H3C's development resilience: Building a solid digital foundation with pragmatic technological innovation

In the development of the digital economy, innovation in key digital technologies is an important driving force for the development of the industry. For a long time, H3C has continuously invested in R&D, continuously explored the iteration and innovation of digital technologies such as cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things, and the Industrial Internet, and enabled the construction of Digital China and the development of the digital economy.

According to public reports, H3C's R&D investment accounts for approximately 10%-15% of its revenue each year. Currently, the company has applied for more than 13,600 patents, and has been highly recognized by the market for its innovative products and solutions.

Continuous R&D investment and technological innovation have also enabled H3C to create a number of star products. Looking back at these amazing innovations, we can see the CR19000 series cluster routers , S12500 series switches , self-developed 8-way critical business server R 8900 and X10000 series mass storage systems, as well as AI firewalls , CAS virtualization, UIS hyper-convergence and other products.

According to data released by IDC in the first three quarters of 2022 , H3C ranked first in China's enterprise network switches and campus switches, with a market share of more than 36%; it ranked first in the enterprise-level WLAN and blade server markets, with market shares of 29.0% and 51.5% respectively; it ranked second in the enterprise network routers, X86 servers, storage, and UTM firewall markets. H3C's market share in many products continues to lead.

H3C continues to focus on the industry's forward-looking technologies, and combined with its own continuous technological innovation, it strives to promote the development and implementation of cutting-edge technology applications such as computing power networks, privacy computing, deterministic networks, and intelligent computing centers. ​

H3C is an active participant and enabler in the development of computing networks, providing integrated computing and network services for operators, government and enterprise customers. Based on the linkage and docking between the distributed computing network brain, network controller, cloud management platform and network equipment, it realizes the unified analysis, control and scheduling of network resources and computing resources, and builds a future computing network solution with separation of computing, conversion and control. ​

In terms of privacy computing, H3C provides a full-stack privacy computing solution that is delivered end-to-end from the bottom layer to the application to achieve compliant data sharing. It provides privacy computing all-in-one machines /privacy computing clouds, and through the deep integration of blockchain and privacy computing, the software and hardware are quickly delivered to achieve end-to-end trust and controllability; it provides data compliance sharing solutions with enhanced computing power for specific scenarios such as finance and government affairs.

As a leader and practitioner of deterministic network technology, H3C leads the development of the deterministic network industry through ultra-low latency, ultra-low jitter, and ultra-high reliability deterministic communication technology across wide area networks and heterogeneous networks, and promotes the transformation of the industry from consumer Internet to industrial Internet. With leading end-to-end deterministic network solutions, H3C provides customers with highly deterministic network transmission services for high real-time business flows. ​

In addition, H3C's high-end routers fully support deterministic technology, and have worked closely with institutions such as the Future Network Laboratory to build the world's first deterministic network, achieving end-to-end deterministic traffic jitter of less than 20us over a wide area network of thousands of kilometers, with various indicators reaching international advanced levels.

Currently, H3C is focusing on the entire life cycle of user models from practice to reasoning to application, starting with the four major capabilities of MLOps, data management, elastic management, and heterogeneous computing power, and researching and deploying intelligent computing center solutions with faster data reading speeds and stronger training computing power.

It can be seen that it is precisely based on continuous investment in R&D, deep insight into technology development trends, and in-depth understanding of customer needs that H3C can always maintain technological innovation and leadership, continuously create products needed by the industry, and continuously enable enterprises' digital transformation. ​

Gain insights into user and market needs , and drive innovative product and solution development ​

As we all know, only by combining continuous leading technology research and development with customer application scenarios can it be converted into customer value and social value. ​

In the past two years, H3C has proposed the "Cloud Intelligence Native" strategy, closely focusing on customer application scenarios to create digital solutions and allowing ICT technology to penetrate into the digital transformation scenario-based applications of all industries. The reporter believes that this approach of making innovation more "pragmatic" has not only established its own industrial advantages, but also truly promoted the development of Digital China . This is the true spirit of innovation.

In 2022 , H3C has achieved fruitful results by leveraging its in-depth insights into the market and user needs, and continuously diversifying its products and solutions:

In terms of intelligent computing, H3C Group has launched the "One Body, Two Hubs" intelligent computing system, which includes a multi-computing system, an intelligent management center, and an intelligent computing power center. It also launched the new generation of H3C UniServer G6 and HPE ProLiant Gen11 series servers. The full stack evolution from the underlying architecture, hardware products to the software platform will bring more efficient, greener and smarter intelligent computing power to the industry.

In terms of intelligent connectivity, H3C has officially released the Cloud-Intelligent Native AD-NET6.0+ solution, which will serve campuses, data centers, and wide area network scenarios with nine key innovations, including all-optical networks, intelligent lossless, deterministic networks, computing networks, and IPv6+, and comprehensively accelerate the innovative transformation of smart applications in N industries, including smart cities, digital governments, operators, and smart healthcare. In addition, H3C recently released the Intelligent All-Optical Campus 2.0 solution, which has made important technological innovations. Through the combination of new architectures, new access, and new experiences, it has comprehensively expanded the experience in campus networking, security, management, and business applications.

H3C combines the "intelligent native" architecture with Wi-Fi 7 technology, and launched two enterprise-level Wi-Fi 7 AP products globally in 2022. Through cloud-network-edge collaboration and H3C's innovative iRadio, iStation, iEdge and iHeal technologies, H3C Wi-Fi can achieve intelligent RF management, intelligent terminal access, intelligent business assurance and intelligent network healing , which will improve the wireless access user experience, ensure faster and more timely business and services, and enable network managers to achieve worry-free operation and maintenance .

In terms of hyper-converged products, H3C has taken the lead in upgrading the five capabilities of core technology, business continuity, intelligent computing, cloud-edge integration, and solutions by combining hyper-converged technology innovation with cloud-native kernel and fully lossless storage architecture, creating a new generation of hyper-converged UIS 8.0 solutions to achieve agile cloud migration .

In order to improve work efficiency in the hybrid office mode, H3C's newly evolved Workspace mobile digital workspace solution uses five engines: multi-mode architecture engine, transmission acceleration engine, graphics acceleration engine, application scheduling engine, and data management engine to enable enterprises to usher in a new era of mobile work .

At the same time, H3C has also continuously optimized and improved the capabilities of digital solutions such as zero-carbon smart campus, digital finance, smart medical care, digital energy, smart education, and smart emergency response, and has successively released them for industry customers . In addition, relying on the overall capabilities of Ziguang Cloud and the Intelligent Business Group, H3C has deeply built a full-stack distributed cloud solution for cloud, digital intelligence, and improved the implementation of digital applications in hundreds of industries by improving the layout of cloud service business.

Building a solid digital foundation will bring great future prospects

Faced with the trend of slowing global economic growth after the epidemic , the future development of all industries faces more uncertainties. To this end, enterprises must make full use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud, and big data, fully tap the value of data, accurately grasp user needs, accelerate business innovation, reduce enterprise operating costs, and achieve the goal of sustainable development.

Therefore, digitalization is still the key path for all industries to cope with uncertainty and achieve transformation and upgrading. Digital transformation service providers such as H3C will still have great potential.

Therefore, we have reason to believe that H3C, which is pragmatic and innovative, can lay a solid foundation for the development of the digital economy and become the most trustworthy partner for customers' business innovation and digital transformation under the concept of "making products the best and solutions the best" .