H3C CAS Named in 2025 Gartner Market Guide for Server Virtualization Platforms

Recently, Gartner released its Market Guide for Server Virtualization Platforms 2025, recognizing H3C as a Representative Vendor. H3C believes this acknowledgment underscores its ongoing leadership and innovation in virtualization technologies, highlighting the platform's exceptional enterprise-grade capabilities, superior performance, and broad industry deployment.

2025 Market Guide for Server Virtualization Platforms

Virtualization Market Transformation: Enterprises Seek Reliable VMware Alternatives

According to this report, Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has triggered a "once-in-decades" transformation in the server virtualization market. Enterprises are accelerating their search for diversified alternatives due to rising Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), fluctuating support service quality, and uncertainties surrounding product roadmaps. Gartner forecasts that by 2028, cost pressures will drive 70% of enterprise VMware customers to migrate 50% of their virtual workloads, leading to a fragmented market.

In this context, Gartner advises IT managers to reassess the core needs of their virtualization platforms. They should prioritize alternatives that offer "low migration risks, high compatibility, and strong management capabilities," while also seeking to reduce costs through strategies like hardware resource optimization and virtual machine consolidation.

H3C CAS: Setting A New Benchmark for KVM-Based Enterprise Virtualization

H3C CAS is a self-developed server virtualization platform built on an open-source KVM foundation. It integrates software-defined computing, storage, and networking capabilities to provide a comprehensive virtualization solution for enterprise environments. With its core features of "high performance, high reliability, and high agility," CAS delivers an upgraded experience for enterprise virtualization, enabling users to meet complex business requirements and accelerate their digital transformation.

High Performance: CAS achieves multiple breakthroughs in performance. Its disk slimming technology enables virtual machine disk performance to reach 90% of thick-provisioned disks, providing a unique industry advantage. CAS also delivers migration speeds up to twice as fast as the industry average, with speeds of ≥1GB/s, significantly reducing migration times. The high-performance snapshot technology eliminates reliance on backend storage, making it suitable for a wider range of scenarios. In addition, NUMA intelligent scheduling technology maximizes performance in local chip environments, ensuring a solid foundation for high-load business operations.

High Reliability: CAS ensures business continuity with its high-reliability features. The disaster recovery system has evolved from a passive emergency response to an active predictive scheduling approach, allowing for proactive measures to mitigate hardware resource anomalies. The self-healing network function monitors network latency, packet loss rates, and other anomalies in real-time, enabling early intervention to prevent fault propagation. Furthermore, the active high-availability mechanism safeguards the system by monitoring CPU temperature, system disks, and memory, automatically isolating faults and triggering avoidance strategies to minimize the impact of hardware failures, ensuring uninterrupted business operations.

High Agility: CAS enhances operational efficiency through its high agility features. Migration orchestration automates the execution of virtual machine migrations within specified timeframes, reducing human error. Fault cascade troubleshooting intelligently correlates anomalies in virtual machines, hosts, and clusters, enabling quick root-cause identification. The resource recovery and optimization function automatically detects idle or zombie virtual machines and resources, offering suggestions for optimization that help businesses maximize their computing assets, reduce costs, and improve overall efficiency.

Proven Industry Impact

With 16 years of technological expertise, CAS has already served over 15,000 customers, with more than 500,000 CPUs running online, spanning industries such as government, finance, and education.

Looking ahead, H3C CAS will continue to focus on the core needs of its customers. By leveraging its "high performance, high reliability, and high agility" technological foundation, CAS will continue to build efficient cloud infrastructures, helping organizations across diverse industries create more autonomous and efficient cloud computing platforms.

Gartner，Market Guide for Server Virtualization Platforms，23 October 2025

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