OceanStor is a good product, but I can't compare it directly to Dell EMC. OceanStor wasn't even born when EMC was already established, so their maturity level is much higher. Comparing EMC and Huawei, I'd give EMC a 10 and OceanStor a 5, but OceanStor has improved a lot in performance and offers competitive solutions.

We are always looking for the best solution for the next five years.

There are many different companies and products out there and we did look at a few of them, like HP, Dell, PureStorage and IBM but in the end the best quality-price ratio made this product the winner.

OceanStor is cheaper than Dell EMC, and its management interface is quite simple. Dell EMC's interface is also straightforward. When I compare OceanStor with the full flash of another vendor, I will say that it performed well with the full load, and we have not seen any efficiency issues.

We evaluated NetApp and EMC.

Yes. HP and EMC. Those are considerably more expensive than OceanStor.