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    Huawei Named a 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Backup and Data Protection Platforms

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Huawei was named a Customers' Choice in 2026 Gartner Peer InsightsTM Voice of the Customer for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. According to the Gartner report, Huawei scored 100% for "Willingness to Recommend" for its OceanProtect Data Protection based on 179 reviews as of 31 December 2025.


During this peer-recognition, Huawei has received more than 170 reviews for OceanProtect with an overall rating of 4.9 out of 5 and a 100% willingness to recommend, based on 179 reviews as of 31 December 2025. The recognition demonstrates the trust of our global customers in the comprehensive competitiveness, market size, and after-sales service quality of Huawei OceanProtect.

What Our Customers Say

Huawei OceanProtect Data Protection Solution—The Answer to Robust Ransomware Protection
We chose OceanProtect X8000 for ransomware protection. With stable runtime for two years, the solution's resilience and rapid recovery capabilities have been impressive. We further procured 2 units of OceanProtect X8000 and 7 units of OceanProtect X6000 to provide comprehensive protection for all of the group's core systems, including those in office, production, and marketing.
— IT Manager | Manufacturing
Huawei OceanProtect Data Protection Solution Provides Excellent Backup and Recovery Efficiency
The OceanProtect data protection solution provides superb performance, resilience, and reliability, particularly in backup and recovery speeds, to boost our work efficiency. It integrates with the Commvault and Oracle software, making it easy to deploy in our current systems.
— IT Service Director | Carrier
Huawei OceanProtect Data Protection Solution—An Optimal Choice for Hospital Backup Systems
We use the OceanProtect data protection solution to safeguard our two critical applications: HIS and PACS. The solution's dual-controller active-active architecture gives us component redundancy and high reliability, and the high performance enables efficient backup of substantial PACS data. Furthermore, the high deduplication and compression ratio has saved us nearly half of the storage space.
— IT Director | Healthcare
Resilient and Efficient, OceanProtect Data Protection Solution Is a New Star in the Data Backup Domain
We first contacted Huawei last year, after which they assisted with everything from data classification and grading to feature configuration. The OceanProtect data protection solution has transformed our data backup systems. It is not a secondary system but a core component for enterprise operations and critical user information. Huawei OceanProtect embodies all the characteristics of future backup systems.
— Information Security Officer | Transportation
High-Quality Backup Storage + Professional Services = Excellent Products
The OceanProtect data protection solution offers excellent backup and recovery speeds, so now data backup can be completed in just 4 hours, down from 12 hours. Compared with other vendors, Huawei offers a more extensive ICT solution that has significantly enhanced the reliability of our service data and the resilience of the entire system.
— IT Director | Banking
Huawei OceanProtect Data Protection Solution Delivers Outstanding User Experience
The Huawei OceanProtect data protection solution offers superb performance and functionality: 1. Its extensive functions include backup software, servers, and media. 2. Huawei's solution ensures faster backup speed and higher backup performance. 3. The expert service team has been on hand to help us resolve any issues.
— IT Manager | Energy
OceanProtect Data Protection Solution—3x Lower Footprint with Faster Backup
We use the OceanProtect data protection solution to back up our videos and images. Its data reduction capability is amazing. Before, we needed 2.4 PB of storage for backups each year, but now, we need just one-third of the footprint for the backup data while boosting performance and usability.
— Solution Manager | Media
Huawei OceanProtect Data Protection Solution Builds a Perfect Foundation for Cloud Backup
We chose the OceanProtect data protection solution to build a backup resource pool at our private cloud data center. The solution's excellent scalability and compatibility make it easy to back up cloud applications, hosts, and disks, where backup resources can be flexibly provisioned.
— IT Security and Risk Management Director | Government
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Why Choose Huawei OceanProtect

Comprehensive Protection

Comprehensive Protection

• Capable of addressing traditional and emerging workloads and compatible with 100+ applications for big data, database, data warehouse, file, and virtualization backup
• Covering physical machines (single-node system and cluster), virtualization, cloud, containers, edge/branch, and data centers
Rapid Backup & Recovery

Rapid Backup & Recovery

• 3x higher backup bandwidth than the next best thanks to end-to-end (E2E) I/O acceleration
• 5x higher recovery bandwidth than the next best thanks to all-flash acceleration and the unique metadata structure optimization algorithm
• 10x faster backup with scan-free forever incremental backup
• Backup copies in native format, ensuring instant data recovery
Low TCO

Low TCO

• 3-in-1 architecture with integrated backup server and short- and long-term retention
• Innovative algorithms contributing to a 72:1 (max.) data reduction ratio, 20%+ higher than the industry's next best, and 2 U 2 PB high-density design for 90%+ space savings
• E2E data reduction via source deduplication and deduplicated replication, saving 90% network bandwidth
Solid Resilience

Solid Resilience

• Comprehensive ransomware protection thanks to storage intrinsic resilience, hardware-level WORM, anti-tampering, Air Gap (physical isolation), and in-depth copy checks with up to 99.99% accuracy
• Fully redundant, active-active hardware and software and scale-out cluster expansion, ensuring uninterrupted backup upon single-node failures
• Support for RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID-TP, and multi-disk failure protection

Related Products and Solutions

Ransomware Protection Storage Solution

Protect your data from ransomware attacks with Huawei OceanProtect. Learn how our storage solutions offer multi-layered security, fast recovery, and easy management.

All-in-One Backup Solution

Huawei All-in-One Backup Solution uses a three-in-one converged architecture to achieve ultimate acceleration, efficient backup, and fast recovery.

OceanProtect E8000 Backup Storage

Huawei OceanProtect E8000 Backup Storage offers high capacity, efficient reduction, and intelligent convergence. It is designed to support data backup as well as short- and long-term data retention for medium- and large-sized enterprises.

OceanProtect Backup Storage

Offering superb performance, efficient reduction, stability, and reliability, to help users implement efficient data backup and reduce TCO

OceanCyber Data Security Appliance

Offering unified security policy configuration and management, ransomware detection and analysis, and defense for data security for storage systems.



Gartner, Voice of the Customer for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions, Peer Contributors, 26 February 2025.

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