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20242月272月 27,2024Huawei Cloud CTO Bruno Zhang: Building the Intelligent Cloud Foundation for Telcos with Systematic Innovation<p style="text-align: justify;">[Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2024] At the Huawei Product & Solution Launch 2024 event during MWC Barcelona 2024, Bruno Zhang, CTO of Huawei Cloud, stated that, "Huawei Cloud is committed to building an intelligent cloud foundation for the telecom industry and accelerating intelligence across industries with systematic innovation that encompasses AI for Cloud and Cloud for AI."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/20240227张宇昕.jpg" width="600"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Bruno Zhang, CTO of Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>AI for Cloud: Reshaping the Industry with Pangu Models</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud models power intelligent upgrade of both industry and cloud applications.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Mr. Zhang described how telco customers have already applied them. The Pangu R&D model helps developers generate code with just one prompt and test cases with just one click. The Pangu telecom model automatically troubleshoots 90% of network faults in just minutes. The Pangu virtual human model boasts 95% lip sync accuracy for customer service and livestreaming. These will be joined with even more models.</p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Cloud for AI: Solving Challenges with Systematic Innovation</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To help telcos build intelligent cloud infrastructure, Huawei Cloud provides a solution suite comprising AI-native storage, GaussDB, data-AI convergence, and distributed QingTian architecture. These are deployed and used across the cloud, network, edge, and device.</p> <p><strong>· AI Native Storage: High bandwidth, high concurrency, and low latency for foundation models</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Training foundation models needs exabytes of data. Huawei Cloud handles this demand easily thanks to a three-pronged approach. First, the EMS memory service stores petabytes of parameters with 220 TB ultra-large bandwidth and ultra-low latency down to the microsecond. Second, the SFS Turbo cache service delivers high throughput and concurrency. With IOPS in the tens of millions, 1 billion data records no longer need 100 hours to prepare, just 5. Third, a knowledge lake built on Object Storage Service (OBS) reduces the cost of storing training and inference data by 30%.</p> <p><strong>· GaussDB: A solid database that helps telcos process data both efficiently and securely</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">GaussDB is an enterprise-class distributed database with over 100,000 nodes. For availability, GaussDB ensures dual-cluster strong consistency with zero RPO. For security, it is certified CC EAL4+, the highest level in the industry. For automation, GaussDB provides one-stop tools to convert and migrate 95% of common syntax.</p> <p><strong>· Data-AI convergence platform: A robust data foundation for foundation models</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Data is the key to foundation models. To develop telecom models specifically, data from the BSS, OSS, and MSS domains needs to unify into one data lake. Huawei Cloud's data-AI convergence platform is a robust data foundation for these models. With LakeFormation, one copy of data can be shared without migration. With DataArts Studio, AI scientists enjoy high-quality, compliant data. Finally, the three pipelines – DataArts, ModelArts, and CodeArts – orchestrate and schedule data and AI workflows to drive online model training and inference with real-time data.</p> <p><strong>· Industry's first multi-cloud deployment model and Cloud on Cloud solution for carriers</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">All of the Pangu model capabilities mentioned above and Pangu-powered cloud services are tailored to each customer for deployment in public cloud, dedicated cloud, or hybrid cloud. For example, telcos can build and run their dedicated AI platform and foundation models in their existing data centers using Huawei Cloud Stack, a hybrid cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud also offers consulting, end-to-end operations, and one-stop migration services through its Cloud on Cloud solution.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Mr. Zhang concluded with how Huawei Cloud is committed to shared success. Shared tech is available through 150,000 APIs. Shared experience comes from serving more than 3 million global customers. And shared ecosystem consists of 10,000 KooGallery offerings. These efforts empower carriers to build B2B services and seize opportunities to stay competitive.</p>
