[Kuala Lumpur, October 21, 2016] Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced it has been named winner of the Computerworld Malaysia Readers’ Choice Awards for receiving highest ratings from customers in the Storage Hardware category. The awards ceremony was held on October 20^th at the Ritz Carlton, Kuala Lumpur. 

Providing converged functionality that maximizes performance and capacity utilization, Huawei storage products meet a wide range of needs, including entry-level, mid-range and high-end enterprise applications, and is servicing more than 5000 customers in over 150 countries. Gartner has, in June 2016, reported that Huawei Storage secured the number seven spot in global market share, and the top spot in terms of revenue growth in the world. Earlier in March 2016, another report by Gartner showed that the sales revenue growth rate for Huawei Storage in 2015 ranked 1st worldwide, with year-on-year growth of 51.17%.

Huawei’s new generation convergent all-flash system, OceanStor Dorado V3, is the only all-flash array that features flash-oriented storage OS, chips, and Solid State Drive (SSD) end-to-end in-depth optimization, which can improve database performance twentyfold while ensuring service sustainability. In addition to ensuring high performance, it perfectly embodies the high efficiency of the cloud era. Its inline deduplication compression technology can increase the storage space usage rate by more than five times and reduce overall total cost of ownership (TCO) by more than 70%.

Moreover, with the growth in Cloud Computing, Smart City, IoT (Internet of Things) and Big Data, Huawei’s OceanStor storage products is well positioned in helping enterprises with best of breed storage solutions to meet their business needs. In recent years, enterprises in Malaysia have been actively embarking in ICT transformations.  Followed by its global successes in integrating ICT solutions, Huawei anticipates more IT products being deployed in Malaysia in the near future.

“We are honored to receive this prestigious award which is a testament to Huawei’s ongoing effort in the innovation of enterprise storage technologies and products. Moving forward, we will continue to innovate to ensure cutting-edge storage solutions is always available to meet various needs from customers,” said Mr. Leo Li, Regional Director, Data Center Marketing and Solution Sales, Huawei Southern Pacific.

Computerworld Malaysia Readers Choice Awards (RCA) is in the 15th year running. Widely regarded as the definitive "Oscars of the IT community", the RCA is awarded to leading technology vendors and providers with top scores in the software, hardware and service categories.

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