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Recently, Dr. Schuchat, deputy director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the media Frankly speaking, "Because the new coronavirus spreads too quickly and in such a wide range, the epidemic in the United States is currently out of control."
Judging from the development trend, this is indeed the case. According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of the morning of June 30, local time, there were more than 2.68 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States, with 129,500 deaths. In the past week, the number of new COVID-19 cases in the United States per day has soared 42% year-on-year, reaching approximately 38,200.
The situation is so severe that restarting the economy has become difficult. According to the American media on June 30, as the COVID-19 epidemic reaches its peak again, at least 16 states, including Texas and Florida, have suspended plans to restart their economies.
The impact of the epidemic has affected all aspects of society. Even the three major storage giants in the United States, Dell EMC, NetApp and HPE, have also been greatly affected.
Recently, the world's authoritative analyst organization Gartner released an external storage market share report for the first quarter of 2020. The report showed that Dell EMC, NetApp and HPE all experienced sharp declines in revenue, down 11% and 16% respectively. and 19%.
The U.S. storage giant is facing its darkest moment, but Huawei, a technology company from China, has shown its resilience in bucking the trend.
In the first quarter of 2020, despite being also affected by the epidemic, Huawei still achieved rapid growth of 24.7%, ranking first in growth rate.
Looking specifically at different regions, in China, which was most severely affected by the epidemic in the first quarter, Huawei still maintained a revenue growth of 15.4%, ranking first in growth rate in China. In terms of overseas markets, Huawei achieved a growth rate of 38.5%, ranking first in overseas markets.
It is not difficult to see that Huawei has defeated many overseas giants and become the only bright spot in the global storage market. At Huawei, neither the epidemic nor the presence of giants is a reason to stop fighting. On the contrary, the more difficulties there are, the more we must be able to turn crises into opportunities.
You must know that before, the three major storage giants in the United States "dominated" the global storage market, and the most popular one was Dell EMC.
During the 9/11 incident, Dell EMC became famous for helping Morgan Stanley restore all operations within 24 hours. Subsequently, Dell EMC completed a series of acquisitions, "quickly completed the role transformation from a high-end storage manufacturer to a storage giant, and started a fifteen-year career as a storage hegemon."
According to report data released by the authoritative analysis organization IDC, in the first quarter of 2020, Dell EMC was still the largest enterprise external storage system manufacturer, accounting for 33.2% of global revenue, while NetApp accounted for 11.0% of the revenue share. Ranked second, followed by HPE/New H3C, with a share of 9.9%.
Facing American giants, Huawei has nothing to rely on and can only rely on technological research and development and continuous development. You may not imagine that at the beginning of the journey, it can be described as "a rough road with blue strands".
In 2002, Huawei began to invest in the storage business. "The team totaled only a dozen people," but it had to develop the pre-researched products within a year.
What to do? Huawei Storage first thought of cooperating with university research institutions. Therefore, Huawei Storage cooperated with the team of Professor Xie Changsheng of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (later renamed Huazhong University of Science and Technology) and began to build a pre-researched storage system based on standard servers + commercial FC cards + open source RAID code + Cache/SCSI components.
After a year of hard work, the storage prototype was finally successfully developed and passed management acceptance. The next year, in 2003, Huawei Storage officially launched research and development.
By 2005, Huawei completed the research and development of dual-control storage systems, which meant that Huawei's storage research and development achieved a staged victory.
Since then, the strength of technology research and development has accumulated day by day and become stronger. Currently, Huawei has 12 R&D centers around the world, with more than 4,000 engineers engaged in storage R&D, and more than 800 storage patents. Huawei's OceanStor storage Dorado series all-flash memory once again won the Best of 2020 at Interop Tokyo 2020, Japan's largest annual ICT exhibition. Show Award gold medal.
Thanks to R&D investment, Huawei's storage has exploded with amazing energy. Not only is it favored by many users at home and abroad, but its market share is also rising. In 2019, Huawei Storage ranked among the top four in the global market share. In the Chinese market, Huawei Storage has ranked first for 19 consecutive quarters.
In this regard, Zhou Yuefeng, Vice President of Huawei Cloud and Computing BG and President of Data Storage and Machine Vision Product Line, admitted without hesitation: "Huawei will soon become the world's number one storage manufacturer."
Based on Huawei's long-term technology research and development, especially the current rapid growth rate, and the weakening development of the three major US giants, Huawei Storage will take advantage of the victory and eventually stand at the top of the global storage market.
This day is coming quickly.