In 2025, SmartX continued to accelerate HKMO enterprises’ IT infrastructure modernization and VMware alternative journey with SmartX ECP. We gained strong recognition from IDC and Gartner by leading the China HCI software and virtualization markets. By releasing SmartX ECP 6.2, SKS 1.5, and AI infrastructure solutions, we further strengthened infrastructure reliability and security while embracing the AI era. We also supported a growing number of customers in financial services, healthcare, and high-end manufacturing in their successful exit from VMware, and expanded into emerging sectors such as new energy, transportation, and education. We worked closely with our HKMO partners to host webinars and actively participate in industry events.
Analyst Recognitions
Leads China’s Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Software Market for 10 Consecutive Quarters
According to IDC China HCI Market Overview, 2025 H1, SmartX has once again ranked No. 1 in China’s HCI software market with a 29.8% market share, marking our 10th consecutive quarter at the top position from Q1 2023 to H1 2025. >>Read more
Named a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s Reports for Virtualization and China HCI
In Gartner’s Market Guide for Server Virtualization Platforms, SmartX has once again been named a representative vendor, following its inclusion in the 2023 and 2024 reports.
Another Gartner report, Competitive Landscape: Chinese HCI Vendors, recognized SmartX as a representative of specialist HCI vendors for its full-stack HCI product capabilities. This also marks the third time that SmartX received recognition in this report (after 2019 and 2022).
Products & Solutions
SmartX ECP 6.2: Boosts Security, Performance, and Availability
In SmartX ECP v6.2, we deliver enhanced security, compliance, performance, and availability for enterprise users. It brings key features like data-at-rest encryption, unified security policies for Pods/VMs/IPs, and NUMA bindings. >>Read more
SKS 1.5: Cross-Site Active-Active for Containers Safeguards Critical Business Operations
In SKS v1.5, we introduce cross-site active-active disaster recovery capabilities and enhance multi-tenancy management, providing the highest level of stability and security assurance for enterprise core business. >>Read more
AI Infra Solution: Accelerate AI Model Deployment in Enterprises with SmartX ECP
With SmartX ECP, enterprises can deploy AI models (with various parameters) on VMs or bare-metal Kubernetes. By simply scaling ECP clusters with GPU-deployed nodes, enterprises can build flexible and high-performance AI infra and accelerate the validation process. >>Read more
SmartX vs. VMware: Four Replacement Solutions and Four Component Comparisons
SmartX ECP offers four solutions that allow enterprises to replace VMware vSphere, vSAN, Tanzu, NSX, and other components at their own pace.
>>Solution Overview: Four VMware-Exiting Solutions Based on SmartX ECP
>>Component Comparisons: Virtualization, Network & Security, Kubernetes Management, and Backup & DR
More Technical Sharing of SmartX ECP and Our Solutions:
- SmartX vs Nutanix: Product and Performance Comparison, Migration Approaches, and Use Cases
- SmartX VCCI Solution Upgrade: Securing the Interconnection Between Virtualized and Containerized Applications
- Busting the Myths of SmartX ECP in building enterprise cloud, supporting mission-critical workloads, stability, O&M complexity, and Kubernetes compatibility
- Deep Dive into SmartX ECP Features: Erasure coding, hard disk health check, VMTools, and Upgrade Center
Customer Stories
SmartX ECP in Financial Services: IT Modernization in Banking, Insurance, Securities, Futures, Funds, and Trusts
More than 400 FSI customers leveraged SmartX ECP to support mission-critical systems, core databases, DR, Dev/Test, AI applications, and big data platforms—achieving goals such as digital transformation, cloud-native transformation, and VMware/Nutanix replacement. >>Read more
SmartX ECP in Healthcare: Running Core Systems, Replacing VMware and Nutanix, and Beyond
SmartX ECP has supported 200+ healthcare institutions to address diverse application scenarios – from core systems and databases, to VMware/Nutanix alternatives, DR, PACS, and integrated platform support, etc. >>Read more
SmartX ECP in Manufacturing: Providing Full-Stack Capabilities for Core Applications, ROBO, Dev/Test, and VMware/Nutanix Alternative
More than 500 manufacturers have built an enterprise cloud with full-stack capabilities with SmartX ECP, supporting core applications such as MES and ERP, ROBO, VMware/Nutanix replacement, and Dev/Test with VDI. >>Read more
More VMware Replacement Stories from Various Industries:
- 3 Large Airline & Railway Groups Replace VMware and Advance ITAI with SmartX ECP
- VMware Replacement in 15 Hospitals: Supporting Core Applications and Databases with SmartX ECP
- 4 New Energy Enterprises Modernize IT Infra and Replace VMware With SmartX ECP
- 4 Vehicle Manufacturing Leaders Replace VMware with SmartX ECP for Core Systems
Partnership & Events
In 2025, we continued to empower our HKMO partners through online webinars and workshops, with a strong focus on our VDI solutions, VMware alternatives, and AI/LLM offerings.
We also actively participated in key industry events, including IAAI Asia 2025, NetCraft Week 2025, and JUCC APAN60, where we exchanged valuable insights with partners and customers on AI infrastructure, infrastructure for the education sector, and VMware alternatives.
In 2026, we will continue to innovate our products and solutions, with a primary focus on accelerating AI model deployment in enterprise data centers and enabling enterprises to build secure, compliant, and full-stack cloud platforms.
