IDC released the latest “IDC China HCI Market Overview, 2025 Q3”. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the overall HCI market, the standalone HCI software market, and the full-stack HCI market share.
In the HCI software rankings for the first three quarters of 2025, SmartX ranked first with a 33.1% market share. This marks the 11th consecutive quarter that SmartX has led the Chinese HCI software market (from Q1 2023 to Q3 2025). Additionally, in the statistics for full-stack HCI container management scenarios, SmartX ranked second with a 19.3% market share.
Through over a decade of development, SmartX ECP has achieved a market-leading number of large-scale deployment cases in China. It supports critical production scenarios for professional clients across industries such as finance, high-end manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, education and research, and biopharmaceuticals. The solution enables a full-stack replacement of VMware and serves as a robust foundation for the IT infrastructure upgrade.
Proven Enterprise-Grade Platform with Leading Scale and Performance
SmartX ECP is widely utilized in critical production scenarios across industries such as finance, manufacturing, and healthcare. It empowers leading enterprises to achieve cloud transformation of their infrastructure. The solution maintains a competitive edge in deployment scale, operational longevity, and diverse application scenarios, as evidenced by the following benchmarks: over 1,800 nodes of maximum single-customer deployment; over 8 years of stable operation in the production environment; over 20 customers with deployments exceeding 100 nodes.
- 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 1,800 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 eight sites, integrating with existing monitoring and automation systems to build a powerful private cloud. >>Learn more
- 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. >>Learn more
- A leading e-commerce group: Over 200 nodes deployed, unifying virtualization and container orchestration to support localized LLM (Large Language Model) training and AI workloads. >>Learn more
- 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
- Finance: Serving 450+ banks, insurance, securities, and fund institutions, powering core financial business systems such as core over-the-counter (OTC) trading, corporate online banking, Transfer Agent (TA) registration, valuation, BI reporting, O32, i17, and CTP main/disaster recovery systems, as well as various production-grade databases, while supporting innovations in AI, big data, and cloud-native applications.
- Healthcare: Empowering 250+ hospitals (70% tertiary and above) to reliably operate HIS, EMR, LIS, and PACS systems with simplified management and improved availability. >>Learn more
- Manufacturing: Serving 600+ enterprises across semiconductors, new energy, and automotive sectors, enabling high-performance, flexible, and easy-to-manage IT foundations for MES, PLM, ERP, EAP, AGV, 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. >>Learn more
- 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 VDI 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:
- Storage: Compared with VMware vSAN, SmartX distributed storage (block & file storage) offers comparable features, optimized performance, and stability.
- 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. >>Learn more
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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