October 15, 2026 — IDC has released the IDC China HCI Market Overview, 2026H1, analyzing market share across China’s overall HCI market, standalone HCI software market, and full-stack HCI market.

In the 2026H1 HCI software ranking, SmartX ranked No. 1 with a 31.6% market share, marking its 14th consecutive quarter as the leader in China’s HCI software market, from 2023Q1 to 2026Q2.

With consistent market leadership, evolving product capabilities, and large-scale production validation, SmartX continues to solidify its position in China’s HCI software market.

Continuous Product Evolution: SmartX ECP Sets a New Standard for Critical Workloads

With industry-leading performance and strong business continuity capabilities, SmartX ECP supports diverse use cases from critical workloads to data analytics and AI inference, helping enterprises reduce TCO, improve business efficiency, and maintain service continuity.

Proven at Leading Scale in Large-Scale Deployments

SmartX ECP is widely used in the critical production environments of over 2,000 large and medium-sized customers across finance, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, energy, education, government, and other industries. It covers scenarios including virtualization, VMware replacement, disaster recovery and backup, databases, containers, and AI. Total deployment scale has exceeded 30,000 nodes, including more than 10,000 ITAI nodes, with over 9 years of production validation. SmartX ECP has helped leading customers in China and around the world move toward cloud-based infrastructure.

  • A major state-owned bank: Over 1,500 nodes deployed across group data centers and all branches nationwide, serving as one of the bank’s “three clouds” and running a large number of important business systems.
  • A top securities firm: Over 2,000 nodes deployed, integrated with a third-party PaaS platform and the firm’s own cloud management platform to build a complete financial enterprise cloud foundation.
  • A global new energy technology leader: Over 300 nodes deployed, gradually replacing VMware virtualization clusters across 20+ sites and subsidiaries, while integrating with existing operations monitoring and automated delivery platforms to build a private cloud platform.
  • A leading lithium battery manufacturer: Over 300 nodes deployed across 10+ production lines worldwide, including overseas factories in Southeast Asia and North America, running MES, big data platforms, battery network private cloud, customer service center, HR, and other core production systems.
  • A leading Grade-A tertiary hospital: Migrated 200+ production VMware VMs to SmartX ECP platform, covering anesthesia, finance, medical record quality control, ECG, and other systems, while reusing 60% of existing hardware and exploring “healthcare + AI” use cases based on SMTX AI Platform.
  • A leading Grade-A tertiary hospital: Over 40 nodes deployed to replace VMware, support business systems across multiple campuses, and enable unified management. The hospital also improved internal security with virtual network microsegmentation and traffic visibility.

Powering Critical Workloads Across Finance, Healthcare, High-End Manufacturing, Transportation, Education, and More

  • Finance: Serving nearly 500 banks, insurance companies, securities firms, futures companies, fund institutions, trusts, and other financial organizations. SmartX ECP runs core counter trading, corporate online banking, low-latency trading, Transfer Agent (TA) registration, valuation, BI reporting, O32, i17, CTP primary/disaster recovery systems, and production-grade databases, while supporting big data platforms, cloud-native applications, AI systems, and other innovation scenarios. It also helps leading financial institutions explore core business ITAI transformation, national cryptographic algorithm transformation, trusted zones for “unified regulatory reporting,” HCI operating system ITAI transformation, and ITAI database performance optimization.
  • Healthcare: Serving 300+ healthcare institutions, including 150+ large and medium-sized Grade-A tertiary hospitals. More than 30% of healthcare customers have completed ITAI transformation, with 500+ ITAI nodes deployed. SmartX ECP reliably supports HIS, EMR, LIS, PACS, integration platforms, and related databases, while helping hospitals advance ITAI transformation and explore “healthcare + AI” use cases.
  • Manufacturing: Serving 800+ manufacturers, including high-end manufacturing companies in semiconductors, new energy, and automotive. SmartX ECP supports MES, PLM, ERP, EAP, AGV, industrial control, SCADA, and related databases, as well as connected vehicle, IoT, and big data platform scenarios. With standardized solutions, it helps branch factories deploy quickly and accelerate smart manufacturing transformation and capacity upgrades.
  • Transportation: Supporting multiple large railway, aviation, port, transportation, and logistics customers across China. SmartX ECP runs FOC, maintenance, ticketing, vehicle dispatching, smart terminal, and other core systems and databases, supports big data platforms and data middle platforms, and enables vSphere and vSAN replacement.
  • Education & Research: Helping universities, educational institutions, and research institutes improve IT infrastructure, build research IT foundations, advance ITAI transformation, and support smart campus, academic administration, and other important systems.
  • Biopharma: Supporting scientific research innovation and pharmaceutical production by running LIMS, ERP, VDI, and other production systems, enabling unified management across multiple factories, and helping meet GxP CSV compliance requirements.

Enabling Full-Stack VMware Replacement and Large-Scale Migration

Many enterprise customers use SmartX ECP to replace VMware virtualization and storage, as well as full-stack product components including containers, networking and security, and disaster recovery. With SMTX Migration Tool, customers can carry out large-scale VM migration from VMware to SmartX ECP with production-grade migration efficiency and stability.

Large-Scale VMware Migration Practices

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

Evolving from Full-Stack HCI to Enterprise Cloud and Agent Ready Infrastructure

Based on the full-stack components of SmartX ECP, enterprises can also build Agent Ready infrastructure to support the parallel evolution of model inference and Agent runtime, using one architecture to deliver and operate traditional applications, containerized applications, model services, and Agent workloads in a unified way.

End User Practices

  • Intelligent operations practice at a financial institution: Existing infrastructure runtime data, operations knowledge, and management workflows are transformed into capabilities that Agents can call, execute, and audit.
  • A shipbuilding manufacturer: SMTX AI Platform supports AI applications such as ship specification query, translation, and knowledge base services, with unified management of models, gateways, compute, and observability. The customer is further building an Agent platform to create continuous capabilities from resource hosting and model services to automated execution. >>Learn more
  • 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 workload support 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.

Download SmartX ECP Product Portfolio Brief for more information on product features and advantages.

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