Huawei Launches CDM Converged Data Management Solution, Enabling All-Flash Storage with Cloud-Based Backup and Disaster Recovery Capabilities

[Shanghai, China, October 17, 2018] At the 2018 HUAWEI CONNECT conference, Huawei unveiled its Converged Data Management (CDM) solution. By innovating storage software and hardware technologies, the solution enables all-flash storage systems to support cloud-based backup and disaster recovery. It integrates disaster recovery, backup, and data reuse management through a unified software interface, reducing customer disaster recovery costs and enhancing data value.

Data carries the present and future of enterprises. Facing an increasingly complex IT environment, protecting the massive and growing volume of business and data has become a critical challenge in enterprise IT infrastructure. Fan Jie, Global Vice President of Huawei's Enterprise Business Storage Products, stated: "Huawei's newly released CDM converged data management solution focuses on enhancing storage self-protection capabilities. In addition to industry-leading active-active and disaster recovery capabilities, Huawei has introduced snapshot backup and backup-to-cloud protection features on all-flash storage, simplifying disaster recovery management for customers. Furthermore, to address diverse cloud environments, Huawei has embedded disaster recovery-to-cloud capabilities into storage products through online/offline and end-to-end technical capabilities, enabling direct cloud migration without the need for external gateways, leading the industry in this regard.".

Huawei's Director of Disaster Recovery Solutions, Ran Chongjie, gave a comprehensive introduction to the CDM integrated data management solution. The new Huawei CDM integrated data management solution has three major characteristics: efficient protection, investment savings, and cloud expansion.

Relying on the second level snapshot backup technology of Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 all flash storage, high-density protection with a 10 second protection interval can be achieved. Compared with traditional industry backup with a protection interval of 15 minutes or even longer, the backup frequency can be increased by 30 times, and the risk of data loss can be reduced by 98.89%; The full recovery technology used in traditional backup solutions can lead to long business recovery times due to the explosive growth of data volume. Huawei CDM integrated data management solution adopts the snapshot backup feature of storing itself, which only needs to recover incremental data, reducing business recovery time by more than 20 times.

Second level snapshot backup and fast recovery capabilities shorten customers' business interruption time and reduce the losses caused by disasters to customers. In the healthcare industry, when a hospital's core business is hit by a virus, Huawei CDM integrated data management solution can be used to quickly switch the business back to a healthy state 10 seconds before the virus outbreak. Compared with the traditional data protection method's rollback function, business downtime has been reduced from several hours to minutes, greatly reducing customer business losses.

In traditional disaster recovery construction, it is usually necessary to build a system for both disaster recovery and backup, which not only incurs high construction costs but also increases the complexity of operation and maintenance for customers. In addition, there are a large number of development and testing requirements in various industries. For example, in the manufacturing industry, many enterprises use SAP's ERP, and it is a basic requirement for the SAP environment to pass testing before the business is officially launched. Therefore, in addition to the core business system, the SAP business environment also requires multiple systems such as training exercises, sandbox testing, and pre production systems.

In addition to providing integrated disaster recovery and backup systems using a unified management platform and storage devices, Huawei CDM integrated data management solution also supports the reuse of backup data, which can automatically mount snapshot backup copy data to upper level applications for direct use in development, testing, and other activities. The preparation time for development testing in SAP business environment can be reduced from 4 hours to 10 minutes.

With the integration management function of Huawei CDM's integrated data management solution, disaster recovery, backup, and development testing can share data replicas, save storage space, reduce the purchase cost of third-party backup software, and achieve a TCO savings of over 50% for customer disaster recovery construction.

Cloud Expansion: Gateway free Disaster Recovery to the Cloud, Minute level Business Recovery within the Cloud

In the face of increasingly complex IT environments, as the only vendor in the industry with both online and offline end-to-end technology capabilities, Huawei has broken through technological bottlenecks and abandoned the traditional approach of adding external gateways or software, embedding cloud capabilities into OceanStor Dorado V3. Once customers purchase Huawei full flash storage, they naturally have cloud connectivity capabilities and can back up data to mainstream public clouds in the industry such as AWS, Huawei Cloud, and Huawei Partner Public Cloud.

Huawei has accumulated mature end-to-end disaster recovery technology experience in self built data center disaster recovery, private cloud disaster recovery, and public cloud disaster recovery. Huawei's CDM integrated data management solution has become a bridge between offline and online, allowing enterprise offline data to not only be quickly uploaded to the cloud, but also achieve industry-leading cloud based rapid recovery in minutes.

The Huawei CDM integrated data management solution is a heavyweight solution added to Huawei's disaster recovery solution family. It has been deployed in industries such as telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, and government, providing comprehensive protection for customers' diversified cloud environment businesses and enhancing data value.

HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, as Huawei's self organized global annual flagship conference for the ICT industry, was grandly held in Shanghai from October 10th to 12th, 2018. The theme of this conference is "+Intelligence, Seeing the Future", aiming to build an open, collaborative, and shared platform to explore together with customer partners how to seize new opportunities and create an intelligent future.