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 provider 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. 

SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei OceanStor Dorado All-Flash Storage is the world's first data storage product to get a DEKRA Product Carbon Footprint Certificate for ISO14067 as well as much-valued DEKRA Seal Certificate that can be affixed on the products. DEKRA is one of the world's leading expert organizations in the testing, inspection, and certification sector. This pioneering achievement reflects the green innovations present in Huawei All-Flash Storage and marks a significant move from Huawei towards energy conservation and emission reduction.

The energy consumption of data centers will account for 4.5% of global total energy consumption by 2025. As a result, energy-efficient data centers are critical to global decarbonization. But as data volumes explode, storage facilities are becoming the most power-consuming components of IT infrastructure.

The product carbon footprint measures the total greenhouse gas emissions generated by a product through its lifecycle. Many countries and organizations issued carbon footprint accounting standards and some even introduced legislation to implement carbon sealing systems. The DEKRA expert team measured and Verified the full-lifecycle carbon footprint of Huawei OceanStor All-Flash Storage according to ISO14067:2018 standards. Not only does the Huawei product meet ISO14067, its carbon reduction and energy saving technologies have been industry-leading, DEKRA noted.

"In accordance with the global consensus on green development, Huawei Storage is committed to driving society towards sustainable development through technological innovation," said Pang Xin, Vice President of Huawei Data Storage Production Line, during a certification ceremony held in Shenzhen on July 28. "Huawei incorporates the circular economy concept into the full lifecycle of OceanStor All-Flash Storage products to provide a green data foundation for enterprises. On top of that, the awarding of DEKRA Storage Product Carbon Footprint and DEKRA Seal Certificates recognizes Huawei's active participation in putting green development into practice."

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Frank Hua, Vice President of Automotive and Industrial Services, DEKRA China, congratulated Huawei, saying, "Huawei data storage products and solutions have been adopted globally. Huawei OceanStor All-Flash Storage won the world's first DEKRA Storage Product Carbon Footprint and DEKRA Seal certificates, setting a fine example in energy saving technology development of storage industry. DEKRA is dedicated to driving green and sustainable development to enable enterprises, and will work with Huawei in driving the shift towards low-carbon development and building a green future."

During the event, Qin Xuan, the Product Management Director of Huawei Flash Storage Department, and Wei Binsheng, the General Manager of DEKRA China Audit and Business Assurance, respectively introduced green and energy-saving strategy of Huawei's storage and DEKRA's sustainability development services and strategies.

Product Management Director of Huawei Flash Storage Domain, Qin Xuan, stated: "SSD replacing HDD is the trend in the green and energy-efficient environment. Replacing one HDD with an SSD can reduce carbon emissions equivalent to the effect of planting 150 trees. Huawei's OceanStor All-flash Storage enhances resource utilization and reduces space occupancy through innovative solutions such as high-density design, data reduction, and system integration. Furthermore, by constructing a system optimization model based on data characteristics and business load patterns, it achieves the optimal energy consumption for the entire system."

General Manager of Audit and Business Assurance of DEKRA China, Paulson Wei, expressed: "Huawei's OceanStor All-flash Storage, as one of Huawei's outstanding storage products, has not only received widespread acclaim for its performance and stability but has also made continuous breakthroughs in the green field. During the carbon footprint audit process, DEKRA deeply felt Huawei's firm commitment to sustainable development. As a leading TIC organization, DEKRA will continue to leverage its professional expertise to provide comprehensive low-carbon services for more enterprises.'

Looking forward, energy-saving storage technologies such as low-power media, near-data computing, and intelligent software-hardware synergy adjustment and control will help achieve optimal energy efficiency with minimum carbon emissions. DEKRA and Huawei Storage will continue to explore diversified energy-saving technologies and work with global partners to accelerate digitalization and low-carbon green development and achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible.

About Huawei

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have 207,000 employees and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

Huawei's vision and mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, we will work towards ubiquitous connectivity and inclusive network access, laying the foundation for an intelligent world; provide diversified computing power where you need it, when you need it, to bring cloud and intelligence to all four corners of the earth; build digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; and redefine user experience with AI, making it smarter and more personalized for people in all aspects of their life, whether they're at home, on the go, in the office, having fun, or working out.

About DEKRA

DEKRA has been active in the field of safety for almost 100 years. Founded in 1925 in Berlin as Deutscher Kraftfahrzeug-Überwachungs-Verein e.V., it is today one of the world's leading expert organizations. DEKRA SE is a subsidiary of DEKRA e.V. and manages the Group's operating business. In 2022, DEKRA generated sales totaling nearly EUR 3.8 billion. The company currently employs almost 49,000 people in approximately 60 countries on five continents. With qualified and independent expert ser-vices, they work for safety on the road, at work and at home. These services range from vehicle inspection and expert appraisals to claims services, industrial and building inspections, advisory and training services, testing and certification of products and systems, also in the digital world, as well as temporary work. The vision for the company's 100th birthday in 2025 is that DEKRA will be the global partner for a safe, secure, and sustainable world. With a platinum rating from EcoVadis, DEKRA is now in the top one percent of sustainable businesses ranked.

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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 deliver 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 recent 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. 

The trial has opened in a Warsaw court of two men accused of spying for China — a Chinese citizen who is a former director of Huawei in Poland and a Polish cybersecurity expert.

The men, Weijing Wang and Piotr Durbajlo, who have both pleaded not guilty, were in court at the start of the trial on Tuesday morning.

Prosecutors requested that the trial be held in secret due to the classified nature of some of the evidence. Though Mr Wang and Mr Durbajlo objected, the court agreed, citing state interests, and journalists were asked to leave.

