SmartX, Palo Alto, CA (2026)

10/15/2026

🎉 SmartX Leads China’s HCI Software Market for 14 Consecutive Quarters

According to the IDC China HCI Market Overview, 2026H1, SmartX held the largest market share in China’s HCI software market at 31.6%, marking its 14th consecutive quarter as the market leader from 2023Q1 to 2026Q2.

SmartX ECP continues to evolve across key areas including high availability, disaster recovery, storage performance, security and compliance. The platform supports a range of enterprise scenarios, from critical production workloads and databases to data analytics, AI inference, and VMware migration.

Today, SmartX ECP is deployed across more than 30,000 nodes at over 2,000 large and medium-sized customers, including more than 10,000 ITAI nodes, with over 9 years of production validation.

Read the full announcement: https://www.smartx.com/blog/2026/10/smartx-idc-marketshare-2026-h1-en/

10/09/2026

🚀 SmartX HKMO 2026 Q3 Recap: Turning VMware Alternative, AI Infrastructure, and Cloud Security into Customer Values

From VMware migration and AI infrastructure to cloud security and IT modernization, SmartX continued to help enterprises build more agile, secure, and future-ready IT environments.

🏆 Market Leadership: SmartX ranked No. 1 in China’s HCI software market for the 13th consecutive quarter, according to IDC.
🤖 Product Releases: SMTX AI Platform 1.2 expands model and AI chip support, while SMTX Migration Tool 2.0 makes large-scale VM migration more efficient, enabling 100-VM migration within a day.
🔐 Joint Solutions: SmartX joined forces with Hygon Information and Koal Software to build a cryptographic enterprise cloud, and with AsiaInfo Security to strengthen security for virtualized environments.
🏢 Customer Stories: Enterprises across finance, education, new energy, and manufacturing are using SmartX ECP for large-scale VMware migration, IT modernization, multi-site management, and AI-ready infrastructure.

👉 Explore the full recap: https://www.smartx.com/blog/2026/10/2026q3-recap-en/

09/28/2026

From VMware Replacement to VDI Modernization: Dehong People’s Hospital’s 3-Stage IT Transformation

Dehong People’s Hospital built a unified SmartX ECP foundation across its old and new campuses—modernizing core systems, strengthening disaster recovery and security, and improving both clinical and office operations with VDI infrastructure.

1️⃣ Stage 1 - VMware Replacement: Replaced VMware vSphere with SmartX ECP at the old campus and migrated core clinical systems online with minimal disruption.
2️⃣ Stage 2 - New-Campus Resilience: Extended SmartX ECP across two data centers to support active-active operations for hospital-wide applications. Strengthened data protection with disaster recovery and virtualized network security.
3️⃣ Stage 3 - VDI Modernization: Implemented a SmartX and OS-EASY VDI solution to simplify desktop management and lower operations staffing requirements by approximately 30%–40%.

A phased transformation helped the hospital move from VMware replacement to full-stack modernization—creating a more unified, resilient, secure, and efficient IT foundation for healthcare delivery.

Read the full story: https://www.smartx.com/hk-mo/success-story/dhzrmyy-case-study

09/23/2026

Can AMD-based HCI Deliver Bare-Metal Performance for Low-Latency Futures Trading?

A futures firm recently evaluated SmartX ECP against physical servers in a fourth-generation AMD environment, comparing compute performance, network latency, network bandwidth, and trading counter pe*******on latency. The results showed:

🔹 +0.02–0.03 μs network latency: VM TCP/UDP latency was only slightly higher than that of physical machines.
🔹 9.41 Gbps network bandwidth: SmartX ECP matched the physical-machine environment.
🔹 10.9%–12.7% CPU benchmark gap: UnixBench performance remained within a measurable range while enabling virtualized resource pooling.
🔹 +1–2 μs trading counter pe*******on latency: The additional impact on the trading path remained quantifiable and controllable.

With full-stack optimizations across compute, networking, and storage, SmartX ECP delivers bare-metal-comparable low-latency performance while improving infrastructure resource utilization and delivery agility.

👉 Read the full validation: https://www.smartx.com/blog/2026/09/low-latency-validation-futures-en/

09/17/2026

SMTX AI Platform 1.2 is now available! The new version expands support for AI models and Ascend NPUs, while simplifying resource planning and model management.

✅ Broader model support: Use MinerU, PaddleOCR, and other ML models through the self-developed Flex Engine. Manage LLMs, embedding, reranking, OCR, and more models on one platform.

✅ Expanded AI chip support: Manage a broader range of Ascend NPUs, including 910B and 910C, with vNPU partitioning and unified observability across NVIDIA GPUs, Ascend NPUs, and CPUs.

