NVMe All-Flash Array OceanStor Dorado5000 V3 From Huawei

At the 2017 Huawei Eco-Partner Conference, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. released its new-gen all-flash array: the OceanStor Dorado5000 V3.

OceanStor Dorado5000 V3 systems

This in all-flash arrays comes complete with NVMe capabilities to help customers better tap into the potential of flash and accelerate their digital transformations.

Cloud computing, online payment, mobile social networking and other real-time interactive applications requiring immediacy are causing huge surges in data and escalating the performance requirements on storage equipment in the data center. Flash is an important element in accelerating key business applications and helping enterprises handle the data growth. Observably, all-flash is quickly becoming the first choice in carrying heavily loaded mission-critical business and will be the mainstream storage in future data centers.

OceanStor 56005 800 V3

Adopting standardized protocols and interfaces in an important link in the popularization of flash, NVMe technology provides the standard access method with reduced latency between protocol interactions for improved concurrency and enhanced performance. The company’s addition helps further unleash the potential of all-flash and drive the needed accelerations at the data center.

As a member of the new-gen all-flash OceanStor Dorado V3 family, OceanStor Dorado5000 V3 incorporates company’s proprietary FlashLink technology. This tech has on-board I/O priority scheduling adjustment, large block sequential write, global garbage collection, and other utilities to achieve predictable 500µs latency. The appliance is applicable to the most demanding of high-frequency transactions and trading scenarios in finance and security trading.

Pairing up with the firm’s HyperMetro gateway-free array active-active solution achieves six-nines (99.9999%) reliability, ensuring mission-critical enterprise applications remain online 24/7. The active-active layout ensures latency stays low at the 1ms range while fulfilling the most demanding requirements on reliability. Adding to the attraction, the inline deduplication and compression technology delivers a three-fold improvement to the utilization efficiency of the data space without any degradation in performance. The company embarked on research into flash technology in 2005. Twelve years of research have culminated in the new-gen all-flash OceanStor Dorado5000 V3 array purpose built to carry mission-critical business, becoming the choice for many enterprises in their data platform builds.

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Customers of firm’s all-flash storage include many top-of-industry companies and institutions around the world, such as CSS Insurance (the second largest medical insurance company in Switzerland), H3G Sweden (the number one telecom carrier in Sweden), RPMI Ltd. (a British fund management company), BYD Auto Co., Ltd. (a well-known automobile manufacturer of China), and the number one hospital of Dalian Medical University.

The company is a provider with the end-to-end optimizations in flash from home growing its own OSs, controllers, and SSDs.

Customers can avail themselves of the enhanced business processing capabilities of the flash revolution with the added convenience of a complete product and solution portfolio and an ecosystem to back it.

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