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2024Feb26Feb 26,2024Huawei Cloud: Infrastructure of Choice for AI with 10 Systematic Innovations Unveiled in MWC Barcelona 2024<p style="text-align: justify;">[Barcelona, Spain, February 25, 2024] This year's Huawei Cloud Summit demonstrates how Huawei Cloud is the infrastructure of choice for AI applications. With the theme of "Accelerate Intelligence with Everything as a Service", the 500-strong event brought together executives and experts from diverse industries, such as carrier, finance, and Internet. Huawei Cloud presented 10 AI-oriented innovations and extensive industry expertise of Pangu models. The objective is an AI-ready infrastructure tailored to each industry for a faster journey towards intelligence.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jim Lu, President of the European Region and Senior Vice President of Huawei, stated in his speech that, "Intelligence will open up new opportunities for Europe in the next decade. We hope to use ICT to help global customers and partners unlock the full potential of intelligence. Together with so many friends in Europe, we believe we can better support the digital and intelligent transformation of industries."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/20240226鲁勇.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Jim Lu, President of the European Region and Senior Vice President of Huawei</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, said in her speech: " Huawei Cloud is one of the fastest growing cloud service providers in the world. At Huawei Cloud, we're all about pushing boundaries and bringing cutting-edge tech to customers around the world. We have launched a series of local cloud Regions in recent years, such as in Ireland, Türkiye, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, giving customers easy access to the best-performing cloud. With over 120 security certifications worldwide, you can be sure your business and data are safe and sound. But it is not just about the tech. We believe in helping our partners grow alongside us, and this goal is now backed by our GoCloud and GrowCloud programs. And let's not forget AI – it is reshaping everything, and we're at the forefront. We're building a solid cloud foundation for everyone, for every industry, to accelerate intelligence."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/20240226石总.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Today's foundation models redefine production, interaction, service paradigms, and business models for traditional applications. They make AI a new engine for the growth of cloud computing. While the potential is vast, implementing AI in line with business objectives requires systematic innovation. Huawei Cloud CTO Bruno Zhang said that "Huawei Cloud will help you with two strategies. AI for Cloud uses AI and foundation models to elevate your experience. They revolutionize software development, digital content production, and more. Cloud for AI makes AI adoption seamless and efficient. Architectural innovation, AI-native storage, and data-AI convergence empower you to train and use AI like never before."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/20240226张宇昕.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Bruno Zhang, CTO of Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">William Fang, Chief Product Officer at Huawei Cloud, emphasized the increasing demands on various aspects of cloud infrastructure due to the rapid advancement of AI and foundation models. Customers want collaborative heterogeneous computing architecture, cloud native compute with superlative performance, mass data storage, security compliance, lean governance, and flexible deployment. As foundation models scale into wider use, cloud computing nurtures the innovation and development of AI models. It is only by integrating AI with cloud that progress in intelligence is possible. Huawei Cloud remains committed to making this integration a success, and in turn fulfilling customer demand.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/20240226方国伟.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>William Fang, Chief Product Officer at Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the Summit, <strong>Huawei Cloud unveiled ten AI-oriented innovations</strong> that make it the cloud infrastructure of choice for AI.<strong> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><video poster="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/Press Releases/innovations20240225.jpg" controls="controls" width="370" height="261"> <source src="https://res-video.hc-cdn.com/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/Press Releases/innovations20240225EN.mp4" type="video/mp4"></video></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>KooVerse</strong>: Huawei Cloud has 85 AZs in 30 Regions across over 170 countries and regions. This global cloud infrastructure covering compute, storage, networking, and security pushes latency down to 50 ms.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Distributed QingTian architecture</strong>: Foundation models require a 10-fold growth in demand for compute resources every 18 months, far surpassing Moore's Law. To address this challenge, this architecture evolved from the conventional primary/secondary one. QingTian surpasses the limitations in compute, storage, and networking for a top-class AI compute backbone with heterogeneous, peer-to-peer, full-mesh computing.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>AI compute</strong>: Hyperscale and stable, AI Cloud Service supports trillion-parameter model training, and training jobs can run uninterrupted on a cluster over thousands of cards for 30 days, 90% of the time. Service downtime stays within 10 minutes. It provides over 100 Pangu model capability sets and 100 adapted open source large models out of the box.<strong> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>AI-Native storage</strong>: Training models needs mountains of data, and Huawei Cloud handles this demand with a three-pronged approach: EMS memory service stores petabytes of parameters with 220 TB ultra-large bandwidth and ultra-low latency down to the microsecond; SFS Turbo cache service for high throughput and concurrency of tens of millions IOPS enables warm-up of 1 billion data records in just 5 hours, not 100; Object Storage Service (OBS) knowledge lake reduces 30% costs in storing training and inference data.