Huawei Earns the Recommended Ranking in DCIG’s Evaluation of All-Flash Storage

[New Delhi, India, May 11, 2018] The world-famous technical analysis organization, DCIG, released the 2018-19 All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide, in which Huawei’s all-flash array earned the Recommended Ranking. This demonstrates the market recognition and the technical competitiveness of Huawei’s all-flash arrays: the OceanStor Dorado series and the latest OceanStor F V5 series.

The DCIG Buyer’s Guide provides users with comprehensive and in-depth procurement analyses and suggestions from a technical perspective. The evaluation covers numerous aspects, including commercial value, integration efficiency, and data reliability, and is regarded as an important reference for CIOs looking to purchase data center infrastructures.

DCIG scored and ranked 32 mainstream all-flash storage products from 7 storage vendors. DCIG assessed the products in 57 categories, falling into the areas of performance, management and software, hardware, virtualization, and technical support. After careful classification, analysis, and filtering, DCIG classified the products into two levels, in descending order, depending on scores. These levels were Recommended Ranking and Excellent Ranking. Only all-flash storage products with outstanding performance and that attain excellent scores are included in the Recommended Ranking.

In the latest DCIG 2018-19 All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide, Huawei’s OceanStor Dorado V3 storage systems (3 models) and OceanStor F V5 storage systems (5 models) were awarded the Recommended Ranking.

Since its launch in 2016, OceanStor Dorado V3 all-flash arrays have continued to perform strongly in the market. According to an authoritative third-party consulting report, the growth rate of Huawei’s all-flash storage revenue topped the global AFA market in 2017. In March 2018, Huawei launched their next-generation AFA OceanStor F V5 series, completing Huawei’s all-flash storage product portfolio and enabling Huawei to better meet the diverse requirements of its customers. Huawei’s all-flash storage has won the trust of customers worldwide, such as Russia Post, Brazil Caixa Bank, and China Pacific Insurance.

Huawei started research on flash technologies back in 2005, adhering to the concept of ”Data on Demand”. Now, thanks to 13 years of continuous investment, Huawei has a complete range of all-flash storage offerings, designed for mission-critical applications of enterprises, that can further unleash the potential of flash memory. Stick with Huawei Storage to remain at the forefront of All Flash, All Cloud, and All Intelligence trends for data storage.

For details about DCIG 2018-19 All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide, please visit http://e.huawei.com/en/material/onLineView?MaterialID=716b050f43f24b4fbb02ad03076eb9d2.

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