Huawei is known for its networking and telecoms business, with products that range from handsets to routers to 5G network infrastructure.

But the firm is also known for the embargoes, bans and sanctions by Western states that seek to rein in Chinese influence.

In data storage, Huawei offers cost savings over competitors. Analysts suggest Huawei kit is significantly cheaper to buy and run than equipment from its US-based competitors, and offers a wide range of enterprise-focused (NVMe and SAS) flash and HDD-equipped array products.

It majors in scale and file, block and object access in on-premise hardware, and has a comprehensive cloud storage offer. It might be said to lag in terms of containers storage and consumption models of purchase.

Huawei is a significant supplier of compute, network and data storage equipment in China, but also other emerging markets in central Asia and the Middle East.

However, the company is not just a value-for-money supplier. Its OceanStor Dorado all-flash arrays and OceanStor Pacific scale-out systems are competitive with suppliers such as Dell EMC or HPE, and in some use cases outperform them.

Huawei also offers its own advanced technology, with highly redundant, all-flash storage systems and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven architecture. It has its own ARM-based processors for storage controllers, and its own proprietary SSD form factor to save space. And for some CIOs, especially in the emerging markets where Huawei is strong, the fact that it is not a US tech company has its own appeal. 

RSO Desk Space

Registered student organizations (RSO) may request desk space in the Registered Student Organization office in the Memorial Union Building (MUB 106) by visiting the MUB Board desk in room 106 or by contacting them at mubboard@mtu.edu

Storage Barn

Registered student organizations may request storage space for their organization in "The Storage Barn" on MacInnes Drive near the SDC that is managed by the Undergraduate Student Government.

To apply for space in the Storage Barn, contact the USG at usg@mtu.edu.

MUB Locker Space

A limited amount of locker space is available in the Memorial Union Building and is coordinated by Student Leadership and Involvement. If your RSO is interested, please contact us at 906-487-1963, email activities@mtu.edu, or stop by MUB 112.

The tablet market has many players vying for the spotlight. That makes finding the perfect tablet a challenge. This is especially true if you want a versatile device that serves a variety of different purposes. Work, education, entertainment, gaming, you name it. Huawei has been a pioneer in the tablet market, offering a range of innovative products that cater to different user scenarios and needs. The latest addition to Huawei’s tablet family is the HUAWEI MatePad 11.5”; a productivity powerhouse that features a stunning 11.5” screen with a high refresh rate, as well as versatile features that make it suitable for anything you want to do on a tablet.

Buy now for the HUAWEI MatePad 11.5” in Kuwait for the price of 99.9 KD through Huawei’s online stores and offline retailers.

A Feast for the Eyes
The cornerstone of any great tablet is its display, and that’s precisely where HUAWEI MatePad 11.5” strikes gold. It boasts an impressively large 11.5” 120Hz HUAWEI FullView Display that renders every detail in stunning clarity. The 120Hz refresh rate makes scrolling and swiping buttery smooth, and the support for DCI-P3 wide colour gamut further adds to the visual magic. With a screen-to-body ratio as high as 86% and a 3:2 productivity screen, the MatePad 11.5” offers a larger viewing area than a typical 16:9 screen. It features TÜV Rheinland-certified Flicker-Free technology and Low Blue Light Certification to safeguard your eyes without compromising on the visual quality. So, whether you’re sketching intricate designs, busy preparing for your exams, or simply binging the latest shows, this tablet transforms each interaction into a visual treat.

The Smart Way to Be Creative
With the HUAWEI MatePad 11.5”, creativity is unlimited. With this tablet and the HUAWEI M-Pencil (2nd generation), you can bring your artistic visions to life with the precision and responsiveness that mirrors a pen-on-paper experience. The M-Pencil finely captures each line, dash, and brushstroke you make. And when it’s time to write something, you don’t have to bother switching to a keyboard. FreeScript enables you to directly handwrite text in apps, streamlining your creative workflow.

That said, the tablet also works with the detachable HUAWEI Smart Keyboard, which has been optimised to enhance your productivity. It offers comfortable typing with 1.5 mm key travel and provides an intuitive experience, thanks to the AI Voice key and over 40 shortcut combinations.

