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With the continuous emergence of new technologies and new applications, the demand for data storage and management capabilities of enterprises is increasing. The development of big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of things and other technologies not only provides new business opportunities, but also brings new storage challenges. "PB" has become a common data level in the industry, and in some industries, there are even EB and ZB storage requirements. At the same time, there are more and more data types, which increases the complexity of management.

In 2018, under the data torrent, the enterprise storage market continues to maintain the trend of growth. According to the quarterly IDC global enterprise storage market report, the shipments of established storage system manufacturers such as Dell, HPE/H3C, NetApp, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, Lenovo and Tide have increased or decreased to varying degrees, but they are still in the leading position on the whole. A large part of the reason comes from the accurate grasp of the cutting-edge trend of enterprise storage, as well as the advantages of its own product technology and services, so that it can not only improve its competitiveness, but also be recognized by enterprise customers.

So what are the hot trends in enterprise storage over the past year?

First of all, artificial intelligence technology has been widely used in data storage. Leading manufacturers have begun to give AI capabilities to storage devices to simplify operation and maintenance and reduce the difficulty of management through intelligent and automatic management. At the same time, using AI technology for fault prediction can also effectively prevent data loss and reduce the failure rate.

All-flash arrays continue to receive a lot of attention this year, and because of the lower price of flash per GB, big data applications have higher requirements for storage performance, and all-flash arrays have been accepted by more enterprises and become more popular. Of course, this does not mean that all-flash memory has become a major role in the data center, because many enterprises, especially traditional enterprises, are still waiting for all-flash memory, and the purchase volume is not high. Mainly because for most traditional enterprises, hard drives can still meet the needs of business systems, and the cost of flash memory is still relatively expensive.

In addition, software-defined storage will also have a profound impact on the future industrial development, extracting software from the original storage controller, so that their functions can be further brought into full play. this will help to create a storage system with simple management, flexible scalability and higher resource utilization. Software-defined storage reduces the coupling between software and hardware, can choose and use more general hardware with more configuration and higher performance, and develop flexibly according to business requirements to support the rapid evolution of business. It is expected that software-defined storage will continue to receive attention in the future.

Towards the end of 2018, IT168 once again launched the "Technology Excellence Award", which is jointly selected by industry CIO/CTO celebrities, technical experts and IT media, and the criteria represent users and media voices. After multi-party evaluation, selected 8 extremely advantageous storage software and hardware products, the following is a detailed introduction for you.

Best innovative product award: HPE Nimble storage

Bottom line comment: Nimble can give full play to the characteristics of SSD media, provide optimal performance density and capacity density, and support reliability of more than 6 9s, exceeding the needs of most large and medium-sized users for critical business environments.

2018 IT168 Best Innovation Award: HPE Nimble Storage

Product introduction:

HPE Nimble storage system has two series of all-flash memory (AF) and hybrid storage (CS/HF), and its main product features include:

Fast-CASL low-level architecture optimization to quickly improve read and write IO

The most important innovations of Nimble are the revolutionary "random write ordering architecture" and "SSD cache acceleration optimization algorithm", collectively referred to as CASL (Cache Accelerate Sequential Layout). With CASL, data writing can be fully sequenced and data read SSD Cache 100% hit, achieving both performance and capacity, far ahead of traditional storage solutions.

Stability-multiple data protection strategies to ensure performance stability and data security

Data stabilization: triple check is realized by hashing RAID, which ensures that there is no data loss of any three disks in a single RAID group at the same time, and provides fast reconstruction of lossless performance and capacity.

Stable performance: the Nimble storage system architecture is designed for highly available storage scenarios in high-performance environments, providing global online resampling and compression technology, with 2-3 times or more online data compression ratio.

Simplicity-best practice delivery, rapid deployment, simplified operations and maintenance

Simple deployment: through the use of the best configuration, directly deliver customer-determined performance and data protection policies, simplify the storage space and performance allocation process, and quickly deploy online.

Simple planning: under any read-write ratio and any redundant hardware damage, the performance impact is 0%. Users do not need to constantly "plan" storage, nor do they need to worry about the impact on performance in case of controller failure and hard disk damage.

Simple expansion: users can expand the capacity and performance of the system online without downtime by expanding space, Scale deep performance, and Scale out clusters.

