As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 158 Curiosity
This does not mean that state-owned enterprises will not set traps for each other, nor does it mean that they can work together.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be different state-owned enterprises in the same field. For example, Sugon, Inspur and Unisplendour are all state-owned enterprises, but their functions are very similar.

Li Jun thought: I don't care. Will it be useful for us to acquire technology after Huawei has completely occupied the market? A biological storage server can store 1000PB of data. Basically, each large Internet company only needs to buy a dozen of them a year.

Moreover, biological storage is a rare blue ocean market, and only China possesses the technology.

This is a rare opportunity, and Li Jun doesn't know if he will encounter another one in his lifetime.

Previously, Sugon’s storage servers could only be used in China. If it acquires Deep Blue Storage’s products, then entering the overseas market will be just around the corner.

The profit from earning rice yuan is much higher than that from earning RMB.

"Mainly, we really want to help Deep Blue Storage conduct more tests."

"For new technologies like this, Huawei alone is definitely not enough. We at Shuguang hope to do our part."

Guan Yang naturally knew what Li Jun was thinking. Inspur and Tsinghua Unigroup also had the same idea.

Even storage giants such as Samsung, Seagate, and Micron came to us through various channels.

However, their request is not cooperation, but to purchase technical patents. They can name any price, and we only want patent authorization.

Not to mention that Guan Yang had no say in this matter, even if he had a say he would not agree to it.

Only people working in the semiconductor industry know how difficult it is to live when your technology is in the hands of others and they can block you or raise prices at will.

We finally have the technology to block other people, but we haven’t realized the need to license our technology to others.

Moreover, the higher-ups made it very clear about the authority that Guan Yang had: he could only cooperate with domestic companies, and the proportion of Chinese capital had to be at least 51 percent.

In 19, domestic financial institutions were required to have their back-end equipment domestically produced, and this domestic production could not be a joint venture, but must be a purely Chinese enterprise.

Then NetApp and a Chinese company came up with a bold move. The two companies jointly established a company called Lenovo Lingtuo, which held a 51% stake, just to sell corporate computer equipment to the back-end of financial institutions.

(It probably didn’t work. As far as I know, at least the state-owned banks will not consider Lenovo’s products.)
"Mr. Li, our production capacity is limited, and the production base has not yet been built. The biological storage part of Hua Wei's biological storage server was created in our laboratory."

"After the production base is built and the production capacity is increased, we will definitely cooperate with Sugon."

"As an advanced enterprise in China's computer hardware field, Sugon is looking forward to cooperating with you."

Li Jun thought Guan Yang's words were perfunctory. Huawei's products have already accepted external orders, and you tell me that the production base has not been built yet?

But he didn't expect this to be true. The key manufacturing equipment for biological storage had not yet been delivered by the Institute of Abnormal Things.

The biological storage parts of the few devices currently available are still handmade.

Hua Wei wanted to sell a few units to Internet companies and financial institutions to test the waters first.

Financial institutions are not just banks. UnionPay Data, China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation, and fund companies are all financial institutions that have great demands for data storage.

For every unit sold, banks can put non-core data on it, and Internet giants like Ali and Tencent can integrate Beiming No. 1 into their own public clouds. However, Guan Yang estimated that after they get the product, they will not put it into the production environment first, but will test it as much as they can first.

"Have you heard that Hua Wei's Bei Ming No. 1 arrived today? Do you know which machine room it is in?"

"It's probably the 2 computer room on the second floor. That's the only room left. I heard Hua Wei's pre-sales manager say during the training that the creatures in Bei Ming No. 201 have very low temperature requirements.

As long as it is not extremely hot or extremely cold, it can survive.”

"The leader wants us to test it first. After the test results come out, we can decide which level of production system to use. I estimate that the highest level is a B-level production system."

Banks internally classify production systems. Mobile banking and transaction systems belong to Class A systems, which have the highest requirements for data security and stability and must not allow for any errors.

Once a mistake is made, not only will there be internal punishment, but the China Banking Regulatory Commission will also come down to investigate.

"The storage capacity will definitely not lie to us. We can tell whether the storage capacity has reached 1000PB by just testing. Latency testing is also easy, but the stability will take at least a month to test before we know the result."

"Then let's test it. We are one of the first companies in the world to get the biological storage server, right? If we weren't spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year to buy equipment for that, we would still have to wait in line."

"The problem is that the price is also outrageous. It's comparable to IBM's mainframes. Even more outrageous is the maintenance cost, which is about 10 million yuan per year."

"It's not that bad actually. 1000PB would require more than a thousand ordinary storage servers. On average, the annual maintenance cost of a storage server is only yuan."

"I'm curious if Huawei can fix the biological storage server if it has problems. I heard that Huawei only made the storage chip and the front part, and the storage medium at the back was made by Deep Blue Storage."

“I also heard from my classmates who work at Sugon that the biological storage medium was sold to Huawei by Deep Blue Storage, and Sugon will also launch a biological storage server in the future.

Deep Blue Storage sold the biological storage medium to Hua Wei. If there is any problem, people from Deep Blue Storage will definitely come to repair it, and this part will undoubtedly be included in the agreement.

But I haven’t heard of anyone working as a after-sales engineer at DeepBlue Storage. "

"I haven't heard of it either. This is the first time I've heard of this company. American Corporation?"

"How is it possible that Hua Wei could get this technology from American Corporation? What are you thinking? American Corporation didn't even want to sell Hua Wei chips, let alone this more advanced technology.

If Beiming No.1 can achieve the effect they advertised, I feel that EMC and HDS' Greater China regions will be collectively cut off."

"Isn't it normal to be cut off? The domestic Internet industry has been laying off employees in the past two years. It's time for EMC and HDS to be laid off. They already had a round of layoffs in 19, so this time is not a big deal."

Two back-end IT technical staff of a financial institution went to the computer room together to visit it after Beiming No. 1 arrived that day.

Not only the two of them, but everyone working in the park office, from the leaders to the technical staff, ran to take a look.

Everyone is extremely curious about China's independently developed biological storage server.

There is still a difference between the real thing and the video, not to mention that they can actually operate it.

(End of this chapter)