Huawei Storage's Continuous Improvement

Charles Dickens described the French Revolution era as "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…," a sentiment that also applies to today's world. We are at a historic turning point full of opportunities and challenges in a complex global environment.

The Age of Steam and Age of Electricity are a thing of the past. In today's intelligent information age with rapid advancements of science and technology, it's winner-take-all. That is, companies grabbing advantageous opportunities can survive. In the storage field, an increasing number of real-time interaction applications, especially in cloud computing, online payment, and mobile social networking arenas, are generating a soaring data amount. Storage performance of data centers has become paramount.

Over the past 20 years, all flash array storage was the largest technological revolution in the industry. Flash storage supports faster data processing than traditional disk storage and is essential for enterprises to cope with explosive data growth, accelerating mission-critical applications. Gartner predicts that flash storage will become more prevalent than traditional disk storage within two years, becoming the mainstream storage medium of data centers, and applying to mission-critical enterprise workloads.

In this fast-evolving era, Huawei is never a blind follower. We continue to innovate to stay ahead of the technological curve. The past few years witnessed the emergence of a variety of concepts in the storage industry – optical storage, quantum storage, and biological storage, to name a few – but few of them have been commercialized. Such innovations are only abstract ideas bringing no real benefits to customers. This goes against Huawei's philosophy. At Huawei, we plan and design products with the goal of improving customer experience, delivering innovative, better, and faster offerings. To that end, we develop distinctive technological features, engineering deployment, and intelligent O&M, suited to the core requirements of customers.