Rich and Immersive Sound 
Equipped with a quad-speaker system, the HUAWEI MatePad 11.5” promises to deliver powerful, resonant, and room-filling audio that captivates. Thanks to the brand-new Histen 8.1 audio algorithm, the tablet brings you rich bass, clear mid-range, and vibrant treble response. This tablet tunes the audio to provide you the best listening experience, ensures dialogues in movies are crystal clear, and filters out noise during calls. It’s like having a personal sound engineer at your disposal.

Visionary Super Device Features
The MatePad 11.5” offers a whole new level of SuperDevice experience. Want to drag and drop files between your tablet and laptop? Easy peasy. The SuperHub makes Cross-device content editing and sharing a breeze without the need for a third party app. This feature eliminates barriers between your devices, so that you can copy and paste a bunch of images, videos, and even text by a simple drag-and-drop.

The tablet can serve as a hub, effortlessly connecting to a PC with a simple drag. Once connected, it can transform into a secondary display for the PC and seamlessly work with the keyboard and mouse. This lets you edit files on one screen while browsing reference documents or attending an online meeting on the other. Furthermore, with drag-and-drop file sharing between the PC and tablet, you can be even more productive and multi-task like a champ.

A Powerful Performer 
With all these amazing features, you may be wondering how the HUAWEI MatePad 11.5” handles in terms of performance. Well, this is where it truly impresses. It comes with a high-performance chip featuring a 4 nm process, delivering superior performance to similar tablets. This flagship chipset is a performance powerhouse, bringing the tablet to life with incredible speed and responsiveness. But that’s not all. The tablet comes with a massive 7700 mAh battery that keeps you powered all day long.

The HUAWEI MatePad 11.5” combines the ultimate visual experience, smart creativity, immersive sound, and top-tier performance. It doesn’t matter if you’re a student, a professional, or a creative; this tablet is definitely worth considering for your tech arsenal.

The Higher Education Commission and Huawei Technologies Pakistan to organize an eight-day long online training for 30 to 40 outstanding Pakistani students in the field of ICT tentatively from 26th of this month.

HEC and Huawei, in that regard, are inviting applications from potential Pakistani undergraduate students under the “Huawei Seeds for the Future Programme 2022”.

According to the Assistant Director Learning Opportunities Abroad Higher Education Commission Pakistan, 130 students were selected from varsities across Pakistan by HEC and 55 of them were sent by Huawei to China for two weeks training on culture and advance ICT skills.

HEC Official informed that the deadline to apply for this program is 18th of this month.

The selected students will be able to obtain valuable cutting-edge ICT knowledge (5G, Cloud, AI developed by Huawei's Headquarters and experience a cross-cultural communication virtually.

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Modern businesses are under pressure to be agile, adaptive and innovative. The IT department feels the brunt of it, as the organisations goes through digital transformation projects, while still needing to keep the lights on.

Data is the core of intelligent management; the intelligent management, scheduling, mining, and analysis of data allows applications to deliver personalised experience and companies implement precision control over the design, production and logistics process to reduce management costs. Data is defining new business models and creating new commercial opportunities.

Additionally, businesses need to store a lot of data, and think nothing of having to store data into multiple petabytes. The digital and intelligent transformation demands high-performance infrastructures, and there's the added challenge of an expanding and demanding regulatory environment which places demands on the organisation's storage environment.

How can modern businesses keep up with the storage demands of the volumes of data, while meeting regulatory compliance? A different way of working, in both the data centre and the wider business transformation, can be found in All Flash Arrays (AFA) storage.

Born with high performance, all-flash storage is one of the new engines being touted for mission-critical services. Competition and progress in all-flash storage has created a level of maturity, reliability, and cost-effectiveness that exceeds hybrid disk arrays in all characteristics except raw capacity, providing data centres with higher agility and service capability.

Huawei is one of the vendors in the market, that has vertically integrated its capabilities in chips, networks, and management. Highlighting its leadership position, Huawei has released the OceanStor Dorado all-flash storage series, which adopts an intelligent Solid State Drives (SSDs) controller chip, intelligent multi-protocol processing chip, and intelligent BMC management chip to build an end-to-end service acceleration platform, delivering triple performance and maximizing resource utilisation.

