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Huawei Named a Customers' Choice in 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice
of the Customer

Market Guide–defined markets, or GPI-de-
fined markets that are opened at the dis-
cretion of the GPI team and do not require
research published to open the space on
Peer Insights. Gartner Peer Insights recog-
nizes vendors who meet or exceed both the
market average Overall Experience and the
market average User Interest and Adoption
score through a Customers' Choice distinc-
tion. During this peer-recognition, Huawei
OceanProtect has received reviews from
global customers in various industries,
such as finance, manufacturing, energy,
media, healthcare, education and telecom-
munications. Huawei OceanProtect scored
an overall rating of 4.9 and a 99% willing-
ness to recommend based on 155 reviews
Huawei was named a Customers' Choice its OceanProtect Data Protection. Gart- as of November 2024. Commenting on the
in 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of ner Peer Insights is a free peer review and recognition, Li Yongjian, President of Hua-
the Customer for Enterprise Backup and ratings platform designed for enterprise wei Data Protection Domain, said: "we will
Recovery Software Solutions. Accord- software and services decision makers. prioritize customer-centricity and provide
ing to the Gartner report, as of November Reviews are organized by products in live end-to-end data protection solutions to cre-
2024, Huawei scored 99% for "Willingness markets that align to Gartner research ate a fast, efficient, and resilient line of de-
to Recommend" based on 155 reviews of markets, defined as Magic Quadrant™ or fense for data resilience in the future."

Huawei Launches AI-Ready Data Storage for Carriers to Transform Data

Assets

At MWC Barcelona 2025, Dr. Peter Zhou, disordered data into high-quality assets, that carriers face multiple challenges in
President of Huawei Data Storage Prod- unlocking significant business value. The AI implementation—including weak data
uct Line, unveiled the company's compre- comprehensive storage portfolio address- engineering, inadequate model develop-
hensive AI-Ready Data Storage solutions es the full spectrum of carrier data needs. ment platforms, long data preparation
designed to accelerate carriers' transfor- For mission-critical production workloads, times, and complex application develop-
mation from Telco to TechCo organiza- Huawei's New-Gen OceanStor Dorado Con- ment processes—Huawei has introduced
tions. The announcement comes as tele- verged All-Flash Storage and OceanStor A the DCS AI Solution. This offering provides
communications providers worldwide seek Series High-Performance AI Storage fea- carriers with a one-stop AI toolchain and
to capitalize on the growing value of data ture 100 million-level IOPS, financial-grade containerized environment to accelerate
assets in the AI era. "The AI-powered trans- reliability, and efficient AI training and infer- fine-tuning and deployment of AI models.
formation of various industries is creating ence capabilities. These solutions support The FlashEver business model introduced
a golden era for data," said Dr. Zhou during tens of billions of daily charging services by Dr. Zhou addresses the investment chal-
his keynote speech. "Global carriers are and robust mobile financial applications. lenges posed by rapidly evolving services
continuously exploring business value by Storage provides industry-leading densi- and technologies. This approach protects
capitalizing on and monetizing application ty and low power consumption with exa- carrier investments by providing an evolu-
scenarios, such as smart home and digital byte-level scalability, ideal for emerging tionary, flexible architecture enabling seam-
factories—and that means higher demands services like live streams and XR games. less upgrades for live-network equipment.
on data storage, service capabilities, and Complementing these offerings, the New- It also includes platform services with flex-
business models." To address these evolv- Gen OceanProtect All-Flash Backup Stor- ible purchase options, SLA assurances for
ing challenges, Huawei has introduced an age delivers comprehensive data protec- high-quality customer experiences, and di-
AI-Ready data lake solution that breaks tion with five times faster data recovery verse storage and data services tailored to
down data silos, making organizational than industry alternatives, supporting crit- carrier requirements.
data visible, manageable, and available. ical needs such as emergency drills and
This approach enables carriers to transform AI application development. Recognizing

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