Huawei Launches Lossless Ethernet Storage Network Solution NoF+ to Spark Digital Finance Innovation

[Shanghai, China, June 3, 2021] At the Huawei Intelligent Finance Summit 2021, Huawei launched the lossless Ethernet storage networking solution, NoF+. The solution implements end-to-end data acceleration in storage scenarios by leveraging OceanStor Dorado all-flash storage systems and CloudEngine data center storage network switches. It fully unlocks the potential of all-flash performance, and injects new momentum into fintech innovation.

Kevin Hu, President of Huawei Data Communication Product Line and Peter Zhou, President of Huawei IT Product Line jointly launch NoF+

As a frontrunner in digital transformation, the financial industry is moving toward omni-channel coverage. Finance Everywhere has become the catalyst for explosive data growth and data infrastructure innovation, and the all-flash trend is now unstoppable. Since 2018, the global shipment of all-flash (SSDs) has far exceeded that of traditional mechanical disks (HDDs), delivering a 100x increase in read and write performance. In addition, Fibre Channel (FC) storage networks fail to match the requirements for concurrent high-throughput read/write mode of all-flash storage using NVMe interfaces. Both bandwidth and latency have become storage performance bottlenecks. As such, storage services call for a faster and higher-quality network.

As Ethernet technologies have evolved, lossless Ethernet has solved the problem of storage performance fluctuation caused by packet loss. More importantly, the performance of 25/40/100G Ethernet is much higher than that of 32G FC, making lossless Ethernet an important area of development in the all-flash era. Now, vendors and customers are proactively pushing the maturity of the lossless Ethernet-based NVMe over Fabrics (NoF) network ecosystem to the next level.

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