Gartner Customers' Choice for DFS and Object Storage

[Shenzhen, China, April 26, 2022] Huawei has been named by customers as a Customers' Choice in the 2022 Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer': Distributed File Systems and Object Storage report. Huawei received the highest overall rating 4.9 out of 5 as of 31st Jan 2022 among all the other recognized vendors.

Gartner Peer Insights is a free peer review and ratings platform designed for enterprise software and services decision makers. Reviews go through a strict validation and moderation process in an effort to ensure they are authentic. The “Voice of the Customer” is a document that synthesizes Gartner Peer Insights’ reviews into insights for IT decision makers. This aggregated peer perspective, along with the individual detailed reviews, is complementary to Gartner expert research and can play a key role in your buying process, as it focuses on direct peer experiences of implementing and operating a solution.

Huawei had received many positive reviews from customers around the world and in various industries, such as finance, carrier, manufacturing, energy, media, healthcare, and education. These reviews cover everything from system architecture, product functionality, and deployment to O&M, service, and support. We believe all of these highlight how global customers think of Huawei in terms of industry position, deployment scale, and commercial use maturity.

"We are very grateful for our customers sharing their opinions on Gartner Peer Insights. Our only goal is to provide solutions and products that make our customers happy," Mr. Wang Yidong, President of Huawei Distributed Storage Domain, said, "We will continue to focus on our customers' needs and keep providing efficient and reliable distributed storage products and solutions to safeguard innovative services in each and every industry."

Confirming this customer focus, one industry architect commented, "We are deeply impressed by the customer-centric working attitude of Huawei engineers. The product itself is very responsive, easy to use for unstructured data, and highly scalable."（Link）

"We need a new type of storage to replace the traditional centralized storage. After POC test, we found that the reliability and scalability of Huawei distributed storage can be realized. The storage capacity can be expanded quickly and the management interface functions are complete," wrote one IT technical director in the finance industry.（Link）

“Huawei is experienced on distributed storage product.” A review from a CTO in the manufacturing sector stated, "The storage is stable with different networks. And I do like the unified platform idea."（Link）

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