Quanta Cloud Technology
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QCT is a provider of data center hardware and cloud solutions that are used by hyperscale data center operators.
| Company type | Subsidiary of Quanta Computer Inc. (TWSE: 2382) |
|---|---|
| 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 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.[2]
History
The parent company of QCT is Quanta Computer Inc. (Quanta). QCT was established in May 2012 to manufacture servers for end users.[3] In the course of 2012, QCT also added storage hardware and networking switches to its portfolio[4] and became a hardware provider in the cloud market.[5] In 2013 QCT added rack systems to its product portfolio.[6] In 2015 QCT partnered with software vendors [7][8][9] 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.[10]
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.[11]