Huawei Releases a Brand-New Version of "Striding Towards the Intelligent World" White Paper for the Data Storage Industry

[Shanghai, China, September 21, 2023] At HUAWEI CONNECT 2023, Huawei released a series of white papers titled Striding Towards the Intelligent World, which covers 10 major industries including data storage. The Data Storage white paper details 10 expectations for the evolution of data storage based on five perspectives: new apps, new data, new resilience, new technologies, and energy savings. It also recommends actions that enterprise IT infrastructure decision makers can take to stay ahead of the curve.

AI foundation models have already gone beyond our wildest imaginations. Intelligent enterprise applications, and more specifically, AI foundation models, have permeated a range of industries, heralding the dawn of an era powered by these models. AI foundation models require more efficient collection and preprocessing of massive amounts of raw data, higher-performance training data loading and model data storage, and more responsive and accurate industry inference knowledge repositories. A new AI data paradigm, represented by near-storage computing and vector storage, is rapidly gaining momentum.

The quantity and quality of the data determine the potential impact that AI can have. Huawei offers the following advice on building optimal data infrastructure for foundation models:

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