Huawei Storage Platform Services are a series of offerings from FlashEver, which provide the Storage as a Service (STaaS) solution based on Service-Level Assurance (SLA) and advanced data services. Storage Platform Services make deployments and O&M of storage resources — between data centers, edges, and clouds — transparent and agile, freeing IT leadership to focus on business initiatives and driving innovation forward.
Streamlined Management
Storage pooling management simplifies the underlying complexities of different types of storage, enabling unified O&M.
Lower Costs
On-demand subscription services minimize an organization's footprint, lower its energy use, and help optimize the total cost of IT infrastructure.
Agility
Self-service provisioning and multiple SLA guarantees empower enterprises to quickly adapt to service changes and shorten rollout times.
Huawei’s Storage as a service offering provides comprehensive SLA-backed storage and data services in a flexible consumption model.
What is Storage as a Service (STaaS)?
Storage as a Service (StaaS) is a business model including subscription, pay-as-you-use (PAYU), pay-as-you go (PAYG) to buy storage infrastructure on demand, it can help organizations decrease the initial investment from beginning, changing from CAPEX to OPEX.
What is service level assurance (SLA)?
Service Level Assurance (SLA) is a commitment or guarantee made by a service provider to its customers regarding the quality, availability, and performance of the provided services, it is often provide with STaaS or professional service together.
What are the benefit of STaaS and SLA？
With STaaS and SLA, organizations can optimize cost management, with a on-demand and flexible consumption to meet an organization’s exact needs, enterprise IT can:
1. Avoid over-provisioning: on-demand consumption based on capacity or performance etc., avoiding upfront capital expenses
2. Flexible expansion and more agile: dynamically scale storage up or down based on needs, no need to waiting for delivery, installation, commission etc.
3. Focus on core business: Offload storage management and planning from business centric.
What issues need to considered with STaaS and SLA?
Enterprise IT need to consider the following issues before using STaaS or SLA
1. Price volatility and hidden costs: need considering of the exchange rate, market price fluctuation, and possible network transmission cost e.g., and getting extended support and maintenance after the original agreements may be increased.
2. Potential for vendor lock-in: It might be difficult to migrate from one service provider to another, legacy investment can rare reused.
3. Security: Some storage services are provide from public cloud, which may need your data transfer out of your organization. And storage is managed from service provider, instead of your organization, which can not fully controlled.
How can I purchase?
Enterprise IT can purchase STaaS and SLA based on their business requirement. Some storge services such as Block STaaS, File STaaSas, can purchase from marketplace, some storage services such as cyber resilience, ever-new tech refresh can purchase via subscription when buying storage, some storage services such as data migration can purchase via professional service when buying storage. You can contact Huawei local office or your partner to get more details.
| Extreme | Tier 1 |
|---|---|
| Premium | Tier 2 |
| Standard | Tier 3 |
| Capacity (SDS) | Tier 4 |
| Extreme | 72y |
|---|---|
| Premium | 36y |
| Standard | 7y |
| Capacity (SDS) | 1y |
| Extreme | ≤ 1 ms |
|---|---|
| Premium | ≤ 3 ms |
| Standard | ≤ 5 ms |
| Capacity (SDS) | ≤ 10 ms |
| Extreme | 15x |
|---|---|
| Premium | 7.5x |
| Standard | 2x |
| Capacity (SDS) | 1x |
| Extreme | Cloud applications, data sharing, content sharing, and hot objects |
|---|---|
| Premium | Cloud drives, enterprise backups, proactive archiving, and monitoring data |
| Standard | Data archiving |
| Capacity (SDS) | Video materials, logs, and replacement for tape libraries |
| Extreme | 100 TiB |
|---|---|
| Premium | 100 TiB |
| Standard | 200 TiB |
| Capacity (SDS) | 200 TiB |
| Extreme | Backup as a Service DR as a Service Cyber recovery service |
|---|
Baseline description: 1x = 20MBps/TiB, 1y= 512 IOPS/TiB
Baseline description: 1x = 20MBps/TiB
