SmartX 在超融合领域专业表现再次赢得 Gartner 认可
近日,权威市场分析机构 Gartner 发布 2022 中国区超融合市场竞争格局报告:Competitive Landscape: Chinese HCI Large, Specialist, and Crossover Vendors(以下简称“报告”)。
SmartX 凭借在超融合领域的专业表现赢得 Gartner 认可,并在报告中作为主流厂商获重点推荐。
本次报告是 Gartner 继 2019 年发布首个中国区超融合市场竞争格局报告之后,再次对中国区超融合市场趋势与主流厂商进行梳理和解析,并重点介绍了华为、新华三、浪潮、联想为代表的大型数据中心基础设施厂商( Large DCI Vendors);深信服为代表的跨界厂商(Crossover Vendors);以及 SmartX 为代表的专业超融合厂商(Specialist HCI Vendors)。
在本次报告中,Gartner 再度强调 SmartX 分布式块存储 ZBS 是自主研发,并更为明确地指出 SmartX 在可靠性与性能方面成功构建产品竞争力,覆盖关键业务、一般业务、ROBO 等多种场景,在金融、制造、医疗等行业客户大量部署并获得客户的持续复购。
同时,Gartner 也关注到 SmartX 在产品与生态上的持续进展,包括网络与安全能力的增强、RoCE 等技术的应用,以及对鲲鹏、海光平台的支持与方案落地。
Gartner 对 SmartX 的介绍如下:
SmartX 是专业的超融合供应商,并以自主研发的分布式块存储产品 ZBS 为业内所熟知。SmartX 专注于数据保护和数据服务为核心能力的企业级软件定义存储。目前,SmartX 拥有超融合基础设施、分布式块存储、容器原生存储(IOMesh)三大主要产品线。
超融合软件 SMTX OS 是 SmartX 超融合产品线的核心,支持 VMware vSphere 虚拟化、Citrix XenServer 虚拟化,并提供原生虚拟化 ELF。通过增加微分段(Everoute), SmartX 超融合产品的网络与安全能力进一步增强。同时,对基于以太网的 RDMA(RDMA over Converged Ethernet )和持久内存等技术的支持也说明 SMTX OS 可充分发挥先进硬件的潜能。
SMTX OS 能够以纯软件和一体机(SMTX Halo)两种方式交付,其中纯软件交付支持许可和订阅两种模式。目前,SmartX 主要服务于金融、制造和医疗行业的大中型客户。
Gartner 对 SmartX 竞争力的主要评价如下:
通过可靠性与性能建立护城河,可承载关键业务
SmartX 已成功地在可靠性和性能方面建立了产品竞争力,其超融合产品能够支持 ROBO、一般业务以及关键业务等多种工作负载。
金融、制造、医疗等行业客户大量部署,复购率高
SmartX 深耕金融、制造和医疗行业,并服务多个大中型客户,这些客户的高重复购买率有效证明了其技术实力和良好的用户体验。基于这些积累,SmartX 正在将其优势拓展至其他行业。
构建了广泛的生态体系,支持鲲鹏、海光、飞腾平台并实现方案落地
作为一家专业的超融合软件供应商,SmartX 构建了一个相对广泛和开放的生态系统,与从操作系统、虚拟化到云管平台的多家厂商都有合作。在本土处理器支持方面,SmartX 已经完成了与海光、鲲鹏和飞腾等平台的兼容性认证,并在客户的生产环境中进行了部署。
实现国内销售网络覆盖与海外市场拓展
除了直接覆盖大中型客户外,SmartX 还建立了覆盖全国的分销渠道网络,并通过和硬件厂商以及解决方案提供商密切合作,拓展边缘领域的新兴机会。SmartX 也在积极拓展海外市场,并赢得了亚太和 EMEA 等地区的客户。
报告还对华为、深信服等厂商进行了评价,并分析了中国区超融合市场的现状与发展趋势,可点击阅读原文,获取详细报告解读。
SmartX 相关部分报告原文
Product or Portfolio Overview
SmartX is a pure-play HCI vendor and known for its fully self-developed block storage, ZBS. SmartX focuses on data protection and data service capabilities to provide software-based enterprise-grade storage. The company currently has three main product lines, hyperconverged infrastructure(SMTX OS), distributed block storage(ZBS) and container-native storage (IOMesh ).
The core of its HCI offering, SMTX OS, supports vSphere, XenServer, and its own KVM-based hypervisor (ELF). SmartX has enhanced its HCI solution in networking and security through microsegmentation. The support for remote direct memory access (RDMA) over converged Ethernet (RoCE) and persistent memory demonstrates the SMTX OS’ capability to leverage advanced hardware technologies.
SMTX OS can be delivered as software or as an appliance (named Halo). For software, SmartX provides licensing and subscription models. The company focuses on midsize and large enterprises from financial services, manufacturing and healthcare.
How This Provider Competes
SmartX has successfully established product competitiveness in reliability and performance, enabling its HCI platform to support workloads ranging from ROBO to general-purpose to business-critical.
The company has a strong footprint in midsize and large enterprises in finance, healthcare and manufacturing. The high repeat purchase rate of existing customers effectively proves its technical strength and good user experience. The company is trying to expand its success into more verticals.
As a pure-play software vendor, SmartX has built a broad and open ecosystem, with multivendor support in systems, virtualization and cloud management platforms. In terms of local processor support, SmartX has been certified on Hygon, Kunpeng and Phytium, with real use cases in production environments.
In addition to direct coverage of large enterprises, SmartX has established a nationwide distribution channel network. It work closely with hardware vendors and solution providers to seize emerging opportunities at the edge and in hybrid cloud.
SmartX is also actively expanding into overseas markets and has won customers in Asia/Pacific and EMEA.
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