SHEIN

SHEIN is an online retail company that empowers suppliers to build an agile and flexible supply chain through on-demand production, reducing waste while providing affordable fashion products to global consumers. It currently serves consumers in more than 150 countries and regions worldwide.

However, SHEIN had deployed a large-scale, international mainstream virtualization environment across its domestic warehouses and factories. As the prices of these vendor solutions increased, SHEIN needed to explore other alternatives to reduce IT infrastructure costs while maintaining business flexibility and reliability. After evaluating various options, ZStack ZSphere was chosen for its lightweight, simple, and easy-to-use characteristics, making it the ideal choice for SHEIN.

ZStack’s ZSphere virtualization platform, with its exceptional technological innovations and market performance, has entered the leader quadrant of the 2024 China Virtualization Market Research Report by CCID Consulting and ranked first among cloud vendors. ZStack ZSphere is characterized by high autonomy, stability, performance, and security, aligning with the features of international mainstream enterprise virtualization products. It offers a similar user experience and can reliably replace data center infrastructure needs, enabling intelligent and unified operations, seamless V2V migration, while ensuring business safety and reliability.

ZStack developed a detailed construction plan for SHEIN, with its headquarters serving as the business management center, and new data centers established in each of the company’s factory warehouses, equipped with 1-2 servers. A VPN dedicated line connects each data center to the headquarters management node, enabling centralized management. The ZStack ZSphere platform is responsible for the smooth migration of existing businesses, ensuring no disruption to operations.

During the implementation process, SHEIN replaced its existing virtualization platform with ZStack ZSphere, avoiding high costs, while benefiting from hardware reuse support provided by ZStack ZSphere, further reducing costs. Moreover, ZStack ZSphere allows on-demand expansion of computing and storage resources to meet different business requirements and achieve centralized management across multiple business scenarios via distributed management. It also provides features like high-availability virtual machines and snapshot backups to ensure business continuity and data security. From a management perspective, SHEIN centralized the management of its data centers across all factory locations using the ZSphere platform, simplifying operation complexity and improving efficiency through intelligent operations, reducing the need for manual management.

Through the implementation of ZStack ZSphere, SHEIN significantly reduced its IT infrastructure costs while improving business flexibility and system reliability, supporting dynamic resource expansion and ensuring business continuity. Centralized management and intelligent operation features improved management efficiency, reduced operational complexity, and lowered management costs. ZStack ZSphere’s compatibility and ease of use also support SHEIN’s future business expansion, providing a competitive advantage in the market. Overall, the ZStack ZSphere virtualization platform has not only optimized SHEIN’s virtualization deployment but also brought long-term business value and competitiveness.