All-Flash Scale-Out Storage: Solving Your Data Dilemma in the AI Era

In today's AI-driven world, industries are undergoing a radical transformation as they generate vast amounts of unstructured data and use this data to gain valuable insights.

From financial organizations analyzing real-time transactions to autonomous vehicles processing sensor data, there has never been a more pressing need for fast, reliable, and scalable storage.

In this blog, we'll explore the data challenges faced by industries in the AI age, and how all-flash scale-out storage is perfectly suited to addressing them.

Data challenges across industries

Finance: Speed and security

The financial industry is at the forefront of data generation, with high-frequency trading algorithms and customer transactions creating a deluge of information.

The challenge lies not only in processing this data at lightning speeds to support real-time decisions, but in ensuring that sensitive information remains both secure and compliant with regulations.

Healthcare: Data volume and interoperability

Healthcare organizations generate enormous quantities of unstructured data, from patient records to imaging studies.

It is essential that the industry can both effectively manage this data and ensure interoperability across different systems. Delays in data access can impact patient care, meaning efficient storage solutions are critical.

Autonomous driving: Real-time data processing

Autonomous vehicles rely on data from multiple sensors and cameras, generating terabytes of unstructured data every minute.

The ability to process and analyze this data in real-time is critical for safe navigation. However, the sheer volume of data presents storage challenges that traditional HDD setups struggle to meet.

Media and entertainment: Content creation and distribution

In the media and entertainment industry, high-resolution video and audio files are the norm.

As content creators look to produce more immersive experiences, the demand for storage that can handle large files while simultaneously enabling fast access and collaboration is becoming increasingly important.

Does your organization share similar data needs and challenges? Let's move on to examine the features that a storage solution requires in order to overcome these challenges.

Key considerations to address your challenges

Although each industry grapples with unique challenges, all share common data storage requirements:

Storage capacity: Solutions must accommodate vast amounts of data without compromising performance.

Performance: High throughput and low latency are crucial for real-time analytics and processing.

Scalability: Storage must grow alongside data, allowing for easy expansion.

Reliability: Data integrity and availability are non-negotiable.

Resilience: Robust measures are essential to protect against data loss and breaches.

Ease of management: Simplified management tools are necessary to reduce the burden on IT teams.

Energy savings: As data centers expand, energy efficiency becomes increasingly critical, impacting both costs and environmental sustainability.

Enter all-flash scale-out storage

In the AI era, all-flash scale-out storage is emerging as the go-to solution for the data challenges faced by industries.

Here's how it meets the need to handle massive amounts of unstructured data:

Performance at scale: All-flash storage offers significantly higher throughput and lower latency than HDD setups, making it ideal for data-intensive applications.

Seamless scalability: A scale-out architecture allows organizations to effortlessly add storage nodes, accommodating growth without disruption. This adaptability is crucial for industries that experience fluctuating data demands.

Superb reliability: Flash storage solutions typically come with data reliability and redundancy features, ensuring high availability and minimizing the risk of data loss.

Enhanced resilience: Many all-flash systems provide advanced resilience features such as encryption and ransomware protection, safeguarding sensitive data.

Simplified management: Modern all-flash solutions often feature intuitive management tools, allowing IT teams to monitor and manage their storage environments with ease.

Energy efficiency: All-flash storage consumes less power than traditional HDD solutions, meaning reduced operational costs and a smaller carbon footprint.

The long-term savings achieved through reduced maintenance, lower energy consumption, and improved performance make all-flash scale-out storage a financially sound choice.

Introducing OceanStor Pacific All-Flash Scale-Out Storage

Huawei's OceanStor Pacific All-Flash Scale-Out Storage is designed to awaken and monetize massive amounts of unstructured data even under hybrid workloads.

The product houses 25 x 61.44 TB NVMe SSDs in a 2U chassis, offering an impressive 1.5 PB of capacity in a compact form. This ultra-high-density design decreases the footprint by an astounding 70%.

And the performance? It provides an incredible 20 GB/s bandwidth and 800,000 IOPS per node, making data responses 100% faster than HDD setups.

Built on an advanced thermal architecture and energy-efficient hardware, this powerhouse boasts 0.5 watts per TB power consumption, helping enterprises slash energy costs by 46%.

Furthermore, with OceanStor Pacific, scalability is a breeze. Running on a fully balanced, scale-out architecture, it is scalable to 4,096 nodes, ensuring a linear increase in both capacity and performance. This means enterprises can manage their future data needs with ease.

Powered by the unique Omni-Dataverse global file system, OceanStor Pacific enables data visibility, mobility, and manageability across regions. It also supports the deployment of 12 active data centers to guarantee optimal data reliability. With data security as a foremost consideration, the product uses WORM, secure snapshot, and other techniques to keep your data protected against rising ransomware attacks.

Supercharge your digital journey with the right storage

As data continues to proliferate and the demand for speed and efficiency grows, all-flash scale-out storage is in a position to play a pivotal role in the future of data management. Embracing this technology not only prepares you for the present but sets you up for success in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Huawei is an industry leader with over 20 years of extensive investment in data infrastructure. It offers a broad range of products, solutions, and case studies to help you handle diverse workloads with ease.

Learn more about our award-winning OceanStor Data Storage and how to unleash the full potential of your data.