As the go-to source for unbiased reviews of information technology solutions, the Gartner Magic Quadrant yearly review of notable vendors in the global hyper-converged infrastructure market has recognized Sangfor HCI as a vendor to watch, distinguishing Sangfor as the only APAC-developed HCI solution to enter the Garner MQ in 2019! As enterprises continue to rely more heavily on the cloud, data acquisition and compilation have become more vital, and hyper-converged infrastructure has gained a solid foothold, relied upon to consolidate the traditionally separate functions of storage and compute, into a single platform. A relatively new solution on the Gartner Magic Quadrant with less than 30% market saturation as of 2019, Gartner predicts 70% of enterprises will be running some sort of HCI solution by the year 2023.
Sangfor's HCI solution first entered the market in 2015, and has in 4 short years, made its first appearance on the prestigious Gartner Magic Quadrant for hyper-converged infrastructure. Early development of a strong following in the Chinese market has allowed Sangfor to leverage the success of their HCI into growth on an international level, expanding quickly into APAC and EMEA regions.
Sangfor Cloud, a complete IT infrastructure and O&M management platform, provides simplified and flexible management options, and has proven itself essential to small and mid-sized enterprises critical support, core IT and VDI solutions, providing cost-effective, industry specific and well supported HCI solutions to meet the needs of manufacturing, education, medical, and government organizations globally. Sangfor was also recognized for its industry approach to the market, with many partnerships created with ISVs.
Sangfor HCI also provides a simplified and consolidated infrastructure, which allows for operation by IT generalists, eliminating the need for the highly specialized and segmented IT team, an impractical cost for most small to mid-sized enterprises. Easy scale-out and faster storage access allow enterprises room to grow while simplifying their infrastructure and maximizing available space. As a holistic software-centric solution, Sangfor HCI strives for further simplicity, reliability and high-performance with every new version released. Sangfor HCI is the ideal infrastructure platform for data center consolidation, enterprise applications, data protection and disaster recovery, as well as cloud transformation.
In this latest Magic Quadrant publication, Gartner gives special recognition to innovative vendors with a focus on significant expansion of HCI functionality. A few vendors, like Sangfor, now offer continuous data protection, disaster recovery and HA functions, giving customers more peace of mind and unprecedented secure access to their critical data.
Sangfor HCI currently serves more than 6,000 customers globally, including PT ASABRI, TEK Group Italy, Crowne Plaza Vietnam and TOSHIBA TEC Singapore, as more world-class enterprises seek out Sangfor to future proof their business in the digital age.
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Sangfor Technologies
Sangfor is proud of their inclusion in the relatively new Gartner MQ HCI review, published November 25th, 2019. Founded in 2000 and a publicly traded company as of 2018, Sangfor Technologies is an APAC-based, global leading vendor of IT infrastructure solutions specializing in Network Security and Cloud Computing. Visit us at www.sangfor.com to learn more about Sangfor’s Cloud Computing options, and let Sangfor make your IT simpler, more secure and more valuable.
Statement: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, Jeffrey Hewitt, et al., 25 November 2019. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
