Authoritative White Paper Shows How Active-Active Data Centers Help Enterprises to Safeguard Business Continuity

[Shenzhen, China, Dec 1, 2016] Huawei and IDC have released a white paper titled, ‘Active-Active Data Centers Help Enterprises to Safeguard Business Continuity in the Era of Digital Transformation.’ The authors surveyed 1300 enterprise customers, summarizing the concerns and requirements in their digital transformations. The paper also details the service continuity assurances of the Huawei HyperMetro gateway-free active-active array solution and the edge it provides enterprises in their digital transformations.

In the shift to cloud computing and centralization of data, stability of data centers has become central to the digital transformation of enterprises, and an increasingly large factor in their business development. CIOs are placing significant attention to active-active data center solutions as they recognize the high level of service continuity made possible through such offerings.

Intent on addressing CIO pain points, Huawei teamed up with IDC to dive deep into the matters that concern them most. Active-active data centers involve applications, computing, networking, storage, and multiple other layers.

Redundancy at the storage system level is a hugely important element to achieving a truly active-active configuration at the data center. With active-active array solutions, recovery time is no longer an uncertainty as recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) reach the zero mark. Implementing load balancing between the two centers in the active-active makeup improves total cost of ownership (TCO) while delivering impressive improvements in performance and better fulfillment in the high availability requirements for enterprises by ensuring always-on businesses.

The paper also elaborates on the importance of clearly understanding the technical differences in the active-standby and active-active solutions when deciding on a service continuity program.

Active-active solutions fully incorporate disaster recovery (DR) and backup into the build to solve the issues in IT equipment capabilities being inadequate to support the service continuity needs of the customer. Traditional DR schemes use two or multiple centers, but the model is still active-standby and switchover requires manual operations. In the event of a disaster, several hours are often required to recover data. In contrast, active-active emphasizes load sharing and offers automated switching capabilities, drastically improving and even multiplying IT resource utilization and return on investment (ROI).

A Huawei HyperMetro gateway-free active-active array solution running on Huawei OceanStor V3 converged storage provides customers with six-nines reliability, incorporating database clusters, transmission equipment, networking, and other elements into an end-to-end A/A layout able to span up to 300 kilometers in geographic redundancy.

The rapid response of the solution and utility achieves the much coveted zero RPO and RTO when a system fault occurs or even if a center goes down. Services are automatically switched while those using the upper-layer applications remain oblivious to the event. The Huawei active-active array solution has had extensive success in deployments at telcos, financial institutions, government agencies, and a long list of other industries, helping enterprises gear up to the demands of their digital transformation agendas.

Visit the following link for the complete report: http://e.huawei.com/en/marketing-material/onLineView?MaterialID=%7bFBD6B519-CD78-472E-954D-F83031A44394%7d