Type | Subsidiary of Quanta Computer Inc. (TWSE: 2382) |
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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 is a provider of data center hardware and cloud solutions that are used by hyperscale data center operators.
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.
History
The parent company of QCT is Quanta Computer Inc. (Quanta), a prominent member of the Fortune Global 500, boasting a workforce of approximately 9,000 personnel stationed across global engineering, manufacturing, and service facilities. QCT was established in May 2012 to manufacture servers for end users.[2] In the course of 2012, QCT also added storage hardware and networking switches to its portfolio[3] and became a hardware provider in the cloud market.[4] In 2013 QCT added rack systems to its product portfolio.[5] In 2015 QCT partnered with software vendors [6][7][8] 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.[9]
Research
In 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.[10]
Notes
- ↑ Morgan, Timothy Prickett, "Taiwanese"
- ↑ 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. 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. 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. 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. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- Smith, Lyle (November 18, 2015). "Cloudian & Quanta Cloud Technology Partner to Deploy Object-Based Storage". Storage Review. 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". www.hpcwire.com. Tabor Communications. Retrieved 4 December 2015.