OceanStor All-Flash Data Center

Why Do You Need an All-Flash Data Center?

As the core means of production, data has now become the catalyst for the digital economy. And as explosive data growth
drives the maturity of the data value chain, data is playing an increasingly important role in enterprise decision-making and innovation. Such
explosive data growth, however, is placing added pressure on traditional data centers, which provide the centralized storage, computing,
and data resource exchange needed for enterprises to tap into the value of data. This creates four major challenges.

As the core means of production, data has now become the catalyst for the digital economy.
And as explosive data growth drives the maturity of the data value chain, data is playing an increasingly important role in enterprise decision-making and innovation.

Such explosive data growth, however, is placing added pressure on traditional data centers,
which provide the centralized storage, computing, and data resource exchange needed for enterprises to tap into the value of data. This creates four major challenges.

Huge numbers of offline services are shifting online, allowing more and more data hungry innovative services to emerge.

Service peak loads and related reliability needs have increased by over 10 times.

Data centers account for 2–3% of the world's annual power consumption.

Electricity fees account for over half of the Operations 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.

A vast range of devices makes fault location extremely difficult.

In a multi-vendor, multi-interface environment, Operations and Maintenance (O&M) training costs rise.

IDC Releases the All-Flash Data Center White Paper, Sponsored by Huawei

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What Is an All-Flash Data Center?

All industries urgently need to prepare for increasingly diverse service needs. But they also need costs and energy consumption
to come down. Removing network bottlenecks, the all-flash data center presents a faster, greener, and more reliable solution for enterprises to
better and more cost-effectively manage data. Construction of an all-flash data center not only involves a comprehensive upgrade of storage
media, but also the integration of data center resources, breaking down silos, and wholesale reconstruction of the overall architecture.

All industries urgently need to prepare for increasingly diverse service needs. But they also need costs and energy consumption to come down. Removing network bottlenecks, the all-flash data center presents a faster, greener, and more reliable solution for enterprises to better and more cost-effectively manage data. Construction of an all-flash data center not only involves a comprehensive upgrade of storage media, but also the integration of data center resources, breaking down silos, and wholesale reconstruction of the overall architecture.

All-Scenario Flash

Flash storage handles diverse workloads to accelerate services. Merely replacing primary storage with all-flash is not enough. Disaster Recovery (DR) and backup systems also need to be able to call on flash memory to quickly recover and use data, in order to realize regular storage DR and backup storage production capabilities.

Full-Series High-End Quality

In the financial, healthcare, and other sectors, replacing general-purpose storage with high-quality alternatives helps meet the business continuity and mass data security needs of diversified services.

All-Scenario Data Protection

As data increases in volume, its importance does too. Diversified data types also require greater protection: DR and recovery speeds, the frequency of data replication, and data retention times, all need to be significantly improved.

All-IP DC Network

All-scenario flash drives the transformation of data center networks while Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) maximizes the value of Solid State Drives (SSDs). Quite simply, faster media and protocols require faster networks.

Full-Lifecycle Intelligent O&M

All-flash accelerates the need for data resource pooling, complicating O&M. To overcome this, an all-flash data center offers automation and intelligence across its entire lifecycle, from planning and deployment to O&M and optimization.

It's clear. The moment to replace legacy disks with flash memory has arrived. And it's critical that enterprises seize the opportunity.

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Why Should You Invest in an All-Flash Data Center?

The significant performance advantages and energy efficiency of all-flash storage make it a must-have, powering business growth.
What was once mainly used to store the core data of systems—from core banking in finance to billing systems in carriers—is now becoming
mainstream. And, as more industries move toward high-performance and energy-efficient all-flash storage systems, the potential value
that they bring, unlocking new applications—such as supercomputing and big data—is obvious.

The significant performance advantages and energy efficiency of all-flash storage make it a must-have, powering business growth.
What was once mainly used to store the core data of systems—from core banking in finance to billing systems in carriers—is now becoming mainstream.

And, as more industries move toward high-performance and energy-efficient all-flash storage systems, the potential value that they bring,
unlocking new applications—such as supercomputing and big data—is obvious.

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Why Huawei?

Huawei has 12 Research and Development (R&D) centers, over 4000 R&D personnel, and 3000 patents,
all dedicated to storage, helping more than 15,000 customers in over 150 countries. Huawei's all-flash data center solutions include OceanStor
all-flash storage, OceanProtect data protection, Data Management Engine full-lifecycle intelligent O&M, and the 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 yours.

Across the globe, Huawei has 12 Research and Development (R&D) centers, over 4000 R&D personnel, and 3000 patents, all dedicated to storage, helping more than 15,000 customers in over 150 countries.

Huawei's all-flash data center solutions include OceanStor all-flash storage, OceanProtect data protection, Data Management Engine full-lifecycle intelligent O&M, and the 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 yours.

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Financial companies

160+

Carriers

1140+

Government organizations

330+

Other enterprises

Green

Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): All-scenario flash slashes costs by consuming 70% less power and reducing the required physical footprint by 50%.

Promoting environmental health: Replacing Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) with a single SSD saves the equivalent amount of energy as planting 150 trees.

Reliable

Six-nines: Fully interconnected architecture with 99.9999% reliability.

Built-to-last: The 5-year return repair rate of SSDs is only 0.8%, a ten-fold improvement over that of HDDs.

All-scenario data protection: Eliminates data loss, data repurposing wait times, and the need to dump data for 50 years.

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Efficient

Outperformance: SSDs dwarf HDDs in terms of performance, representing a 40-fold improvement.

NoF+ all-IP network: 10 times higher bandwidth, 42% lower average latency, and 30% higher IOPS compared to Fibre Channel (FC), with an E2E latency of less than 50 μs.

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Intelligent

Precise resource planning: 20% lower initial investment.

Global automatic provisioning: 10 times faster deployment.

Full-stack intelligent O&M: 60% better fault closure.

Agile configuration optimization: 80% higher utilization.

Green

Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): All-scenario flash slashes costs by consuming 70% less power and reducing the required physical footprint by 50%.

Promoting environmental health: Replacing Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) with a single SSD saves the equivalent amount of energy as planting 150 trees.

Reliable

Six-nines: Fully interconnected architecture with 99.9999% reliability.

Built-to-last: The 5-year return repair rate of SSDs is only 0.8%, a ten-fold improvement over that of HDDs.

All-scenario data protection: Eliminates data loss, data repurposing wait times, and the need to dump data for 50 years.

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Efficient

Outperformance: SSDs dwarf HDDs in terms of performance, representing a 40-fold improvement.

NoF+ all-IP network: 10 times higher bandwidth, 42% lower average latency, and 30% higher IOPS compared to Fibre Channel (FC), with an E2E latency of less than 50 μs.

Learn More

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