After a refreshing spring rain, the third China International Cloud Computing Technology and Application Exhibition concluded at the Beijing National Convention Center. Futong Dongfang made a significant impact at the event, launching one of its cloud computing products,【Supu Cloud Array - A New Generation of Agile Enterprise Storage Systems】, with the momentum of turning cloud into rain, and won the "Cloud China 2015 Yunfan Award - 2014-2015 Cloud Computing Excellent Solution/ Product Award". It officially announced its entry into China's cloud computing market.

Figure 1 - Futong Dongfang Wins the Yunfan Award

The China International Cloud Computing Technology and Application Exhibition and Forum (Cloud China 2015), organized by the International Economic and Technical Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Electronics and Information Industry Branch of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, has reached its third edition. The event was a gathering of elites, with an unprecedented scale. The conference theme was "Driving Technological Innovation through Application Demands," and it was attended by thousands of participants from relevant national ministries and commissions, local economic and informatization authorities, cloud computing-related enterprises, representatives from some foreign embassies and consulates in China, representatives of some international organizations, and users from various industries. The conference was chaired by Gong Xiaofeng, the director of the International Economic and Technical Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Relevant leaders including Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Huai Jinpeng, Deputy Mayor of Beijing Zhang Gong, and Executive Vice President of the China Electronics Industry Federation Qu Weizhi attended the plenary session and spoke in succession, clarifying the direction for the future development of the cloud computing market.

Figure 2 - Conference Venue

Futong Dongfang, as one of the earliest enterprise-level IT product and solution providers in China, leveraged its deep understanding of customer needs to actively contribute ideas and suggestions at the cloud computing conference. The company engaged in extensive exchanges with industry partners and launched its integrated software and hardware product, Supu Cloud Array, which has won acclaim from the industry. Supu Cloud Array, co-developed by Futong Dongfang and Zadara Storage, a company with strong capabilities in software-defined storage, has distinct advantages in supporting enterprise-level application scenarios. It can provide very high IO performance for applications with high IO demands such as databases, ERP, and VDI, and also offers multi-tenant data security isolation and on-demand horizontal scaling. It is worth mentioning that Zadara Storage, Futong's chosen partner, is a robust company with more than 30 global data storage centers across four continents and experience in deploying over 10PB of data storage. Its main partners include Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Toshiba.

Figure 3 - On-Site Product Explanation and Exchange