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QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology)

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Headquarters
  
Taoyuan, Taiwan

Founded
  
2012

Area served
  
Global

Parent organization
  
Quanta Computer


Type
  
Subsidiary of Quanta Computer Inc. (TWSE: 2382)

Industry
  
Computer hardware and data center services

Key people
  
Mike Yang, General Manager

Products
  
servers, storage, network switches, integrated rack systems and integrated cloud solutions

QCT is a provider of data center hardware and cloud solutions that are used by hyperscale data center operators, such as Facebook and Rackspace.

Contents

In conjunction with its parent company, Quanta Computer, QCT sells approximately one out of every seven servers manufactured in the world.

QCT is an early contributor to the Open Compute Project, a non-profit organization launched by Facebook engineers to open source the designs of data center products. QCT manufactured the Facebook servers that were among the first designs under the project.

In addition to its headquarters in Taoyuan, Taiwan, QCT has offices in San José, Seattle, Beijing, Hangzhou and Tokyo.

History

QCT is a subsidiary of Quanta Computer Inc., a Fortune Global 500 technology engineering and manufacturing company. Quanta Computer, an original design manufacturer founded in 1988. In May 2012, Quanta Computer launched QCT to offer data center products and services under its own brands.

Recent Milestones

  • 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.
  • 2012 – QCT added storage and networking gear to its portfolio and became a hardware provider in the cloud market.
  • 2013 – QCT added rack systems to its product portfolio.
  • 2015 – QCT partnered with software vendors to offer software-defined, hyper-converged infrastructure solutions for a variety of cloud environments: public, private and hybrid.
  • 2015 – QCT opened two Cloud Solutions Centers to demonstrate hyper-converged software and hyperscale hardware. In April 2015, QCT a Cloud Solution Center in Taiwan; in October 2015, it opened one in San Jose, California.

    • Product Lines

  • Servers
  • Storage
  • Network Switches
  • Integrated Rack Systems
  • Cloud Solutions

    • Leadership

    Mike Yang serves as general manager of QCT.

    Recognition

    QCT received the Editors’ Choice Award: Top 5 Vendors to Watch in 2014 in HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

    United States

  • QCT LLC., Silicon Valley Office, San Jose, CA
  • QCT LLC., Seattle Office, Bellevue, WA

    • China

  • 云达科技, 北京办公室(Quanta Cloud Technology), 北京市朝阳区东三环中路1号，环球金融中心东楼1508室, Beijing, China
  • 云达科技, 杭州办公室(Quanta Cloud Technology), 浙江省杭州市西湖区古墩路浙商财富中心4号楼303室, Zhejiang, China

    • Japan

  • Quanta Cloud Technology Japan, 株式会社, 東京都港区芝大門2-5-8 芝大門牧田ビル3F, 105-0012, Tokyo, Japan

    • Taiwan

  • 雲達科技(Quanta Cloud Technology), 桃園市龜山區文化二路211號1樓, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

    • References

    QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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