SimpliVity and Huawei Join Forces to Deliver Game-Changing Hyperconvergence around the Globe and Accelerate International Growth

Westborough, Massachusetts—December 6, 2016 — SimpliVity, a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure powering the world’s most efficient and resilient data centers, today announced that its transformative OmniStack technology is now available for sale on Huawei FusionServer. OmniStack with Huawei FusionServer is offered on SimpliVity’s all-flash hyperconverged models, providing the speed and reliability of all-flash with the efficiency, ease of use, and resiliency of SimpliVity’s top hyperconverged platform.

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, reaching 3.5 billion end users worldwide with an especially strong presence in Europe, Middle East, and Africa, as well as Brazil, Russia, China, India, and South Africa. As two of the fastest growing companies in IT addressing the fastest growing markets, SimpliVity and Huawei are uniquely-positioned to expand and lead the international hyperconverged industry.

“Huawei constantly looks to bring value to customers across the world through partnerships like this one with SimpliVity,” said Qiu Long, President of Huawei IT Server Product Line, Huawei. “Huawei servers running SimpliVity OmniStack technology represent a win-win for businesses needing hyperconverged infrastructure.”

Only SimpliVity’s foundational technology offers true enterprise-grade hyperconvergence, with comprehensive storage data services built in – including native data deduplication and data protection. With 50 percent of sales already coming from outside North America, SimpliVity’s partnership with Huawei will further advance the company’s market position.

“By combining SimpliVity’s revolutionary hyperconverged technology with Huawei’s servers and strong global footprint, more customers will be able to realize the unique benefits that only SimpliVity delivers,” said Doron Kempel, chief executive officer, SimpliVity. “We know customers want choice when it comes to hyperconverged infrastructure, and we deliver our technology in combination with the world’s leading server providers—Cisco, Lenovo, Dell, and now Huawei. By providing the most complete hyperconverged solution on the industry’s leading server platforms, SimpliVity is putting customer needs front and center.”

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About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 170,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

About SimpliVity

SimpliVity powers the world’s most efficient and resilient data centers with the most complete hyperconverged infrastructure solution. Unlike traditional infrastructure that’s complex and costly to manage, SimpliVity dramatically simplifies enterprise IT by combining all infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads—including guaranteed data efficiency, data protection, and VM-centric management and mobility—onto the customer’s choice of server. SimpliVity delivers 3x cost savings versus traditional architectures and up to 49% cost savings versus public cloud. Headquartered in Westborough, Mass., the company has raised $276 million in venture capital and employs about 750 worldwide. A market and customer satisfaction leader, SimpliVity services midmarket and Global 2000 enterprises worldwide with a business model that is 100 percent indirect. For more information, visit http://www.simplivity.com.

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