Shenzhen – November 09, 2026 -- Huawei has been placed in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure Platform Consumption Services. It is one of only three vendors worldwide in that tier and the only Chinese company among them. It is also the only non-North American vendor to make the Leaders group.
Gartner evaluates platform capability, service delivery and operations management
The report assesses vendors on IT infrastructure platform capabilities, service-oriented delivery and operations management. Huawei's entry is its DCS data center solution, which draws on 18 years of technical work. DCS combines storage, compute, network, virtualization, data and AI, and intelligent management functions.
DCS stack spans virtualization, AI platforms and storage
The eSphere virtualization layer pools and schedules storage, compute and network resources. The ModelEngine model platform and the Nexent agent platform are designed to speed the deployment of models and agent applications.
OceanStor storage natively supports block, file and object protocols. Its data protection options include an intra-city active-active setup, remote disaster recovery and multi-layer ransomware protection.
The iMaster DME management platform delivers storage, compute and other resources as services. Huawei says it gives customers an AgenticOps experience.
More than 15,000 customers in over 170 countries run Huawei DCS
Customers span government, finance, healthcare, manufacturing and carriers. Huawei says it will keep working with ecosystem partners to improve service experience and operations efficiency for enterprise IT infrastructure.