On November 5th, idtc2021 Inspur Storage Data Technology Summit Xiamen Station was officially held. Li Hui, general manager of Inspur Information Storage Product Line, said, "In the tide of digital economy, new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and 5G are booming, data is growing exponentially, and the surging data has brought new needs and challenges to the storage industry. Based on the 'storage as platform' strategy, Inspur launched a new generation of g6 storage to help Xiamen enterprises strengthen their data infrastructure and release the value of data elements to accelerate the development of Xiamen's digital economy. ”
Li Hui, General Manager of Inspur Information Storage Product Line
At present, Inspur Information has become the core enterprise of new infrastructure construction in Xiamen. Xu Wengong of the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology pointed out at the tour exhibition, "Xiamen aims to become a demonstration zone for the development of China's digital economy, accelerate the coordinated development of the digital industry, and the scale of Xiamen's digital economy will be 365 billion yuan in 2020, accounting for 57% of GDP." Xiamen's booming digital economy is closely related to the synergy of the IT industry chain, and the development of Inspur in Xiamen is a model of this. "As early as more than a decade ago, Inspur Information began to provide Xiamen enterprises with leading computing, storage and network products and solutions, and in 2020, the Inspur Xiamen Industrial Park jointly built by Xiamen City and Inspur was officially put into operation, becoming an important force in promoting Xiamen's digital transformation."
Insight into new applications, new data Waves to consolidate the "storage as a platform" strategy
In recent years, the Internet, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain and other technologies have accelerated innovation, increasingly integrated into the whole process of economic and social development in various fields, and data elements are becoming the key force to reshape the global economic structure and change the global competitive landscape.
Taking Xiamen Children's Hospital as an example, in order to build a first-class domestic and provincial leading tertiary children's specialized hospital integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research and preventive health care, Xiamen Children's Hospital builds an image system primary and secondary library based on inspur full flash unified storage and distributed storage, realizing efficient processing of medical image big data, and increasing the download rate of ct and mr image by about 5 times. In fact, whether it is a large scientific research project, bank4.0, network cloud resource pool, smart medical care, intelligent transportation, in the three types of application scenarios of key applications, cloud-based applications, and unstructured applications, improving data storage and processing capabilities is crucial for enterprises to enhance their commercial competitiveness.
The new data requirements brought by new scenarios and new applications drive innovation and breakthroughs in data storage. Li Hui, general manager of Inspur's information storage product line, said, "Platformization is the general trend of the storage industry. "Storage platforming is conducive to the inclusiveness of storage products, building comprehensive capabilities, and rapid iteration and response for different scenarios, so as to truly exert the value of data infrastructure and release data vitality."
In fact, as early as 2019, Inspur Storage had insight into the deep integration and large-scale landing of digital technology and traditional industries, and was the first in the industry to propose forward-looking insights into new data storage and the "storage as a platform" strategy. Inspur believes that the industrial form and demand of the new data era are constantly upgrading, as a new storage leader, only through the storage platform to achieve "flexible adaptation and meet the needs of the cloud environment", "support and intelligent application development" and access to "sharing, managing and mining data value" ability, is enough to help enterprises meet the tide of the new data era, to achieve business quality and efficiency leap.
After two years, computing power has become the core productivity, data has become a new production factor, and as a "tangible" carrier of new production factors for data, data storage is the key to accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises. However, at present, China's data infrastructure construction is still facing a more prominent phenomenon of "light storage, heavy computing". The proportion of deposited computing investment in the United States and Western Europe is 1:2 and 1:1.5 respectively, compared with the proportion of China's storage computing investment is only 1:3.3, which has huge room for improvement in the current construction of China's data infrastructure. At this idtc conference, Inspur Storage further promoted the strategic upgrading and evolution of "storage as a platform", realized horizontal and extensive connectivity, vertical wide compatibility, and had a variety of characteristics such as "interconnection, interoperability, intensification, compatibility, robustness, and scalability", which can provide support and guarantee for new data centers.
Inspur's "storage as a platform" strategy
The new generation of g6 storage accelerates the release of data element value
Based on the "storage as a platform" strategy, Inspur has built four platform products with the new generation of g6 storage as the core: centralized storage platform, distributed storage platform, backup storage platform and archive storage platform.
This Xiamen Station Tour Focuses on Sharing a New Generation of Centralized Storage Platform and Distributed Storage Platform. Inspur g6 centralized storage platform provides hf5000g6, hf6000g6, hf8000g6, hf18000g6 four models, a variety of configurations, from low to high to meet different performance requirements. The highest-end HF18000G6 supports 48 controllers, 14400 hard disks, and the test performance reaches 30 million iOPS, surpassing The Wave's previous SPC-certified global performance record of 23 million iOPS. Inspur g6 distributed storage platform provides different configurations of four node types: general-purpose, performance-based, general-capacity, and high-density capacity, and the same platform and one architecture support four different nodes and four protocols, which is convenient for management and simplified O&M. Thanks to leading products, Inspur Storage has seen strong growth. Gartner data shows that in the first half of 2021, Inspur Storage ranked among the top five in the world, becoming the strongest growing manufacturer in the world.
The world is always changing, and the only constant is change. Inspur Information will continue to innovate in the field of high-end technology and intelligent manufacturing, and accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises with leading products. Inspur will adhere to the full-stack self-research, from the components and devices, storage machine, storage underlying software, centralized and distributed storage software, storage management software five levels of comprehensive accumulation of technical capabilities, for Xiamen and even the country, the world's users to provide safe, reliable, economical and efficient data storage platform; at the same time will be based on Inspur Xiamen Industrial Park, the construction of automated, intelligent, flexible and transparent modern factory. Based on leading technology and intelligent manufacturing, with Xiamen as the fulcrum, it will expand the southern headquarters, radiate Southeast Asia, and release the value of data to promote the development of the digital economy.