Huawei DCS Full-Stack Data Center Solution Passes ESG Technical Validation

[Shenzhen, China, February 4, 2026] Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), now part of Omdia, released a technical validation report confirming that the Huawei DCS Full-Stack Data Center Solution (Huawei DCS solution) fulfills the data center demands of the AI era. With efficient virtualization, container, data, and AI modules, the solution enables enterprises to build resilient, reliable, and high-performance data center infrastructure that is open and easy to use, accelerating the digital and intelligent transformation of industries.

As data centers scale rapidly and support increasingly diverse workloads, enterprises need differentiated infrastructures to fulfill their diverse service needs and maximize cost efficiency. They also need to enhance efficiency and core competitiveness through AI infrastructure development and intelligent service transformation. Focusing on data and intelligence, the Huawei DCS solution provides data center resource pools and intelligent management capabilities for the AI era. It is engineered for on-demand expansion and smooth evolution across various service scenarios to help enterprises go digital and intelligent.

The ESG report identified the following technical advantages of the DCS solution: resilient and reliable architecture, high-performance design, and openness and ease of use. Built to handle production and core services, the solution ensures seamless continuity in large-scale environments.

Resilience and reliability

ESG verified the solution's capabilities in resilience protection and service continuity assurance, including multilayer ransomware protection with network-storage-compute collaboration, data backup, intra-site service HA, and multi-site service DR. These features provide resilience against infrastructure faults and security issues and ensure stable operations of large-scale services.

Engineered for performance

ESG used the Flexible I/O Tester (FIO) benchmark tool to test the performance of the Huawei DCS solution, which demonstrated 30%+ higher IOPS with its optimized hardware and software collaboration. This result meets the high-performance needs of core services. In addition, the solution can carry service workloads with fewer resources, which reduces both initial investment and operation costs.

Openness and ease of use

ESG highlighted the compatibility, seamless migration, and innovative evolution capabilities of the DCS solution in real-world application scenarios. The solution protects existing investments while enabling rapid migration of large-scale VMs across platforms, thanks to its broad compatibility with mainstream devices and the professional and easy-to-use migration tool MigrationDirector. Technical validation tests show that the DCS solution can fulfill the data center construction needs of the AI era with innovative components spanning data and AI capabilities. The solution will accelerate AI adoption in all industries and give enterprises the competitive advantages they need.

Read the full ESG technical validation report:
https://e.huawei.com/en/documents/products/storage/59d7f1d9cf414a99acba44d8cf35e58c

Learn more about Huawei DCS Full-Stack Data Center Solution:
https://e.huawei.com/en/solutions/storage/virtualization/datacenter-virtualization

About ESG:
Enterprise Strategy Group was formerly one of the world's top ten research and analysis consulting firms and is now part of Omdia, the world's fourth-largest technology research and advisory group. ESG provides focused and actionable market intelligence, demand-side research, analyst advisory services, GTM strategy guidance, solution validations, and custom content supporting enterprise technology buying and selling. ESG technical validations are conducted in environments that closely resemble real-world application scenarios and involve comprehensive and rigorous testing to reach final conclusions.