Next-Gen Datacenters White Paper Released

——Huawei and IDC jointly envision the "Future of Data Infrastructure"

[Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 2025] At MWC Barcelona 2025, Huawei and IDC jointly released a white paper titled Elevating All-Flash Datacenters to Accelerate Intelligence-Digitalization. The paper's stated aim is to serve as a reference for enterprises in building the "Future of Data Infrastructure".

In this white paper, IDC analyzes the challenges for enterprise storage and the data infrastructure upgrade needs of the intelligence-digitalization era. The paper discusses the technological and use case development trends of all-flash storage. Best practices from multiple industries are used as examples of how to build all-flash data centers to realize the value of data and lay a solid foundation for the intelligence-digitalization transformation.

Andrew Buss, Senior Research Director of IDC EMEA Infrastructure and Telecoms, explaining the key points of the white paper

According to the white paper, data has become the fifth factor of production and is playing a key role in enterprises. Data as a utility means transforming data into key factors for production, circulation, distribution, and consumption, with a focus on data ingestion, storage, and management to ensure data resilience and quality.

As the carriers of data, storage systems have become critical infrastructure for enterprises. The ability of enterprises to realize the value of data and achieve intelligence-digitalization transformation will be directly determined by the capacity, performance, and stability of their storage systems. However, the rapid growth of data-intensive services and the hot data is creating significant challenges in the construction and deployment of enterprise storage systems. Enterprises need to tackle issues in performance, energy consumption, data resilience, data management, data migration, and data flow in heterogeneous multi-cloud environments.

Based on the analysis of best practices in the finance, carrier, and other industries, IDC stipulates that all-flash data centers featuring Efficiency, Green, Security, Intelligent Management, Seamless Upgrades, and Free Flow will be the optimal solution to the above challenges. All-flash technology continues to evolve and SSDs are seeing increasingly wider use, so all-flash data centers are driving flash-based storage in all use cases. This encompasses mission-critical applications, business-critical applications, data analysis, large AI models, and data backup.

IDC's description of how all-flash data centers support storage demands across all use cases

"The emergence of generative Al and the power of transformer models have resulted in unprecedented levels of demand for high-performance, responsive, cost-effective, and future-proof storage, making engineered all-flash storage systems ideal," said Andrew Buss, Senior Research Director of IDC EMEA Infrastructure and Telecoms.

Michael Qiu, President of Huawei Global Data Storage Marketing & Solution Sales Dept, stated, "As AI continues to be integrated in a vast range of industries, it will be essential for enterprises to build next-generation data infrastructure that is high-performing, elastic, and sustainable. Implementing all-flash storage across all use cases will be crucial for enterprises seeking to develop future-proof storage power and enhance strategic competitiveness."

For more information about the white paper, please visit: https://e.huawei.com/en/material/enterprise/8a8742493df04d4cb043c64db966815b