Due to the breakthrough in high-end storage, on March 26th, the Guangdong Grand Prize for Technology 2017 was awarded to Huawei. It was commented that the high-end storage system is a core facility of the national strategic industry, and the efforts of Huawei and other companies are making up for China. Short board.
Grab the local market
From tape drives to solid-state drives, the bottleneck of computer speed and reliability has been on storage devices for 70 years.
Luo Haoyuan, an investment partner of Zhongyue Jinqiao Investment Group, told the reporter of Science and Technology Daily: 'The United States is far ahead in this field, and the high-end storage market share is basically divided among five companies: Dell EMC, NetApp, HP, Hitachi and IBM. Many commercial scenarios require extremely reliable data retention. Newcomers have a hard time getting a share.'
'In the past, the high-end storage used by Chinese users was basically foreign brands, and the most important data were stored on it. For the sake of information security and lower maintenance costs, many Chinese users hope to achieve domestic alternatives.' Hangzhou Hongshan Technology Li Zhi, president of the company’s stock company, said.
In this context, in recent years, Chinese companies have made a breakthrough in the domestic market to achieve alternatives. Li Zhi said: 'Five years ago, China's storage market, the share of domestic companies does not exceed 10%, now accounts for more than half.'
According to the statistics of the authoritative organization IDC last year, domestic storage brands accounted for 60% of the domestic enterprise market, Huawei was the top name, Hikvision, Inspur and Dawn were also outstanding; North-east Guangshen and other economically developed regions, users are more rational, also More willing to support the storage of localization.
Core areas began to replace imports
At present, domestic high-end storage has entered the financial core system of some major domestic banks - used by the bank's headquarters, which symbolizes the highest reliability.
After the Spring Festival, everyone had to buy train tickets. The 12306 became the most pressured system in China. Now, the 12306 ticket electronic payment platform uses the products of Hong Shan. In the general fields such as Sinopec and Guodian, we have been working with many international companies. Do the same level, and be more adaptable to local users than they are. ' Li Zhi said.
'Competing with foreign products, to use the original one hundred dollars to do things, do better with fifty dollars, but also a reasonable profit. Chinese products can do this.' Li Zhi said.
From zero to yes, from good to good
Thanks to continuous national funding and support, Chinese companies have made continuous progress in high-end storage and are expected to compete with high-performance computing and servers to compete with international giants. In November last year, the authoritative Gartner high-end storage key capability rankings Huawei showed its prominence in various scenes and ranked second to fifth. In the past, this list was dominated by the United States and Japan.
The reporter learned from Huawei that in 2012, Huawei's National 863 Program’s “Massive High-End Storage Systems for the Next Generation” project passed the acceptance test and began to lay out the high-end storage industry. Since 2013, Huawei has invested more than 400 million yuan to tackle high-end research. Storage systems. At present they have a 3200 people, distributed in the storage technology team.
In recent years, under the background of policy support, all aspects of storage technology have made breakthroughs; at present, China’s entrepreneurs have achieved zero-to-zero accumulation in technologies such as storage media, computing chips, and operating software. There is ', is achieving 'from good to good'.
For example, NAND and DRAM memory chips, which are indispensable for computer storage, have no domestic products in the past. This year, Ziguang’s investment in domestically produced memory is about to be listed on a large scale. This not only means that China has autonomous and controllable memory, but also indicates that China will share this. A market dominated by Japan and South Korea. The domestic Feiteng chip also replaced the Intel chip in some special-purpose high-end storage devices, ensuring independent controllability.
'From available to easy to use, we must rely on the market to drive. But entering the market, it is difficult to exist as a separate part, it must be an ecosystem.' Li Zhi said that foreign giants not only have strong integration capabilities and top-level design capabilities, but also create their own As the center of the ecosystem, there is a very high user influence; and the Chinese storage company's ecosystem is also forming.