What Huawei Symantec Technologies does

Huawei Symantec Technologies Co., Ltd. was a joint venture established in 2008 between Huawei Technologies (51%) and Symantec Corporation (49%), headquartered in Chengdu, China. The company combined Huawei's communications and infrastructure capabilities with Symantec's enterprise security and storage software expertise to deliver integrated network security and storage appliance solutions, including firewalls, security gateways, VPN, IDS/IPS, endpoint management, backup systems, and enterprise storage architectures spanning NAS, SAN, and DAS. It targeted enterprise IT infrastructure buyers and small-to-medium enterprises seeking combined security and storage offerings under a hybrid segmentation approach. Go-to-market was indirect through the parent partners' channels, with no standalone pricing model disclosed in the available data.

In 2012, Huawei acquired Symantec's 49% stake in the joint venture for approximately $530 million, taking full ownership and rebranding the business into its enterprise portfolio. The Huawei Symantec brand was subsequently dissolved as a separate legal entity, and its products were absorbed into Huawei's enterprise business unit, including the OceanStor storage line. The huaweisymantec.com domain is now operated by an independent third party as a historical knowledge base — explicitly unaffiliated with Huawei, Symantec, or Broadcom — publishing bilingual (Chinese and English) educational content on firewalls, VPN, zero-trust architecture, EDR/XDR, ransomware defence, backup, storage infrastructure, and enterprise social-media platform governance. The site has no active commercial products, revenue, or full-time disclosed management team.

Name

Huawei Symantec Technologies

Legal name

Huawei Symantec Technologies

Website

https://huaweisymantec.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Huawei Symantec was a 2008-2012 joint venture between Huawei and Symantec that delivered integrated enterprise network security and storage solutions in China; the brand was dissolved after Huawei acquired Symantec's stake, and the domain now operates as an independent historical knowledge base.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Cybersecurity Knowledge Resource

NAICS

Computer Storage Device Manufacturing (334112)

SIC

Computer Communications Equipment (3576)

akta.pro primary industry

VPN Gateways & Concentrators (IPsec/SSL) (HDAFAFAC)

Keywords

• Enterprise cybersecurity archive
• Network security knowledge base
• Storage infrastructure education
• Historical security documentation
• Enterprise IT security articles

Headquarters

HQ city

Chengdu

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Huawei Symantec Technologies historically provided integrated network security and storage appliance solutions for enterprises, combining Huawei's communication infrastructure with Symantec's enterprise security software expertise. The company offered security gateways, storage systems (VTL, NAS, SAN, DAS), backup, endpoint management, and data protection products. Today, the huaweisymantec.com domain operates as an independent third-party informational knowledge base publishing educational articles in Chinese and English on enterprise cybersecurity topics (firewalls, VPN, zero-trust, IDS/IPS, ransomware defense, EDR/XDR, DLP) and storage infrastructure, alongside historical documentation of the dissolved joint venture.

Product overview

This is a historical knowledge base and archival resource documenting Huawei Symantec (华赛), a former joint venture between Huawei and Symantec that has since been dissolved. The website does not represent an active company with current products or services. The content focuses on explaining enterprise security and storage concepts through educational articles about topics such as firewalls, VPN gateways, zero-trust network access (ZTNA), endpoint detection and response (EDR/XDR), data loss prevention (DLP), IDS/IPS, ransomware defense, backup vs. disaster recovery, and NAS/SAN/DAS storage architectures. The knowledge base also documents historical corporate information, product lineage relationships, and the evolution of enterprise security and storage market narratives connected to the Huawei Symantec brand. It explicitly states no affiliation with Huawei, Symantec, or Broadcom.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Enterprise Cybersecurity Knowledge Base Free informational articles in Chinese and English explaining enterprise cybersecurity concepts for IT professionals, security operations teams, and infrastructure architects. Topics include traditional antivirus versus EDR/XDR, VPN gateway deployment, zero-trust network access, DLP, and ransomware defense.
• Storage Infrastructure Knowledge Base Free informational articles in Chinese and English explaining enterprise storage architectures (NAS, SAN, DAS), storage infrastructure evolution (OceanStor), and data infrastructure concepts for IT decision-makers and infrastructure teams.
• Huawei Symantec Historical Archive A historical archive on the huaweisymantec.com knowledge base that documents the Huawei Symantec joint venture's corporate history, product line relationships, business evolution, legacy model semantics, and historical industry news. Provided in Chinese and English.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered major and core.

• BroadcommajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Broadcom acquired Symantec's enterprise security business in 2019. This acquisition established the current market context where parts of Symantec's enterprise security narrative now sit under Broadcom's portfolio. For historical Huawei Symantec documentation, this represents the evolution of the competitive and partnership landscape in enterprise cybersecurity.
• HuaweicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012Huawei formed the Huawei Symantec joint venture in 2007, combining Huawei's communication and infrastructure capabilities with Symantec's enterprise security software expertise. Huawei held a 51% stake in the joint venture. The partnership aimed to address enterprise demand for integrated security and storage solutions. In 2012, Huawei acquired Symantec's 49% stake, making Huawei Symantec a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huawei before the business was subsequently absorbed into Huawei's broader enterprise operations.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• QNAP Systems: NAS and storage appliance vendor serving enterprise and prosumer backup/file-sharing use cases. Comparable to the NAS/DAS branch of Huawei Symantec's storage portfolio, particularly for SMB and branch-office deployments.
• Synology: NAS and storage appliance vendor with growing enterprise footprint. Overlaps with Huawei Symantec's NAS/SAN product lines and SMB backup positioning.

Direct peers

• SonicWall: SMB and mid-market network security appliance vendor (firewalls, VPN, secure remote access). Comparable to the SMB-focused segment Huawei Symantec explicitly served with constrained-budget security and backup solutions.
• Sangfor Technologies: Chinese integrated security and IT infrastructure vendor offering firewalls, endpoint protection, and storage/hyperconverged products. Comparable to Huawei Symantec's combined security-and-storage value proposition in the China enterprise market.
• Hillstone Networks: China-headquartered vendor of enterprise network security appliances (firewalls, IPS/IDS, micro-segmentation). Closest direct comparable to Huawei Symantec's historical appliance + perimeter security business, serving the same Chinese enterprise and government segments.
• FreeBuf: Leading Chinese-language enterprise cybersecurity content and community site. The closest content-site peer to the current huaweisymantec.com knowledge base, with comparable audience, topic mix (firewalls, APT, endpoint, DLP), and SEO-driven monetization model.
• NSFOCUS Technologies: Chinese-origin network and application security vendor with a strong IDS/IPS and anti-DDoS appliance portfolio. Directly comparable to the IDS/IPS and boundary protection products that defined Huawei Symantec's offering.

Broad incumbents

• Fortinet: Global leader in network security appliances (FortiGate firewalls, VPN, IPS, secure SD-WAN). Directly comparable product set to Huawei Symantec's security gateway lineup, with a much broader installed base.
• Palo Alto Networks: Enterprise network security platform vendor covering firewalls, ZTNA, Prisma Cloud, and Cortex XDR/XSIAM. The Western counterpart to the integrated enterprise security stack that Huawei Symantec originally positioned.
• Huawei Enterprise Business: Parent of the former JV; absorbed Huawei Symantec's security and storage products (rebranded into Huawei's enterprise portfolio including OceanStor). Same product categories and customer base as the historical company, now operating at far greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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