Introducing Huawei Symantec!

Huawei Symantec

Huawei Symantec Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei Symantec) is a leading provider of network security and storage appliance solutions to enterprise customers worldwide. A joint venture of Huawei and Symantec, Huawei Symantec combines Huawei’s expertise in telecoms network infrastructure and Symantec’s leadership in security and storage software to provide world-class solutions that address the ever-changing needs in network security and storage for enterprises. Huawei Symantec’s focus on continuous customer-centric innovations is enabled by R&D centers distributed in Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Hangzhou in China, as well as in Silicon Valley in the U.S. The company’s global customers and partners are supported by sales and service centers around the world.

Gartner's Magic Quadrant

Huawei Symantec was added to Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-end Disk Arrays in 2010 and again in 2011. In the report Gartner says, "As a joint venture between China's top telecom solution provider Huawei and U.S.-based Symantec, Huawei Symantec became the fourth-largest external controller-based (ECB) disk storage system vendor in China in 2009. Huawei Symantec grew it's midrange modular disk array revenue by triple digits from a relatively small base in the period of July 2009 to June 2010 compared with the same period in the prior year. Propelled by its increasing presence in Russia, the Middle East, Africa, Asia/Pacific and Latin America, Huawei Symantec's international revenue grew to 50% of it's total ECB disk storage revenue in the first half of 2010."

Gartner also discusses some of Huawei Symantec's strengths in the report, "Huawei Symantec's Oceanspace S5000 and S6000 are traditional dual-controller RAID arrays, which can scale capacity to 480 disk drives (including SSDs manufactured by Huawei Symantec in China) and offer snapshots, cloning and asynchronous and synchronous remote replication. Huawei Symantec's midrange modular ECB disk storage growth is driven by its aggressive pricing, good product reliability and performance, and its strong presence in the telecom industry. In 2010, it introduced the disk spin-down feature, as well as 8 Gbps FC and 10 Gbps iSCSI host connection support. The company has also developed a clear cloud strategy to help telecom carriers transform to public cloud providers."

Company Growth

The company has achieved significant growth since it was established in 2008. Huawei Symantec’s solutions are deployed by over 1000 key customers in 40 countries. To provide full support to its customers, the company has expanded sales and support offices in seven regional markets, including China and Asia Pacific, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Europe, Latin America, North America, the Middle East and North Africa, and South Africa. The company holds more than 900 patents in important network security and storage technologies, spurred by the company’s unwavering commitment to innovation and R&D. With over sixty percent growth in revenue per annum over the last three years, Huawei Symantec is poised for continued rapid growth.