Almost 60 percent of high-end storage systems in China are provided by domestic brands, Science and Technology Daily reported on March 30.

With support from related policies, China’s storage technology started from scratch not so long ago and now it has already achieved breakthroughs in the aspects of storage medium, chip technology as well as operational software.

Moreover, a group of Chinese technology enterprises are taking the lead in the development of high-end storage, such as Chinese tech giant Huawei.

Huawei enjoyed the largest market share among the domestic brands, followed by Hikvision, Inspur, Sugon and some other brands, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), the premier global provider of market intelligence and advisory services.

China used to rely heavily on foreign high-end storage systems, said Li Zhi, President at Hangzhou-based Macrosan Technologies Co., Ltd., but a large number of Chinese customers wish to use self-made systems for the sake of information security and fewer maintenance charges.

Li added that up until now, domestic brands have taken over half of the domestic market share, while five years ago, the figure was less than 10 percent.

NAND and DRAM memory types, the vital parts in computer storage, were all produced by Japan and South Korea. However, this year, Tsinghua Unigroup, a domestic hi-tech enterprise under the guidance of the prestigious Tsinghua University, is planning to launch made-in-China memory storage parts.

Technological progress is driven by the market, noted President Li, and China is forging a whole ecosystem of high-end storage products to build its own place in the market.