations to explore the development direction of health services, continuously optimizing products and solutions, and participating in the formulation of industry standards, such as the "Guidelines for the Construction of New-Generation Hospital Data Centers" released by the National Health Commission this June.

Third,Collaborate with universities and hospitals to establish joint research and training platforms, and deepen integration with hospitals, physicians, and research institutions to better understand industry needs., while also extending Sangfor’s mature architectural capabilities and leading security solutions to more healthcare institutions, thereby empowering hospitals in their security infrastructure development.

Regarding future development, Zhao Jianchu told VCBeat that Sangfor Technologies will implement a tiered approach to its business operations in the future.

For Mature Businesses, the team leverages a vast network of partners to achieve extensive market coverage, rapidly delivering Sangfor’s superior solutions to more healthcare institutions.

For New Application Areas, Sangfor will integrate its robust R&D resources, continuously invest in areas such as big data and artificial intelligence, and drive innovation to deliver more advanced, business-aligned solutions to customers.

In the field of safetyIn addition to providing new MLPS 2.0 compliance services, Sangfor Technologies helps customers build a comprehensive security system that delivers continuous and effective protection, truly implementing robust security measures. This ensures hospital safety and enables healthcare infrastructure to adapt to risks arising from changes in the business environment. Sangfor aims to empower customers to excel in their core business operations and achieve better growth by establishing security protection frameworks and delivering security services and operational assurance.

In the infrastructure domain, Sangfor provides advanced business platforms that effectively meet the infrastructure needs of today’s hospital groups, while also offering a robust foundation for new applications to easily address emerging business demands such as microservices, big data, and artificial intelligence.