When Peng Zhen, president of Inspur Information, publicly stated at the IDTC2021 Inspur Storage Data Technology Summit that Inspur Storage should be the first in China.
However, everyone knows that the data storage market has been fiercely competitive, competing for the first place in China, what is the basis for inspur storage?
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Clear challenges, clear routes
From the history of data storage development, every era will have challenges in each era. With the gradual deepening of digitalization into business innovation and transformation in all walks of life, the resulting data types and data capacity explosions, the ensuing data infrastructure diversification, huge quantification, and platform challenges have also aroused widespread discussion and attention in the industry.
Li Hui, general manager of inspur information storage product line, pointed out that if everyone looks at the problem from the perspective of users, they will find that there are four commonalities in the new needs of users for data storage in hundreds of industries, namely: the service is always online, the data is never lost, the performance is endless, and the capacity is never enough. On the other hand, these are the four major challenges facing data infrastructure today.
The four major challenges are still there, how to deal with them?
There are challenges and opportunities to create core data production factors to help users have a better future, in the new data era, Inspur Storage's sense of mission is very strong. Having this distinctive sense of mission essentially stems from Inspur's years of keen industry insight and trendy development path.
On the one hand, the development of Inspur Storage benefits from the big trend of insight into new data in advance, because this can bring more industry variables and achieve more development possibilities. But over the years, the only constant thing about Inspur Storage is to continue to strengthen seven extreme technical concepts, including minimalist architecture, extreme performance, extreme security, extreme stability, extreme capacity, extreme cloudification and extreme management. The seven ultimate technical value concepts are easy to understand, but the key lies in how to put them into practice based on this concept and obtain the desired effect and return from it.
From the positioning of inspur storage's series of products, we can find an open secret, all products are basically reusing the seven extreme technical concepts, and the core products are oriented to two directions: one is a centralized storage platform based on small pieces of data and oriented to core or key high-frequency trading application scenarios. The second is a distributed storage platform based on massive data and big data, mainly for cloud digital intelligence and platform-based applications.
In fact, focusing on the long-term development route of distributed and centralized two-pronged approach, and implementing the innovative strategy of "grasping both hands and both hands being hard", Inspur Storage has won more development opportunities.
On the second hand, the competition in the field of data storage has long entered the era of comprehensive strength competition, and the storage manufacturers who fight alone can survive without a handful. From the beginning of inspur data storage business, to the formation of a perfect product camp today, Inspur storage has been an important part of Inspur's leading IT infrastructure products and overall solution providers, based on the process of continuous promotion of smart computing strategy, Inspur integrates the full-stack capabilities of computing, storage, networking and cloud platforms, and strives to create the core competitiveness of computing power, algorithms and data in the smart era, and in key industries such as smart finance, smart manufacturing, smart transportation, and smart medical care. Build a stronger, intelligent and secure infrastructure.
Global storage observation and analysis believes that if the direction is right, it is not afraid of the long road, and years of persistence have very important practical significance. Facing the development of smart computing, the comprehensive strength of computing, storage, networking, and cloud platforms is condensed, so that Inspur Storage also benefits from it. This is also very helpful for the Inspur storage business to seize the new data era trend of the development of the data industry, which can better replicate the successful experience of the server business, drive innovation, climb the peak, and lock in the goal of China's first, which is worth competing for.
Focus on the user, focus on the technology
Needless to say, the needs of users are always changing, and the performance and capacity satisfaction of data storage is also a long-term development process. For any data storage vendor, the user-focused strategy can focus on business models, technological innovation, program integration, ecological construction and other aspects, but Inspur Storage will focus on technological innovation as the main driving force for future business development.
Looking back, any competitive storage vendor has the unique technological innovation ability and strength in the field of data storage. Technological innovation can not only drive the continuous iteration and upgrading of products, solutions, services and platforms, but also accelerate the business progress of storage manufacturers and enhance the competitiveness of the industry.
However, in the view of Li Hui, general manager of the Inspur information storage product line, technological innovation must have the right purpose, can not be innovative for the sake of innovation, aimless innovation, often bring unexpected resistance to business development, and focus on the real needs of users of technological innovation, will bring greater power and imagination to business development.
To this end, in the hardware, software, hardware and software integration of technological innovation road, Inspur Storage has a long-term persistence and future prospects.
First, long-term high investment in research and development, strengthen the full-stack self-research, from the components and devices, storage machine, storage underlying software, centralized and distributed storage software, storage management software at five levels to accumulate technical capabilities. For technology research and development, in the past 6 years, nearly 2 billion yuan has been invested in the research and development and breakthrough of full-stack technology for data storage software and hardware, realizing independent research and development in the two major fields of distributed storage and centralized storage, and becoming a representative manufacturer with high-end full-flash and distributed full-flash machine design and manufacturing capabilities in China.
Second, we will continue to promote the innovative concept of R&D as a service and strive to keep storage services always online. As more and more large-scale users choose Inspur storage to support their key core applications, the expert service system laid out by Inspur will implement the innovative concept of R&D as a service. Based on the expert service system, it provides more technical capabilities and resource support for all users, realizes the rapid delivery of user data storage solutions, builds a comprehensive and intelligent operation and maintenance system, and innovates to meet the needs of user data storage services that are always online, and finally highlights the practical effect of the R&D as a service concept.
