IDC recently released the “China Software-defined Storage and Hyperconverged System Market Overview 2024 Q4”, providing an in-depth analysis of both the overall HCI market and independently sold hyper-converged software market share.
SmartX ranked No. 1 in China’s hyper-converged software market in 2024 full year with a 28.4% share, maintaining its leading position for the second consecutive year (2023–2024).
Trusted by Large Enterprises, Expanding Industry Reach, Strengthening Market Leadership
To date, over 1,500 organizations across various sectors have adopted SmartX‘s HCI-based Enterprise Cloud Platform (SmartX ECP) to successfully implement a wide range of innovative use cases, including distributed transformation, VMware replacement, Nutanix migration, AI infrastructure for Large Language Models (LLMs), and VM-container converged infrastructures.
SmartX has earned the trust of large enterprise customers in industries such as finance, manufacturing, and healthcare through its strong product and technical capabilities. It leads the industry in deployment scale, implementation duration, and multi-scenario use cases:
- A major bank deployed SmartX ECP in its headquarters data center and across 38 branches nationwide, totaling over 1,000 nodes over 7 years.
- A large securities firm deployed SmartX ECP in multiple data centers nationwide, supporting critical workloads, including core trading systems. The deployment exceeds 1,000 nodes and spans 7 years. The two parties are also collaborating in areas such as cryptography compliance and cloud-native innovation.
- A global EMS (electronics manufacturing services) leader adopted SmartX ECP, especially utilizing container management and distributed firewall in multiple factories to support systems like MES, ERP, and production line management. This has become the company’s standard edge-cloud solution.
- A top-tier tertiary hospital built a highly available active-active data center architecture with SmartX ECP (fully leveraging domestic products, from chips to middleware and applications), covering dual hospital campuses.
- A leading tire manufacturer built a unified, efficient enterprise cloud platform with SmartX’s full-stack capabilities across compute, storage, networking, data protection, and containers, supporting core production systems in factories located in Shanghai and Hefei.
- A leading e-commerce service provider expanded its SmartX deployment to nearly 200 nodes over 2–3 years and successfully supported local fine-tuning and inference for e-commerce AI models, promoting deep AI integration across e-commerce scenarios.
Beyond its deep penetration in key sectors such as finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, SmartX has rapidly expanded into emerging and critical infrastructure industries over the past year, including clean energy, automotive, railway, and ports. It supports customers in seamless infrastructure upgrades, VMware replacement, and the stable migration and operation of mission-critical workloads.
Continuous Software Innovation, Full-Stack Upgrades
SmartX continues to refine its core capabilities for the HCI-based enterprise cloud platform. The latest release of SmartX ECP introduces critical enhancements in performance and security, such as CPU QoS, NUMA optimization, data-at-rest encryption, host-level security protection, and improved snapshot space management. For broader ecosystem compatibility, SmartX now supports Phytium CPUs, NetXen 10GbE NICs, and is compliant with Hygon HCT features, reducing encryption hardware costs and meeting dual demands of security and regulatory compliance.
Based on its hyperconverged virtualization and storage, SmartX has strengthened its full-stack capabilities across containers, networking, security, and management. New features include enterprise-grade file storage, erasure coding, persistent volume caching, multiple Kubernetes deployment models, and GUI-based container app management. SmartX also introduced Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking for more flexible security policy configurations, alongside a new upgrade center and inspection center to boost operational efficiency and user experience.
With continued product evolution, SmartX ECP is now compatible with over 100 server models and validated with key healthcare applications such as HIS, EMR, and PACS. It also offers tailored disaster recovery, desktop virtualization, and AI solutions. SmartX has jointly verified its platform with numerous domestic databases, establishing best practices and delivering secure, controllable infrastructure options that drive deeper adoption across industries.
One Unified Platform for VMware Replacement, IT Transformation, and AI Deployment
Amid the growing trend of VMware replacement, SmartX provides comprehensive alternatives to vSphere, vSAN, Tanzu, and NSX. Shipment data shows that nearly 65% of customers have adopted SmartX’s native virtualization ELF, which delivers robust virtualization capabilities while significantly reducing VMware licensing costs—achieving both technical and economic benefits.
For IT transformation, SmartX has completed integration with a broad range of domestic databases, including Dameng, openGauss, GaussDB, Vastbase, GBase, Kingbase, and MogDB. It enables customers to conduct performance evaluations and tuning in production environments, offering a reliable infrastructure foundation for Chinese databases.
For AI deployment, SmartX has been validated with DeepSeek V3/R1 model series—ranging from Distill-Qwen-7B to 671B—and can support full-stack infrastructure for computing, storage, networking, clustering, and container orchestration. With a single technology stack, customers can run both LLM workloads and day-to-day enterprise systems, reducing complexity and total cost of ownership (TCO) for deployment and operations.
About SmartX ECP
SmartX Enterprise Cloud Platform (SmartX ECP) offers a versatile enterprise cloud solution catering to both traditional and modern applications. Powered by full-stack hyper-converged infrastructure, SmartX ECP seamlessly blends computing, storage, networking security, data protection, Kubernetes services, and management features. Designed for flexibility and scalability, SmartX ECP facilitates streamlined cloud deployment and management across a spectrum of enterprise environments, from centralized data centers to distributed edge locations.
To explore SmartX ECP, please visit SmartX ECP – Enterprise Cloud Platform or download the product flyer.