Data is stored on SSDs, that's why performance and stability of these drives are critical. The control unit is responsible for data read/write. The Flash Translation Layer (FTL) is used to store the mapping between the user LBA and the physical page in the SSD. To achieve the ultimate in storage speed, Huawei leverages an innovative SSD controller chip to accelerate data read and write. The FTL algorithm is moved from the control software layer to the SSD controller chip, so that all FTL reads and writes are performed by the chip, significantly reducing the number of software interactions and hence the I/O response latency.

For example; a computer using Windows 95 needs to load a long string of codes after being powered on, which takes two to three minutes. After switching to Windows 2010, the computer has a stronger CPU to load the codes. You can enter the "Start Up" interface instantaneously. According to tests by Huawei's performance and interoperability lab, the read latency of Huawei SSDs is as low as 80 μs in low-load scenarios, which is better than the other vendors; the performance is two times higher than that of competitors.

To achieve end-to-end acceleration, Huawei developed the FlashLink technology by combining  SSDs and storage controller , NVMe architecture, and a storage operating system designed for flash from the ground up. Huawei's Dorado storage can deliver three times higher performance after enabling of value-added features such as deduplication, compression, and snapshot, while maintaining 0.5 ms latency, eliminating performance shortage issues in peak hours.

Whether for new applications such as artificial intelligence, Big Data, autonomous driving, and blockchain, or traditional healthcare, manufacturing, and finance industries, innovative chip technologies have become the main driving force of enterprises.

The intelligent SSD, within the OceanStor Dorado all-flash storage series, has a controller chip purpose-built for the flash media, exploring full potential of flash to Improve user experience. The multi-protocol intelligent processing chip simplifies networking, reduces management costs, and offloads network protocols to accelerate data read/write.

OceanStor Dorado's intelligent BMC management chip accelerates fault locating, implements failover in seconds, and excels in energy saving, helping users leasing IT devices to reduce costs and explore new business opportunities.

Find out how Huawei is continually improving its storage products.

Data has become an important factor in keeping an organization agile and competitive. However, traditional ways of storing data, to meet both technical and compliance needs, are failing. Two examples of how organizations have been able to modernise their storage environment demonstrate just how much of a competitive advantage investment in this area can offer.

The core of intelligent management; the scheduling, mining, and analysis of data, help applications deliver personalised experience and companies implement precision control over the design, production and logistics process to reduce management costs.

Companies from a variety of industries, across Europe and Asia, choose to go with the Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Series, to help them make storage the driving force for their enterprise.

In 2017, the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) announced the 2017 Low Carbon Champions Awards. BYD UK — the London branch of BYD Auto — won the "Low Carbon Heavy Duty Vehicle of the Year Award" and jointly won the "Grand Prix" — the top award — with Transport for London (TfL) and Go-Ahead London for their partnership in launching London's first two all-electric bus routes. This award specifically noted BYDs contribution in delivering the vehicles, operational capacity, and infrastructure for the London project.

Founded in 1995, BYD in IT-related and automobile business for traditional fuel-powered vehicles and new energy vehicles. BYD Auto experienced a period of rapid business development and proliferation of operational processes. This generated a large amount of concurrent data flows from product sales, spare parts inventory, and after-sales services.

To provide an idea of the exactly how much additional data was being generated, the volume of data most manufacturing enterprises' online transaction management systems doubles every two years, and concurrent requests to the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system grow exponentially, leading to high I/O frequencies and long user wait times.

This increased in data must be analyzed by a BI system, combined with the shorter timeframe in which data must be processed and reports generated, imposing stringent requirements on data loading and processing speed, as well as system stability. The BI system is a must-have tool for enterprises' manufacturing planning, sales analysis, market trend forecasts, and other important business decision-making.

BYD Auto's ERP system couldn't handle the required 185,000 Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and 60,000+ concurrent services during peak hours. The system once took over an hour to query the monthly SAP ERP financial statements. Access performance was so poor, the ERP system could not be used for service development. In one extreme case, a system breakdown even jeopardised production line operation.

Based on these requirements and the analysis results of BYD's live network, Huawei created an OceanStor Dorado all-flash acceleration solution for the auto company. In this solution, HDD-based storage was replaced by all-flash storage to expedite read and write I/O and make the ERP and Business Warehouse (BW) systems more efficient. No changes were made to the live network architecture, databases, hosts, ERP software, or O&M, to avoid possible risks. To keep the system upgrade from affecting services, the Huawei data migration team provided a set of data mirroring workarounds using host volume management software.

