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in the sector. Huawei participated at GISEC awarded the Network Security Innovator of ter Multilayer Ransomware Protection solu-
Global 2023 as the Lead Strategic Partner, the Year at the ITP.net Security Leadership tion, transforming cyber security protection
where it displayed the diverse range of its Awards held against the backdrop of GISEC capabilities from passive response to pro-
latest cybersecurity solutions, innovations Global 2023 for its Multilayer Ransomware active defense.
for digital transformation, and successful Protection Solution. Judges picked Huawei
use cases. At the event, Huawei was also for developing the industry’s first Data Cen-

For Second Year in a Row, Huawei named a Customers' Choice in Gartner
Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Distributed File Systems and

Object Storage

Huawei was recognized as a 2023
Customers' Choice in the Gartner Peer
Insights™ Voice of the Customer for
Distributed File Systems and Object
Storage. This recognizes Huawei for
the second year in a row. According to
customers’ comments, Huawei OceanStor
scale-out storage was highly praised by
global customers for its excellent quality
and comprehensive services. Gartner Peer
Insights is a free peer review and ratings
platform designed for enterprise software
and services decision makers. Reviews
are organized by products in markets that
are defined by Gartner Research in Magic
Quadrant™ and Market Guide documents.
And the "Voice of the Customer" is a we believe is a sincere recognition of our whether it's their duty or not, which a lot
document that applies a methodology products. A medical and biotechnology of other vendors do." [3] In response to
to aggregated Gartner Peer Insights' engineer commented: "As a data analyst, I'd the report, Yidong Wang, President of
reviews in a market to provide an overall like to focus on the data and our software, Huawei Scale-Out Storage Domain, said,
perspective for IT decision makers. Huawei and spend as little time as possible on the "It is a great honor to be recognized as a
outperformed the included distributed IT infrastructure. And OceanStor Pacific Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice in
storage vendors around the world. It helps our team to make it. The system Voice of the Customer for Distributed File
was named as a Customers' Choice and is agile; resources can be deployed Systems and Object Storage again in 2023.
5.0/5.0 score based on 97 reviewers in that flexibly and acquired on demand. Great Thanks to all our customers for their trust
research. We believe customer evaluation performance is delivered to me to process in Huawei. Every customer's voice will help
is an important indicator to measure data concurrently." [2] An IT operator from us continuously innovate, improve, and
product performance, and the results the banking industry recorded the following break through. In the future, we will stay
reflect that customers appreciate the comments: "After using OceanStor customer-centric and continue to innovate
comprehensive competitiveness, maturity Pacific for another year, I really love it… and improve the efficiency of mass data
of large-scale commercial use, and after- Another experience I should mention is applications, simplify data management,
sales services of Huawei OceanStor scale- the humble and customer-centric attitude and enhance data resilience based on the
out storage products. Some reviewers that Huawei's local engineers show. When unified scale-out storage platform, helping
expressed their willingness to recommend encountering issues, they always think of users in various industries build better and
Huawei products to their peers, which how to fix them in time, instead of checking more agile data infrastructures."

Huawei Releases 2022 Annual Report: Steady Operations, Sustainable
Survival and Development

Huawei released its 2022 Annual Report. billion in net profits. Huawei continues annual revenue and bringing its total R&D
The company reports steady operations to strengthen investment in R&D, with an expenditure over the past 10 years to
throughout 2022, having generated annual expenditure of USD23.22 billion in more than USD 140.55 billion. "In 2022,
USD92.37 billion in revenue and USD5.12 2022, representing 25.1% of the company's a challenging external environment and

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