H3C Wins $18 Million Bid With China Mobile’s New Storage Systems

H3C Technologies Co. Ltd. was granted a 20% share in the bid for China Mobile Limited‘s 2021-2022 centralized procurement of distributed block storage products for its new storage systems, winning a contract worth 115 million yuan (about $17.84 million) for the supply of relevant products.

The bid marks vendor’s winning a bid for such a tender project with China Mobile for the first time and is expected to further expand the application scenarios of its storage products in the communications industry.

H3C has previously won nearly 100 million yuan worth of contracts for the supply of distributed file storage products to China Mobile in 2019. Last year, the digital solutions provider won the bid for China Mobile’s centralized procurement of distributed block storage products for its network cloud resource pool phase project and was granted a share of 30%, the second largest share, in the carrier’s centralized procurement of distributed file storage products.

H3C UniStor X10000 distributed converged storage module

Featuring scalability, converged architecture that supports a multitude of data types, and comprehensive services for operation and maintenance throughout the life cycle of data, X10000 storage systems, the winning product in the bid, are able to provide data services for all the existing application scenarios of China Mobile. Focusing on improving the capacity of its products in terms of the 3 key aspects of AI-driven, intelligence, speed and built for cloud, H3C has made sure its X10000 distributed converged storage systems advance with the times.

Cooperation with partners in various industries has driven the rapid growth of H3C’s storage products. According to a recent report released by the IDC, H3C’s storage market revenue rose 54.1% Y/Y in 2Q21 and its market share in enterprise external storage systems has ranked second in China for 15 consecutive quarters.

Regarding this recent bid as an important opportunity, the company will continue deepening its cooperation with China Mobile and lay a solid foundation for the storage systems of future 5G networks.