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Future-proof Data Storage Power Metrics System
Regional Level, Data Center Level, and Storage Product Level
Magnitude, Efficiency, Groundwork, and Advancement
Capacity Planning; Resource Utilization; Performance Requirements; Security, Reliability, and Ransomware Protection; Solution-level TCO; Native AI Application Enablement
Measures the alignment between data storage capacity and digital economy development, reflecting support for digital economy based on data volume.
Formula: Storage capacity/Annual GDP (GB/$10,000)
Measures the alignment between data storage capacity and generated data volume, reflecting data storage adequacy.
Formula: Storage capacity/Annual data generation (%)
Measures the degree of emphasis on the data storage industry.
Formula: Data retention/Data generation (%)
Assesses whether investment aligns storage with data growth and whether it supports advanced tech deployment.
Formula: Current year data storage investment/Previous year data storage investment – 1 (%)
Measures the synergy between compute and storage to help with efficiency improvement.
Formula: Existing computing power/Existing data storage capacity (GB:GFLOPS)
Uses flash storage deployment, a measure of advanced productivity, to assess whether storage capacity meets data preservation and retrieval needs in digitalization.
Formula: Annual flash memory investment/Total data storage investment (%)
Measures the resilience to various incidents, ensuring data integrity and continuous operation.
Formula: ((Disaster recovery investment + Backup investment)/Data storage investment (%)
Evaluates the environmental impact of data infrastructure by measuring its energy consumption.
Formula: Annual data center storage energy consumption/Existing storage capacity (Kwh/TB)
Assesses whether ongoing R&D investment supports advanced productivity exploration.
Formula: Domestic data storage patents/Global data storage patents (%)
Reflects data centers' overall storage capacity.
Formula: Total capacity of data storage devices (EB)
Reflects the ability of data centers' storage capacity to effectively meet data retention and usage demands during peak hours.
Formula: Storage capacity/Projected peak data volume of enterprises (%)
Assesses whether investment aligns storage with data growth and whether it supports advanced tech deployment.
Formula: Current year data storage investment/Previous year data storage investment – 1 (%)
Assesses balance of ICT resource allocation of data centers.
Formula: Data storage capacity/Total computing power (GB:GFLOPS)
Evaluates the effectiveness of configured compute and storage resources at data centers for intelligent computing (such as large AI models).
Formula: Effective capacity/Effective computing power in intelligent computing scenarios (%)
Measures the current storage utilization of data centers, which reflects data storage redundancy.
Formula: Occupied capacity/Total available SSD capacity (%)
Uses flash storage deployment, a measure of advanced productivity, to assess whether storage capacity meets data preservation and retrieval needs in digitalization.
Formula: SSD investment/Total investment (%)
Evaluates organizations' capabilities to comprehensively understand, view, and manage their data resources.
Formula: Data assets mapped/Total data assets (%)
Assesses the health status of storage devices in data centers.
Formula: Capacity of equipment under maintenance/Total capacity in data centers (%)
Measures the resilience to various incidents, ensuring data integrity and continuous operation.
Formula: (B&R capacity investment)/Total storage investment (%)
Time required for IT systems to recover form interruptions to support enterprise operations
Formula: Time required for IT systems to recover form interruptions to support enterprises (Hours)
The point to which disrupted data can be recovered to
Formula: The point to which data can be recovered to after disruption (Hours)
Measures enterprises' investments in storage, encompassing TCO.
Formula: TCO/Total capacity ($/GB)
Assesses data centers' consumption and sustainability.
Formula: Total consumption of DC's storage equipment/Effective Capacity (Kwh/TB)
Assesses the support provided by storage capacity for the "intelligent transformation" trends of data centers.
Formula: Data encryption, audit log, snapshot, asynchronous replication, metadata indexing, etc., to be fulfilled according to clients' demands
Assesses the openness of storage APIs to data centers.
Formula: Open API interfaces/All available APl interfaces (%)
The modernization degree of data centers' storage-compute architecture and data centers' capability to efficiently pool storage resources
Formula: Capacity of storage-compute decoupled architecture/Total capacity (%)
Measures a storage system's physical capacity.
Formula: Physical capacity configured in the storage system (PB)
Subtracts the capacity used for RAID protection and metadata from the raw capacity.
Formula: Raw capacity – Capacity used for RAID protection and metadata (PB)
Takes the usable capacity and multiplies it by the fraction of data written to the system over the occupied capacity.
Formula: Usable capacity x (Amount of data written to the system/Occupied capacity) (PB)
Assesses whether the storage capacity is sufficient for production activities.
Formula: (Effective capacity + Available free capacity)/Raw capacity (%)
Feasible methods for handling the growth of enterprises' data volume to deliver effortless scalability
Formula: Reserved nodes x Number of hard drives per node x Capacity of each hard drive (PB)
Maximum number of read and write operations per second of data storage devices
Formula: 1000 ms/(Track seeking + Rotational delay)
Measures the performance of data storage capacity in data read and write operations.
Formula: Throughput MB/s = I/O per Second * Size of I/O = I/O per Second * KB per I/O:1024 (MB/s)
Response time during data read and write operations, including data flow wait time and service time
Formula: Response time = Wait time + Service time (read/write time) = (Queue length + 1) x Average response time (s)
Mean time between failures
Formula: Mean time between failures (Days)
Mean time to repair
Formula: Mean time to repair (Hours)
Assesses storage products' capability to continuously support businesses with fewer or no failures.
Formula: MTBF /(MTBF+MTTR) (%)
Measures the actual cost-effectiveness of each unit of storage capacity to make more informed decision-making during storage system planning and procurement.
Formula: 5-year TCO of storage system/Storage capacity ($/GB)
All storage protocols supported by storage devices. Under complex data center architecture, measures whether the storage capacity can support different operating systems, management programs, and application software.
Formula: CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC, and others
Connection methods between storage devices
Formula: SAN, NAS, and DAS
Call for Initiatives
Incorporate regional-level future-proof data storage power metrics systems into governments' industry development goals.
Develop regulatory and incentive policies to ensure realization of development goals.
Actively promote future-proof data storage power in key sectors, such as finance, government, and telecom, encouraging open-source databases and other open-source software ecosystems to thrive.
Leverage industry-university-research joint laboratories as core platforms to promote R&D of advanced N+1 generation solutions.
Manage storage as a key independent category within ICT.
Ensure full-stack independent innovation and efficient collaboration in future-proof data storage power industry.
Promote application of future-proof data storage power solutions across all industries.
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