Huawei ranks first in global storage revenue growth rate

SHENZHEN, CHINA: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced that it ranked first in terms of global storage revenue growth in Technology Business Research Inc.'s (TBR) 2Q13 Computing Data Center Benchmark report with growth of 22.3 per cent, making Huawei the storage growth leader for the quarter among vendors covered in TBR's benchmark.

TBR's Computing Data Center Benchmark covers the quarterly progress and outlook of server, storage and networking vendors. In the product segment analysis, the report noted that "Storage hardware revenue will be muted by limited enterprise IT budgets, software-defined storage trends and competitive pricing pressures." TBR also noted that 2Q13 storage hardware revenue was impacted by weak spending of large enterprises and strong midmarket competition, which resulted in a decline of -4.3 pc.

Huawei's ranking as the storage revenue growth leader in Q3 2013, marks its fifth consecutive quarter as the storage revenue growth leader in TBR's Computing Data Center Benchmark (from 2012Q2 to 2013Q2).

Based on Huawei storage's philosophy, "Intelligence on Demand, Convergence for Future", Huawei's storage business has grown rapidly and continues to expand its market share. TBR comments in the report that "Huawei is rapidly growing the scale of its storage business by leading with a message of simplicity achieved through converged infrastructure, which appeals to customer demand for efficiency and reduced TCO."

TBR's report also notes that the combination of SSDs and server-side flash is disrupting the storage market, particularly around data center efficiency. The storage industry is going through immense change brought on flash technologies, a field that Huawei has explored since 2007. Huawei has developed many core SSD technologies, including the ASIC-based SSD controller, wear-leaving algorithm, SmartCache software, and high-available architecture. With these technologies, and more recently the successive releases of PCIe-based SSD cards, SAS SSD disks, and the high-performing solid state storage Dorado, Huawei has designed a series of application solutions that are widely used by enterprises.

Moreover, Huawei storage perfectly combines solid-state storage and enterprise storage by employing Smart Matrix Architecture and innovative RAID2.0+ For Flash technology, resulting in the launch of OceanStor 18800F, the industry's first enterprise storage system that features an all-flash design, with the highest performance, and lowest latency. The all-flash design enables the OceanStor 18800F to achieve million-level IOPS (based on the standard testing model) and microsecond-level latency, making it the fastest and the only enterprise storage system in the industry that offers microsecond-level response.

With 11 years' history in IT R&D, Huawei is dedicated to independent research and development, working to ensure its storage brings together the advantages of hardware and software. Huawei storage has established a complete series of storage products, including unified storage, solid stated storage, virtualization storage, Big Data storage, cloud storage, and storage software. In addition, our industry solutions have been well evaluated by analysts and customers. To achieve our goal of "Making IT simple and businesses more agile ", Huawei storage is not only committed to developing reliable and high-performing products, but also to expediting the compatibility process with top manufacturers in the industry and working to continually optimize integrated solutions.