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Striding Towards
the Intelligent World
White Paper

Data Storage

Data Is the Key to Unlocking
the Digital and
Intelligent Future

Across industries, large AI models are driving business transformation and intelligent upgrades. The scale, quality, and processing efficiency of data are essential for fully unleashing and maximizing AI productivity. Building data infrastructure that better meets the requirements of the digital-intelligent era will bring us closer to a new and intelligent world.

Data-driven Synergy: How Digitalization and Intelligentization Fuel Each Other

  • Finance Enhancing multi-source, mass data management and strengthening data resilience compliance
  • Carriers Activating mass data to facilitate the efficient training and the implementation of large AI models across industries
  • Public Services Jointly streamlining cross-department data and protecting sensitive data to enhance public services
  • Manufacturing Finding value in historical, dormant data and boosting E2E production efficiency
  • Electric Power Promoting multi-dimensional and high-frequency data collection and secure data retention for more precise electricity supply and demand forecasting
  • Education and Research High-performance, reliable, and resilient data supply underpins AI-driven intelligentization
  • Healthcare Efficient and resilient data sharing protects patient privacy

Digital and Intelligent Transformation Across Industries Requires High-Quality Data and Efficient Data Processing

  • Data Awakening
  • Data Generation and Synthesis
  • Data Efficiency
Data Awakening
  • Data awakening is a must for transitioning from the digital era to the intelligent era. During model training and inference, activating idle service data and waking up historical archived data help address the challenge of data shortage.
  • Collecting and managing high-quality training data is a must for continuous AI evolution.
Data Generation and Synthesis
  • Data generation and synthesis power the digital-intelligent era, effectively facilitating the rapid development of large AI models.
  • Data generation: It explores five key dimensions to generate, collect, and retain high-quality data for AI—data generation/collection site, format, frequency, full-process service data, and future-proof data retention.
  • Data synthesis: Synthetic data is a beneficial supplement to the raw data obtained in the real world. It can address key challenges like data scarcity and privacy protection.
Data Efficiency
  • In the digital-intelligent era, data storage needs to be continuously optimized across six dimensions: ultra performance, scalability, data resilience, data fabric, new data paradigm, and sustainability. This is essential to fully enhance data efficiency and unleash data productivity.

Trends and Suggestions on Data Infrastructure in the Digital-Intelligent Era

  • AI-Ready Data Infrastructure Based on the Decoupled Storage-Compute Architecture
  • Efficient Data Processing with All-Flash Storage
  • Intrinsic Resilience of Storage: A Critical Requirement
  • AI Data Lakes Enable Visible, Manageable, and Available Data
  • Training/Inference Appliances for Accelerating the Deployment of Large AI Models Across Industries
Trend Analysis

1Multi-modal AI training is generating larger volumes of more complex data.

2AI computing clusters are expanding in scale but declining in computing power utilization.

3Hallucination is common in AI inference.

Suggestions

1Use the decoupled storage-compute architecture to enable independent deployment and on-demand evolution of computing and storage power.

2The data infrastructure should have scale-out capabilities, enabling performance to increase proportionally to capacity.

3The data infrastructure should support multi-protocol interworking.

Trend Analysis

1Complex preprocessing of massive amounts of multi-source heterogeneous data requires comprehensive data governance.

2Large-scale computing power requires fast data access from data storage systems.

3Real-time data processing is an essential requirement.

Suggestions

1Build a comprehensive data governance infrastructure.

2Leverage all-flash storage and innovative semantics to provide data efficiently to computing systems.

3Unify data infrastructure platforms to implement efficient data transfer.

Trend Analysis

1Growing data volume and limited backup window call for powerful backup systems.

2A comprehensive data protection strategy is imperative as AI makes ransomware attacks easier to launch.

Suggestions

1Use all-flash backup storage to enhance backup efficiency.

2Build a multilayer ransomware protection system that combines both defense and response mechanisms to transition from reactive to proactive protection.

Trend Analysis

1Data is becoming the differentiating factor that determines AI competitiveness.

2Managing data assets is an essential part of implementing AI practices.

3More and more industries are starting to use large AI models for inference.

4Enterprises that effectively use AI are gaining a competitive edge.

Suggestions

1Build a unified AI data lake to make data assets visible, manageable, and available.

2Choose professional AI storage for model training to improve computing power utilization and maximize the returns on AI investment.

3Adopt technologies such as RAG and long sequence to improve the performance and accuracy of model inference.

4Strengthen classified and hierarchical data protection by means of disaster recovery, backup, and ransomware protection.

5Implement an AI-talent cultivation mechanism and organize practical activities on large AI models.

Trend Analysis

1Data quality may not be consistent and preparation can take a long time.

2Hardware selection is difficult, delivery takes a long time, and O&M is costly.

3Large AI models can suffer from serious hallucination problems which can affect inference accuracy.

4Data resilience is not guaranteed, and core data assets such as models are prone to leakage.

5It may take a long time to see a strong return on investment.

Suggestions

1Pre-integrate a data preprocessing toolchain to quickly generate high-quality training datasets.

2Deploy full-stack, pre-integrated training/inference appliances for large AI model applications across industries.

3Use RAG knowledge base to reduce hallucinations for accurate inference.