SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced that it ranked the first in terms of global storage revenue growth in 2Q13 Computing Data Center Benchmark report of Technology Business Research Inc. (TBR) with a growth of 22.3%, making Huawei the storage growth leader for the quarter among vendors covered in TBR's benchmark.
TBR's Computing Data Center Benchmark covers the quarterly progress and outlook of server, storage and networking vendors. In the product segment analysis, the report noted that "Storage hardware revenue will be muted by limited enterprise IT budgets, software-defined storage trends and competitive pricing pressures." TBR also noted that 2Q13 storage hardware revenue was impacted by weak large enterprise spend and strong midmarket competition and declined by -4.3%.
Huawei was the storage revenue growth leader in TBR's report, marking the fifth consecutive quarter as the storage revenue growth leader in TBR's Computing Data Center Benchmark (from 2012Q2 to 2013Q2). As a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, based on Huawei storage's philosophy, "Intelligence on Demand, Convergence for Future," Huawei storage grows rapidly in global storage market and continues to expand its market share. TBR comments in the report, "Huawei is rapidly growing the scale of its storage business by leading with a message of simplicity achieved through converged infrastructure, which appeals to customer demand for efficiency and reduced TCO."
