Han Ximin ximhan@126.com HUAWEI Technologies yesterday unveiled a new database management system and the world’s highest-performing distributed storage system in Beijing, in a bid to expand its enterprise business. Huawei said in a statement its new database management software, called GaussDB, is backed by artificial intelligence (AI) and works locally as well as on the cloud. “Data are becoming a new means of production, and intelligence is becoming a new form of productivity. More and more companies are realizing that data infrastructure is the key to the success of an intelligent transformation,” said David Wang, Huawei executive director of the board and president of ICT strategy and marketing. “Heterogeneous, intelligent and converged databases will become the key data infrastructure of finance, governments and the telecom industry,” Wang added. GaussDB will help enhance Huawei’s cloud capabilities, fully unleash the power of diversified computing and contribute to the firm’s efforts to foster a complete computing ecosystem. GaussDB pioneers the embedding of AI capabilities into the full life cycle of distributed databases. In online analytical processing, transaction processing and hybrid transaction/analytical processing scenarios, GaussDB uses the optimality theory to create the industry’s first self-tuning reinforcement learning algorithm, improving tuning performance by more than 60 percent. FusionStorage 8.0, the world’s highest-performing distributed storage system, boasts the industry’s highest distributed storage performance by integrating AI into full-life cycle storage management, from resource planning and service provisioning, to system optimization, risk prediction and fault location. It simultaneously supports block, file, object and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) protocols, allowing a single storage system to manage an entire data center. |