Innovative Data Infrastructure Forum 2024

Data Awakening

May 7, 2024 | Berlin, Germany

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Explore the AI-ready data Infrastructure that's set to accelerate industrial intelligence.

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OceanStor A800 High-Performance AI Storage
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Agenda

Keynote
Session
Roundtable
10:00–12:00
UTC+2
Data Awakening
keynote
The Grand Ballroom
10:00–10:10
Opening Speech
Willi Song
President of European Enterprise Business, Huawei
10:10–10:25
How to Win in the Intelligent Era
Andrew Buss
Senior Research Director, IDC EMEA
10:25–10:45
Redefining Data Storage in the Data Awakening Era
Dr. Peter Zhou
President of Data Storage Product Line, Huawei
10:45–11:00
Turning Data into Knowledge and Skills
Dr. Hans Uszkoreit
Member of the European Academy of Sciences
Science Director, DFKI
11:00–11:15
A Future of Data Is a Future of Discovery
Stefan Hyttfors
Futurist
11:15–11:30
Digital Innovation for the Insurance Sector
Mário Magalhães Saraiva
IT Delivery & Operations Senior Director, Fidelidade
11:30–11:45
Data Handling Between Two Worlds
Werner Peters
Senior Architect, OTTO Group IT
11:45–12:00
Safeguarding Biodiversity Across Croatia via the Power of Data and AI
Ivana Majić
Entomologist, University of Osijek
14:00–15:30
UTC+2
AI-Ready Data Infrastructure Innovation
Technical Session
Salon 1
14:00–14:30
Challenges and Solutions for Data Infrastructure in the AI Era
Ning Wu
Chief Architect of Global Solution Sales Dept
14:30–15:10
OceanStor A800: Accelerating Large AI Model Training
Li Guojie
Chief Architect of OceanStor A Series Storage, Huawei
15:10–15:30
Efficient Data Center Management Improves the Efficiency of the Entire AI Training Process
Qiu Donghua
Senior Marketing Manager of Data Management Domain, Huawei
14:00–15:10
UTC+2
Fusing the Digital Foundation to Drive Forward Intelligent Healthcare
Healthcare Session
Salon 17
14:00–14:15
Digital and Intelligent Transformation Trends in the Healthcare Industry
Silvia Piai
Research Director, IDC Health Insights
14:15–14:35
Standardization – Key for AI use in Pathology
Prof. Dr. Peter Hufnagl
Head, Department of Digital Pathology and IT at Charité
14:35–14:55
Building Data Storage Infrastructure to Accelerate the Intelligent Transformation of the Healthcare Industry
Michael Georgi
Senior Solution Sales Manager, Huawei Germany
14:55–15:10
Huawei Next-Gen DCS Full-Stack Healthcare Data Center Solution for Smart Healthcare
CAI ZHONGJIE
Data Service Software Architect, Huawei Chengdu
14:00–15:30
UTC+2
Unleashing Data Power to Accelerate the Success of MSPs
MSP Session
Salon 21
14:00–14:20
Digital Transformation Trends in the MSP Industry
Javier Paniagua
Senior Sales Executive, Cad&Lan
14:20–14:40
Unleashing Data Power to Accelerate the Success of MSPs
Johan Westin
CTO of Sweden Enterprise Business, Huawei
14:40–14:50
MSP Storage Program Release
Lawrence Wu
Director of European Enterprise ISP Accounts Dept, Huawei
14:50–15:10
Efficient Data Storage Foundation, Accelerating MSP Business Success
Stefan Schneider
Storage Leader, Abraxas Informatik AG
15:10–15:30
Huawei High-Reliability Storage Helps MSPs Set Business Benchmarks
Hannes Beierlein
Chief Marketing Officer, Synaforce
14:00–15:35
UTC+2
Storage Innovation Enables Knowledge Monetization
Education Session
Salon 16
14:00–14:15
Leading Infrastructure Accelerates Education Intelligence
Frank Huang
Director of Education Solutions, Global Public Sector BU, Huawei
14:15–14:30
Storage Dynamics: The Impact of Transforming Technology and User Expectations
Dr. Julian Kunkel
IO500 Founder, Professor in High-Performance Computing at the University of Göttingen
14:30–14:45
Modern Storage Requirements for AI and ML in the HPC environment
Darren Starr
Chief Architect of HPC, University of Oslo, Norway
14:45–15:00
Trusted Collaboration – A Secure Foundation for Managing Large Data Successfully
Olaf Jacobi
Key Account Manager, Interface System GmbH
15:00–15:15
Huawei Storage Implementation at Cyprus University of Technology
Vasos Papageorgiou
Senior IT Infrastructure Manager, Cyprus University of Technology
15:15–15:35
OceanStor Pacific Facilitates Innovation in Higher Education
Anton Gohlke
Senior Solution Sales Manager, Huawei Germany
16:00–17:25
UTC+2
Evolving All-Flash Scale-Out Storage Awakens Mass Unstructured Data
Technical Session
Salon 1
16:00–16:05
Welcome Speech
Yuan Yuan
President of Scale-Out Storage, Huawei
16:05–16:15
Unstructured Data Storage Industry Trends
David Slik
Chief Architect of Scale-Out Storage, Huawei
16:15–16:25
Embracing New Applications in the YB Era and Extracting More Value from Mass Data
Hui Hu
Product Director of Scale-Out Storage, Huawei
16:25–17:05
Always Green, Flexible, and Available: The Evolution of All-Flash Scale-Out Storage
Rui Feng
Senior Architect of Scale-Out Storage, Huawei
17:05–17:25
Omni-Dataverse: Making Data Visible, Manageable, and Available Across Regions
Qing Wang
Senior Expert of Scale-Out Storage, Huawei
16:00–17:35
UTC+2
Flash Forward to Win Together
Commercial Market Session
Salon 21
16:00–16:10
Opening Speech
Mr. Xia Xingchang
Vice President of Enterprise Business Europe, Huawei
16:10–16:30
Flash Forward: Helping Partners Build a Solid Data Infrastructure Foundation for Commercial Markets
Bill Raftery
Chief Storage Expert
16:30–16:45
DME IQ Makes Everything Easy for Partners
Gaetano Pastore
Senior Storage Expert of Enterprise Business Europe, Huawei
16:45–17:00
Simplified and Efficient Digital Foundation Accelerates Business Transformation
Igor Gonzalez
Networking Brand Manager, Arrow Electronics
17:00–17:15
OceanClub Global Launch and Introduction
Michael Qiu
President of Global Data Storage MKT & Solution Sales Dept., Huawei
17:15–17:25
Huawei Storage Europe Innovation Center Launch
Jeff Wu
Director, Germany Data Center Solution Sales Dept., Huawei
17:25–17:35
Awards Presentation
16:00–17:30
UTC+2
Building Leading Data Infrastructure to Unleash the Value of Data in the AI Era
Analyst Roundtable
Salon 3

