In the impression of most people, making cars relies on the steel industry, mechanical design and human-machine design. In fact, the automotive industry and digital technology have long been deeply integrated. Not only does automotive products incorporate a large amount of IT technology, but also in the process of vehicle R&D, design, manufacturing, as well as the management and operation of car manufacturers, the innovation and breakthrough of digital technology are equally indispensable.
The rise of Great Wall Motor and the digital technology behind it
Great Wall Motor is a global intelligent technology company dedicated to providing intelligent and green travel services for users worldwide. Great Wall Motor's business encompasses the design, research and development, production, sales and service of automobiles and their components. It has also made a full industrial chain layout in the field of clean energy such as solar energy, with a focus on the research and application of cutting-edge technologies like intelligent connectivity, intelligent driving and chips. It owns five major vehicle brands including Haval, WEY, Ora, Tank and Great Wall pickup trucks, as well as a brand-new independently operated automotive technology company, Shalong Mecha Technology Co., LTD., incubated by Great Wall Motor. Great Wall Motor's sales network covers the world. Currently, its products have been exported to over 170 countries and regions. In 2021, Great Wall Motor sold more than 1.28 million new vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 14.79%. Among them, overseas sales reached 139,891 units, a year-on-year increase of 102.98%, accounting for 10.92% of its total sales.
The rapid rise of Great Wall Motor is not only attributed to the organic integration of successful products and market strategies, but also related to its in-depth application and breakthroughs in digital technology. To do a good job in product research and development and production, manage the enterprise's purchase, sales and inventory well, and ensure the normal operation of the global marketing network is definitely a huge project. The efficient implementation of these tasks clearly requires the guidance of the new generation of digital technologies.
When solving storage problems, selection is crucial
Over the years, Great Wall Motor, which has been thriving in both production and sales, has established a multi-cloud system composed of multiple data centers. Based on the requirements of different business systems, Great Wall Motor's multi-cloud system includes both virtualization technology stacks and bare-metal servers. Now, what lies before Great Wall Motor is a huge challenge from data.
As the data platform for the integration of Great Wall Motor's private cloud, the new storage system first needs to provide powerful and stable performance to meet the performance requirements of these business systems. Secondly, as a data platform for private cloud integration, the storage system also needs to provide strong reliability to ensure the stable operation of all systems. Finally, to simplify the system architecture, the storage system also needs to be fully compatible with the multi-cloud architecture and be able to provide simultaneous support for multiple storage architectures such as files, blocks, objects, containers, and big data (HDFS) on the same platform.
H3c X10000 makes distributed storage beyond imaginationH3c has deployed the X10000 node for Great Wall Motor, providing an extremely large usage space and ultra-high random read and write performance. Moreover, when multiple users access a file simultaneously, it can complete instantaneous file copying across nodes, offering different access paths for different users, thereby enhancing performance and reducing bottlenecks.
In actual deployment, with the help of its powerful network capabilities, the X10000 can simultaneously connect to multiple sets of switches, respectively achieving breakthroughs in numerous functions such as connection with business systems, data exchange within the cluster, storage platform management, and out-of-band management.
The H3C X10000 series distributed storage has a powerful horizontal scalability, achieving nearly linear performance improvement by increasing the number of nodes. Meanwhile, with the advanced MDS function, the X10000 can also achieve a breakthrough in layering cold and hot data, enhancing the performance and business experience of the storage system while balancing costs. It simultaneously supports multiple reliability technologies such as multi-copy erasures. Finally, the X10000 not only fully ADAPTS to multi-cloud architectures but also can simultaneously support various storage architectures including files, blocks, objects, containers, and big data (HDFS) on the same platform. For Great Wall Motor, which has numerous business systems, this obviously greatly simplifies the storage system structure. Reduce the TCO of the storage system.
