Huawei seeks to become world’s third largest data storage provider by 2018 China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
Huawei seeks to become world’s third largest data storage provider by 2018 China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. aims to become the world’s third-largest data storage provider by 2018 as it targets European and local institutions to takes market share from leaders EMC Corp and International Business Machines Corp.
-"We don’t want to just be No.1 in China...We want to be at least the top three in the world by 2018,-" Huawei’s storage product line president Fan Ruiqi told Reuters, referring to the global market for data-storage, which was worth $5.3 billion in the second quarter.
To grow its market share, Huawei plans to target financial institutions, governments and telecom carriers for data storage, a business Fan said is expected to yield at least 60 per cent year-on-year growth this year from 55.6 percent growth in 2014.
He declined to reveal revenue figures, but said growth in Western Europe from countries such as Italy and Spain was particularly strong.
Mr Fan expected Huawei’s revenue from data-storage to reach at least $2 billion by 2018. Shenzhen-based Huawei accounted for about a quarter of China’s storage sector in the second quarter, ahead of EMC and IBM, but its global market share is a mere 3.3 percent, far behind EMC’s 32 percent, IBM’s 11.7 per cent and NetApp Inc’s 10.6 per cent, according to market research firm Gartner. At home, the company provides data-storage solutions to both public and private sectors.
