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HPC Needs Equally Super Storage, Huawei Says

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November 20, 2013

HPC Needs Equally Super Storage, Huawei Says

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By Doug Barney
TMCnet Editor at Large

High Performance Computing (HPC) has been around for years, and now HPC is not only driving the cloud, it is in many cases now hosted in the cloud as a service.

HPC requires big data, and not just to handle big data. Huawei (News - Alert) knows that and this week announced new storage tools aimed at enterprises using HPC.


Specifically, Huawei announced the new OceanStor 18500 and OceanStor 18800 enterprise storage systems. The 18000 series is considered the company’s flagship and boasts what Huawei calls multi-dimensional scalability.

And HPC, even when used internally, can form the basis of private high performance cloud, a use case Huawei is clearly aiming at.

“The Huawei strategy for HPC infrastructure is to lead the transition from HPC cluster silos, to HPC clouds, which can host a diverse set of applications and are shared by a variety of users,” the company said. “The Huawei portfolio of products represent a new generation of HPC infrastructure that is more flexible. Huawei storage for HPC can simultaneously scale-out, scale-up, scale deep, and scale-in.”

Inside Huawei

Huawei is a massive information and communications technology (ICT) company that plays in the storage, switching, managed services, SDN and network services spaces.

It was a year ago May when Huawei its CloudEngine line of switches to support the company’s CloudFabric Solution. Together the switches and the fabric provide what Huawei believes is a core underpinning for the building of cloud data centers, and more than 100 shops have bought into CloudFabric. The company has also sold more than 500 CloudEngine 12800 core switches.

One market Huawei is huge in is Network Managed Services. According to ABI Research, three vendors including Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia (News - Alert) own 80 percent of this market.

Meanwhile these three vendors are sharing a relatively fixed pie, at least this year where growth is basically flat.

This echoes similar research ABI released in April. Here ABI predicted that the double digit growth the market had experienced will fall to a CAGR of 7 percent between 2012 and 2018.

The market might be flat but there is some movement amongst the top players. Ericsson remains in top place, but Huawei has overtaken Nokia for second spot.

According to IDC (News - Alert), the top benefits of managed network services include around the clock support (53 percent) lowering costs of network operations (50 percent), boosting network performance and availability (39 percent), and letting IT focus on more strategic work (33 percent).

Huawei is also huge in Managed Communications. In a report distributed by Market Research Reports, Inc., this market isn’t quite booming, but isn’t too shabby either. The research itself was published by Mind Commerce Publishing.

“Carriers' desire to cut Operating Expenses (OpEX) and CapEx has driven growth in the telecom outsourcing market by 4 percent CAGR and is expected to reach $76 billion by 2016. The top players such as Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert), Ericsson, Huawei, and Nokia Siemens Networks dominate the market and remain committed to provide managed services,” the report said.

ABI Research (News - Alert) has a somewhat different take. It believes while the market is growing that growth is slowing considerably. Over the next five years average growth with be around 7 percent far less than the double-digit growth we had been experiencing.

Souring the market a bit are lower capital expense budgets for telcos and the fact that these managed services for telcos aren’t always what they are cracked up to be. 

 

 


Edited by Alisen Downey

 

 

 

 



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