Huawei OceanProtect Ranked Among DCIG’s Top 5 Cyber-Resilient Backup Appliances for 2026–2027

Huawei announced that its OceanProtect data protection portfolio has been recognized in the 2026–2027 DCIG TOP 5 Cyber Resilient Purpose-Built Backup Appliances (PBBAs) report. The evaluation, conducted by the Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG), highlights Huawei's capabilities in cyber resilience, backup and recovery performance, storage efficiency, and enterprise-class reliability.

According to DCIG, ransomware continues to be one of the most significant threats to enterprise IT environments, with more than 80% of organizations experiencing ransomware attacks over the past year. As attacks become more sophisticated, cyber resilience and recovery capabilities are now key factors when selecting enterprise backup solutions.

For the 2026–2027 report, DCIG evaluated 35 leading backup appliance vendors worldwide across more than 250 technical criteria. The latest evaluation also introduced two additional assessment categories focused on all-flash storage architecture and AI-powered threat analysis, reflecting the growing importance of high-performance recovery and intelligent ransomware protection.

Huawei achieved leading positions in two major categories:

• OceanProtect X9000 Backup Appliance ranked No. 1 in the All-Flash Edition category for its backup recovery performance.
• OceanProtect X6000 Backup Appliance ranked No. 1 in the 3PB+ Logical Global Edition category, recognized for its outstanding cost-effectiveness.

Huawei attributes these results to the integrated hardware and software architecture of the OceanProtect portfolio, which combines cyber resilience, high-performance backup, and intelligent data protection into a unified platform.

The solution delivers five core capabilities that strengthen enterprise data protection:

• Air Gap isolation with secure snapshots and WORM (Write Once Read Many) technology protects backup copies from ransomware, unauthorized modifications, encryption, and deletion.
• AI-powered ransomware detection combines storage and network security with ransomware signature analysis and abnormal I/O behavior detection, achieving up to 99.99% detection accuracy. Integrated with the Huawei OceanCyber Data Security Appliance, organizations can centrally manage security policies and continuously monitor backup datasets.
• All-flash backup architecture supports clusters of up to 16 nodes, delivering backup throughput of up to 200 TB/hour and recovery bandwidth reaching 100 TB/hour for rapid service restoration.
• Advanced data reduction technologies, including inline variable-length deduplication, intelligent compression, and byte-level optimization, deliver data reduction ratios of up to 90:1, significantly lowering storage costs.
• Active-active high availability (HA) enables all storage controllers to process read and write operations simultaneously, ensuring uninterrupted backup services even during hardware failures or maintenance.

Huawei noted that the OceanProtect portfolio has gained increasing recognition from both industry analysts and enterprise customers over the past five years. The company plans to continue investing in backup performance and cyber resilience to help organizations build secure, highly available, and AI-ready data protection infrastructures capable of defending against modern cyber threats.