FEATURE
Fred Saayman, Huawei BU Exec
at Pinnacle
This, says Saayman, means that
organisations can manage risk more
appropriately, gear themselves up for
data growth, reduce data loss, as well as
reduce the expense associated with these.
“In essence, it enables organisations to
manage their data performance far more
effectively, ensuring they get the most
value from their data and IT investments.
It helps businesses be more innovative,
creates new revenue streams and ensures
they can deliver top customer experience
to boost their bottom line.”
The good news, he says, it that intelligent
storage need not break the bank. “Due
THE
INTRODUCTION
OF AI ENABLES
INTELLIGENT
STORAGE
SYSTEMS TO
OBSERVE AND
LEARN FROM
TELEMETRY DATA
TO PINPOINT RUN-
OF-THE-MILL DATA
PROBLEMS AND
DEAL WITH THEM.
to its ability to scale, intelligent storage
can grow and shrink in line with the
organisation’s needs, without any manual
intervention or disruption to the business.
Users can add storage as and when
needed, as intelligent systems will alert
the business if there are instances
where more storage will be needed well
ahead of time.”
If an organisation’s data isn’t working
for the business, to help it achieve its
goals in terms of growth and efficiency,
it is a waste of time, Saayman said. “The
OceanStor Dorado V6 All-Flash Storage
Systems by Huawei do all of this and
more. They are designed for missioncritical
services and employ a nextgeneration
hardware platform, reliable
SmartMatrix architecture, five intelligent
chips, Non-Volatile Memory Express
(NVMe) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Solid State Drives (SSDs), as well as the
FlashLink intelligent algorithm.”
He says the Dorado V6 is the first full
series storage that supports end-to-end
NVMe architecture, delivering best-inclass
performance of up to 20 million
Input/Output Operations Per Second
(IOPS). The solution also provides leading
reliability as it effectively prevents any
service interruptions, offering fault
detection systems that never affect
services and ensure there is no waiting
time during upgrades.
Moreover, the Dorado V6 features
customised intelligent device training
and an eService platform to achieve truly
intelligent life cycle management, from
resource provisioning to fault locating.
“It supports intelligent and elastic
architecture to build an industry-leading
intelligent operations and maintenance
system too.”
In essence, the Huawei OceanStor
Dorado V6 all-flash storage system was
designed to satisfy even the most datahungry
storage requirements of large
databases, specifically in the carrier,
finance, government and manufacturing
industries, Saayman concludes. ◊
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