Crouching kitty, hidden iguana.....
We could class Huawei globally as a potentially equivalent storage supplier to Dell, EMC, HDS, HP and IBM, with a roughly equivalent set of hardware platforms, minus tape
Perhaps in SMB/SME, EU markets, but the corporate and government sectors just doesn't trust Huawei...
Of course the growing Chinese market, who are fiercely loyal to Chinese goods and brands is a massive driver in Huawei storage sales.
Where Huawei really does well is the 3rd world and emerging markets where price dictates everything and it's in those markets where they really do excel...
So, as the 3rd world countries continue to wake up to the likes of centralised storage and Cloud, the Huawei brand outsells the likes of Dell, EMC, HDS, HP and IBM, after all, cost is the driving factor here