Huawei and Ernst & Young launched their Future-proof
Data Storage Power white paper at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026’ s Data Storage Summit into high-quality data sets, further turn them into knowledge and memory, and make them readily callable at any time during training, inference, and agent operation.
“ In other words, storage is moving from the capacity centre of the past toward the value release centre of the AI era.”
One of the white paper’ s goals is to encourage the AI industry to stop‘ emphasising computing power while neglecting storage capacity’. It also seeks to build a consensus on the development of computing and storage synergy.
It includes an analysis of the economic and social value of advanced data storage. The report states that every dollar invested in advanced data storage capacity yields US $ 10 in direct GDP / industrial value, US $ 44 in industrial derivative value( economic value) and US $ 50 in social value, through enhancing public services, disaster avoidance and other social goods.
The white paper argues that in the modern era, enterprises need an advanced data storage foundation that is integrated into the overall AI ecosystem, rather than isolated storage devices.
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