market analysis company Forrester released the hyperconverged industry report "Now Tech: Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Q2 2020", focusing on recommending 21 hyperconverged manufacturers around the world, including five Chinese manufacturers: Huawei , SmartX, Shenxinsuo , Lenovo, Huayun data.
This is also two years later, Forrester has released a report on global hyperconverged manufacturers.
In 2018, Forrester recommended 14 hyper-converged manufacturers, including 1 Chinese manufacturer Huawei. From 2018 to 2020, although the proportion of selected Chinese hyper-converged manufacturers increased from 7.12% to 23.81%, only a few have entered the global analyst vision.
In terms of scale, products, market, customers, etc., Huawei, SmartX, Shenxinshui, Lenovo and Huayun Data are different, which not only highlights the booming Chinese hyper-convergence ecosystem, but also reminds IT decision makers that when choosing hyper-convergence manufacturers, they need to have a more detailed and comprehensive understanding of them and make the most selection.
The following are the introductions of five selected Chinese hyperconvergence manufacturers and Forrester analysis and interpretation of
Huawei
Huawei FusionCube hyperconvergence infrastructure, which can be used in enterprise virtualization platforms, data warehouses, desktop clouds, data center construction and other scenarios.
Technically, FusionCube has built-in Huawei's self-developed distributed storage engine and supports mainstream databases in the industry and mainstream virtualization software in the industry, providing customers with excellent value in IO throughput, data reconstruction, initialization settings, etc.
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According to Forrester report, in the field of hyperconvergence, Huawei's annual revenue exceeded US$100 million, which is a large supplier . Its main market is Asia-Pacific , and it also covers many overseas markets such as Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Forrester listed Huawei customer cases include Fortune 500 companies Brazilian Bank , China Pacific Insurance, and Sany Heavy Industry. The areas of advantageous deployment include government, finance, insurance, transportation and other industries.
SmartX
SmartX provides software delivery solutions to global markets outside China, and is the only Chinese manufacturer selected for hyper-converged software this time.
SmartX software product SMTX OS, relying on its independently developed distributed block storage with excellent performance and stability, as well as the industry's leading virtualization platform and hardware openness, has been deployed in production environments in many industries such as finance, manufacturing, and medical care, and is known for its "production ready".
SmartX also provides all-in-one products in the Chinese market.
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In the information provided by Forrester, SmartX mainly covers industries that are heavily dependent on IT, such as finance, manufacturing, and medical . The html case provided in this report is all concentrated in the leading customers of the financial industry, including the world's top 500 companies Bank of Communications, Taikang Insurance Group , and Guotai Junan Securities .
SmartX currently covers the Asia-Pacific region, and the official provides non-China cases such as South Korea's SBS TV station and Cafe24.
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In the Forrester report, Shenxinshui is also classified as a hardware provider. Its main customer cases include the People's Bank of China, Thermos, Yakult, focusing on government, enterprises and health industries. In terms of market coverage, its market share in Europe and the Middle East is still relatively small compared with the Asia-Pacific region.
Lenovo
In the Forrester report, Lenovo is classified as a hardware manufacturer, and its hyper-converged products are entirely from Nutanix and other manufacturers OEM, but it is still included in this report due to its global market coverage capabilities.
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Specifically, Lenovo's hyper-converged overseas market is basically the same as the Asia-Pacific market, which is closely related to Lenovo's global OEM scale basis. 's advantageous areas include manufacturing, finance and retail, and typical customer cases include Suntory, Callaway golf and other .
Huayun Data
Huayun Data mainly provides customized private cloud and hybrid cloud solutions to enterprise-level users.
By the acquisition of the US hyperconverged software manufacturer Maxta, Huayun Data began to appear in some foreign market reports, but it still has not joined the ranks of mainstream hyperconverged manufacturers in China.
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According to Forrester report, Huayun Data provides all-in-one service, and 's representative customers in the fields of medical care, manufacturing and education include Jiangsu Shengmin Medical Technology Co., Ltd., etc.
Hyperconvergence is quickly becoming an important foundation for building a modern IT infrastructure and helping enterprises achieve cloud and digital transformation. Especially in the construction of enterprise cloud , hyperconvergence effectively integrates computing, storage and network resources and expands on demand, which can comprehensively improve the operational efficiency, business flexibility, system flexibility, scale and optimal cost of enterprises.
Currently, Forrester reports have been obtained for free on the SmartX official website and other channels.
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