In recent years, with the blessing of Kirin chip, Huawei's mobile phone business has developed rapidly, once surpassing Apple to directly attack Samsung. If it weren't for the chip ban, it might have been the first in the world, but now it has declined helplessly. Despite this, Huawei's strength in other aspects is still strong, and its achievements in storage are even more impressive!
Recently, Gartner, an authoritative organization, released a survey report on the global ECB storage market in the fourth quarter of 2020. According to the report, Huawei's storage revenue was US$ 868 million, up 23.6% year-on-year, surpassing the American giant NetApp, and it won the second place in the world with a market share of 14.3, second only to Dell, the world's first manufacturer.
In the domestic market, Huawei has ranked first for many years. Last year, the domestic storage market as a whole grew by 28.3% year-on-year, and Huawei ranked first in terms of growth rate, reaching 42.6%. There is no doubt that Huawei will still be the first in the domestic market in 2020, with a market share of 43.6%, an increase of 4.4% over 20 19.
In the era of digital economy, data has become a new core factor of production, and data resources have become as valuable and important as petroleum resources. Data storage is the cornerstone of data processing, data enabling, digital energy and network connection. Only by "saving" can data be "used well".
Data storage can be said to be a "national weapon" in the digital age. However, as one of the "traditional three blocks" of high-performance computing infrastructure, unlike the rapid development of computing and network, China's storage development is relatively slow and has been monopolized by enterprises in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. It is based on this that Huawei has cut into this industry.
Huawei Storage has officially entered the storage field since it acquired Huasai on 20 12. In 20 15, Huawei's second-generation high-end storage won the best recommended product of DCIG. In 20 16, Huawei storage entered the Gartner MQ leader quadrant for the first time, which also marked the transformation of Huawei storage from a "chaser" role to a "leader" role.
After that, Huawei's storage technology strength continued to grow. In 20 17, Huawei OceanStor Dorado, the fastest all-flash memory in the world, won the most competitive product selected by Interop, the highest specification electronic equipment exhibition in the world. In 2020, Huawei Storage entered the leader quadrant of Gartner's four main storage magic quadrants.
High-performance computing has now become the battlefield of scientific and technological competition in various countries. Huawei took the initiative to undertake this important task and made a forward-looking strategic layout. It has established 65,438+02 R&D centers around the world, with more than 6,000 R&D employees, more than 2,500 patents, and joined more than 40 international industrial organizations.
Therefore, Huawei can make outstanding achievements in storage, surpassing many established European, American and Japanese manufacturers such as NetApp, IBM and Hitachi. In addition, as a leader in the domestic storage industry, Huawei is leading domestic manufacturers such as Xinhua Sanhe Inspur to expand the storage market in China, while taking a tough attitude towards foreign technology giants.
In the domestic storage market, Huawei took the lead in fighting against the European and American technology giants in the high-end storage field, while Inspur and Xinhua seized the market in the low-end layout, and even there was a situation that "the global market scale decreased slightly by 2. 1%, and the China market scale soared by 28.0%", while Dell, once an American enterprise giant, could only rank fifth in China.
China's "new storage power" has begun to rise. Forty years ago, Japanese and Korean companies dominated the global storage market, while European and American manufacturers were not worth mentioning. And 40 years later, Toshiba, the last memory chip manufacturer in Japan, also reported that it would be acquired. China and South Korea's memory has declined, and European and American manufacturers have risen. Only Japanese enterprises can compete with them in the future.
On the storage road, Huawei has been constantly innovating and breaking through, and has conducted special frontier technology innovation experiments in many countries around the world. The "Olympus Prize" established by Huawei has won great popularity, and together with Industry-University-Research, it has continuously broken through the worldwide problems of data storage technology, making Huawei stand at the "peak" of data storage.
Not only storage, Kirin chip, but also Kunpeng chip of Huawei will shoulder the heavy responsibility of revenue, and its purpose is to be "China's Intel". Last year, even under the pressure of sanctions, Huawei Kunpeng chip was still competing with American technology giants for the market, and it was already replacing Intel and AMD. This is what China enterprises should look like!
Other domestic technology enterprises should learn from Huawei's spirit, not only pay attention to short-term interests, but also take a long-term view, dare to face foreign technology giants and dare to challenge industries monopolized by foreign technology giants. Only by continuously strengthening independent research and development can all science and technology industries continue to break through and surpass!
Adhering to the mission of being persistent in technology, being responsible for customers and building a "national heavyweight", Huawei has continuously promoted the development of Huawei storage. Huawei storage has become the first choice for data storage and processing in various industries around the world, and has entered more than 50 countries around the world, serving more than 12000 customers in various industries.
Of course, the development of core technology is accumulated from generation to generation, and it is impossible to surpass European and American manufacturers for a while. But China's storage manufacturers have the strength to compete head-on with European and American giants. As long as they continue to insist on independent research and development and fill the technical gap, the Qin Pass in 120 years will eventually be Chu, and dare to make the natural barrier a thoroughfare!