Huawei?s All-Flash Storage Roadmap

Posted by arinaliu001 on November 30th, 2018

In 2005, Huawei began to research and develop flash technologies.

In 2008, Huawei released the first SATA SSD disk, marking a milestone.

In 2011, Huawei released the first generation of the all-flash storage Dorado 2100 and Dorado 5100, configured with Huawei-proprietary 6 Gbit/s SAS SSD disks.

In 2012, Huawei released the second generation of the all-flash storage Dorado 2100 G2.

In May 2014, Huawei released the OceanStor V3 series converged flash storage, beginning an era of all-converged data architecture.

In May 2015, Huawei released its high-end converged storage system, OceanStor 18000 V3, setting a benchmark for high-end storage with superb stability, excellent performance, and future-proof innovation.

In September 2016, Huawei released the all-flash storage OceanStor Dorado5000 V3 and the OceanStor Dorado6000 V3, with a gateway-free, active-active storage solution and Huawei-proprietary 12 Gbit/s SAS SSD disks, providing excellent performance.

In March 2017, Huawei released the NVMe-based all-flash storage OceanStor Dorado5000 V3.

In June 2017, Huawei’s all-flash OceanStor Dorado V3 was awarded a Gold Medal at the Tokyo Interop Expo.

In September 2017, the ESG lab (a third-party authoritative organization) released an evaluation report for Huawei’s OceanStor Dorado, proving it is an ideal choice for mission-critical workloads.

In January 2018, an authoritative third-party report showed that the revenue growth rate of Huawei’s all-flash storage ranked first globally.

In March 2018, Huawei launched smart flash storage for enterprise mission-critical applications, including the OceanStor F V5 all-flash series and the OceanStor V5 hybrid-flash series.

In March 2018, Huawei’s high-end all-flash storage, the OceanStor 18800F V5, passed the most authoritative SPC-1 performance benchmark test in existence. In addition, it broke the performance record of the OceanStor 18500 V3 with 6 million IOPS, indicating the highest performance ever recorded in SAN storage.

In October 2018, an authoritative third-party report showed that the revenue growth rate of Huawei’s all-flash storage ranked first globally.

In October 2018, Huawei’s next-generation high-end all-flash storage, the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3, passed the most authoritative SPC-1 performance benchmark test in existence. Seven million IOPS when compression is enabled, indicating the highest performance ever recorded in SAN storage.

In May 2018, Huawei’s eight all-flash storage products were given a Recommended ranking in DCIG 2018–2019 Enterprise General Purpose All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide.

Huawei’s all-flash storage does not stand out from its peers by chance, but thanks to 5,000 days of continuous efforts by Huawei’s 3,000 storage engineers. At present, Huawei storage has been used in more than 150 countries and regions worldwide.

l Telecom Italia (TIM) replaced its existing 55 cabinets with nine Huawei all-flash storage OceanStor Dorado cabinets, reducing OPEX by 72 percent.

l Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc (a non-profit hospital in Belgium) uses Huawei all-flash file storage, improving its concurrent access scale by five times. The institution has since constructed an active-active solution, ensuring 24/7 service continuity.

Huawei flash storage will continue to innovate for mission-critical enterprise applications and take the lead in the all-flash, all-cloud, and intelligent data storage era.

all flash storage:

https://e.huawei.com/de/products/cloud-computing-dc/storage/all-flash-storage