Huawei's All-Flash Storage Development History

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 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 huawei all flash storage Dorado 2100 G2.

In May 2014, Huawei released 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 all-flash storage OceanStor Dorado5000 V3 and 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 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 OceanStor V5 hybrid-flash series.

In March 2018, Huawei high-end all-flash storage, OceanStor 18800F V5, passed the most authoritative SPC-1 performance benchmark test in existence. In addition, it broke the performance record of 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 next-gen high-end all-flash storage, OceanStor Dorado18000 V3, passed the most authoritative SPC-1 performance benchmark test in existence. 7 million IOPS on condition that 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.