Mr Wang and Mr Durbajlo were arrested by Polish authorities in January 2019 and accused of spying for China under the cover of seeking business deals for China’s technology giant Huawei.

Mr Wang has been in custody since his arrest.

Mr Durbajlo, a former cybersecurity expert for government agencies including the Internal Security Agency, has been released on bail.

According to the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, the indictment is partly classified, but its public section alleges that Mr Wang is a Chinese intelligence agent and from 2011 to 2019 sought high-ranking contracts for Huawei that would deliver the Chinese company insight into, and influence over, Poland’s state and local administration data systems.

He studied in Poland and later served at the Chinese Consulate in Gdansk before moving over to a senior position at Huawei. He is also known by a Polish first name, Stanislaw.

The Pole is suspected of helping him establish contacts and providing him with documents.

If convicted, they face a minimum of three years in prison.

Their trial is expected to take months and there is no date yet for the final verdict.

Huawei declined to comment because the case was ongoing. It has repeatedly denied the US allegations but since the pair’s arrest, Huawei’s fortunes in Europe have tumbled because of the US campaign.

Countries such as Britain, Sweden and Bulgaria have banned Huawei equipment from their networks and others such as France say they favour homegrown rivals such as Ericsson and Nokia for security reasons.

Huawei gear, which has been effectively blocked by the US since 2012, has also been shunned by Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

ST. LOUIS, November 30. Huawei OceanStor Pacific Storage (Huawei HPDA Lab) took second place in the IO500 list, which is one of the world's leading HPC storage performance rankings.

Huawei OceanStor Pacific storage is a next-gen intelligent distributed storage that has been put into large-scale commercial use worldwide thanks to its:

• Strong support for hybrid workloads: Working with OceanFS, a Huawei-developed parallel file system, this distributed storage system uses a series of cutting-edge technologies such as directory DHT partitioning, large I/O passthrough and small I/O aggregation, and multi-granularity disk space management to provide high bandwidth for large files and high IOPS for small files. This meets different needs of different hybrid workloads.
• Reliable data protection: OceanStor Pacific leverages Erasure Coding (EC) technology that implements N+M data protection, ensuring enterprise-grade data reliability and availability, while also offering more available capacity and higher resource utilization.

The IO500® is one of the world's leading HPC storage performance rankings. It has been widely recognized by research institutions, including universities, national laboratories, and commercial companies. Since November 2017, the IO500 list has been released at the top HPC conferences (SC in the US and ISC in Germany). Against this backdrop, I/O performance has become an important indicator for measuring the efficiency of supercomputer applications. Specifically, it measures storage performance using two key indicators: data bandwidth (GB/s) and read/write speed (IOPS). Storage systems are evaluated by simulating different I/O models, from light to heavy workloads. Scores are obtained from the geometric mean of performance values across all scenarios. By limiting the benchmark to 10 nodes, the test challenges single-client performance from the storage system. The 10-node list is a good reference framework for users because it closely represents the scale that an genuine parallel program can achieve and better reflects the I/O performance that the storage system can provide in real-world application.

For more information, please visit Huawei OceanStor Pacific Storage website

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 Excellerate 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.

Remote interviews have their own unique quirks, challenges and qualities. These HR professionals shared how candidates can navigate them.

More than 30,000 leading brands rely on Sprout Social’s all-in-one social media management platform to gain data-driven insights into their marketing and create deeper connections with their audiences.

What should a candidate do to prepare for the remote hiring process at Sprout? 

Test your tech. First off, be sure to check that you have a strong and stable WiFi connection. In case there are any connectivity issues during your interview, contact your recruiter and ask for a dial-in option. I also recommend familiarizing yourself with the video conferencing software you’ll be using and ensuring that you have the latest version downloaded on your computer. If you plan on presenting a slide deck for a presentation and have to share your screen or plan to use a second monitor, it’s important to practice and work out all the kinks the night before. Lastly, don’t forget to turn off the notifications on your computer and smartphone so the interview isn’t interrupted.

Do your homework. At Sprout, we appreciate when candidates come prepared for their interview having researched our company, solutions and values. If the information hasn’t been provided to you in advance, ask your recruiter about the structure of the interviews and if there will be any focus areas or themes that will be covered during your conversations. I would also review the LinkedIn profiles of the interviewers you’ll be meeting with and have questions prepared for each of them.

At Sprout, we appreciate when candidates come prepared for their interview having researched our company, solutions and values.”

What is the most important thing a candidate should do during a remote interview at Sprout? 

Be specific. Let’s say you’re interviewing for a leadership role and you describe yourself as an inspiring people leader. Our interview teams would love to hear examples of how you’ve inspired your teams versus simply stating you’re an inspiring leader. Or, if you’re a people leader who’s been leading remotely over the last few years, we would welcome hearing some of the techniques you’ve implemented for motivating teams since moving into a remote setting.

Bring us your point of view. Once you’ve had the chance to meet with the hiring manager and additional members of the interview team, we encourage candidates to begin formulating their perspective on the role for which they are interviewing. We value hearing what you’ve learned throughout your interviews and how you could leverage your skills and background with our current team, processes and culture.
 

What other advice do you have for candidates looking for remote work?

I polled our team of 30 recruitment practitioners, and they overwhelmingly agreed that being authentic and present is the number one piece of advice they have for candidates looking for remote work. Now that most of us work remotely, we realize how it could be tempting to read prepared answers during an interview or deliver a presentation by reading directly from your notes. Embracing the opportunity to connect from a distance and letting your genuine self radiate through the screen will resonate much better with the team and company with whom you’re interviewing.

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