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Why You Need All Flash for All Scenarios
As the core means of production, data has become the catalyst for the digital economy. With explosive data growth
driving the maturity of the data value chain, data is now playing an increasingly important role in enterprise decision-making
and innovation. Such explosive growth, however, has consequences: significant pressure is being placed on
traditional data centers, which provide the centralized storage, computing, and data resource exchange
enterprises need to tap into the full value of data. This creates four major challenges.
driving the maturity of the data value chain, data is now playing an increasingly important role in enterprise decision-making
and innovation. Such explosive growth, however, has consequences: significant pressure is being placed on
traditional data centers, which provide the centralized storage, computing, and data resource exchange
enterprises need to tap into the full value of data. This creates four major challenges.
As the core means of production, data has become the catalyst for the digital economy. With explosive data growth driving the maturity of the data value chain, data is now playing an increasingly important role in enterprise decision-making and innovation. Such explosive growth, however, has consequences: significant pressure is being placed on traditional data centers, which provide the centralized storage, computing, and data resource exchange enterprises need to tap into the full value of data. This creates four major challenges.
Huge numbers of offline services are shifting online, resulting in more and more innovative yet data hungry services.
Service peak loads and related reliability needs have increased 10 times or more.
Data centers account for 2–3% of the world's annual power consumption.
Electricity fees account for over half of the Operating Expenditure (OPEX) of the majority of data centers.
Downtime in any data center is simply unacceptable.
Data losses result in nearly one million enterprises going bankrupt every single year.
By 2030, yottabytes of data will be produced every single year.
The global data center market size is projected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.9% from 2023 to 2030.
IDC’s All-Flash Data Center White Paper, Sponsored by Huawei
The Applications of All Flash
Now applicable to all scenarios, all flash doesn't only upgrade storage media. It also integrates resources and
reconstructs the architecture of data centers, future-proofing diverse services by enabling faster, greener,
and more durable data handling.
reconstructs the architecture of data centers, future-proofing diverse services by enabling faster, greener,
and more durable data handling.
Now applicable to all scenarios, all flash doesn't only upgrade storage media. It also integrates resources and reconstructs the architecture of data centers, future-proofing diverse services by enabling faster, greener, and more durable data handling.
Mission Critical Applications
The acceleration of digital transformation brings increasing access traffic to core production and transaction systems, also prolonging service times. This requires lower latency and higher reliability.
Business-Critical Applications
Critical business systems must run smoothly to support service operations. Stable performance and high service continuity are critical here.
Data Backup
As data increases in volume, its importance does too. Diversified data types also require greater protection. So backup and recovery speeds, the frequency of data replication, and data retention times, all need to be significantly improved.
Emerging Services
New Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications generate 10 billion-level file data. Model inference and training times need to be significantly reduced to accelerate Time to Market (TTM).
Workload Integration
The integration of hybrid workloads and data volumes requires green, space-saving, resilient storage systems.
It's clear. The moment to replace legacy disks with flash memory has arrived. And it's critical that enterprises seize the opportunity to act.
Why Huawei All Flash for All Scenarios Is the Right Choice
Why Huawei All Flash for All Scenarios Is the Right Choice
Huawei has 12 Research and Development (R&D) centers, over 8000 R&D staff, and 3200 patents, all dedicated to storage, helping more
than 25,000 customers in over 150 countries. Huawei's all-flash data center solutions include OceanStor all-flash storage, OceanProtect data protection,
Data Management Engine (DME) full-lifecycle intelligent Operations and Maintenance (O&M), and the Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) over Fabrics plus (NoF+) high-speed storage network. With ongoing
investment in groundbreaking technologies that offer faster, better, and more powerful data centers, Huawei's green, reliable, and intelligent
data centers place enterprises of all shapes and sizes in pole position, driving progress forward. They could do the same for you.
than 25,000 customers in over 150 countries. Huawei's all-flash data center solutions include OceanStor all-flash storage, OceanProtect data protection,
Data Management Engine (DME) full-lifecycle intelligent Operations and Maintenance (O&M), and the Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) over Fabrics plus (NoF+) high-speed storage network. With ongoing
investment in groundbreaking technologies that offer faster, better, and more powerful data centers, Huawei's green, reliable, and intelligent
data centers place enterprises of all shapes and sizes in pole position, driving progress forward. They could do the same for you.
Huawei has 12 Research and Development (R&D) centers, over 8000 R&D staff, and 3200 patents, all dedicated to storage, helping more than 25,000 customers in over 150 countries. Huawei's all-flash data center solutions include OceanStor all-flash storage, OceanProtect data protection, Data Management Engine (DME) full-lifecycle intelligent Operations and Maintenance (O&M), and the Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) over Fabrics plus (NoF+) high-speed storage network. With ongoing investment in groundbreaking technologies that offer faster, better, and more powerful data centers, Huawei's green, reliable, and intelligent data centers place enterprises of all shapes and sizes in pole position, driving progress forward. They could do the same for you.
