, Columnist
Huawei Plots to Seize Another Tech Industry
The Chinese giant is already crushing it in telecom equipment and smartphones.
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Chinese hardware company Huawei laid waste to a once fertile computing sector in Europe and then took over the smartphone industry in China. And now it aims to break into another corner of the tech business. Attention Dell, Cisco, Lenovo and others: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Huawei is training its sights on selling computing gear for the world's biggest data centers, which are the invisible locomotives of the digital world. These giant buildings packed with racks of computing equipment and miles of data-carrying cables enable every moment in the digital world, from the Facebook photo you shared this morning to the databases managing Walmart's supply chain.