The rapid development of digitisation and intelligentisation of today’s society is driving the growth of mass data. While this brings a number of challenges, it also delivers countless opportunities and infinite possibilities.
In the last five years, the Middle East and Africa region has had the fastest growth of data traffic in the world. In line with this, the Middle East has already stepped into the fast lane when it comes to 5G construction. Meanwhile, in Africa, 4G is booming but organisations have also started to explore the road to 5G and how it applies to mobile broadband networks, Internet of Things and other digital service applications. The accelerated transformation of Africa’s digital economy is compelling operators and a growing number of traditional enterprises to realise that building data infrastructure is just as crucial as building network infrastructure.
Recently, ZTE has released a new generation G4X series server and storage products, providing strong computing and storage capacity support for the digital transformation of enterprises.
Innovative product offering
ZTE G4X series is based on the 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Ice Lake series), including ZTE R5300 G4X full-scenario common server and R5500 G4X mass storage server. ZTE G4X series products offer high performance, flexible expansion, stability, reliability, simplified operation and maintenance.
Compared with the previous generations of servers, the overall performance of ZTE G4X products has been improved by over 50%. The two sockets of ZTE G4X can support a maximum of 80 cores to achieve supercomputing power. ZTE G4X servers have 4 to 8 built-in heterogeneous intelligent computing acceleration engines to flexibly dispatch the corresponding heterogeneous computing resources under various application scenarios, achieving the best integration of computing power while meeting the differentiated computing demands.
ZTE G4X series products adopt telecom standards and specifications, which run through the entire product R&D and manufacturing process being much higher in comparison to the IT standards. For example, the heat dissipation design can be reduced by 30% under typical configuration, and the electrostatic test standard adopts the stricter 6-8 KV standard. Before delivery and during the production test, the entire server goes through a 100% white box test while enduring a 24-hour high-temperature ageing test to ensure the product’s reliability and stability.
In addition to Intel-based products, ZTE also provides other processors such as AMD. The product includes computing servers, storage servers, GPU servers, and edge servers, covering most application scenarios such as cloud computing, big data processing, distributed storage, AI, edge computing and so on.
World-renowned expertise
In June 2021, the ZTE G4X series ranked first in two globally renowned SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark tests. It was also published on the SPEC website, where the servers scored 489 and 576 points, superseding the results of the SPECrate 2017_FP_Base test and SPECrate 2017_int_Base test.
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), founded in 1988, is a third-party authoritative application performance testing organisation composed of Stanford University, Tsinghua University, Microsoft and other well-known universities, research institutes and IT enterprises from all over the world. The test organisation establishes, modifies, and identifies a series of server application performance evaluation standards. It is also renowned for setting benchmark standards in the industry and is supported by many international software and hardware manufacturers.
SPEC can provide important reference data for practical application through the platform and solution evaluation. The test results are regarded as an authoritative indicator for IT system selection by customers in key industries such as finance, telecommunication and security. The results are also the primary technical basis for server products and solution selection by enterprise customers around the world. The SPEC test results prove once again that ZTE server and storage products are in leading positions in the industry.
In July 2021, ZTE has also received the 2021 Global Server Product Innovation Award by Frost & Sullivan. This award is to recognise ZTE Corporation’s continuous innovation and progress in the global server market, its technological leadership position in the industry, and its contribution to the overall development of the server industry.
Commitment and dedication to industry transformation
ZTE is committed to building a solid foundation for the digital economy and providing secure and efficient infrastructure for the digitalisation of various industries. Leveraging decades of experience in CT hardware design and manufacturing, telecommunications and software development, ZTE created high-quality server and storage products with the ‘CT gene’.
ZTE has won the largest share of China Mobile’s general server projects including centralised PC server procurement and network cloud resource pool server procurement for three consecutive years. This year, ZTE has won 60% of China Mobile’s X86 platform, with a total of about 17,000+ servers.
To date, ZTE server and storage products have served in more than 40 countries and regions around the world and cooperated with many international operators such as Veon, Telefonica, Telenor, AMX, Airtel, Orange, and more. ZTE server and storage products have covered telecommunications, power, finance, transportation and other industries
It is worth noting that in the financial industry, ZTE server and storage products are developing rapidly and have achieved significant success. ZTE has signed numerous strategic cooperation with high-end financial customers, covering major Chinese state-owned and joint-stock banks. The company has also established rich industrial application benchmarks and provided strong support for the development of financial technologies, enabling strong computing power and massive storage.
In addition to the financial industry, ZTE has also paved the way for many successful use cases in other industries. In the power industry, it has become a mainstream supplier of power grids and power companies in China. In the transportation sector, it has worked with various provincial transportation construction departments in China to quickly build a reliable ETC billing system platform to enable digital transportation. Finally, in the education field, it has helped many Chinese universities to build digital campuses and has ensured secure, stable and reliable hardware and software environments while providing office environments that are efficient and user-friendly.
Unlocking opportunities in MEA
The digital economy in the MEA region is continuously gaining momentum, which is driving the demand for servers and storage innovations. “The digital economic transformation in the MEA region has already started and the infrastructure industry such as power, communications, and finance industries are filled with various challenges and opportunities. ZTE always puts the requirements of its customers first and spares no effort to guarantee the supply requirements of server projects. We believe that our wide array of offerings provide diversified, reliable and cost-effective choices for the transformation and development of MEA’s major operators. Our innovations can enable technological evolution of organisations across various industries in the region, helping them expand new market spaces and attain sustainable development,” said Jacky Wu, CTO, ZTE MEA.
In addition to a strong product system, ZTE has a high-quality post-sales service system all over the world, a rich industrial cooperation chain, all-around coverage of the global market, high-speed delivery and rapid response.
ZTE is fully committed to empowering the enterprise and operator segments in their future goals through its robust servers and storage technologies. ZTE pledges to help accelerate the digital transformation of various industries in MEA and work side by side with key players in the region to achieve their goals.
