Since its official full-scale launch on February 17, 2022, the "Digital from East to Count from West" project has passed its first anniversary. More than a year of practical exploration has proved that the activation of data elements and the promotion of computing power as the core productivity are inseparable from "storage power first". Among them, the integration of eastern and western storage capabilities is a necessary condition to support the full-scenario application of "East Counting and West Computing".
On May 9th, at the "Seminar on the Development of Data Storage Capacity under the East and West Computing", we cooperated with Wuhan Optoelectronics National Research Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Computer Industry Association Information Storage and Security Committee, and CCID Consulting Co., Ltd. The company, as well as experts from Sugon Storage Division and other units, launched an exchange.
Experts in various fields of industry, academia and research have emphasized that in the digital economy, computing power and storage power are inseparable and complementary.
East and west calculations have opened up multiple digital business scenarios and stimulated a wealth of application requirements. To transform the huge "numbers" from a burden to a boost, and to maximize the benefits of the powerful "calculations", the data and computing power of the east and west must be able to To connect and flow, this requires integrated storage capacity.
If data and computing power are the "internal power" of the digital economy, and full-scenario applications are the "bullseye", then storage is like the "magic weapon" that can be used to store power, and it will come from the east and west. The "internal force" is integrated together, and with appropriate strength and skills, it directly hits the "bull's eye" of the application.
However, as various experts have said, "counting from the east to the west" has a long way to go, and it is not so easy to forge a "sharp weapon" that integrates the storage capabilities of the east and the west.
One of storage and power
The direction of the heart of "counting in the east and counting in the west"
At the exchange meeting, Gao Dan, the business director of CCID Consulting Co., Ltd., shared the changes brought about by the first anniversary of "East Counting and Western Counting".
Generally speaking, "counting from the east to calculating from the west" has brought about a large-scale growth of the data center industry, and the potential of the digital economy in the western region has been rapidly released. Among them, since the object of computing power is stored data, to some extent, computing power depends on storage power, so the essence of "counting from east to west" is more manifested as "storage from east to west".
It can be seen that the "Digital from the East and Calculate from the West" project has effectively promoted the development of the digital economy in the east and the west, and also brought about the inevitability of the balanced development of storage and calculation and the integration of storage capacity in the east and the west.
From the perspective of specific applications, we will find that there are still three major requirements to be met in the storage field:
1. The need to "save".
The digitalization process is accelerating, and the amount of data is increasing exponentially. To save valuable massive data for further analysis and processing, it must first be able to "save it", which puts forward higher requirements for storage capacity and performance.
2. The demand for "flowable".
Professor Wu Fei from the Wuhan Optoelectronics National Research Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology shared that there is a data "Hu Huanyong line" in the east and west calculations. Data migration requires a fusion architecture that integrates storage, computing, and transmission.
3. The need to "use well".
In the final analysis, data needs to be used. The complexity of business applications in the intelligent age also brings additional challenges to storage. One is diversity, the storage requirements of upper-layer applications and data loads are different; the other is ubiquitous, as there are more and more digital business scenarios, storage capacity must meet all-scenario applications in various fields, and must be based on performance, security, energy consumption, service, and operation. Dimensions and other angles are fully upgraded.
Faced with the deterministic demand for "East Counting and West Computing" to move forward and integrate storage capacity, Dawn, which has been accumulating power in the storage field for 20 years, has created a "magic weapon" that breaks the situation.
Full scene application
The point of the sword of Dawn Storage
Facing the cross-domain demand of "counting in the east and calculating in the west", "integration of storage and power" has become a recognized problem-solving idea in the industry, academia and research circles.
Professor Wu Fei proposed that a new type of distributed architecture that integrates storage, computing, and transmission is required to meet the "East Data and Western Computing"; Secretary-General Yang Xiaoshan of the China Computer Industry Association Information Storage and Security Committee believes that it is necessary to promote "high storage capacity, high Computing power, high transport capacity, high security, and high efficiency" national integrated data infrastructure construction.
Specific to the storage field, Sugon is also actively promoting a fusion and intelligent integrated storage capacity layout.
Specifically, Sugon aims at multiple digital business scenarios, and uses the technical advantages accumulated over the past two decades to "break the way with one sword", accurately solve the problem of storage capacity, and hit several "key points" in succession:
1. Security. Sugon, as one of the first companies in China to start self-research and accumulation of mass storage technology, is one of the few manufacturers in China with full-stack self-research capabilities in storage systems. It builds storage system security and comprehensively guarantees system stability and long-term business development.
2. Efficient. With years of technological breakthroughs, Sugon Storage's massive storage system has continuously broken through performance and capacity bottlenecks, reaching an industry-leading level, and can meet the needs of IO-intensive business scenarios in east-west computing.
At the end of last year, with its self-developed core technology and efficient performance optimization capabilities, Sugon Storage passed twelve harsh scenario tests of IO500 and topped the global performance list.
3. Green. In response to the national "dual carbon" strategy, Sugon innovatively introduced liquid cooling technology into the storage system and launched the industry's first liquid cooling storage. At the same time, liquid-cooled storage can be combined with liquid-cooled computing to build a one-stop liquid-cooled solution for data centers, reducing the PUE value to below 1.1, which has been successfully implemented.
4. Service. To simplify the management problems of massive data, Sugon has built a distributed unified storage platform, which can simultaneously manage and monitor 64 sets of large-scale clusters in a visualized and unified manner, and integrate artificial intelligence into the overall system of implementation planning, operation and maintenance management, and application guidance. process, improve operation and maintenance efficiency, and reduce operation and maintenance costs.
Safety, efficiency, greenness, and service, these four "key points" are the core pain points that plague industrial users in the multi-digital business scenario of "East Counting and Western Counting".
Sugon Storage's integrated layout of storage and power directly hits the key point through technological innovation "breaking the way with one sword". With the continuous advancement of "counting from east to west", it is expected to quickly and accurately meet the storage capacity needs of more business scenarios and applications.