Featured Speakers

Jim Lu
President of European Region, Senior Vice President, Huawei
Dr. Peter Zhou
President of Data Storage Product Line, Huawei
Willi Song
President of European Enterprise Business, Huawei
Dr. Hans Uszkoreit
Member of the European Academy of Sciences
Science Director, DFKI
Dr. Julian Kunkel
IO500 Founder, Professor in High-Performance Computing at the University of Göttingen
Werner Peters
Senior Architect, OTTO Group IT
Mário Magalhães Saraiva
IT Delivery & Operations Senior Director, Fidelidade
Ivana Majić
Entomologist, University of Osijek
Andrew Buss
Senior Research Director, IDC EMEA
Darren Starr
Chief Architect of HPC, University of Oslo, Norway
Silvia Piai
Research Director, IDC Health Insights
Yuan Yuan
President of Scale-Out Storage, Huawei
Michael Qiu
President of Global Data Storage MKT & Solution Sales Dept., Huawei
Stefan Hyttfors
Futurist

When and Where

The Huawei IDI Forum 2024 will arrive in five cities: we look forward
to seeing you there.

Asia-Pacific

April 30 | Bangkok, Thailand

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Europe

May 7 | Berlin, Germany

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JW Marriott Hotel Berlin
Stauffenbergstraße 26, 10785 Berlin, Germany

Middle East and Central Asia

May 14 | Baku, Azerbaijan

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Sub-Saharan Africa

July 3 | Johannesburg, South Africa

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Latin America

August 28 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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OceanStor A800 High-Performance AI Storage
OceanStor A800 can handle the small file loading of training sets and high-bandwidth-based resumable training after breakpoints. It also offers a leading intrinsic vector knowledge repository, supporting large model inference and application with over 250,000 queries per second (QPS), and achieving accelerated vector retrieval and millisecond-level inference response.

Benefits

Ultra-high performance
The groundbreaking control and data plane separation architecture facilitates the direct flow of data to disks, reducing CPU usage and delivering 24 million IOPS and 500 GB/s bandwidth per controller enclosure. Training-set loading efficiency is 8x higher than the next best in the industry. After a breakpoint, training can resume 4x faster than the next-best product in the industry. Near-storage computing accelerates data preprocessing. In addition, storage clusters can scale up to a maximum of 4,096 computing cards.
EB-level scalability
Fully-symmetric architecture supports scale-out to up to 512 controllers, delivering EB-level, on-demand capacity expansion. This enables large AI models to perform smooth evolution to ultra-large clusters with 10,000, or even 100,000 GPUs, multi-modality, and trillions of parameters.
Superb inference
An industry-leading intrinsic vector knowledge repository eliminates AI hallucinations and boosts vector retrieval speeds to more than 250,000 QPS, guaranteeing millisecond-level inference response.
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DME Omni-Dataverse
Omni-Dataverse is a global file system built in the DME, it aims to make enterprise data assets visible, manageable, and mobile across regions, thereby building a solid AI data lake storage foundation for enterprises.

Benefits

Global Data View
The global file system uses standard interfaces to unify metadata management across regions, sites, and vendors, providing a truly global data view. This helps to implement fast file retrieval based on service requirements: retrieval from 50 billion files is finished in just 5s.
Refined Data Management
Omni-Dataverse supports automatic data tiering and classification, formulating policies based on the results of data analysis to achieve automatic mobility for hot, warm, and cold data between devices. Cold data, for example, can be moved from high-performance storage to low-cost storage, reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 20%.
Data Access Acceleration
Omni-Dataverse supports data access using different protocols such as S3, Network File System (NFS), Server Message Block (SMB), Distributed Parallel Client (DPC), and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). In addition, it automatically loads data across sites to the cache at the site where the data access request was actually made, based on service requirements. Combined with DPC, this boosts data read efficiency by a factor of two.
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