Huawei has recently unveiled its latest innovations, including its vision of building one of five global clouds to power the future of business.
During its annual conference, Huawei Connect, over 20,000 ICT industry professionals, thought leaders, and analysts from more than 150 countries gathered in Shanghai to explore the firm’s latest advancements in digital technology and new plans for growth.
The company also pledged $500 million in the next five years to support digital transformation initiatives around the world, Huawei’s enterprise service strategy is focused towards positioning Huawei as an industry cloud enabler across diverse industries.
“Cloud is the most needed technology for governments and enterprises,” said Guo Ping, Rotating CEO, Huawei. “Huawei is very committed to building a cloud platform to support customer business needs and innovation. Our business model is not to monetise user data. We do not develop applications or touch the data in our public clouds. We provide technologies and services to help users monetise their data,” he added.
At the three-day event, Huawei launched “Connection+Cloud”, the dual drivers of its digitisation strategy and enterprise network solutions for smart connection of everything. The strategy and solutions help enterprises accelerate their transformation to the cloud by providing comprehensive network connections, and network management that is more intelligent in all scenarios, such as access, WAN, data centre, and interconnection.
The company also took the opportunity to release six new innovations into the market, discussing solutions designed to help enterprises with digital transformation. They included innovations in hardware, software, data, connection, architecture, and hybrid cloud.
The major focus was on the Huawei Cloud, which the company described as the cornerstone of the intelligent world.
According to the Chinese firm, clouds around the world will begin to converge, becoming more and more centralised. The result will be a small collection of global clouds, powered by the biggest companies on the planet. Huawei has committed to developing one of those clouds with a number of partners.
“Increasingly, innovation will take place in the cloud,” said Joy Huang, Vice President of Huawei’s IT Product Line. “Huawei Cloud is committed to being an enabler of the intelligent world, delivering continuous innovations of technologies and capabilities that help customers succeed in their digital transformation.”
‘The Grow With the Cloud’ theme of the event focused on the practical implementation of Huawei’s cloud strategy, first unveiled at last year’s conference.
“Huawei has made strategic investments in the public cloud domain, and will provide long-term public cloud services,” said Ping. “I liken our strategy to a major airline alliance, such as SkyTeam or Oneworld. They take passengers wherever they need to go in the world. Huawei Cloud will open up the world to its users.”
Huawei also signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for cloud services with Microsoft. The US tech giant will release Microsoft applications on the Huawei Cloud, providing optimal experience of cloud services for enterprises as they navigate through their digital transformations.
The company also released the new-generation intelligent cloud hardware platform – Atlas. Positioned for scenarios such as public cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance computing (HPC), Atlas rides on the advantages of key technologies. The suite includes heterogeneous resource pooling and intelligent orchestration to deliver new levels of hardware resource utilisation and adapt more flexibly to service demands. As the result of Huawei’s Boundless Computing strategy, the Atlas platform makes Huawei well-positioned to steer the infrastructure resource pool revolution.
