About - SmartX

What We Do

Who We Are

Our Journey

SmartX by the Numbers

What We Do

SmartX builds powerful and easy-to-use computing and data infrastructures, elevating IT to help our customers focus on applications and innovations that power their businesses.

Core Products

SmartX provides hyperconvergence compute and storage, network and security, Kubernetes management, and other key capabilities to help customers build enterprise cloud infrastructure. Our products bring simplicity, agility, resilience, and flexibility to the infrastructure, supporting mission-critical applications as well as modern applications. Deployed in data centers, branch offices, and edge locations, SmartX products can reduce TCO and boost efficiency, accelerating business innovation and digital transformation.

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Customer Stories

SmartX works closely with industries that heavily rely on IT infrastructure, such as financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare. Our products and services are helping worldwide customers tackle the challenges of IT infrastructure modernization, including Foxconn, Bank of Communications, Taikang Life Insurance, Guotai Junan Securities, BOE, Gree, Meizu, Cafe24, ConnectWave, Shinsegae, and other industry leaders.

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Who We Are

SmartX was founded by a group of computer systems engineers and architects. Since then, it has been attracting similar professionals who are devoted to creation and seek the extraordinary.

A lot of computer systems engineers and architects look up to tech pioneers like Alan Mathison Turing and John von Neumann¹.

Our Values

Like water and power supplies in everyday life, IT infrastructure and its stability are critical to our modern businesses. Building a resilient infrastructure requires more perseverance and courage.

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Customer Obsession. Focus on customer needs. Prioritize quality. Exceed expectations.

High Integrity. Walk the talk. Keep promises.

Extreme Ownership. Results-driven. Focus on team success. Mutually empowering.

Dive Deep. Get to the bottom of every detail.

Push the Limits. Do what others can't do. Embrace challenges.

Open Mindset. Willing to share. Actively learn. Embrace change. Seek truth from facts.

Long-Termism. Long-term thinking. Continuous accumulation. Perseverance.

Make An Impact. Deliver game-changing results for the industry.

Our People

At SmartX, we value every passionate, courageous and innovative talent. Together, we create outstanding products, services, and marketing, and through innovative and continuous improvement processes, we shape SmartX's character and soul.

Engineers in Shanghai office during a meeting.

Our Journey

SmartX was founded with the goal of continuously innovating in the computer systems field, and to empower human innovation.

"Hello, World!": The Journey of Disruption Begins

2013.07

"Driving the world's operations and innovation through computer systems is an immensely captivating pursuit. Perhaps influenced by sci-fi films about robots since childhood and later by the classic hacker spirit, we are deeply passionate about writing software to drive hardware and enable seamless collaboration between them, serving the real world. By starting a company, we can maximize our thinking and creativity in this field that we are so passionate about and have a significant impact on the world."

―SmartX Co-Founders

Investors Support

Completed multiple rounds of funding with participation from top-tier venture capital firms.

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Introducing: Make IT Simple.

Released multiple products including HCI, distributed storage, Kubernetes service, and more.

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Analysts Recognition

Received recognition from analyst firms including Gartner®, IDC, Forrester, and GigaOm.

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SmartX by the Numbers

Why SmartX?

Asia/Pacific Customer’s Choice

in the 2023 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer”: Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software.

No.1

Market Share in HCI Software Market

in China HCI SW Certified System Market Segment according to IDC Tracker.

1000⁺

Customers

20000⁺

Nodes deployed

100⁺PB

Storage managed

69%

Production systems

81%

Repurchase rate in 3 years

What Analysts Say

“SmartX has successfully established product competitiveness in reliability and performance.”

Market Guide for Full-Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software, 2024
Competitive Landscape: Chinese HCI Large, Specialist, and Crossover Vendors, 2022

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SmartX ranks 1st in China HCI certified system market with 23.5% market share in 2023.

IDC China Software-defined Storage and Hyperconverged System Market Overview, 2023 Q4

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“The enterprise HCI market is quite mature with only a single new entrant. SmartX makes an appearance in the left field with a good solution for a specific, non-U.S. market.”

GigaOm Radar for Hyperconverged Infrastructures: Enterprise Deployments, 2021

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“SmartX offers a general-purpose platform where any domain application can be built, with a focus on the APAC and EMEA markets and the financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing industries.”

The Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Landscape, Q2 2023

Forrester

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Gartner, "Voice of the Customer for Full-Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software", Peer Contributors, 18 September 2023. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content nor makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
IDC, "China Software-defined Storage and Hyperconverged System Market Overview, 2023 Q4", April 2024.

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