MWC Barcelona: Huawei Unveils Vision of Flash-to-Flash-to-Anything and Three Storage Systems for Full-Stack Data Center Solution

At MWC Barcelona 2022, during the Full-Stack Data Center Forum, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. proposed the vision of ‘Flash-to-Flash-to-Anything (F2F2X)’, and advocated use all flash storage to accelerate all-scenario.

At the same time, the company revealed 3 storage products: OceanStor Dorado All-flash Storage, OceanProtect Backup Storage, and OceanStor Pacific Storage for Full-Stack Data Center solution.

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The rise of 5G, the IoT, and AI applications has caused data to surge in the finance, government, and manufacturing industries. As a result, storage systems face higher requirements. Traditional systems cannot provide the service and Opex performance needed to keep IT systems online at all times and in all conditions. Consequently, all-flash storage has become a choice to boost production efficiency across industries, especially for transactions, analytics, high-performance file sharing, development and testing, DR and backup, and HPC. SSDs are rapidly replacing HDDs to deliver higher data performance and better data protection in all scenarios.

Three flagship storage product series and solutions for the Full-tack Data Center Solution:
The OceanStor Dorado All-flash Storage series is for reliability and performance, and it has been adopted in various industries for core production applications.

• The OceanStor Dorado systems launched at MWC feature brand NAS features together with many other security features, such as quota, QoS, and ransomware protection. Together, they help ensure safe cross-department file sharing. They also adopt a cross-cluster global distributed file system architecture and a flashLink architecture to deliver 30% higher performance than industry peers. Furthermore, this series simultaneously supports active-active storage for SAN and NAS to ensure that services run 24/7. Dorado arrays are suitable for semiconductor electric design automation (EDA), product R&D, and financial data exchange scenarios, serving as efficient and reliable infrastructure for applications with over a trillion small files.

• The OceanProtect Backup Storage series features a multi-stream engine for end-to-end acceleration and an active-active architecture for high reliability. With inline variable-length de-dupe and feature-based compression algorithms, it provides 3x higher backup speed and 5x data recovery speed than competing products as well as a data reduction ratio of 72:1. In addition, it provides an all-round ransomware protection solution to help users protect data vs. attacks.

• The OceanStor Pacific mass storage series breaks the boundaries of performance, protocol, and capacity for high-performance data analytics (HPDA) applications. It supports hybrid loads, meaning that one OceanStor Pacific system can be used for HPDA, big data, video, backup, and archiving applications at the same time. These systems further improve storage utilization by 30% in HPDA scenarios through algorithm optimization and data compression techniques. In addition, supporting near-real-time big data processing, they slash the time for analyzing 100 billion data sets from days to minutes, accelerating application development.