The recently published “IDC China Software-defined Storage and Hyperconverged System Market Overview, 2023 Q3” report analyzes the market share of HCI appliances and independently-sold HCI software (HCI Software Integrated System, which includes HCI software and certified servers).
In HCI software market share, SmartX continues to lead with 19.4% market share in 2023 Q3, following the dominance from previous two quarters (2023 Q2 and Q1).
As a market leader, SmartX HCI has been deployed in the production environments of over 1000 customers across industries. The total deployment of SmartX HCI has nearly reached 20,000 nodes, and the largest customer’s deployment exceeds 800 nodes.
As a popular choice among customers, SmartX HCI has a customer repurchase rate of 81% and has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customer’s Choice in Asia Pacific for 3 consecutive years.
SmartX HCI 5.1 is equipped with a portfolio of fully enhanced compute virtualization, distributed storage, management platform, and advanced components including container management and service, software-defined network and security, DR and data protection.
These full-stack HCI capabilities are suitable for both virtualized and containerized apps in production. Learn about some notable features in the below articles:
For higher performance and stability:
- Software-defined Load Balancing in Everoute 2.0: Improving Virtual Network Performance and Availability
- Preserving Data Integrity with Temporary Replica Strategy of SmartX HCI
- Network I/O Virtualization in SmartX HCI: Virtual NIC, PCI Pass-through and SR-IOV Pass-through
- Improving Resource Utilization: Innovative Implementation of DRS in SmartX HCI
- GPU Passthrough & vGPU: Using GPU Application in Virtualization with SMTX OS 5.1
- VMware vs SmartX: I/O Path Comparison and Performance Impact
- VMware vs SmartX: Distributed Storage Caching Mechanism and Performance Comparison
- VMware vs SmartX: Snapshot Mechanism and I/O Performance Comparison
- SPDK Vhost-user: Improve I/O Storage Performance in Hyperconvergence
- Automatic Data Recovery Policy: Stabilizing Application Performance While Accelerating Data Recovery
For easier operation and maintenance:
- Eliminate Virtual Network Blind Spots with SmartX Network Visualization
- Hard Disk Health Check with SmartX HCI: Three Ways to Auto-Detect and Isolate Abnormal Disks
- Reuse Existing Devices with SmartX HCI: 4 Customers Achieve IT Infra Transformation at a Lower Cost
- Building New Cluster vs. Rolling Replacement: How to Seamlessly Replace HCI Server Hardware?
- Unprecedented Scalability: Explore SmartX HCI’s Flexible Scale-out Options
- How to achieve seamless and zero-downtime upgrade of IT infrastructure software and hardware?
Learn more about SmartX HCI : SmartX Hyperconverged Infrastructure Product Portfolio Brief
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