Simple space: fast and efficient online data re-deletion and online global data compression, and support streamlined configuration, achieving 2 to 5 times space savings without affecting performance.

Smart-InfoSight AI intelligent management to proactively prevent and solve 90% of the problems

Intelligent prevention: through the InfoSight active service platform, drawing lessons from the long-term tracking of more than 315 million equipment operating hours around the world, once a problem occurs, it can be immune to all other users, so Nimble can fully prevent problems and predict future demand.

Intelligent optimization: 90% of the problems can be found and solved automatically through InfoSight,Nimble, eliminating the need for repeated maintenance and tuning, and achieving the reliability of 6 9s in real data statistics.

Reason for winning the award: Nimble has reached the highest level of similar products in terms of performance, stability, reliability and ease of use, and can fully support core database business applications, server and desktop virtualization architecture, message collaboration and other environments. It is the basis of a mature and reliable IT fusion architecture, and can closely support Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, Oracle, SAP, OpenStack and other application scenarios.

Technical Excellence Award: Huawei OceanStor 18000F V5 Series High-end all-Flash Storage

Bottom line comment: as an all-flash storage system designed for enterprise critical business, Huawei OceanStor 18000F V5 series products meet the most stringent reliability and performance elastic growth requirements, supporting the smooth operation and flexible expansion of enterprise core applications.

2018 IT168 Technology Excellence Award: Huawei OceanStor 18000F V5 Series High-end all-Flash Storage

Product description: Huawei OceanStor 18000F V5 series is a new generation of all-flash memory array released by Huawei, which not only inherits all the mature high availability features and enterprise functions of Huawei for enterprise critical applications, but also provides enterprises with a higher level of data services and simpler and flexible management through further scalability, higher performance and hybrid cloud-oriented evolution architecture, which is the reliable choice for enterprise core applications. OceanStor 18000F V5 series high-end flash storage has industry-leading capabilities in reliability, performance and solutions, meeting the data storage needs of large database OLTP/OLAP, cloud computing and other applications. It is widely used in government, finance, operators, energy, transportation, manufacturing and other industries, and is an excellent choice for core applications of enterprises.

Its product features include: 1, extreme performance, all-flash-oriented system architecture design, rapid response to core business needs; flexible expansion, up to 32 controllers, 32TB cache, IOPS up to 6 million in the case of latency less than 1ms. 2. Stable and reliable, leading SmartMatrix 2.0 system architecture, gateway-free integrated double activity, 99.9999% high availability, helping users to achieve business sustainability. 3. Intelligent cloud, realizing intelligent management of storage design, deployment, operation and maintenance through eService, and assisting enterprise cloud transformation through hybrid cloud, enterprise-specific cloud service and other solutions.

Reasons for winning the award:

Huawei OceanStor 18000F V5 series' ultra-high-tech, high-reliability SmartMatrix architecture, as well as higher scalability, high-performance all-flash design, hybrid cloud-oriented evolution solutions, make this series highly competitive in all-flash arrays. The advantages of extreme performance, stability and reliability, extreme integration and intelligent cloud make Huawei OceanStor 18000F V5 series even more outstanding.

Best innovative Product Award: tide Software defined Storage system AS13000

In a word: tide Software defines the storage system AS13000, which supports EB-level mass storage space, ultra-high performance and reliable data automatic repair mechanism to meet the storage needs of massive data in weather forecasting, education and scientific research, energy exploration, radio and television media, video surveillance, bioengineering and other industries.

2018 IT168 Best Innovation Award: tide Software-defined Storage system AS13000

Product introduction: AS13000 is a high-performance business oriented to cloud computing, big data, Internet of things, mobile network applications and other massive data services, as well as space information, bioengineering, meteorological information, scientific computing, energy, animation rendering and other massive data. AS13000 is a self-developed mass storage system platform with independent intellectual property rights. AS13000 also supports NAS, Object and SAN storage functions. Integration of iSCSI, Infiniband and 10GB 10 Gigabit host interface, including the current mainstream storage network architecture and host connection mode. Provide users with a distributed storage system with capacity expansion on demand, performance on demand supply, and service on demand definition. Through 2U12, 2U25, 4U36, cabinet and other hardware platforms, as well as 1Gb, 10Gb, Infiniband and other host interfaces, concurrently provide NAS, SAN, S3, HDFS and other storage protocols. The system supports a maximum of 5120 nodes of expansion, EB-level mass storage space.

