Focused on helping enterprises unlock the power of their data, Huawei provided 
a range of storage products and solutions featuring scenario-specific 
technologies for different industries, at Huawei Connect 2022. The vision 
behind the storage portfolio, explained by Dr. Peter Zhou, President of Huawei 
IT Product Line, is "to build a data-centric, trustworthy storage foundation 
for diverse applications" in scenarios like production and transactions, data 
analytics, and data protection.

Huawei believes data storage in the digital era faces four major changes:

1. New data applications are continuously created, from conventional databases 
to distributed database, big data, and AI applications.

2. Data is getting hotter and hotter, requiring much faster real-time data 
analytics and processing.

3. Natural disasters and human-caused errors are frequent, resulting in 
enormous losses. Therefore, enterprises' digital resilience needs urgent 
improvement.

4. Energy-efficient data storage is a major industry direction and becoming the 
new normal.

Huawei actively embraces these changes, with a series of premium storage 
products and solutions for different industry scenarios.

Production and transactions

OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage provides SAN and NAS capabilities with 
leading reliability and performance, especially for the financial core baking 
and Hospital Information Systems (HIS) scenarios. NAS and SAN both take 
advantage of FlashLink disk-controller collaboration algorithms and SmartMatrix 
full-mesh architecture. In addition, the OceanStor Dorado provides the 
industry's only active-active NAS solution, ensuring the file service 
continuity.

Data analytics

OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage breaks down the performance, protocols, and 
capacity bottlenecks of data analytics using technical architecture 
breakthroughs, such as data flow that adapts to large and small I/Os, 
ultra-high-density hardware, and Erasure Coding (EC) algorithms, improving the 
data analysis processing efficiency by over 30%.

Data protection

Huawei Storage provides comprehensive data protection against natural disasters 
or man-made mistakes. In terms of disaster recovery (DR), Huawei provides 
multiple DR solutions, such as local HA, intra-city A-A, and geo-redundant 3DC. 
To back up service data, OceanProtect delivers 3x higher backup bandwidth and 
5x higher recovery bandwidth than peer products, along with an ultimate 72:1 
data reduction ratio. Huawei ransomware protection storage solution covers 
primary storage and backup storage, and uses machine learning models to detect 
ransomware, with a detection rate of 99%.

Automatic management

Speaking of O&M, the traditional mode is time-consumed and labor-intensive. 
Huawei DME enables full-lifecycle automation across planning, deployment, O&M, 
and optimization; predicts disk faults 14 days in advance, and capacity 90 days 
in advance; and frees O&M personnel from complicated tasks so that they can 
focus on more innovative tasks.

Container storage

Nowadays, the container technology is gaining more popularity, especially in 
Internet and finance sectors. OceanStor Dorado NAS decouples containerized 
applications from storage so that application and storage resources can be 
expanded on demand; provides cross-node data sharing; and improves resource 
scheduling efficiency by 30% compared with industry benchmarks.

Multi-cloud

A combination of public and private multi-clouds is proven the best choice for 
cloud transformation. Centralized data storage sharing and cross-cloud 
application deployment are the optimal multi-cloud architecture for 
enterprises. Storage vendors can deploy professional storage on public cloud 
platforms in software-hardware integrated or software-only mode to help 
facilitate cross-cloud evolution. Huawei Storage is endeavoring in such 
innovative practice.

Peter Zhou noted that, "we are in an era of data explosion and data 
applications are booming. Huawei Data Storage is committed to building a 
data-centric, trustworthy storage foundation for diverse applications to 
unleash the power of data-driven productivity."

SOURCE: Huawei

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