Connect 2024: Huawei and Roland Berger Jointly Release "Future-Proof Data Storage Power"

At Connect 2024 Data Storage Summit themed Data Awakening: Building AI-Ready Data Infrastructure, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Roland Berger GmbH jointly released the Future-proof Data Storage Power white paper.

Human civilization is rapidly advancing from digitalization to intelligence. Damien Dujacquier, global partner, Roland Berger, noted that “enterprises should shift their perspective from ‘data storage power’ to ‘future-proof data storage power’, to address key global trends such as surging data volumes, the booming data factor market, emerging native AI applications, increasingly complex cybersecurity environment, and roaring demand for low-carbon, eco-friendly development in the digital industry.“

In WP, Roland Berger and Huawei offer deep dive into concept of future-proof storage power:

New positioning: Future-proof data storage power is not only the digital cornerstone of high-quality society development, it’s the high-performance engine that drives the emergence of an intelligent economy. An important element of the intelligent era, future-proof data storage power will effectively fuel the data factor market for intelligent socio-economic transformation.
New features: In addition to previous existing features like storage capacity, performance, reliability, and sustainability, future-proof data storage power is characterized by universal ubiquity, native AI, compact architecture, and an open ecosystem, and will better promote adoption of AI solutions by industries and in the economy at large.
New indicators: The WP presents a future-proof storage indicator system based on 6 dimensions: capacity planning, resource utilization, performance requirements, security and ransomware protection, solution-level TCO, and native AI empowerment. Additional indicators such as data retention rate, storage-compute ratio, and device in-warranty rate are also included to help global regions and enterprises clarify the development advantages and improvement room of future-proof data storage power.

The global AI boom has indeed significantly driven enterprises’ demand for future-proof data storage power.

Peter Zhou, president, data storage product Line, Huawei said: “Two years ago, we launched the Date Storage Power white paper to offer valuable reference and inspiration for those concerned about the development of the storage industry and further promote its growth. Today, we release the Future-proof Data Storage Power white paper, which I believe will help enterprises cope with new challenges and requirements of data storage in the AI era. By promoting digital infrastructure upgrades across society, and achieving storage-enhanced compute, intelligence, and resilience, we will see a huge boost towards the intelligent economy.“