October 15, 2025 – SmartX, a leading enterprise cloud infrastructure software provider, today announced that it has once again ranked No. 1 in China’s hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software market, according to the latest IDC China HCI Market Overview, 2025 H1. SmartX achieved a 29.8% market share, marking its 10th consecutive quarter at the top position from Q1 2023 to H1 2025.
In addition to its continued leadership in HCI software, SmartX also ranked fourth in the overall full-stack HCI systems market, with an 8.9% share, and secured the No. 1 position in container management scenarios, boasting a 24.7% market share, reflecting its growing strength in supporting both traditional and cloud-native workloads.
Proven Enterprise-Grade Platform with Leading Scale and Performance
SmartX Enterprise Cloud Platform (SmartX ECP) has become the trusted foundation for mission-critical production workloads across finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and other key industries. It enables leading enterprises to modernize their IT infrastructure with unmatched deployment scale, performance, and reliability:
- A major national bank: Over 1,500 nodes deployed across national data centers and all branches, serving as one of the bank’s “three clouds” and running large-scale core business systems.
- A top securities firm: Over 1,500 nodes deployed, integrating with third-party PaaS and its in-house cloud management platform to form a unified enterprise cloud foundation.
- A global new energy technology leader: Over 100 nodes, replacing VMware clusters across seven sites, integrating with existing monitoring and automation systems to build a powerful private cloud.
- A world-renowned electronics manufacturing service provider: Building distributed clouds across multiple global factories, supporting both virtualization and container-based production systems and development environments.
- A leading Korean e-commerce group: Over 200 nodes deployed, unifying virtualization and container orchestration to support localized LLM (Large Language Model) training and AI workloads.
- A top-tier hospital: Over 40 nodes, replacing VMware infrastructure to consolidate systems across multiple campuses with enhanced network microsegmentation and visibility for stronger internal security.
Powering Critical Workloads Across Industries
SmartX’s HCI-based ECP platform supports core production workloads across industries:
- Finance: Serving 400+ banks, insurance, securities, and fund institutions, powering mission-critical systems such as trading, valuation, and core databases, while supporting innovations in AI, big data, and cloud-native applications.
- Healthcare: Empowering 200+ hospitals (70% tertiary and above) to reliably operate HIS, EMR, LIS, and PACS systems with simplified management and improved availability. >>Learn more
- Manufacturing: Serving 500+ enterprises across semiconductors, new energy, and automotive sectors, enabling high-performance, flexible, and easy-to-manage IT foundations for MES, ERP, and IoT workloads. >>Learn more
- Transportation: Supporting large-scale rail, aviation, port, and logistics systems, including ticketing, maintenance, and data platforms, with full vSphere and vSAN replacement capabilities.
- Education & Research: Helping universities and research institutions build private clouds to power digital campuses and research infrastructure.
- Biopharma: Accelerating innovation and production with unified management for LIMS, ERP, and cloud desktop systems across multiple sites.
Full-Stack Enterprise Cloud Platform & VMware Alternative
Built on its core distributed storage and virtualization capabilities, SmartX ECP delivers a full-stack enterprise cloud infrastructure encompassing container management, software-defined networking and security, backup and disaster recovery, and more — enabling complete replacement of VMware stacks:
- Virtualization: SmartX ELF as a production-grade alternative to VMware vSphere, fully compatible with local ecosystems. >>Learn more
- Networking & Security: Everoute as an alternative to VMware NSX, offering equivalent functionality with simplified operations. >>Learn more
- Container Management: Full-featured management and orchestration services comparable to VMware Tanzu. >>Learn more
- Backup & DR: Robust data protection and disaster recovery options validated in large-scale production use cases.
A Unified Foundation for the Enterprise Cloud Era
By integrating full-stack HCI with VPC, self-service management, and AI platform capabilities, SmartX ECP empowers enterprises to build a unified cloud platform that supports traditional, modern, and AI applications with greater performance, scalability, and cost efficiency — significantly reducing the complexity and total cost of ownership (TCO) of private cloud deployment.
About SmartX
SmartX offers modern IT infrastructure software to help customers build and maintain their enterprise cloud with ease, accelerating enterprise digital transformation. This includes virtualization, storage, networking security, data protection, Kubernetes, and management capabilities. With SmartX, customers can achieve lower TCO, simpler architecture, and more stability and performance in multiple IT scenarios.
SmartX has provided products and services for various financial, manufacturing, and healthcare industry leaders, and received several recognitions from Gartner, IDC, Forrester, and GigaOm.
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