Huawei: new solutions for data storage

On the occasion of the Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum (IDI), Huawei presented its new solutions for it data storage. But he also had the opportunity to invite excellent guests to talk about the challenges of the sector and beyond.

Huawei presents new data storage solutions at the IDI Forum

At the event Peter Zhou, Vice President of Huawei and President of the IT Product Line spoke of the challenges facing the industry. From the need to manage new workloads, cas distributed databases and big data, moving to the acceleration of services and the increased demands for data protection. Without forgetting the importance of green solutions.

Assaf Natanzon, Huawei’s Chief Architect of Data Storagethen explained how Huawei’s 3 + 1 strategy is sustainable, reducing the power consumption per TB. Higher density designs, system convergence and data reduction through specific algorithms. All solutions that can improve the environmental impact of the sector.

Looking in this direction, Huawei has also proposed the edition 2022 dell’Olympus Mons Awardcon due challenge: data infrastructure with maximum energy efficiency, and data archiving with maximum efficiency in terms of costs per bit.

The new storage solutions

The event also served as a springboard for some of the company’s innovative products. Let’s talk about, for example OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage. A storage system to provide both SAN and NAS ‘active-active disaster recovery’ (DR). Featuring 21 million IOPS, latency as low as 0.05ms, and 99.99999% reliability.

OceanStor Dorado NAS makes resource distribution 30% faster by supporting various sharing methods. OceanProctect Backup Storage offers backup bandwidths three times the industry average, with five times faster recovery, reducing data at a 72: 1 ratio.

Also comes primary storage and backup solutions for ransomware protection and a toolkit that includes SmartIDC, MigrationDirector e Data Management Engine (DME). Finally, Huawei announced the upgrade of distributed storage OceanStor Pacific, adopting SmartBalance as a design. It allows bandwidth of 160GBps, 6.4 million IOPS and 640,000 OPS.

You can learn more about the topic with the video replay of the event and find information on all Huawei solutions at this address.