H3C Quickly Takes Leads in China IP Storage Market

HangZhou, 11 June 2007 —— H3C, the leading IP technology innovator and solution provider, takes 51.9% market share in iSCSI SAN storage network market in China, according to IDC 2006 Q4 report on Disk Storage Market in China, and already becomes one of the top storage vendors in Asia Pacific Region.

Compared with FC SAN storage technology, iSCSI SAN (also called IP SAN) storage technology that H3C is focusing features: open platform for easy scalability and application extension; better security and manageability; virtualization and heterogeneous compatibility. It can easily realize such functions as disaster recovery, remote backup etc, and effectively solve the problem of information isolation brought by FC SAN. As IDC report points out, 2006 witnesses fast growth of IP storage market, and in China, the growth rate even reaches 130%. H3C, as the leading IP technology innovator to pioneer the trend, is quickly breaking into the traditional FC SAN market, and achieved great success.

According to Li Zhi, the director of H3C Storage Product Line, IP storage, to be more specific, is standard-based storage, representing the future trend of standardizing and unifying storage system and data management. H3C sees the potential of IP based storage system and dedicates itself to the research and development, manufacturing and sales of IP storage products and solutions. Now H3C has the largest storage R&D team and has testing centers in both Hangzhou and Shenzhen in China. That is the reason for H3C’s standing out quickly in the market.

In less than one year, H3C deployed its IP storage system in more than 50 vertical industries including government, finance, education, energy, transportation etc. Li Zhi said: “H3C will continue to enrich its storage product portfolio, and develop customer-oriented solutions, to embrace the explosive growth of IP storage market. H3C is quite confident and capable to continue to lead the market in the future.”

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