Third, to achieve technical breakthroughs and two-way innovation in storage hardware and software. A good data storage system is naturally inseparable from powerful enterprise-level functions and capabilities, not only that, in terms of centralized storage, Inspur Storage realizes a linear increase in storage performance with the improvement of the controller, and at the same time can provide a perfect computing storage network integration solution according to the user's business needs. In response to the trend of distributed storage, we continue to achieve more powerful throughput, larger scale, and higher performance. In addition, Inspur continues to increase investment in the field of enterprise-level SSD core components, releasing its own brand enterprise-level NVMe SSD in 2019, and fully adopting inspur's self-developed enterprise-level SSD in 2021, with the mastery of the enterprise-level SSD technology field, it will inevitably help Inspur to store better performance in product performance and innovation iteration.
Fourth, to meet the needs of users as their responsibility, based on a solid foundation of storage technology services, together with SI, ISV, CSP, services, solutions, products, technologies and other partners in the value chain to build a scene community. And further in the intelligent transportation, medical imaging, energy, finance and other key industries to seek new breakthroughs, adopt the industry customization and generalization of the strategy of parallel, and further consolidate the comprehensive technology research and development and service support capabilities.
Global storage observation analysis believes that in the field of data storage, The Wave has actually already seen the essence of the development of the industry, and only technological innovation can win the future and achieve continuous upgrading of competitiveness.
New upgrades, new capabilities
As the world's top five, the cumulative sales of 100,000+ Inspur Storage, from G5 to G6 new upgrades, the "storage as a platform" as the core concept of the next step of development, its core value is still focused on the changes in user needs.
However, for the understanding of storage as a platform, the wise see the wise. In terms of hardware, the inclusiveness of Inspur storage not only better unifies the Inspur storage product system, but also integrates Inspur's leading technologies in artificial intelligence, heterogeneous acceleration, open computing and other fields. For software, based on such an advanced platform as G6, it realizes a variety of storage services such as files, blocks, objects, and big data, and realizes unified platform management and better application experience. In this way, it helps users to store, use and manage data well, give full play to the value of new production factors of data, and help industry users accelerate digital transformation.
In terms of the four characteristics of safety, reliability, economy and efficiency, the newly upgraded Inspur Storage G6 brings a new capability of "bursting the table", achieving more user satisfaction innovation and progress.
First of all, the industry users' emphasis on the security of enterprise-class storage has a long history. Especially in the current form of attacks such as ransomware, new requirements are placed on the security of data storage. To this end, Sun Bin, chief architect of Inspur Information Storage, said that traditional security focuses on access control, data encryption, transmission encryption, etc., but the biggest threat to the storage security of users in today's industry is actually an attack. The Inspur G6 storage platform provides proper protection for user data from collection, transmission, storage, processing, exchange to destruction, covering the whole life cycle process of data.
Secondly, as an important indicator of enterprise-level storage systems, the satisfaction of reliability is also getting higher and higher. On the one hand, Inspur Storage is based on artificial intelligence technology to achieve storage failure prediction and bring better reliability. On the other hand, focusing on the capabilities of components, devices, complete machine systems, core software, management software, and solutions, it can be described as comprehensive, not seeking the best but seeking better, inspur G6 storage platform based on active-active, three data center technology, can achieve between site RPO to 0, RTO close to 0, for business continuity to provide a strong guarantee.
Third, Chinese enterprise-level users attach great importance to storage economy, and the so-called high cost performance can make users more satisfied. The G6 storage platform realizes a pool of multi-protocol access, a single piece of data can support multiple users, allowing multiple applications to access concurrently, bringing users immediate storage economic performance. In addition, based on iCAP space management technology, the Inspur G6 storage platform increases the life of flash disks by 100%, achieving 5:1 byte data reduction and 95% of the space available, resulting in visible economics.
Ultimately, a good storage platform must be capable of efficiency. Inspur G6 storage platform has brought into play the four major technological innovation capabilities such as intelligent IO perception, intelligent fast path, intelligent resource scheduling, and intelligent data organization, combined with optimization algorithm and flash disk joint debugging optimization, to achieve tens of millions of IO balanced disks, thus also realizing that inspur storage single node small IO performance can increase by more than 20%, while large IO performance can be increased by more than 1 times. These technologies are naturally possible with the newly developed, flash-native iTurbo 2.0 intelligent acceleration engine.
It can be seen that inspur storage G6 strengthens the competitiveness of "storage to platform", and the technological progress and improvement in software has also become an important highlight worthy of attention. Global storage observation and analysis pointed out that inspur's new generation of G6 storage platform not only deepens the concept of "storage as a platform", but also meets the four common needs of users in the new data era.
The strengthening of the storage as a platform concept shows that in addition to the upgrade of the functions and performance of the G6 series products themselves, Inspur Storage will also empower products with more extroverted capabilities, including interoperability and vertical compatibility, to achieve the docking of Inspur storage, heterogeneous storage, and better synergy with upper-layer applications. In this regard, Inspur Storage will not only compete for the first place in China, but also have greater ideals. We'll see.
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