By Liu Lin from Huawei
Public cloud services are developing rapidly all around the world. Enterprise data centers are quickly evolving to the cloud, leaving traditional storage methods obsolete in the 5G era. Reports have shown that 68% of enterprises in North America have started to use cloud services to various degrees. Companies in other parts of the world are reported to be trying out the new cloud-based service models.
What has enterprises around the world so excited about the new service models?
In terms of improving overall business production for enterprises in many different industries, public cloud business models are a revolutionary evolution. The likes of Huawei’s cloud family have never been seen before. They are easy to use and reduce TCO, and the ease of use is provided with on-demand and quick resource acquisition capabilities. Enterprises are always looking for ways to save on TCO through adoption of new applications and techs. According to statistics, the costs for storing data in self-purchased storage are 19 to 30 times higher than those for leasing public cloud storage. Considering the costs, it’s no wonder more and more enterprises are using cloud services.
Large cloud service providers can handle just about any workload for organizations of all sizes. However, enterprises are still somewhat reserved about placing their mission-critical services and data on the cloud due to the security requirements levied and high performance requirements. To address any reservations that enterprises may have, many cloud service providers deliver high security guarantees to prove to potential customers that migrating mission-critical services to the public cloud is safe, quick, and easy.
Dedicated Enterprise Storage Service (DESS) migrates mission-critical services to the cloud without making any forklift upgrades
HUAWEI CLOUD has a proven track record of helping many move their services to the cloud, even in the most demanding of scenarios. With HUAWEI CLOUD, security and extreme performance are no longer blocking mission-critical services from moving to the cloud.
DESS uses Huawei all-flash and hybrid-flash storage to build dedicated storage services dedicated to enterprises. Oriented to enterprises’ key applications, such as Oracle RAC and SAP HANA TDI, it provides the same superb performance and reliability as enterprise private cloud, simplifying service deployment on public cloud for enterprise users.
DESS users can exclusively use physical storage resources in HUAWEI CLOUD to ensure that services are stably running on isolated storage devices. In a typical database performance model, databases can obtain a stable latency of 0.5 ms and a read/write capability of 3000 IOPS/TB. Thanks to the robust reliability of enterprise-class storage, users can use the same high-reliability solution as that used in self-owned data centers, with 99.99999% of data durability.
Since its release in September 2017, DESS has been used by many large enterprises and government agencies to successfully deploy their key applications on the cloud. For example, after migrating the ERP system to DESS, a large-sized private healthcare company has reduced the time needed to generate financial statements from several days to just several hours, helping to improve enterprise business analysis and decision-making efficiency by dozens of times.
STaaS solution centrally manages resources on- and off-premises
For customers who have some of their services running on the cloud, Huawei also provides the Storage as a Service (STaaS) solution to facilitate storage resource management and data flow on- and off-premises. The STaaS solution can manage various storage devices in the on-site data center and access to HUAWEI CLOUD. Enterprises can manage on- and off-premises resources over a single pane of glass, eliminating the troubles in switching back and forth between interfaces.
The rich selection in the service catalog enables high degree of automation in provisioning of storage resources at both on-site and cloud-based data centers. Even such operations as volume creation, file sharing, creation of active-active relationships, volume backups, volume replications are all easily handled with time-saving automations.
The results speak for themselves. KIO, the largest ISP in Mexico, uses the STaaS solution to centrally manage and schedule storage resources in multiple data centers, reducing manual operations and improving work efficiency by over 50%.
The impressive on- and off-premises resource management and automated service provisioning capabilities have won over customer after customer in finance, telecom, public services, retail, and other sectors. What’s more, after intense vetting and proven track record with zero incidence after deployment, Huawei has since become a brand that you can trust. Therefore it’s no surprise the Huawei STaaS solution has become the compelling choice in hybrid cloud environments able to carry the mission-critical services for organizations of all sizes.
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Source: Huawei Enterprise Blog
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