At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018, Huawei demonstrated why it is an industry leader by releasing its latest cutting-edge technologies, products, and solutions. One product that has attracted much attention is the high-end intelligent AFA OceanStor Dorado18000 V3.
Huawei incorporates almost all its leading-edge storage technologies into this storage system. The OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 provides superb performance, robust scalability, elastic scalability, and high-level intelligence and automation, helping customers better embrace the digital era.
Let’s take a look at how the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 stays ahead of the competition in every stage of development (past, present, and future).
Past: Offering Outstanding Storage Functions
If you asked enterprise IT CIOs three years ago, what they wanted most from storage systems, their top concerns would be fast speed, solid reliability, and high cost-effectiveness. Only storage systems with such quality can survive in the fierce competition.
The OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 not only offers 10-fold better performance than traditional storage, but is also equipped with 0.5 ms latency, 7 million IOPS, 99.9999% availability, 3:1 data reduction guarantee, and 70% TCO savings, fulfilling requirements in various scenarios. By ensuring 24/7 stable business operations with improved service levels, OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is certain to be a game-changer in the industry.
To provide 7 million IOPS and 0.5 ms latency, Huawei redesigned the storage architecture and integrated Huawei FlashLink technology into the latest all-flash storage system.
The gateway-free HyperMetro-based (active-active) solution provides solution-level 99.9999% availability. RAID-TP technology designed for large-capacity SSDs tolerates the simultaneous failures of up to three disks. The mean time between failures (MTBF) of highly reliable SSDs is 3 million hours.
The 3:1 data reduction ratio delivers 70% TCO savings. In addition, the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 interworks with the OceanStor V3 and is widely compatible with applications on the live network, enabling effortless service upgrades while helping users build economic and efficient disaster recovery (DR) protection solutions.
Every storage vendor must provide basic storage functions that meet customers’ needs. This may sound easy to accomplish today, but many vendors that failed to do that have been eliminated by the market.
Present: Understanding What Is Required in the New Era
In addition to speed, reliability, and cost reduction, today’s users want storage systems to be more intelligent. For example, when a user creates a file, the user wants the system to intelligently save the file to an appropriate place based on file attributes or user habit.
Focusing on improving and creating intelligent products, Huawei Storage officially proposed all-flash, all-cloud, and all-intelligent strategies, which the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is designed and developed.
All-flash strategy. Huawei has always insisted on the highest level of carrier-class standards for its products. Huawei keeps propelling technology innovation to higher and higher standards. The OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 has adopted the latest Flash-Ice technology, which uses graphene dissipation technology (GDT) and the dynamic heat balance algorithm on SSDs to improve the heat dissipation capability by 500-fold and extend the service life of SSDs by 20%. Being lightning fast and rock solid, the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is a perfect fit for carrying carriers’ core service systems, such as online real-time billing, CRM, and ERP, increasing the number of users supported from tens of millions to hundreds of millions.
All-cloud strategy. Huawei Storage is committed to building seamless cross-cloud experience in the industry and providing consistent storage resource services on- and off-premises for enterprise businesses. The Storage as a Service (STaaS) solution enables free mobility and unified data management on- and off-premises, ensuring that customers’ applications can be flexibly deployed and used at any place. To help customers move more services on cloud at faster speed, Huawei integrates its cloud capabilities and enterprise storage technologies to provide Dedicated Enterprise Storage Service (DESS). Doing so has made Huawei the first to be capable of moving mission-critical services on cloud without modification. Such a rich back catalogue of high-class features helps ensure consistent performance and reliability between local storage and the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3. In addition, the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 always stores data in a proper position for users to use.
All-intelligence strategy. Explosive growth of data and complex service environments make management of storage systems more and more difficult. System administrators need to configure complicated parameters, put new services online rapidly, and deal with faults quickly. To address these needs, the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is loaded with Huawei’s intelligent management system eService. Equipped with the global network coverage and deep learning capabilities of HUAWEI CLOUD EI, eService optimizes storage management using AI and Big Data technologies, implementing automatic service deployment, adaptation, and fault recovery, predicting performance and capacity bottlenecks, and quickly outputting optimization solutions.
Huawei’s achievements are not down to luck, but thanks to years of accumulated technical knowledge and in-depth understanding of what is required in this era, as well as open cooperation with its partners. Huawei has built the industry ecosystem and developer ecosystem based on the OpenSDS community, promoting joint innovation and preventing vendor lock-in.
Future: Intelligence that Dominates the Competition
In the future and a somewhat inevitable trend for storage systems, intelligent architecture and data management will be required to handle the explosive growth of data and the increasingly types of complicated storage architecture.
The OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 integrates future-oriented cloud and intelligence capabilities and uses AI and Big Data technologies to reconstruct storage management, comprehensively implementing intelligent and automated storage, helping customers better manage data services. As more and more companies are going digital, the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 provides intelligent service deployment and optimization, intelligent service forecast, and intelligent risk prevention to keep pace with this trend.
Intelligent service deployment and optimization. This storage system collects running data from customers’ live networks in non-intrusive manner, and combined with establishing workload models for different industries and services to recommend the best configurations, the Dorado 18000 V3 takes the guesswork out of enterprise operations and allows customers to take control of their storage. It also uses machine learning to study best practices in the industry, and enables automatic service optimization.
Intelligent service forecast. The OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 improves the efficiency of storage systems by creating capacity trend forecast and capacity expansion suggestions based on AI, and analyzing and predicting performance trends to provide allocation suggestions. It also simplifies storage management too by managing data throughout its full lifecycle, and implementing automatic and dynamic tiering of cold and hold data.
Intelligent risk prevention. The OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 predicts disk risks and performance faults based on machine learning, detecting faults in minutes so storage system security is no longer an issue. It automatically creates tickets, uses machine learning to study solutions, and intelligently pushes useful messages to users, addressing most problems without service interruptions.
Enterprises at different development stages have different requirements on storage systems. Thanks to Huawei’s understanding of storage development trends and strong technical strengths, the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 meets requirements customer needs both now and well into the future.
A Good Start for a Great Chapter
Huawei Storage disclosed recently that it aims to rank top 3 in the global market. This year’s release of the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is a good start for Huawei, opening up a new chapter in the storage market.
The OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 and the upcoming next-generation all-flash storage OceanStor F V5 series and the hybrid flash OceanStor V5 series complete the portfolio of Huawei’s all-flash storage products, better accommodating user needs to improve their own product competitiveness and promote business expansion of customers.
Huawei’s all-flash storage systems have gained a high level of recognition from the market ever since the OceanStor Dorado V3 all-flash series was launched in 2016. According to a report from IDC, Huawei’s all-flash storage ranked No.1 in revenue growth around the globe in the third quarter 2017. Currently, more than 2000 data centers around the world are using Huawei’s all-flash storage products. Huawei’s all-flash storage systems are providing quality services to international telecom carriers such as Telecom Italia, Netherlands KPN, France SFR, SwedenHi3G, Chile Entel, and Belgium Proximus, as well as customers in the financial sector including Switzerland CSS Insurance and China Pacific Insurance.
How will Huawei’s all-flash storage perform this year? Let’s wait and see.
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