Legacy data was also migrated to the OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage without affecting ERP services. Upon Huawei's recommendation, BYD Auto retained its development and test systems and sandbox on the legacy storage system to protect the investment.

The success of the ERP system reconstruction project led BYD Auto to choose Huawei's OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage again for its next Document Management System (DMS) and Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) system upgrade. OceanStor Dorado's superb performance and robust stability again impressed BYD.

Far away from BYD Auto is Widiba, Widiba is an online banking arm of MPS created in 2014 in Italy, with the aim of providing customers with simple, convenient, and innovative fund management services. It prides itself on delivering high value through the use of an IT platform that can be customized by users to suit their own particular needs and a network of 600 advisors, offering a wide range of telephone-based financial advice services.

In accurate years, Widiba has intensified its technological innovation. It uses an interactive model similar to Google search and leverages big data engines to recommend banking services for users based on their behavior algorithms and feedback information. After several rounds of communication and repeated demonstration, Widiba chose Huawei as a partner to build a future-proof IT data management platform.

The platform is powered by Huawei's OceanStor storage systems in new data centers. The OceanStor supports converged active-active (HyperMetro) for SAN and NAS. The high-performance SSD-based all-flash SAN storage bears online transaction records and other critical business systems, and check images are kept on the large-capacity NAS storage.

During the IT enablement process, Widiba made penetrating insights into the trends of big data and the monitoring of user experience. It believes that SSDs will be the most appropriate data storage media to meet the requirement of massive storage capacity and the high performance necessary to ensure satisfactory user experience.

Therefore, Widiba has built a high-performance storage resource pool composed of SSD-based OceanStor systems to meet the performance and efficiency demands of core business systems. The pool helped increase the core service processing efficiency and shortened the average transaction and query response time. The storage system latency was reduced from 3 to 5 ms to less than 1 ms, and improved storage resource utilization, reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 30 percent.

To address the challenges of the mobile Internet era, Widiba cooperated with Huawei to design a converged active-active (HyperMetro) SAN and NAS solution. Huawei deployed one set of OceanStor systems in Widiba's Siena Production Center and another one in its Florence Data Center, in an active-active configuration. Storage resource pools at the two sites provide backup for each other, achieving 99.9999 percent data availability. The two linked sites are 100 km away from each other. One storage system of the SSD-powered active-active SAN provides 100,000 IOPS at 1 ms latency, and one storage system at the other site offers 78,000 IOPS at 2.4 ms. This design meets the storage performance requirements of IBM MQ, VMware virtualization, and PostgreSQL databases on the live network.

Migrating services is never easy and requires various types of operating systems. Application software and device models must all be moved over, which creates intense challenges in terms of compatibility.

Adding to the complexity, organisations require zero service interruption because, in the era of 24/7 operation, they can't tolerate any negative impact on customer experience. Both companies chose to go with Huawei for its OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Series, because Huawei was able to deliver a fast and reliable system, that helped them reduce and manage costs.

Contact Huawei to find out more about the OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage Series. 

To: Owners, Landlords, Housing Corps., House Managers, and Residents of Fraternity Houses

Re: Condition of houses during summer break/Storage

When preparing your house for summer break, please follow these guidelines.

1. The general condition of the house must remain the same as it would be if it were occupied.
   • Halls and doorways must be clear of storage and waste materials.
   • All safety equipment must be operational including exit lights, egress lights, fire alarm, and sprinkler systems.
   • All waste, rubbish, and unused combustible materials shall be removed from the building.
   • Dispose of any mattresses and furniture that will not be used the following school year.
   • Fire doors must be closed and properly operating.
2. Storage from outside locations (annex houses or other off campus housing) CANNOT be brought into the buildings. Extra storage of mattresses, couches, and other combustible materials creates a fuel load that can quickly overrun a sprinkler system and/or rapidly create a fire situation that is uncontrollable. This creates a very dangerous situation for firefighters.
3. Meeting rooms CANNOT be used as a central location for storing furnishings from the building.
4. Furniture and furnishings that are normally in an occupied room, arranged in a normal fashion with access to doors and windows, is acceptable.
5. Conduct one last self-inspection prior to leaving the building for the summer.
6. Make sure all electrical items are turned off or unplugged.

For questions or further clarification please contact the fire department