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Financial companies
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Carriers
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Government organizations
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Other enterprises
Green
All-scenario flash slashes costs by consuming 60% less power and reducing the required physical footprint by 92%, cutting Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Replacing Hard-Disk Drives (HDDs) with a single Solid-State Drive (SSD) saves the equivalent amount of energy as planting 150 trees, a significant step on the road to environmental sustainability.
Reliable
The five-year return repair rate of SSDs is only 0.8%. The same figure for HDDs is 10 times higher.
The industry's only active-active solutions Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network-Attached Storage (NAS) offer seven nines — 99.99999% — reliability.
Efficient
SSDs dwarf HDDs in terms of performance, representing a 40-fold improvement.
An NoF+ all-Internet Protocol (IP) network delivers 10 times higher bandwidth, 42% lower average latency, and 30% higher Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) compared to Fibre Channel (FC), with an End to End (E2E) latency that falls below 50 μs.
Intelligent
Precise resource planning cuts the initial investment by 20%.
Global automatic provisioning delivers 10 times faster deployment.
Full-stack intelligent O&M improves fault closure by 60%.
Agile configuration optimization improves utilization by 80%.
Green
All-scenario flash slashes costs by consuming 60% less power and reducing the required physical footprint by 92%, cutting Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Replacing Hard-Disk Drives (HDDs) with a single Solid-State Drive (SSD) saves the equivalent amount of energy as planting 150 trees, a significant step on the road to environmental sustainability.
Reliable
The five-year return repair rate of SSDs is only 0.8%. The same figure for HDDs is 10 times higher.
The industry's only active-active solutions Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network-Attached Storage (NAS) offer seven nines — 99.99999% — reliability.
Efficient
SSDs dwarf HDDs in terms of performance, representing a 40-fold improvement.
An NoF+ all-Internet Protocol (IP) network delivers 10 times higher bandwidth, 42% lower average latency, and 30% higher Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) compared to Fibre Channel (FC), with an End to End (E2E) latency that falls below 50 μs.
Intelligent
Precise resource planning cuts the initial investment by 20%.
Global automatic provisioning delivers 10 times faster deployment.
Full-stack intelligent O&M improves fault closure by 60%.
Agile configuration optimization improves utilization by 80%.
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Reports and Awards
Gartner Peer Insights
Huawei is named the Customers' Choice for Primary Storage for its OceanStor Dorado all-flash storage.
DCIG
OceanStor Dorado 8000/18000 earn a spot in the 2023–24 DCIG TOP 5 High-End Storage Arrays Report.
DEKRA
OceanStor Dorado is the first storage product to obtain a DEKRA Product Carbon Footprint Certificate and a DEKRA Seal Certificate.
Evaluator Group
OceanStor Dorado is recommended as an attractive option for enterprises looking for NAS storage.
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Huawei Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage for the 8th Year in a Row
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OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage
With the industry's only SmartMatrix architecture and FlashLink® algorithm, OceanStor Dorado all-flash storage offers exceptional performance and reliability for mission-critical services.
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OceanStor 5310/5510 Capacity Flash Storage
OceanStor 5310 and OceanStor 5510 Capacity Flash Storage provide green, resilient, and efficient storage solutions for general services related to Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications.
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OceanStor Pacific 9920 All-Flash Scale-Out Storage
OceanStor Pacific 9920 offers outstanding performance and flexible component configurations to meet the access requirements of a wide range of structured and unstructured data workloads.
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OceanStor Pacific 9950 All-Flash Scale-Out Storage
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OceanStor Dorado 2100 Entry-Level NAS All-Flash Storage
OceanStor Dorado 2100 is a simple, reliable, and green entry-level all-flash storage system tailored for enterprise NAS applications.
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OceanStor Dorado 2000 Entry-Level All-Flash Storage
OceanStor Dorado 2000 is a simple, reliable, green, and cost-effective entry-level all-flash storage solution.
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OceanProtect Backup Storage
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What Are the Advantages of SSDs Compared to HDDs?
▪ SSDs are more resilient than HDDs. HDDs are all-disk-type storage, where data is stored in magnetic disk sectors. SSDs are made of flash memory particles. They have no moving mechanical parts inside. This means that SSDs can continue to function even if they are physically moving at high speeds or if they are rolled over. SSDs minimize data loss in the event of collisions, shocks, and vibrations.
▪ SSDs write data faster than HDDs. HDDs write data at approximately 120 MB/s. NVMe SSDs — Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) 3.0 x 4 — write data at approximately 3500 MB/s.
▪ SSDs consume less power than HDDs.
▪ SSDs are smaller and lighter than HDDs.
▪ SSDs are quieter than HDDs. HDDs require a high-power motor to rotate at high speeds, which produces noise and heat. SSDs have no mechanical parts, so they don't generate as much noise and they dissipate heat faster.
An Introduction to SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC
▪ Single-Level Cell (SLC) flash memory stores one bit of data in each cell.
▪ Multi-Level Cell (MLC) flash memory stores two bits of data in each cell.
▪ Triple-Level Cell (TLC) flash memory stores three bits of data in each cell.
▪ Quad-Level Cell (QLC) flash memory stores four bits of data in each cell.