At this time last year, Xu Zhijun, Huawei’s rotating chairman, once said: “We will strive to survive in 2020 and strive to publish an annual report next year”! As expected, Huawei's rotating chairman Hu Houkun recently released the annual report again. Although the results are not pretty, they are full of hope. It is not easy to maintain stable growth under three rounds of sanctions from superpowers!
In recent years, Huawei's mobile phone business has developed rapidly with the support of Kirin chips, once surpassing Apple and directly attacking Samsung. If it weren't for the chip ban, it might have been number one in the world, but now it is helplessly declining. Despite this, Huawei is still strong in other aspects, and its performance in storage is even more impressive!
Recently, the authoritative organization Gartner released a survey report on the global ECB storage market in the fourth quarter of 2020. The report shows that Huawei's storage revenue was US$868 million, a year-on-year increase of 23.6%, surpassing the US giant NetApp, and ranking second in the world with a market share of 14.3, second only to Dell, the current world's number one manufacturer.
In the domestic market, Huawei has ranked first for many years. Last year, the overall domestic storage market grew by 28.3% year-on-year, and Huawei ranked first with a growth rate of 42.6%. There is no doubt that Huawei still ranks first in the domestic market in 2020, with a market share of 43.6%, an increase of 4.4% compared to 2019.
In the era of digital economy, data has become a new core production factor, and data resources have become as valuable and important as oil resources. Data storage is the cornerstone of data processing and data enablement, and of digital energy and network connectivity. Only when it can be "saved" can data be "used well" in the end.
Data storage can be said to be the “important weapon of the country” in the digital age. However, as one of the "traditional three major components" of high-performance computing infrastructure, unlike computing and networks, which have been developing at a rapid pace, my country's storage has developed relatively slowly and has been monopolized by European, American, Japanese and Korean companies. It is based on this that Huawei entered this industry.
Huawei Storage has officially entered the storage field since its acquisition of Huasai in 2012. In 2015, Huawei's second-generation high-end storage won DCIG's annual best recommended product. In 2016, Huawei's storage entered the Gartner MQ Leaders Quadrant for the first time, which also marked the transformation of Huawei's storage from the role of a "chaser" to a "leader."
Since then, Huawei’s storage technology strength has continued to grow. In 2017, Huawei's OceanStor Dorado, the world's fastest all-flash memory, was selected as the most competitive product by Interop, the world's highest-standard electronic equipment exhibition. In 2020, Huawei Storage entered the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage.
High-performance computing has now become a battleground in the technological competition between countries. Huawei has taken the initiative to assume this important task, carried out a forward-looking strategic layout, built 12 R&D centers around the world, has more than 6,000 R&D employees, holds more than 2,500 patents, and has joined more than 40 international industry organizations.
Therefore, Huawei can make outstanding achievements in storage, surpassing many established European, American and Japanese manufacturers such as NetApp, IBM, and Hitachi. Not only that, as the leader in the domestic storage industry, Huawei is not only competing with foreign technology giants, but also leading domestic manufacturers such as H3C and Inspur to continuously expand the Chinese storage market.
In the domestic storage market, Huawei takes the lead in fighting against European and American technology giants in high-end storage, while companies such as Inspur and H3C seize the market with mid- to low-end layouts. There is even a "global market size dropped slightly by 2.1%, China's market size surged by 28.0%", while the former American giant Dell can only rank fifth in the country.
China’s “new storage power” has begun to rise. 40 years ago, Japanese and Korean companies dominated the global storage market, and European and American manufacturers were not worth mentioning.
And 40 years later, Toshiba, the last memory chip manufacturer in Japan, was also rumored to be acquired. Japanese and Korean storage has declined, while European and American manufacturers are on the rise. In the future, only Chinese companies can compete with it.
On the road to storage, Huawei has been continuously innovating and making breakthroughs, and has conducted special cutting-edge technology innovation experiments in many countries around the world. The "Olympus Award" set by Huawei is a bounty, and it has joined forces with industry, academia and research to continuously break through world-wide problems in data storage technology, making Huawei stand at the "peak" of data storage.
Not just storage, in addition to Kirin chips, Huawei's Kunpeng chips will also shoulder the heavy responsibility of revenue, and the purpose is to be "China's Intel". Last year, even under the pressure of sanctions, Huawei's Kunpeng chips were still competing for the market with US technology giants, and were already replacing Intel and AMD. This is what Chinese companies should be like!
Other domestic technology companies should learn from Huawei's spirit. Instead of focusing only on short-term interests, they should take a longer-term view, dare to face foreign technology giants, and dare to challenge industries monopolized by foreign technology giants. challenge. Only by continuously strengthening independent research and development can various technology industries continue to make breakthroughs and surpass!
Huawei adheres to its dedication to technology, responsibility to customers, and its mission of building a "national weapon" to continuously promote the development of Huawei storage. Huawei storage has become the preferred choice for data storage and processing in various industries around the world. It has entered more than 150 countries around the world and serves more than 12,000 customers in multiple industries.
Of course, the development of core technologies is accumulated from generation to generation, and it is impossible to surpass European and American manufacturers as a whole for a while. However, Chinese storage manufacturers are fully capable of competing head-on with European and American giants. As long as they continue to insist on independent research and development and fill in the technological gaps, the Qin Pass will eventually belong to Chu and dare to make the natural chasm into a new path!