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Since the beginning of this year, "new infrastructure" has pressed the "acceleration button", and many industries related to "new infrastructure" have shown good prospects for development. At the critical moment of the transformation of new and old kinetic energy, "new infrastructure" has become a key engine for China's new economic growth. In the long run, as the backbone network of the digital economy, the new infrastructure shoulders the important task of supporting the operation of the whole digital economy.

As one of the seven major fields of new infrastructure, data center is naturally and closely related to 5G, new energy, artificial intelligence and industrial Internet, and undertakes the important task of receiving, processing, forwarding and storage of digital flow. It is a veritable new infrastructure base, which is related to the future of the whole new infrastructure and even the digital economy.

Digital economy needs a new base

Data show that China's digital economy is about 35.9 trillion yuan in 2019, accounting for 34.8% of GDP. In its report on May 30th, the National Development and Reform Commission pointed out that in 2020, it will speed up the formulation of opinions on the construction and development of new infrastructure, and implement the major project of national integration of big data Center. about 10 regional data center clusters will be distributed across the country. The base role of the data center is becoming more and more obvious, which puts forward higher requirements for the next stage of the evolution of the data center.

At present, the construction of big data Center is facing four general challenges:

The traditional data center construction cycle takes 1.5-2 years, difficult management, complex processes, many rectification, can not achieve on-demand deployment and phased investment, the elastic expansion of the whole data center is poor, can not match the evolution of IT, often lags behind. With the continuous growth of the size of the data center, the energy consumption of the data center is increasing day by day. According to relevant data, data center energy consumption will account for 5% of global energy consumption by 2025, and energy conservation and emission reduction in data centers is imminent. The traditional data center operation and maintenance mode lags behind, and the operation and maintenance efficiency and resource utilization are too low. At present, the average resource utilization rate of many data centers is less than 60%; there is a lack of qualified operation and maintenance personnel, and the means and methods of operation and maintenance rely too much on manpower and experience, and the operation and maintenance of some data centers are inefficient and difficult. The traditional data center faces the challenges of reliability and security, the reliability and physical security of data center equipment are still weak, and the network attacks and security incidents against the data center emerge one after another.

"at present, both the digital economy and the new infrastructure need a new base to play a supporting role, which will require the next-generation data center to address the above four challenges and achieve minimalism, green, intelligence and security." Huawei data center technology experts said.

New base-- where is the "new"?

In 2019, there are more than 70, 000 data centers in China, accounting for about 23% of the global data center size, with 2.27 million data center racks and 2213 IDC data centers in use. However, the overall level of the data center is still low, it is difficult to meet the task of the new base of the data economy.

In Huawei's view, the evolution of the next-generation data center will first undergo a brand-new change in the construction mode, and the fully modular data center will become the first choice. Its hierarchy and granularity, whether it is modular components such as UPS and temperature control, or IT module and modular DC, will make the construction of the data center faster and more flexible, and achieve the goal of building on demand.

Full modular design idea, similar to Lego building blocks, due to the use of standard interface, can achieve "free combination" to match differentiated data center construction requirements, the construction mode is very flexible. Full modularization will also promote product prefabrication, based on modularization, the design and part of the manufacturing front, the advantage is to save construction time, reduce the difficulty of installation and the quality risk caused by construction differences. The traditional data center construction model often takes more than 20 months, while the prefabricated modular construction model only takes 6-10 months.

In addition to fully modular technologies, innovative data center cooling and energy-saving technologies will accelerate deployment. For example, indirect evaporative cooling technology is expected to achieve large-scale application in the future; for example, system-level energy efficiency management will also become popular, through the use of AI technology to achieve data collection of various components of the data center, through dynamic model training and real-time reasoning, linkage with outdoor environment and IT load, effectively achieve overall energy efficiency management and reduce PUE value. In the future, with the landing of AI applications in various industries, the energy-saving pressure on data centers will be increasing. For example, indirect evaporative refrigeration has formed a consensus in the industry, and other innovative technologies such as direct liquid cooling and indirect liquid cooling are also expected to continue to mature and achieve large-scale applications in the next few years.

