Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Wins Best of Show Award at Interop Tokyo 2020

[Tokyo, Japan, June 3, 2020] At Interop Tokyo 2020, the largest ICT exhibition in Japan, the Huawei next-gen OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage officially earned plaudits from IT experts when it won the Best of Show Award. This product, which runs on the SmartMatrix architecture, establishes a reliability benchmark by tolerating failure of 7 out of 8 controllers. It is the industry's first self-optimized production and transaction storage powered by AI architecture that uses premium hardware and algorithms to improve service performance by 20%. The OceanStor Dorado All-Flash series delivers powerful computing power for everyday business, and improves the data reduction rate by over 30%.

Huawei OceanStor Dorado Wins Interop Tokyo 2020 "Best of Show" Award

Dr. Peter Zhou, President of Huawei Data Storage and Intelligent Vision Product Line, was happy to accept this award. On the award, he said, "We are very pleased that our next-generation OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage won Interop Tokyo's Best of Show Award. In fact, this is the second time that Huawei OceanStor Dorado has won this award since 2017, so we are happy it is getting the recognition it deserves by the Japanese IT market its advanced and stringent performance." Peter later added, "Current trends show that in our digital economy, new 5G and AI connections and applications have accelerated data production and flow, and caused digital transaction frequency to increase by more than 10 times. Now, enterprises need to handle service response in less than 1 ms, so conventional data infrastructure needs to be upgraded." It is on this background that Huawei released its next-generation OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage. Huawei storage team has been working on core production and transaction scenarios for 10 years, and has succeeded in setting numerous performance, reliability, and intelligence benchmarks. "Our series is designed to help customers in Japan and elsewhere use more stable and reliable storage, and help find the value in their data."

OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage

Based on the unique end-to-end acceleration platform and innovative NOF+ solution, the Huawei next-gen OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage can achieve 20 million IOPS and 0.1 ms latency, setting a new benchmark for performance. The highly reliable SmartMatrix architecture ensures that a single system tolerates the failure of a maximum of 7 out of 8 controllers, ensuring continuous of mission-critical services. The AI architecture leverages an intelligent hardware platform, software and machine learning algorithms to automatically optimize storage resource allocation, improving the read cache hit ratio by 20% and enhancing storage utilization.

Since the launch of the first-generation OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage in 2010, Huawei has heavily invested in the all-flash field. Currently, Huawei All-Flash Storage has served more than 10,000 enterprises worldwide and has been recognized as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant, ranking No.1 in both the Chinese market share and the global market growth rate.

Interop Tokyo is a prestigious network computing industry event and the largest and most influential ICT exhibition in Japan, with the Best of Show Award offered to the best products of the year. Each year, an extensive team composed of authoritative experts and university professors selects and reviews the most innovative products and solutions, all featuring extreme commercial value, from hundreds of nominated solutions. After excelling in multiple rounds among the selected vendors, Huawei OceanStor Dorado won the Best of Show Award, indicating its unique technical advantages and recognition by the industry authorities.