Inspur

There have been times when many things were considered impossible, like having a personal computer in every household or people walking and talking on the phone at the same time. And, looking at the past twenty years, these have been the most amazing years for the IT industry, as in those two decades we have moved from PCs to laptops, from landlines to smartphones, and multiple people are able to work on the same project on the cloud without being at the same place. Cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence are the current hot topics, and companies working on them are doing the most innovative work of all. Inspur Group Co. Ltd. is one such company that is using its innovative ideas to improve the cloud and server technologies to achieve excellence.

About the Company

Inspur or the Inspur Group is the cloud computing and big data IT conglomerate that has been in the industry for the past 77 years. It was founded as Langchao but had a name change in 2006 with the name Inspur. The company belongs to the IT industry working on computer hardware, software, and servers. The major products by the company include cloud computing, servers, storage, artificial intelligence, etc. Venezolana de Industria Tecnológica, C.A. is one of the subsidiaries of company, and its various working divisions are Inspur Information, Inspur Software, Inspur International and Huaguang Optoelectronics. The company is a publically traded company and trades on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. As per the 2015 records, the company made revenues worth 63.2 billion yuan for FY2015.

The Founding

Inspur Group was founded in 1945 in Shandong, China, and has its headquarters based in the same city. The company has four wings, i.e., Inspur Information, Inspur Software, Inspur International, and Inspur Huaguang, which works on technologies like cloud data centre, cloud services & big data, smart city, and smart enterprises. Though the company is 77 years old, it started its technology journey 40 years ago.

Inspur built China’s first PC in 1983. It also started to make servers in the early 90s, where it released a series of computers for China and the international market. In 1993, the company built China’s first micro-server. Later, in 2005, the company received investments from Microsoft as well as signed a contract with VMware to work on the emerging cloud computing technology. In the same year, the company also won the top prize in the “Information Industry Major Technological Invention Award”. The company also acquired Qimonda AG’s research division in 2009 for a sum of around US$4 million.

Inspur introduced China’s first 32-socket high-end fault-tolerant computer in 2011 and became the world’s fifth company to make such computers independently. In 2015, the company recorded annual revenues worth 63.2 billion yuan. It also joined multiple open computing organizations as a member, including SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (2014), OpenStack (2014), OCP Open Compute Project ( and 2017), ODCC (Open Data Center Committee), etc. The major clients of the company include big-name enterprises and many governments belonging to more than 100 countries and regions.

The CEO at Inspur

Sun Pishu is the current CEO of Inspur. He is a native of Shandog Province and was born in 1962. Sun Pishu has been working with Inspur since the time it was called Langchao. In 1996, he became the General Manager and the next year, the Deputy Routine President of Langchao Group. Sun Pishu also served the company as the Vice President for a long time. It is Sun Pishu’s leadership that the company has become the number one server provider in China and number third in the world.