On October 13th, the 2023 World Digital Economy Conference and the 13th Zhibo conference were held in Ningbo. The conference was jointly organized by Ningbo municipal government, Zhejiang Provincial Economic and Information Department, China industrial Internet Research Institute, China Electronic Information Industry Federation, China Telecom, co-hosted by China Mobile, China Unicom and China Electronics Society. The conference invited many top scientists, experts and entrepreneurs from all over the world to focus on the latest trends and hot topics of the digital economy and carry out forward-looking and strategic discussions.

Dr. Zhou Yuefeng, vice president of Huawei and president of data storage product line, was invited to attend the conference and delivered a keynote speech on "developing digital infrastructure healthily, from data Power to Data Power. He said that in order to move from a big data country to a big data country, China needs to solve the problems of data storage, good storage, safe storage and good use, only by actively following the "action plan for high-quality development of computing power infrastructure" jointly issued by six departments such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and developing advanced data storage capacity can we achieve a leading position in digital infrastructure and become a powerful AI country.

With the development of the times, data has become a key means of production, and its importance has attracted more and more attention from the world. Countries around the world are accelerating the formulation of data strategies to promote data development. China produces a large amount of data every year. By the end of 2022, the total data volume reached 8.1ZB, ranking second in the world, has become a real data Power. However, compared with the world's advanced level, there are still gaps in SSD proportion, low computing-storage ratio, low disaster recovery coverage, etc, it has not become a data power.

With the development of the times, data has become a key means of production, and its importance has attracted more and more attention from the world. Countries around the world are accelerating the formulation of data strategies to promote data development. China produces a large amount of data every year. By the end of 2022, the total data volume reached 8.1ZB, ranking second in the world, has become a real data Power. However, compared with the world's advanced level, there are still gaps in SSD proportion, low computing-storage ratio, low disaster recovery coverage, etc, it has not become a data power.

In the development of AI big models, data is the core element of building the competitiveness of AI big models. Only by realizing a powerful country in data can we build a powerful country in AI. China needs to increase the accumulation of high-quality data sets to lead the AI era.

Zhou Yuefeng indicates, from a big data country to a big data country, data must be saved first. At present, various industries in our country pay more attention to computing power than storage power, which leads to the higher computing power than the construction investment and construction level of storage power. For example, the Computing-storage ratio of medical industry is 1.25:1, the calculation-to-deposit ratio of the financial industry is as high as 2.94:1, which is much higher than the 0.9:1 ratio of similar industries in developed countries. We should improve the level of deposit construction so that the data can be effectively preserved. In addition, the previous construction mode with computing power as the center and chimney type resulted in data splitting and low migration efficiency; And the construction mode of integrated power center will greatly change this situation, the integration of data and computing enables computing power to provide diversified services while avoiding invalid data relocation.

Secondly, data should not only be saved, but also be saved well. Accelerating the application of advanced SSD media will greatly reduce the potential security risks in the data industry. Compared with mechanical disks, flash disks support high IOPS performance, low latency, lower annual return rate, and are more suitable for the global data center's low-carbon goal of green energy saving.

Third, data needs to be stored safely. Data disaster recovery is still a weak link in China. According to statistics, only 22 percent of Chinese enterprises implement data backup and only 12 percent implement business disaster recovery, according to the action plan for high-quality development of computing power infrastructure, disaster recovery coverage rate of core data and important data in key industries is required to reach 100%. In addition, it is necessary to establish storage endogenous security to reduce the use of uncontrollable open source software.

Finally, the data needs to be used well. The construction of the storage center enables unified backup of heterogeneous and multi-cloud data in government affairs, data backup in the east and data storage in the east and data storage in the West. At the same time, it can provide homologous data analysis for HPDA + AI models. In addition, the most important thing is to realize the marketization of data elements, including data collection, data hosting, and data governance, so as to integrate the Government Affairs data, education data, medical data, video data, etc. of each province and city, it can gather in the storage center and incubate new industries, such as data labeling, data services, and data governance, and finally form a complete business closed loop.

Taking Guizhou integrated storage center as an example, Huawei, together with Hongyi and Gui'an production control, has jointly built a green, energy-saving, technology-leading, intensive and efficient digital computing integrated storage center, the transformation of data centers from "re-construction" to "re-operation" can provide services such as disaster recovery centers, archiving centers, and unstructured data management centers.

  Finally, Zhou Yuefeng said that the data center's energy, computing power and transportation capacity are developing together, and the three efforts are working together to build high-quality digital infrastructure. In terms of saving strength, it can keep the digital infrastructure of the whole China ahead.