Recently, SmartX was named a national-level key “little giant” enterprise for its specialized, refined, unique, and new (SRUN) technology innovation capabilities. Following its earlier recognition as a national-level SRUN “little giant” enterprise, SmartX passes a higher-level selection and has been recognized as a leading SRUN enterprise receiving targeted national support.
National-level key “little giant” enterprises are selected by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology from certified national-level “little giant” enterprises, based on their strengths in creating new drivers, tackling new technologies, and developing new products, as well as in reinforcing industrial-chain support. Benchmark enterprises in key industrial chains will receive targeted support.
This means that SmartX has once again received national-level recognition in areas including technological innovation, industrial-chain support value, product adoption and market coverage.
Technology Strength: Self-Developed Innovations Powering Enterprises’ Adoption of “Cloud + AI” Strategy
As a technology innovation company, SmartX started with self-developed distributed storage and has continued to expand into virtualization, network security, cloud-native, and AI platform. It has built a complete cloud + AI infrastructure portfolio for enterprise production environments, and turned complex infrastructure technologies into reliable, easy-to-use products.
This helps enterprises build and use private clouds more simply, maintain autonomous control over their infrastructure while ensuring business-critical systems run smoothly, and continuously support the development of new workloads such as AI and big data.
Industry Leader: Serving Leading Customers in Key Industries and Supporting Critical Production Systems
SmartX product strengths have also been continuously validated in customers' production environments across different industries.
Currently, SmartX Enterprise Cloud Platform (ECP) is widely used in the business-critical production environments of 2,000+ large and mid-sized customers, with a total deployment of 30,000+ nodes and more than 9 years of production validation. It serves industries including finance, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, energy, education, and government.
While steadily supporting business workloads, SmartX ECP helps customers address a range of challenges such as AI application innovation, VMware alternatives, Information Technology Application Innovation (ITAI) transformation, and rising hardware costs:
For AI applications, SmartX combines its infrastructure strengths in computing, storage, and network security with AI capabilities, providing production-level infrastructure for enterprises to deploy AI privately and run agents.
To meet the needs of ITAI transformation and VMware alternatives, SmartX continues to improve domestic software and hardware ecosystem compatibility, offering multiple replacement paths covering virtualization and full-stack infrastructure capabilities. This helps customers migrate and upgrade in phases based on their existing architecture while maintaining business continuity.
Built on an open, decoupled architecture and compatibility-preserving product upgrades, SmartX lets customers reuse existing hardware and scale resources on demand. It cuts operational overhead through unified management, keeping pace with the business while protecting existing investments.
Market Leadership: Product Strengths and Market Coverage Recognized by Leading Analysts
SmartX’s product strengths and coverage of key industry markets continue to be recognized by leading analysts both at home and abroad:
HCI Software: Leads China‘s HCI software market for 14 consecutive quarters (2023 Q1–2026 Q2).
Server virtualization: Named a Representative vendor in Gartner’s Market Guide for Server Virtualization Platforms for three consecutive years.
Container management services: Named a Representative vendor in Gartner’s Market Guide for Container Management Platforms in China.
Private cloud: Placed in the Leaders quadrant in the private cloud system platform market in CCID Consulting’s China Private Cloud Market Research Annual Report for two consecutive years.
Advancing Enterprise Infrastructure Evolution with SRUN Capabilities
From being a national-level “little giant” enterprise to a national-level key “little giant” enterprise, SmartX’s successive nominations reflect broad recognition of its technological innovation, product strength, market performance, and value to the industrial chain.
Going forward, SmartX will continue to focus on enterprise infrastructure software, increase investment in core technology R&D, and deepen cooperation with ecosystem partners. SmartX aims to support industry customers’ digital and intelligent transformation with globally competitive products, simplifying the enterprise cloud construction and AI adoptions.