The construction, operation and management of the data center will usher in a new concept, and digitization and intelligence will run through the whole life cycle of the data center, from the beginning of the design to the operation and maintenance management after completion. The intelligent concept and artificial intelligence technology will be integrated into all aspects of the data center, completely change the traditional mode of relying on labor in the past, and comprehensively improve the management quality and efficiency of the data center.

Data centers need a new security architecture, ranging from infrastructure security to network security. For example, in terms of infrastructure security, from component level, device level to system level, AI technology prediction covers all aspects of infrastructure to achieve intelligent predictive maintenance; while in terms of network security, it is necessary to achieve platform self-control + comprehensive security defense to create a secure and reliable digital platform.

Huawei data center technical experts believe that the direct benefit of digitization and intelligence is to make the resources of the data center visible, to have a comprehensive understanding of the resources of the data center, and to achieve intelligent allocation and accurate planning of resources according to business needs.

Huawei: make the new base "bottom" full of gas

Data center is a typical field of long technology chain and product intensification. In the next stage of the evolution of the data center, the trend of intelligence and intensification will be more obvious: intelligence, that is, + AI in all fields of the data center, so that the efficiency of the data center can be improved in all aspects. Intensification requires manufacturers to provide end-to-end solutions in the data center, not only to have strong technological innovation capabilities, but also to adopt an open ecological strategy. integrate the best products and technologies together to provide data center users.

At the product and solution level, Huawei is the first in the market segment of prefabricated modular data center, modular UPS, modular data center, line-level intelligent temperature control and so on. Huawei's next-generation data center SmartDC solution is a modular + intelligent + intensive model, covering the full-scene application requirements from large data centers to edge data centers, creating a series of highly competitive products such as intelligent power supply iPower, intelligent temperature control iCooling, intelligent management iManager and so on.

For example, Huawei's new SmartLiUPS product has a single module power density of 100kW/3U, which is twice as high as that of the mainstream in the industry. The new FusionPower 2.0 data center power supply and distribution solution based on 100kW module achieves "one megawatt per cabinet" (a single standard cabinet can support one megawatt of capacity), saving more than 50% of the floor space compared with the traditional parallel end-to-end solution. SmartLiUPS also has a unique active current-sharing technology, which supports the mixing of new and old battery packs, taking full account of the old and profitable needs of users' data centers.

Huawei's full-module power supply system realizes the full-chain integration of power modules, with one road and one column indoors and one box and one system outdoors, which can reduce the occupied area by 30% and reduce on-site installation man-hours by more than 40%. Huawei integrates AI into the daily management of power modules and uses AI technologies such as voice recognition and image recognition to detect the full link visual and node temperature, carry out AI temperature dynamic prediction and active early warning with an accuracy of more than 98%.

Huawei's full power supply system has completely changed the problems of low reliability, high energy consumption, large area, difficult operation and maintenance of the power supply and distribution system of the traditional large-scale data center. According to Sadie's latest Annual report on China's UPS Market Research from 2019 to 2020, Huawei's UPS product market share ranks first in China's UPS market.

As the new infrastructure officially steps into the fast lane, the digital transformation of thousands of industries will inevitably begin to accelerate. As a digital hub in the digital economy era, the data center will develop rapidly in the direction of intelligence, intensification and modularization. It plays a more and more important role in the digital economy. Huawei's next-generation data center is playing the role of digital energy experts. With its leading products and solutions, Huawei's next-generation data center is really able to achieve the "bottom" in the new infrastructure, maximize the value of infrastructure for the data center of thousands of industries, and provide a sustainable and green source power for the intelligent world.

Maybe you still have a lot of questions. Next, you might as well go with the editor to Shanghai. On August 11, 2020, Huawei Digital Energy China trip 2020, the first stop will be held at the Kerry Hotel in Pudong, Shanghai. this event will focus on the core values of the next generation data center, explore the development and evolution direction of the data center, share data center practice cases, and issue a white paper on the ecology of China's data center industry. Pass on the advanced technology and power of the next generation data center, friends, come and watch quickly!

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