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QCT is a provider of data center hardware and cloud solutions that are used by hyperscale data center operators.
| Company type | Subsidiary of Quanta Computer Inc. (TWSE: 2382) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer hardware and data center services |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Taoyuan , Taiwan |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Mike Yang, General Manager |
| Products | servers, storage, network switches, integrated rack systems and integrated cloud solutions |
| Services | product configuration, integration, performance optimization and engineering consulting |
| Website | www |
QCT sells approximately one out of every seven servers manufactured in the world.[1]
In addition to its headquarters in Taoyuan, Taiwan, QCT has offices in San Jose, Seattle, Beijing, Hangzhou, and Tokyo.[2]
History
editThe parent company of QCT is Quanta Computer Inc. (Quanta). QCT was established in May 2012 to manufacture servers for end users.[3] In the course of 2012, QCT also added storage hardware and networking switches to its portfolio[4] and became a hardware provider in the cloud market.[5] In 2013 QCT added rack systems to its product portfolio.[6] In 2015 QCT partnered with software vendors [7][8][9] to offer software-defined, hyper-converged infrastructure solutions for a variety of cloud environments: public, private, and hybrid. Mike Yang serves as general manager of QCT.[10]
Research
editIn 2012 QCT became an early contributor to the Open Compute Project (OCP). As an OCP solution provider, QCT designs, builds, and delivers OCP servers for data centers.[11]
Notes
edit- ^ Morgan, Timothy Prickett, "Taiwanese"
- ^ "Ezira Hailemichel - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2024-06-28.
- ^ Hitoshi Hirakawa; Nobuhiro Takahashi; Ferdinand C. Maquito; Norio Tokumaru, eds. (2016). Innovative ICT Industrial Architecture in East Asia: Offshoring of Japanese Firms and Challenges Faced by East Asian Economies. Springer. p. 223. ISBN 9784431556305.
- ^ Kovar, Joseph
- ^ Morgan, Timothy Prickett. "Taiwanese"
- ^ Miller, Rich
- ^ Sverdlik, Yevgeniy
- ^ Smith, Lyle
- ^ "Making"
- ^ Delony, David
- ^ Higgenbotham, Stacey
References
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- Delony, David (November 13, 2015). "Midokura Solution Tapped for Quanta Cloud Technology Cloud Center". NFVZone. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
- Gohring, Nancy (March 13, 2013). "Building an internal cloud? Forget HP and Dell, think Quanta". ITworld. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- Higginbotham, Stacey. "Open Compute One Year Later: Bigger, Badder and Less Disruptive Than We Thought". Gigaom. Archived from the original on 22 January 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- Judge, Peter (January 12, 2015). "Quanta Cloud Technology Opens Offices in China, Japan". Datacenter Dynamics. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- Kovar, Joseph (May 2, 2012). "Data Center ODM Giant Quanta Targets Channel Through QCT". CRN. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
- Kwon, Robin (May 30, 2011). "Taiwan's Quanta moves into cloud computing". Financial Times. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- MacGregor, Alice (January 14, 2015). "Quanta Cloud expands data centre hardware business into China and Japan". The Stack. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- "Making OpenStack Easy: QCT joins Ubuntu Cloud Partner Programme". www.ubuntu.com. Canonical Ltd. March 10, 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- "Mayor Congratulates QCT on the Opening of its New Cloud Solutions Center". sjeconomy.com. City of San Jose Office of Economic Development. November 6, 2015. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
- Miller, Rich (October 24, 2013). "Quanta Launches Open Compute Solutions, Including Open Rack". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- Morgan, Timothy Prickett (February 25, 2014). "Quanta Pushes Foot Inside Enterprise Datacenter Doors". EnterpriseTech. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- Morgan, Timothy Prickett (March 12, 2013). "Taiwanese giant Quanta sold one out of every seven servers last year". The Register. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- Novet, Jordan (March 16, 2013). "How an unknown Taiwanese server maker is eating the big guys' lunch". Gigaom. Archived from the original on Feb 16, 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- Smith, Lyle (November 18, 2015). "Cloudian & Quanta Cloud Technology Partner to Deploy Object-Based Storage". Storage Review. Archived from the original on Dec 26, 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- Sverdlik, Yevgeniy (October 12, 2015). "Quanta Pitches OCP-Inspired Hyper Converged Infrastructure". Data Center Knowledge. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- "Top 5 Vendors to Watch: 2014 HPCwire Awards—Readers' & Editors' Choice". HPCwire. Tabor Communications. Retrieved 4 December 2015.