Huawei Dorado5100 Demonstrates Outstanding SPC-1 Performance

Shenzhen, China, August 20, 2012: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, announced that its Solid State Storage (SSS) product, OceanStor Dorado5100, has produced an outstanding SPC-1(SPC Benchmark 1) Result. As one of the critical products in Huawei’s SSS strategy, the Dorado5100 adopts full-SSD architecture to meet the demanding storage performance requirements from enterprise business systems. The results were released via the official SPC website on August 14, 2012.

The record performance of 600,052.49 SPC-1 IOPSTM with an average response time of 1.09 ms, has established Dorado5100 as a performance leader in the storage industry. As a full-SSD array featuring the top I/O speed, the Dorado5100 maximally meets the demanding storage requirements for latency-sensitive services such as large-scale databases, high-performance computing, and VDI(Virtual Desktop Infrastructure).

The Dorado5100 helps data centers coordinate internal data as quickly as possible to deliver immediate response and maximize overall efficiency. Incorporating dual-controller full-redundancy architecture, the Dorado5100 offers excellent data protection by eliminating single points of failure and achieving up to millions of hours of MTBF(Mean Time Between Failure), effectively safeguarding service continuity.

"Huawei is committed to customer-centric technical innovation and our solutions are designed specifically to meet customer requirements. Combining Huawei’s proprietary intellectual property rights with its storage expertise, our company has developed a suite of comprehensive and industry-leading products," said Fan Ruiqi, President of Huawei Storage Product Line. "High performance, availability, and ease-of-use are what we have strived for, and this is reflected in our outstanding SPC-1 result, a strong example of our competitive edge."

The Dorado5100 features super flexibility and delivers customizable services and technical support for enterprises of all sizes. Benefiting from the advanced high-speed cache management and I/O scheduling algorithm, the Dorado5100 offers immediate response in a complex computing environment and becomes an optimal choice for key services such as large-scale OLTP/OLAP databases, finance, online transaction, and video editing.

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About SPC

The Storage Performance Council (SPC) is a non-profit corporation founded to define, standardize, and promote storage subsystem benchmarks as well as to disseminate objective, verifiable performance data to the computer industry and its customers. The goal of the SPC is to serve as a catalyst for performance improvement in storage subsystems. It works to foster the free and open exchange of ideas and information, and to ensure fair and vigorous competition between vendors as a means of improving the products and services available to the general public.

About SPC-1

SPC-1 consists of a single workload designed to demonstrate the performance of a storage subsystem while performing the typical functions of business-critical applications.

About Huawei

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For details about the OceanStor Dorada5100 SPC-1 Result, please go to: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00119

For details about the OceanStor Dorado5100, please go to: http://enterprise.huawei.com/cn/products/itapp/storage/san-product/HW_131856_KeyTemps.htm