China's server virtualization market: Huawei ranks second in the market and ranks first in growth rate

Nowadays, in such a competitive market as server virtualization, various manufacturers are gearing up to fight and are unwilling to be outdone. Recently, according to the data from the "PRC SDC&VCC Software Tracker" provided by IDC, a world-renowned professional provider of information technology, telecommunications industry and consumer technology consulting, advisory and event services, Huawei, relying on its enterprise-level open cloud operating system FusionSphere, has firmly ranked second in the Chinese server virtualization market with a 22% share, ranking first in both domestic manufacturers' share and year-on-year growth rate. Huawei has become the only non-US company to enter the world's top 5 suppliers with its strong performance in performance and market growth.

The data in this report revealed several important information to the industry:

• Huawei has achieved growth of more than 50% for three consecutive years, and in the first half of 2016, it drove the rapid development of the entire server virtualization market with a growth rate of 76.6%.
• Although the global virtualization market is very mature and facing the trend of saturation and commoditization, the shipment volume of virtualization still maintains healthy growth.
• In the field of software-defined computing, containers and cloud system software, as key technologies for next-generation applications and infrastructure, have huge potential and opportunities for future commercial success.
• Huawei's FusionSphere cloud operating system based on the OpenStack architecture can provide complete hardware, software, and service solutions for public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and other scenarios for industries such as telecommunications, government, finance, and media. It is a strong server virtualization provider.

Why is FusionSphere so popular in the domestic market? This is mainly due to its openness, high performance and high reliability.

First, Huawei FusionSphere deeply integrates the OpenStack open source architecture. In line with the concept of "originating from open source, being stronger than open source, and giving back to open source", it continues to interact with the OpenStack community. More than 600 Huawei R&D engineers are involved in the OpenStack project, and there are 6 project PTLs and 19 core developers in the community. Huawei FusionSphere's open API interface, combined with the rich joint innovation and integration experience of ISVs, third-party partners and developers, provides strong support for enterprise IT transformation and business cloudification.

Secondly, in the industry's authoritative SPECvirt performance test, Huawei FusionSphere has broken records for three consecutive years and continues to lead the test results.

At the same time, in terms of disaster recovery, Huawei is the only manufacturer in the industry that implements cross-DC disaster recovery solutions based on the OpenStack architecture, ensuring the continuity of the company's key business.

***FusionSphere version, in order to further meet the demands of enterprises for key business to go to the cloud, released physical machine services, supporting visual installation and configuration, IPMI out-of-band management, physical machine lifecycle management, automatic storage mounting, virtual network connection and other features. At the same time, the integration of container services further established the king status of FusionSphere cloud operating system in China. FusionSphere's container service is based on Kubernetes cluster management, providing graphical application modeling, one-click application automation deployment, flexible elastic scaling such as timing, cycle and policy configuration, topology-based component health status management, cluster and container status monitoring and many other functions, which have seized the opportunity to occupy the future container market.

Huawei Cloud Computing has served more than 2,500 customers in more than 130 countries and regions around the world, and has jointly created industry cloud best practices such as public cloud, government cloud, education cloud, financial cloud, and media cloud with many partners.

At present, China's server virtualization market is still maintaining healthy growth. Based on the OpenStack architecture, FusionSphere cloud operating system will perform well in the future market with its open cloud ecosystem, strong performance, and reliable disaster recovery capabilities. Let's wait and see!