Connect 2022 Paris: Huawei Presented ‘Data-Centric’ Concept for Storage Industry

At Huawei Connect 2022 Paris, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. presented its ‘data-centric’ concept for the data storage industry.

Dr. Assaf Natanzon, chief architect, data storage, delivered a keynote speech at Huawei Connect 2022 Paris
(Sources: PRNewsfoto/Huawei EBG Western Europe)

It also launched scenario-specific storage products and solutions designed to unleash data productivity for European enterprises.

“We hope to share Huawei’s storage insights with our European partners and customers, and we are also firmly going in this direction,” says Natanzon.

He believes that storage is undergoing 3 major changes in digital era:

• The integration of distributed databases, big data, and AI technologies will make data application scenarios more diverse.

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

• Enterprises digital resilience is more important than ever.

In response to storage evolution, the firm adheres to the ‘data-centric’ approach and launches scenario-specific storage products and solutions to aid Europe’s digital transformation.

Multi-cloud
A combination of public and private multi-clouds is the best choice for cloud transformation. Centralized data storage sharing and cross-cloud application deployment are the optimal multi-cloud architecture for enterprises. The company is adhering to this innovative practice.

Production and transactions
OceanStor Dorado all-flash storage provides SAN and NAS capabilities with reliability and performance, which is for financial core banking systems and Hospital Information Systems (HIS). NAS and SAN both use FlashLink disk-controller collaboration algorithms and SmartMatrix full-mesh architecture. In addition, OceanStor Dorado provides an industry’s active-active NAS solution.

Data analytics
OceanStor Pacific scale-out storage eliminates data analytics performance, protocol, and capacity bottlenecks using architecture breakthroughs, such as data flow that adapts to large and small IO/s, high-density hardware, and Erasure Coding (EC) algorithms, improving the data analysis processing efficiency by over 30%.

Data protection
Huawei Storage provides data protection. In terms of DR, the company provides multiple DR solutions, such as local HA, intra-city active-active, 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 a 72:1 data reduction ratio. The firm’s Ransomware Protection Storage solution covers primary and backup storage, and uses ML models to detect ransomware, with a detection rate of 99%.

Natanzon noted: “In this era of data explosion, data applications are booming. Huawei Data Storage is committed to building a data-centric, trustworthy storage foundation for diverse applications to unleash data productivity.”