Reason for winning the award: tide Software-defined Storage AS13000 is based on the concept of collaborative innovation of software and hardware, and supports multi-form hardware. In addition to supporting general servers, it also supports heterogeneous servers, ultra-high density and Rack cabinet servers customized for big data, AI and other application scenarios; and can provide file, object, block, big data four kinds of data services, capacity expansion on demand, performance supply on demand, service definition on demand.

Best innovative product award: Ali Cloud object Storage (OSS)

Comment in a word: Ali Cloud object Storage is suitable for storing any type of files, and is suitable for all kinds of websites, development enterprises and developers. Paid according to the actual capacity, users can focus on the core business.

2018 IT168 Best Innovation Award: Aliyun object Storage (OSS)

Product description: Ali Cloud object Storage Service (Object Storage Service, referred to as OSS) is a massive, secure, low-cost, highly reliable cloud storage service provided by Aliyun. It has a platform-independent RESTful API interface and can provide 99.999999999% data reliability and 99.99% service availability. You can store and access any type of data in any application, at any time, and anywhere.

You can easily move large amounts of data into or out of Aliyun OSS using the API or SDK APIs or OSS migration tools provided by Aliyun. After the data is stored in Aliyun OSS, you can choose the standard type (Standard) Aliyun OSS service as the main storage method for mobile applications, large websites, picture sharing or hot audio and video. You can also choose Ariyun OSS service with lower cost and longer storage period, such as low-frequency access type (Infrequent Access) and archive type (Archive), as the backup and archiving of data accessed infrequently.

Reason for the award: Ali Cloud object Storage is a distributed storage service for massive data scale, which provides multiple storage types (standard, low frequency, archive), covering a variety of hot to cold storage scenarios for storing a variety of data. Based on many functional features and advantages, OSS has become an important infrastructure of the Internet in China, providing important capability support for the digital transformation of enterprises.

Best innovative product award: Hitachi Vantara HCP

In a word: with HCP solutions, security and freedom can be achieved at the same time, users can control data growth, connect traditional and emerging technologies, and ensure data security and availability anytime, anywhere.

2018 IT168 Best Innovation Award: Hitachi Vantara HCP

Product description: Hitachi Vantara HCP is an intelligent object storage platform that helps IT departments and cloud service providers store, share, synchronize, protect, save, analyze and retrieve file data from a single system. Compared with traditional file storage solutions, it is more efficient, easier to use, and able to handle more data. HCP automates day-to-day IT operations, such as data protection, and can evolve over the data lifecycle as size, scope, application, storage, server, and cloud technologies change. These capabilities are valuable in IT environments where data is growing rapidly or must be preserved for years, decades, or even indefinitely.

HCP does not need to store unstructured content in isolation. The platform provides each tenant with comprehensive scalability, multiple storage tiers, strong security, Hitachi reliability, cloud capabilities, extensive protocol support, multi-tenancy, and configurable attributes. It can support multiple applications on a single physical cluster and is supported by a thriving community of third-party software partners. By accessing a powerful ecosystem of cloud applications, Hitachi Content Platform can solve a variety of current problems and adapt to future needs.

Reason for the award: HCP provides secure and cost-effective private, public and hybrid cloud services while reducing costs by 60%. With an integrated product portfolio and a flexible storage ecosystem, enterprises can upgrade to digital office and support a variety of applications, leveraging powerful metadata through user-defined data management strategies to improve efficiency without affecting visibility or control.

Best innovative product award: Seagate Galaxy series enterprise helium disk Exos X14

Bottom line comment: the Seagate Galaxy enterprise-class helium disk Exos X14 provides reliable performance, solid reliability and steel-like corporate security in demanding round-the-clock operations, while reducing the total cost of ownership.

2018 IT168 Best Innovation Award: Seagate Galaxy Series Enterprise Helium disk Exos X14

Product description: on the basis of maintaining the 3.5in specification, Seagate Galaxy enterprise-class helium disk ExosX14 provides higher storage density and is an ideal choice for ultra-large-scale environments. The increase in area density means Seagate will be able to provide greater storage capacity in smaller hard disk sizes-a milestone in meeting the growing needs of the data center. The Seagate Galaxy Series ExosX14 delivers the industry's lowest power consumption, smallest size, and the best performance of its peers, making it an affordable solution to maximize data center storage capacity, reduce complexity and operating costs. Built-in SeagateSecure to encrypt all data without compromising performance. The new hard drive is also certified by the Federal Information processing Standard (FIPS) 1402 and complies with the General guidelines for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC), the International computer Security Certification Standard (ISO/EIC15408). Other key features of ExosX14 include a 40% increase in the number of PB per rack compared to the Galaxy series 10TB hard drives, a 10% reduction in disk weight compared to air-encapsulated near-line hard drives, design flexibility to provide a wider range of integration options, and support for more workloads.