✅ Simpler operations and management: Visualize public and private model repositories, automatically estimate KV-Cache and recommended GPU memory, and organize API keys by project for clearer ownership and resource management.

From model selection to deployment and operations, SMTX AI Platform 1.2 helps enterprises build a simpler and more efficient foundation for AI applications. Learn more: https://www.smartx.com/hk-mo/smtx-ai-platform/

09/16/2026

How can a lean IT team modernize business systems, scale container workloads, and build AI-ready infrastructure without creating a separate platform for every project?

A leading shipbuilding company addressed this challenge with SmartX ECP, evolving its infrastructure in four stages:

🔹 Unified VMs and containers: Replaced VMware with ELF virtualization and added SMTX Kubernetes Service. Average MES work order processing time fell from 2.5 to 0.8 seconds.

🔹 Expanded data and network capabilities: Added file storage, VPC isolation, and traffic visualization, helping trace over 10 TB of traffic between two VMs in one day to a software bug.

🔹 Built a model service foundation: Centralized model deployment, compute resources, API management, and monitoring with SMTX AI Platform, supporting shipbuilding standards lookup, translation, and knowledge bases.

🔹 Extended AI into business workflows: Built an agent platform connecting model services with internal systems and tools to automate resource provisioning and repetitive IT operations.

👉 Explore the full journey from MES containerization to enterprise AI: https://www.smartx.com/blog/2026/09/shipbuilding-kubernetes-ai-case-study-en/

09/10/2026

Hongde Fund transitioned SmartX ECP from a DR environment to core production after validating O32 performance and Oracle RAC reliability.

🚀 O32 Performance: Cut runtime from 25 minutes to 11 minutes and 7 seconds, a 56% reduction.
💪 Oracle RAC Reliability: Validated stable operation with zero business interruption during simulated node failures.
💰 DR-to-Production: Transitioned to production after one year, supporting core O32 and fund valuation systems.
🔒 Application-Level DR: Achieved a configurable 1-day RPO and an RTO of under 10 minutes.

Read the full story: https://www.smartx.com/hk-mo/success-story/hongde-fund

09/08/2026

SmartX and AsiaInfo Security have successfully deployed the joint agentless enterprise cloud security solution at Jiangsu Daming Industrial Technology Group, strengthening security across its virtualized production environment.

Built on SmartX ECP and AsiaInfo Security’s agentless host security engine, the solution moves security capabilities from individual VMs to the infrastructure layer, helping Jiangsu Daming:

🔹 Eliminate per-VM security agents and reduce resource overhead
🔹 Centralize security policies, risk visibility, and operations
🔹 Protect workloads against malware, ransomware, cryptomining, and other threats
🔹 Support reliable 24/7 production and more standardized compliance management

👉 Read the full story: https://www.smartx.com/blog/2026/09/yaxin_case_jiangsudaming-en/

09/03/2026

Replacing VMware on existing cluster servers does not always require a big-bang migration. SmartX’s approach is to use a temporary transition cluster as the bridge:

1️⃣ Build an SMTX OS temporary cluster on your legacy servers, then use the SMTX Migration Tool to move VMware VMs into the temporary SMTX OS cluster.
2️⃣ Install SMTX OS software on the original VMware cluster servers, serving as the production SMTX OS cluster.
3️⃣ Use SMTX OS cross-cluster hot migration to move the VMs from the temporary cluster to the production cluster without downtime.

This approach helps keep business VMs running continuously on the temporary cluster, while the SMTX Migration Tool uses multiple strategies to minimize downtime and protect business continuity. It also avoids the need to buy new hardware for both the temporary cluster and the production cluster, reducing infrastructure costs.

We’ve also seen a similar approach used by LESSO Group to replace its existing HCI platform and VMware virtualization with SmartX ECP active-active clusters. Learn more 👉 https://www.smartx.com/hk-mo/success-story/lesso-case-study

09/02/2026

Education institutions need digital transformation without letting IT infrastructure costs spiral. A leading international school in Shanghai replaced VMware with SmartX ECP to support core campus systems and future smart campus growth.

The numbers tell the story:
💰 30%+ lower hardware costs by removing centralized storage and FC switches
📉 85%+ lower infrastructure software costs compared with the previous VMware solution
🔄 40+ business VMs migrated smoothly with the SMTX Migration Tool
♻️ Existing Synology NAS reused for backup, preserving previous investments
🖥️ Core campus systems and databases, including teaching management and library management, now run on SmartX ECP, helping accelerate digital campus transformation

Read the full customer story: https://www.smartx.com/blog/2026/09/international-school-vmware-alternative-en/

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