Huawei has been recognized for the first time as a Challenger in the prestigious Gartner Magic Quadrant™ 2025 for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. This classification reinforces the positioning of the Chinese company in an increasingly strategic sector: cyber resilience and advanced protection against threats such as ransomware.
The technology evaluated this time has been Huawei OceanProtect, its comprehensive backup solution that combines storage, deduplication, ransomware protection, and disaster recovery in a single architecture.
A Commitment to Innovation in a Context of Increasing Cyber Threats
With clients in over 150 countries and critical sectors such as finance, telecommunications, industry, health, public administration, and utilities, Huawei has been able to anticipate an increasingly urgent need: ensuring data protection as the last bastion against cybercrime.
Among its most advanced solutions are:
OceanProtect Backup Storage, high-speed, scalable storage, particularly in all-flash versions.
OceanProtect Appliance, an integrated solution that includes hardware, software, and protection algorithms.
- OceanCyber Data Security Appliance, a system focused on protection against ransomware and advanced attacks, through collaboration between network and storage.
These platforms incorporate distinctive technical features, such as multi-level inline deduplication with variable compression, permanent incremental copies without the need for synthesis, and mechanisms for deep detection of copies and attacks.
A Classification that Sets Huawei Apart Among Global Backup Players
Being classified as a Challenger by Gartner means that Huawei offers a solid proposal with execution capability in a market historically dominated by companies like Veritas, Commvault, Dell, Veeam, and Rubrik. While it has not yet been considered a Leader, its recognition as a Challenger indicates significant progress, especially for a company that has consolidated its data storage and protection portfolio in a highly competitive global context.
This position is granted to vendors with well-established products, a growing customer base, and a clear innovation strategy, although they still need to improve their presence in key markets or advanced functionalities.
Backup and Data Protection: A Key Market in Times of Artificial Intelligence and Ransomware
Data backup and protection have ceased to be administrative tasks and have become critical pillars of business continuity. In a world where artificial intelligence models require vast volumes of reliable data, and where ransomware has escalated to national threat levels, a protection architecture becomes a competitive advantage.
Huawei not only seeks to offer speed or capacity but aims to build a resilient, automated solution focused on intelligent recovery, capable of integrating into hybrid cloud ecosystems and adapting to regulations such as the European GDPR or Asia-Pacific cybersecurity laws.
Future Outlook and Strategy for Huawei in Data Protection
According to statements from the company itself, Huawei will continue to invest decisively in converged architectures, smart algorithms, developing its own hardware, and creating a global partner ecosystem. The goal is clear: to become the reference option for critical data infrastructure across all sectors.
The classification in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reinforces this ambition, providing visibility and legitimacy to a proposal that has evolved rapidly and aspires to compete directly with the industry’s major players.
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