Reason for the award: Seagate ExosX14 uses helium filled 8-disc package, single disc capacity reaches 1.75TB, built-in Seagate Secure technology, and has real-time secure erase technology, reaching the security level of FIPS 140-2, which can ensure the maximum security of data, and is outstanding in terms of weight and power consumption optimization of hard drive design.

Technical Excellence Award: Intel Aoteng solid State disk DC P4800X Series

In a word: revolutionary Intel arrogant technology provides unparalleled high throughput, low latency, high quality of service and ultra-high durability.

Product description: Intel arrogant technology creatively combines 3D XPoint memory media with Intel advanced system memory controller and interface hardware and software IP. This revolutionary technology provides customers with a variety of shapes to choose from, providing great system performance in a range of products. Intel Aoton solid state disk DC P4800X is the first product to combine memory and storage properties. This innovative solution provides industry-leading high throughput, low latency, high quality of service, and high durability, with a new data storage layer optimized to break data access bottlenecks. The DC P4800X accelerates applications, supports fast caching and fast storage, increases scalability per server, and reduces transaction costs for latency-sensitive workloads. In addition, the DC P4800X enables data centers to deploy larger, more economical datasets to gain new insights in large memory pools.

The reason for the award: Intel's arrogant technology brings more possibilities to the data center. The data center can explore two key use cases of the DC P4800X: fast storage or caching or extended memory. Fast storage or caching optimizes memory and storage levels through tiering. The DC P4800X provides a new level of storage, breaking the bottleneck of traditional NAND storage and improving the speed of applications and the efficiency of each server. The extended memory use case enables Intel ®arrogant ™solid state drives and DRAM to share the same memory pool at the operating system or application level, providing larger memory capacity at a lower cost.

Technical Excellence Award: IBM Spectrum Discover

Bottom line comment: IBM Spectrum Discover provides modern metadata management software for PB-level file and object storage, which can help users save time, improve productivity, and achieve easy integration.

2018 IT168 Technology Excellence Award: IBM Spectrum Discover

Product description: IBM Spectrum Discover is a modern metadata management software that provides data insight for PB-level unstructured storage. The software can be easily connected to IBM Cloud Object Storage and IBM Spectrum Scale to quickly retrieve, merge, and index metadata for billions of files and objects. It provides a rich metadata layer that enables storage administrators, data administrators, and data researchers to effectively manage, classify, and gain insights from large amounts of unstructured data. It can improve the economic benefits of storage, help reduce risk, and accelerate large-scale analysis, thereby creating a competitive advantage and accelerating critical research. IBM Spectrum Discover is a modern metadata management software that provides data insight for PB-level unstructured storage. The software can be easily connected to IBM Cloud Object Storage and IBM Spectrum Scale to quickly retrieve, merge, and index metadata for billions of files and objects. It provides a rich metadata layer that enables storage administrators, data administrators, and data researchers to effectively manage, classify, and gain insights from large amounts of unstructured data. It can improve the economic benefits of storage, help reduce risk, and accelerate large-scale analysis, thereby creating a competitive advantage and accelerating critical research.

Reason for the award: IBM Spectrum Discover can ingest, merge and index metadata from millions of files and objects, reducing the data preparation required for large-scale analysis by enterprises. With the help of this software, users can manage data more easily, complete data analysis more quickly, and improve the competitiveness of the industry.

Conclusion:

In the era of digital intelligence, data has become the core asset of enterprises. As an important cornerstone of digital business, storage system plays an important role in the whole digital journey of enterprises. All the analysis, insight and value realization of the data are based on the effective support of the underlying storage system. There is no doubt that the data explosion will continue, and with the continuous evolution of enterprise storage needs, we hope to see more technical strength, innovative products and solutions to provide enterprises with richer and reliable choices.

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