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The horizon is the world!

Large horizon, global perception, vast ocean of data, storage as a boat.

In 2023, the video storage market is even more expensive.

Whether any TO B product is spoiled by the market or not, the exhibition appearance is the touchstone. On October 25-28, 2023, the 19th China International Public Safety Expo (CPSE an Expo) and Global Digital City Industry Expo and 2023 World Digital City Congress were held in Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center.

In row upon row of booths, enterprises compete with each other like "eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing their magical powers". The audience is most concerned about the protagonist, Huawei every an Expo appearance and a voice, are the eyes of the industry, but also triggered technical speculation, creating infinite possibilities for this horizon.

To this end, the reporter interviewed Yu Peng, vice president of Huawei's distributed storage field, to discuss the present and future of video storage, how to make the industry bigger, how to create unlimited scenes, and how to reduce the data burden and refine. It is as easy as a cook to fit more scenes.

The intelligent world is born of "wisdom", and wisdom "paints" the future. Building a smart world is Huawei's wish for the future. The wide horizon is the only way for Huawei to fall into machine vision in this journey. Storage, computing and transmission are the underlying technologies of the intelligent world, and a wide variety of horizons are inseparable from these "three primary colors".

Big vision gives birth to large storage, and large storage feeds back many application scenes, and then continues to polish products to enrich application system and value connotation, thus forming a commercial value cycle of technology research and development, product verification, deconstruction scheme and project landing.

So, when it comes to storage technology, it's time to change.

Huawei variable Matrix: video Storage merged into distributed Storage Battlefield

Change is the only "constant" in this era. To this end, take advantage of the wind era, comply with the trend. The interview learned that in 2021, the organizational structure was adjusted, the video storage industry adjusted from the original machine vision field to the distributed storage field, and the machine vision legion focused on building capabilities on edge-side cameras. the video storage industry builds competitiveness based on the storage base. This is not the marginalization of machine vision, but further around the industry and ecology, strengthen the ability and competitiveness, and become more promising.

Another change comes from the integration of video storage products: the integration of software and hardware streaming direct storage products intelligent video storage IVS9000, IVS3800 and OceanStor distributed storage into a customer scenario-oriented solution development, delivery, and operation full-function team, covering full-scene video storage. Video and picture is a typical mass of unstructured data, which naturally matches the distributed storage architecture, so it makes sense for the video storage industry to adjust to the field of distributed storage.

This is actually exploring more possibilities for video storage. For fragmented data, strive to store more applications + projects to give a comprehensive three-dimensional understanding, so that the project landing from the level of technical indicators of the competition to the level of application experience.

This step, sonorous and forceful, is also aimed at the future.

Huawei changes, but can not get around the two key words "industry" and "ecology". Huawei video storage will create the ultimate performance-price ratio and build a better solution ecology, which is also the direction of industrial development in the future. In terms of extreme performance-to-price ratio, Huawei will continue to invest in high-density hardware, storage media, recompression algorithms and reliability research to make videos and pictures more, longer and more reliable.

For the government, transportation, energy and other industry markets, deepen and widen; for education, and other commercial markets, launch easy-to-sell, easy-to-deliver, business closed-loop programs. Use video and picture to empower ecology to accelerate the digital transformation of the industry; in terms of solution ecology, the future competition in the field of ICT is the competition of system and the ability of partner system, not the single point of project. In the complex and changeable enterprise market, in order to obtain value, it is necessary to meet different market needs with a clearer market positioning.

So far, 50 + partners have entered Huawei's video storage ecosystem to provide competitive scenario solutions for various industries. We hope that more ecological partners will work with us to solve customer problems and create value for customers in the future.

"heavy" of data and "light" of storage

In the final analysis, Huawei changed its array, that is, after deep Amoy and low Weir, "Wangwenqiche" saw a surge of data and changeable applications in a large field of view, driving the arrival of the era of large storage and complying with the trend.

Under the broad horizon, machine vision collecting and controlling data has become the eye of the intelligent world, the entrance to the perception of everything, the digital grasp of the industry, the data carrier, and the connection of things and things. Of course, everything is a double-edged sword. The explosive growth of data and the complex and changeable application of data form the weight of data.

Video produces data with three connotations: massive, unstructured and low value density. As we all know, the market is surging, the volume of video data is huge, and it is expanding rapidly at an alarming speed. With the continuous networking and integration of video images, as well as the continuous improvement of video resolution and frame rate, the storage of real-time video data has jumped from TB level to PB level. At the same time, the data involved in video is mainly unstructured. In the past, there were mainly video, picture, geographical location information and other types of data in Ping an City, but with the continuous integration of all kinds of intelligent security surveillance and related IoT systems, there are more and more data types. These data, as a whole, constitute the basis of video surveillance data.

Moreover, the overall value density of video surveillance data is low, but the value is high. In the 7 × 24-hour continuous monitoring process, the data that may be useful is only a few minutes, or even seconds. This information is updated very frequently, and a large amount of data is generated all the time. In addition, the retention period of most scene videos has increased from 30 days to 90 days, a threefold increase. In addition, the needs of customers are upgraded from security to management and operation, video and customer production systems make joint decisions, and the requirements for reliability are greatly improved to ensure the stability and sustainability of the business.

Based on the above, video needs to make the data "smaller" and the storage "lighter" in the process of covering more, clearer and longer retention. For this reason, Huawei innovatively puts forward the super coding scheme of AI for space. When storing, we first separate the key non-human objects in the view from the background, maintain the original definition, encode the background deeply, reduce the storage space of 70% video and 50% pictures, and store video 1TB as 3TB and picture 1TB as 2TB.

This scheme also changes the problem that in the past, due to the rapid increase in the number of cameras and the general increase in camera resolution to more than 2K, the storage cost continues to soar and cannot afford to be saved, and the customer computer room is too tight to store. This will lead to the endless maintenance and replacement of a large number of hard disks, and a large number of storage arrays occupy technical defense space and consume a lot of energy. Huawei believes that by improving the specifications of hard drives and increasing the number of storage disks to cope with the rapid growth of storage demand, we can not effectively reduce costs by addressing the symptoms rather than the root causes.

Huawei Super coding is based on the national standard ROI coding technology, supports standard H.264, H.265 video and JPEG image formats, does not reduce resolution, does not change format, does not affect secondary parsing, does not affect the effectiveness of evidence, and is compatible with mainstream cameras and platforms in the industry. Recently, the group standard of "Evaluation Indexes and methods of Video Image recompression Technology" was released, Huawei is one of the main drafting units, and has been invested in distributed storage for many years. In April, Huawei OceanStor distributed storage won the crown of "customer selection" of Gartner in 2023. As the only selected Chinese distributed storage manufacturer, Huawei was ranked first in the list of "customer selection" for two consecutive years. These are the industry's recognition of Huawei's distributed storage industry.

The way of "complexity and simplicity" in the intelligent world, boundless exploration, contains complexity and all simplification. Huawei video storage industry from the original machine vision adjustment to distributed storage, not only aims to keep high, but also stable. Distributed storage is the new future of the era of large storage. From the three dimensions of business, technology and ecology, Huawei is more concerned with the integration of software and hardware at the front and back end, scene priority, perception first, storage first, and then solution adaptation scenarios to cover more and more comprehensively. Make the industry bigger and the data smaller.

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