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Recently, International Data Corporation (IDC) released its Q1 2026 Enterprise Storage Systems (ESS) Market Research Report. The data indicates that H3C, a subsidiary of Unisplendor Corporation, ranked second in China's ESS market, achieving a year-on-year growth rate of 49.08% and securing leading positions across multiple vertical sectors through its superior technical capabilities and market performance.

Strengthening the Technological Foundation to Drive Storage Innovation with Full-Stack Capabilities

These outstanding results stem from H3C's profound technological accumulation in the storage sector, mature commercial delivery capabilities, and robust large-scale deployment strength. In response to emerging challenges in data infrastructure driven by the accelerated adoption of AI large models, industry-specific intelligent agents, data lakes, and cloud-native applications—characterized by rapid growth in unstructured data, increasingly complex access patterns, and more frequent cross-scenario data flows—H3C continues to advance the upgrade of enterprise storage toward a core data foundation that supports AI data provisioning, unified data lake aggregation, and elastic scaling for intelligent computing centers.

In terms of product maturity, H3C storage solutions have served over 10,000 customers and undergone extensive commercial validation, demonstrating exceptional stability, reliability, and compatibility. These solutions enable rapid integration with existing IT architectures, facilitating seamless data migration and service deployment while significantly reducing construction cycles and O&M costs. Regarding large-scale deployment capabilities, H3C software-defined storage supports horizontal scaling and linear performance growth, allowing a single cluster to scale effortlessly to tens of thousands of nodes. From small and medium-sized data centers to national-level intelligent computing centers and large-scale data lakes, it sustains the long-term growth of massive datasets ranging from petabytes to exabytes.

Breakthroughs in AI-Native Storage: Unleashing Computing Potential with Ultimate Performance

Continuous technological innovation serves as the key engine driving H3C's market leadership. At the NAVIGATE 2026 Summit, H3C officially launched its next-generation AI-native storage X20000 series and the XCache inference acceleration engine. This series previously achieved top ranking in the MLPerf® Storage v2.0 High-Performance RoCE AI Storage Solutions benchmark. The newly released products deliver ultimate performance, featuring ultra-high bandwidth of 200GB/s per node and 3 million IOPS. With three core value propositions—ultimate performance, full-speed concurrency, and protocol interoperability—the X20000 series provides high-performance, highly reliable, and highly adaptable data provisioning for training and inference scenarios involving trillion-parameter large models, thereby accelerating the realization of computing efficiency and ensuring that computation is never delayed by data availability.

Deep Scenario Adaptation: Establishing Industry Benchmarks Through Sector-Specific Expertise

Transportation Industry:

Targeting scenarios such as smart airports, urban rail transit, expressways, and urban traffic brains, H3C storage solutions support the unified storage and real-time analysis of massive video streams, road network data, ticketing data, and passenger flow analytics. These solutions meet the requirements for 7×24 high-reliability, high-concurrency access, and long-term archiving, ensuring operational safety and dispatch efficiency in transportation systems.

Public Utilities Industry:

Serving critical infrastructure sectors including electric power, water supply, gas, and energy regulation, these solutions support core operations such as production monitoring, SCADA systems, geographic information systems, and energy big data platforms. They provide highly reliable, secure, and disaster-resilient storage capabilities to ensure the stable operation of essential public infrastructure.

Internet Industry:

Designed for high-concurrency, high-elasticity, and rapid-iteration scenarios—including short video streaming, live broadcasting, e-commerce, cloud-native applications, AI training and inference, and big data analytics—this solution supports mixed storage of massive small files and ultra-large files. It enables elastic scaling and cost-effective management, underpinning rapid business growth and innovative iteration.

Manufacturing Industry:

Targeting intelligent manufacturing, the Industrial Internet, digital twins, and the management of design drawings and process data, this solution provides high-performance file storage and object storage capabilities. It facilitates unified data management across the entire value chain—from R&D and production to quality inspection and O&M—thereby accelerating the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises.

Healthcare Industry:

Tailored for scenarios such as hospital PACS imaging, electronic medical records, scientific research data, and gene sequencing, this solution offers large-capacity, highly reliable long-term archiving and tiered storage capabilities, supporting cross-campus data sharing and research innovation.

Education and Scientific Research Industry:

Serving universities and research institutes in high-performance computing, scientific data processing, experimental data management, instructional video storage, and AI training for research, this solution delivers high-throughput, high-concurrency storage with multi-protocol integration to foster research innovation and talent development.

Sustained Investment to Lead the Transformation of Data Infrastructure

With the deep integration of AI, big data, and cloud computing, data infrastructure is undergoing a profound transformation. H3C will continue to uphold its "AI in ALL" strategy, deepen its full-stack synergy across computing, networking, storage, cloud, security, and operations, and consistently drive technological breakthroughs and industry adoption in storage. Through more efficient and intelligent data infrastructure, H3C is committed to helping industries across all sectors seize opportunities in the era of digital intelligence and achieve shared success.