Sangfor launches sub-brands - Intelligent Security and Cloud IT, with two major businesses running side by side

[51CTO.com original article] On November 18, at the Sangfor sub-brand launch conference, Sangfor officially launched two sub-brands for enterprise-level security and cloud computing - Smart Security and Cloud IT. Under the corporate parent brand, Sangfor's two sub-brands are Sangfor's strategic transformation and brand upgrade. In the future, they will carry Sangfor's value proposition in the fields of security and cloud computing, and will also represent Sangfor's determination to become the leader in the fields of enterprise-level security and cloud computing.

At the press conference, He Chaoxi, CEO of Sangfor, said: "Sangfor has a 16-year history. In these 16 years, Sangfor has grown from a small company with only 3 people to nearly 3,000 people, and from an annual sales of only 200,000 to an annual sales of more than 2 billion. All the achievements and developments we have achieved today are due to the support of our users, the help of our partners, and the help of all friends. We would like to express our gratitude here."

Why did Sangfor launch two sub-brands, security and cloud computing?

Speaking of Sangfor, the first thing that comes to mind is that it is a security company. How could a security company suddenly set up a cloud IT sub-brand? In fact, as early as four years ago, Sangfor had already laid out its cloud computing field and started to enter the IT infrastructure market. After several years of development, it has achieved remarkable results in technology, products, and market.

Over the years, Sangfor has been committed to helping users build truly effective security in an environment where security risks are becoming increasingly complex and changing through simple means. 16 years of security technology accumulation has laid a solid foundation for Sangfor's growth and development.

In recent years, as IT development has shown a trend of Internetization, mobility and cloudification, security and IT infrastructure have undergone important changes. Businesses need to quickly adapt to external changes, and cloud-based IT architecture can take on the tasks of this new era. Sangfor believes that only by creating a simpler, more stable, secure and easy-to-use new cloud-based IT architecture for users can we bring greater creativity to IT and help users achieve greater value. In recent years, Sangfor has achieved initial results in this new business direction and will continue to go all out.

Sangfor Intelligent Security and Sangfor Cloud IT

Sangfor Intelligent Security: Through practical and intelligent security products, users' security construction is made more effective and simpler. Yin Hao, CTO of Sangfor Security BU, believes that in order to do a good job in enterprise-level network security construction, enterprises must have "high wealth, high IQ, and high EQ", that is, sufficient funds, professional talents, and excellent experience, but these are difficult for most enterprises to do.

Sangfor Cloud IT: Committed to enabling users' IT to innovate and helping users' IT businesses to operate more efficiently. Director Cao Xinchi said in his speech that Sangfor created the sub-brand of Sangfor Cloud IT to carry the mission and responsibility of traditional enterprises evolving to cloud IT. He also said that Sangfor Cloud IT's business has now covered China and Southeast Asia. In China, it has 19 regions, 48 ​​offices, more than 600 sales managers, more than 200 front-line engineers, and more than 800 channel partners.

As a security company that wants to enter the fiercely competitive cloud computing market, what is Sangfor's competitive edge?

In this regard, Zhang Kaiyi, Vice President of Sangfor, answered the following questions from three aspects:

First of all, Sangfor has a strong security gene. Although traditional communication and network equipment manufacturers have significant advantages in networks, switches, and routers, Sangfor has excellent genes in security. Based on past capabilities and trend judgments, Sangfor entered the cloud computing market through software definition, taking security as the key entry point. Security is the biggest concern of cloud computing users, and security is the natural gene of Sangfor. Although security has become part of IT infrastructure, as the fourth basic element besides computing, networking, and storage. In the future, there will definitely be demands for independent development. Whether it is a complete infrastructure supplier or a network equipment manufacturer, more and more professional security suppliers are needed to cooperate.

Secondly, the development of hyper-convergence, software-defined data centers, and virtualization technologies has given Sangfor the opportunity to overtake others and leap on the shoulders of giants. Now, Sangfor has achieved that except for X86 servers and layer 2 and 3 switches, all other functions below the application layer can be delivered by software-defined and virtualized network devices. Sangfor hopes to gradually replace the traditional hardware device architecture by establishing a software-defined and virtualized architecture, so that the data center architecture can become a device running on X86 servers.

Their software-defined data center and virtualization based on hyper-convergence will gradually replace the traditional hardware equipment architecture and will become the mainstream solution for the new IT infrastructure of enterprise customers in the future.

Third, innovation has always been a very important gene of Sangfor. Generally speaking, for companies with leading positions in a certain field, traditional advantages will become obstacles to their transformation and innovation. Compared with these manufacturers, Sangfor has no baggage, and all its investments are directed towards new IT technologies of the future. Based on a deep understanding of user needs, it gradually builds strong brand competitiveness.

Summarize

***, Zhang Kaiyi said that in the future, Sangfor's two major sub-brands will develop in synergy with each other, especially the cloud IT direction will become stronger and stronger. Sangfor will insist on innovation and constantly challenge itself and the industry's management, neither letting the technology go ahead nor completely succumbing to the traditional and backward inertial demand, but to achieve moderate technological leadership and continuously guide demand.

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