SmartX Leads China’s HCI Software Market for 13 Consecutive Quarters

July 13th, 2026 — IDC has released the IDC China HCI Market Overview, 2026Q1, analyzing market share across China’s overall HCI market, standalone HCI software market, and full-stack HCI market.

In the 2026Q1 HCI software ranking, SmartX ranked No. 1 with a 36.8% market share, marking its 13th consecutive quarter as the leader in China’s HCI software market, from 2023Q1 to 2026Q1.

With its consistently leading market performance, continuously evolving product capabilities, and large-scale production scenario validation, SmartX continues to solidify its leading position in China’s hyperconverged software market. The recently released SmartX ECP 6.3 further enhances product capabilities across high availability, disaster recovery, performance, security, and compliance, leading the new standard for critical business support in HCI.

SmartX ECP 6.3 Leads the New Standard for Critical Business Support in HCI

SmartX ECP 6.3 combines industry-leading performance, strong business continuity capabilities, and a rich feature set to support diverse scenarios, from mission-critical applications to data analytics and AI inference. It helps enterprises reduce TCO, improve operational efficiency, and ensure business continuity.

High availability upgrade for mission-critical production workloads: SmartX ECP 6.3 introduces cross-NIC high availability for RDMA storage networks, avoiding single points of failure in high-speed storage networks. It also expands VM HA coverage to SR-IOV, Hygon HCT, and vGPU workloads, better supporting stable operations for low-latency financial trading, national cryptographic algorithm applications, AI, VDI, and other critical workloads.
Disaster recovery upgrade for key production workloads: SmartX is among the first in China to deliver VM-level synchronous replication, providing RPO=0 disaster recovery protection for virtual machines, improving tolerance for DR network jitter, and reducing DR costs. SmartX ECP 6.3 also supports management platform high availability and automatic disaster failover for comprehensive DR protection. >>Learn more
Storage performance leap: SmartX ECP 6.3 delivers several-fold performance improvements, breaking through ten million IOPS and 100GiB bandwidth, with performance comparable to high-end all-flash arrays. >>Learn more
Security and compliance upgrade: SmartX ECP 6.3 deeply integrates AsiaInfo’s agentless antivirus solution, supports VM disk encryption based on national cryptographic algorithms, and includes a built-in KMS service to simplify key lifecycle management. >>Learn more

Proven Enterprise-Grade Platform with Leading Scale and Performance

SmartX ECP is widely used in the critical production environments of over 2000 large and medium-sized customers, covering industries such as finance, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, energy, education, and government. It encompasses multiple scenarios including virtualization, VMware replacement, disaster recovery and backup, databases, containers, and AI, with a total deployment scale of over 30,000 nodes, including more than 10,000 domestic IT nodes. Production environment validation has been conducted for over 9 years, helping leading domestic and global customers achieve cloud-based infrastructure transformation.

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 2,000 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 200 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 Finance, Healthcare, High-End Manufacturing, Transportation, Education, and More 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 300+ 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, data platforms, and Smart Terminal systems, 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.

Enabling Full-Stack VMware Replacement and Large-Scale Migration

Many enterprise customers use SmartX ECP to replace VMware virtualization and storage, and other full-stack product components, including containers, networking and security, and disaster recovery. With SMTX Migration Tool, industry leaders carried out large-scale VM migration from VMware to SmartX ECP that meets production-grade requirements for migration efficiency and stability.

Large-Scale VMware Migration Practices

A leading regional bank: Migrated 10,000+ core business VMs in 9 months, supporting all business systems, including core counter services and online banking, while reusing 600+ vSAN servers.
A leading insurance institution: Migrated 800+ production, development, and testing VMs in 2 months, replacing both VMware and Nutanix.
A provincial people’s hospital: Migrated 200+ VMs and enforced ITAI transformation, supporting key business systems such as HIS middleware and outpatient calling.
An automotive components manufacturer: Migrated nearly 300 VMs in 1 month, supporting MES, big data, SAP, and other core business systems, while fully reusing 10+ vSAN servers.

Evolving from Full-Stack HCI to Agent Ready Infrastructure

Based on the full-stack components of SmartX ECP, enterprises can also build Agent Ready infrastructure to accelerate the parallel evolution of model inference and Agent runtime. With one platform, enterprises can unify the delivery and operations of traditional applications, containerized applications, model services, and Agent workloads.

End User Practices

Intelligent operations practice at a financial institution: Existing infrastructure runtime data, operations knowledge, and management workflows are transformed into skills that Agents can call, execute, and audit.
Agent and model service platform for a manufacturing customer: Agent runtime and model inference are both hosted on one platform, while a unified gateway and observability capabilities support production-grade AI governance.
Unified Model-as-a-Service platform for a Grade-A tertiary hospital: Distributed models, compute resources, and invocation chains are brought under unified governance, improving resource utilization and model service observability.
Multi-type model running at a Grade-A tertiary hospital: Compute and model resources are delivered in a unified way, adapting to the different runtime environments, resource granularity, and service governance requirements of different model workloads.

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