Huawei Storage: Business driven to maximize data value

At the two-day Huawei Cloud Computing Conference (HCC 2014), Huawei has sent a global insight into the development of the information industry, addressed the solution to the change in information technology, and shared with the IT elite from around the world the value it has brought to the business.

Huawei has maintained a fast-growing momentum in storage. From the overall storage market, 2014 Q1 Huawei Storage in the world's only double-digit growth rate is ranked first, the Chinese market shipped 5 consecutive quarters first, high-end storage into Gartner reported first group. In addition, in August 2014, Huawei stores into the Gartner Flash array Magic Quadrant.

Huawei Storage product Line President Fan

All along, Huawei in the storage area adhere to customer demand as the center, relying on long-term accumulation of the formation of the core technology innovation, and to "keep to intellectual use, to melt so far" innovative ideas to guide the development of Huawei's storage products. As Fan, president of Huawei's storage product line, said: "At present, software definition storage is the focus of the whole industry, but Huawei is more willing to emphasize service driven Storage, we believe that storage architecture design and evolution should be based on the customer's business needs as a driver." It can be said that the software definition is a means, and the real goal is to achieve the maximum value of the data in the business driven. Computing such as clouds, data such as water, Huawei Oceanstor Fusion storage, so that the flow of data to generate greater value, to help enterprises achieve business success, truly streamline it, agile business Road. ”

Business-driven storage

"Business-driven storage (service driven Storage)" is the new concept that Huawei has shown on HCC 2014, and the core of business-driven storage, Fan, is that first and foremost, it's the ability to integrate so many 纷纭复杂 storage systems to get the data flowing, A combination of different formats and even storage devices with different command lines; second, provide a data surface and control surface separation of the storage, traditionally, data surface and control surface is coupled together; third, solve the problem of service orchestration, according to a certain arrangement strategy, the resources to be mobilized The fourth step is the most critical and difficult, to understand the service of the upper application, and then design how to mobilize the underlying pool of resources.

Huawei has been working on consolidation for the past more than 10 years in the storage sector. Huawei's storage has focused on the upper tier of storage, including Openstack,fusionsphere, as well as the user's middleware, as it stores more energy and solves the problem of reliability and use a few years ago. There must be a unified scheduling layer to integrate such applications, with a controller to separate the data plane from the control plane to meet the business support.

Huawei says it will launch its SDS Controller (a business-driven storage controller) next year, Fan said it will be key to Huawei's business-driven storage strategy. SDS controller can intelligently manage, dispatch and open different levels of SLA resources to the upper application, bringing service, automation and flexible storage resource supply to customers.

OceanStorV3 brings five big fuses

This May, Huawei officially launched its new generation of Oceanstor V3 series storage products, Oceanstor V3 by Huawei defined as the future cloud architecture of the fusion storage, in its core Oceanstor OS unified coordination and management, can help users really through integration to eliminate data islands To achieve free flow of data to make the business more agile.

With the listing of Oceanstor V3, Huawei has achieved five integration through the Oceanstor OS, including multi-format fusion, data value fusion, performance and capacity integration, data lifecycle integration, multi-vendor heterogeneous device integration, and business simplification. Next, Huawei plans to let the Oceanstor V3 storage System out of China, into the world, to the global promotion.

The future of high, medium and low storage will become more and more blurred, high, medium and low convergence trend is very clear. Fan revealed that Huawei Oceanstor 18000 high-end storage will soon be upgraded to the Oceanstor V3 version, while supporting a number of more robust features, with a significant increase in reliability, system performance.

Adhere to open cooperation

After grasping the "business-driven" strategy, Huawei's next step is to build good products, solutions and sales channels. In addition, Huawei attaches great importance to joint innovation with customers and partners.

Fan said that many of the business is not Huawei can be completed independently, Huawei will work with partners in accordance with the characteristics of the industry to adjust the details of the solution to meet customer business needs. In the future, Huawei will continue to work with partners to provide different load models and solutions for different industries to help enterprises solve practical application problems.

By providing an intelligent, integrated storage solution for customers, Huawei helps customers meet the changing needs of virtualization, large data, cloud computing, mobile social networks, and so on, by helping them to face the rapid growth of data and the risk of uncertainty about storage in their business systems.

Adhering to the concept of open cooperation, Huawei will work with Intel, Microsoft, Seagate and other partners to jointly provide coverage of the industry-wide storage solutions to help customers build advanced and efficient it platform, improve the internal operational efficiency and business efficiency of the customer, so that data to create value, and customers grow together.