Huawei Unveils Next-Gen All-Flash Products for Data Centers
At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2025, Huawei made a significant splash by unveiling a series of next-generation All-Flash products tailored for modern data centers, alongside scenario-specific solutions aimed at specific industry challenges. These innovations are engineered to assist clients in establishing durable and powerful data storage solutions, primed for the smart transformation imperative in today's AI-driven landscape.
Advancements in All-Flash Technology
Huawei's new lineup consists of four distinct All-Flash products, each designed with advanced features to meet the evolving demands of data centers:
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OceanStor Dorado C-Class: A coordinated flash storage system for critical applications, leveraging an industrial first in separating control and data planes to triple the performance. This high-reliability SmartMatrix architecture ensures data loss is impossible even if seven out of eight controller chassis fail, and supports a native architecture for blocks, files, and objects.
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OceanStor A800: This high-performance AI storage solution is specifically crafted for training large AI models, boasting the industry's first long-term memory storage that facilitates higher data throughput for AI training, improving computational power utilization by 30%. The system guarantees inference responses in mere milliseconds, thereby addressing the latency challenges associated with AI applications.
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OceanStor Pacific 9928: A highly scalable All-Flash storage system geared towards data analytics, supporting extensive concurrent access and a variety of hybrid workloads. With high-capacity SSDs (61.44 TB) and an intelligent data compression algorithm, it achieves an unprecedented density of 4PB per 2U, with an industry-leading energy consumption of 0.25W per TB.
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OceanProtect E8000: This next-gen backup solution utilizes QLC all-flash technology, enhancing backup performance to an impressive 8PB/hour per cluster. The integrated algorithms ensure a maximum data reduction rate of 721, optimizing storage efficiency significantly.
Meeting Industry Needs Amidst AI Revolution
As businesses across sectors, particularly finance and education, grapple with the growing requirement for scalable, reliable data storage, Huawei's offerings are well-timed. The company introduces:
- - Geo-Redundant 4DC Solution: Specifically designed for financial transactions, this system eliminates downtime during peak hours. It features a full-mesh technology architecture that guarantees a 99.99999% system reliability rate, layered with multifaceted ransomware protection to ensure resilience in data and services across all channels.
- - RDM (Research Data Management) for Education: This unique multi-active technology spanning 3 to 12 sites ensures reliable disaster recovery and flexible sharing of research data. It enables on-demand data flow between HPC data lakes and RDM, with DME (Omni-Dataverse) providing unified data planning across clusters and data centers.
Conclusion
These groundbreaking All-Flash storage solutions from Huawei not only address the immediate needs of data centers but also set the stage for future advancements in data management, empowering businesses to thrive in an AI-centric world. For further insights into these innovative products and more details on Huawei’s technological advancements, visit
Huawei's official website.