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>E2E security</strong>: The full lifecycle covers model runtime environments, training data, the models themselves, generated content, and applications. This ensures robust, secure, and compliant models and applications.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>GaussDB</strong>: This next-generation database features high availability, security, performance, flexibility, and intelligence, as well as simple and smart deployment and migration. Specifically, its enterprise-class distributed architecture ensures high availability thanks to zero intra-city dual-cluster RPO, complete isolation of software and hardware faults, and zero service downtime. For security, it is certified CC EAL4+, the highest level in the industry. For automation, GaussDB enhances database migration, deployment, and migration as the world's first AI-native database.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Nikos Ntarmos, Director of Huawei Central Software Institute's Database Lab, emphasized that GaussDB is a result of Huawei's extensive experience in databases spanning over 20 years. Additionally, with over 30 years of proven enterprise services, GaussDB is the better choice for global users, especially for essential transaction and data processing needs.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/2040226Nikos.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Dr. Nikos Ntarmos, Director of Huawei Central Software Institute's Database Lab</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Data-AI convergence</strong>: The explosion of foundation models means "Data+AI" is now "Data4AI and AI4Data". Huawei Cloud LakeFormation unifies data lake from multiple lakes or warehouses so one copy of data is shared among multiple data analytics engines and AI engines without data migration. Three collaborative pipelines — DataArts, ModelArts, and CodeArts — then orchestrate and schedule data and AI workflows. They drive online model training and inference with real-time data. The AI4Data engine makes data governance more intelligent, from data integration, development, to quality and asset management.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Media infrastructure</strong>: In this AIGC and 3D Internet era, Huawei Cloud has built a media infrastructure of efficiency, experience, and evolution. Jamy Lyu, President of Huawei Cloud Media Services, shared how Huawei Cloud has innovated and integrated media services into a wide range of industry-tailored solutions. For efficiency, Huawei Cloud MetaStudio, the content production pipeline that include Workspace and AIGC-based virtual humans, generates content more quickly and better. For experience, Huawei Cloud Live, Low Latency Live, and SparkRTC empower more seamless live experiences. For evolution, Huawei Cloud provides AIGC and 3D space services with real-time user interaction. All these combine to boost the business and user experience to the next level.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/20240226吕阳明.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Jamy Lyu, President of Huawei Cloud Media Services</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Landing Zone</strong>: Enterprises use and manage resources better on Huawei Cloud thanks to unified account, identity, permissions, network, compliance, and cost management. Now multi-tenancy and collaboration are seamless among personnel, finance, resources, permissions, and security compliance.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Flexible deployment</strong>: All mentioned Pangu model capabilities and services can work in public cloud, dedicated cloud, or hybrid cloud. For example, customers can build and run dedicated AI platform and foundation models in their existing data centers using Huawei Cloud Stack, a hybrid cloud solution.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to announcing these ten innovations, Huawei Cloud also highlighted the integration of cloud native and AI technologies as a strategy. This would accelerate the global implementation and advancement of AI. At the Summit, Bruno Zhang unveiled the Global Leap Program by Cloud Native Elite Club (CNEC). With the theme "Leap with Cloud Native × AI", this program will facilitate extensive technical exchanges, in-depth discussions, and best practice showcases.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/20240226创原会跃迁之旅.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Bruno Zhang unveils the Global Leap Program by Cloud Native Elite Club (CNEC)</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 is taking place in Barcelona from February 26 to 29. Huawei Cloud is set to collaborate with customers and partners to present a wide range of engaging topics, including product and solution launches, Go Cloud Grow Global forum, and Cloud Native Elite Club (CNEC) seminar. Additionally, innovative products and real-world cases covering Pangu models, GaussDB, data-AI convergence, virtual human, and software development will be showcased during the event.</p>
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2023Nov20Nov 20,2023Huawei Developer Competition 2023 Winners Announced<p style="text-align: justify;">[Dongguan, China, November 19, 2023] – Huawei Developer Competition 2023 concludes in Huawei Songshan Lake Base. Themed "Spark Infinity", Huawei Developer Competition 2023 straddled two tracks: cloud foundation and industry. This Competition was open to developers from China, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe, and Türkiye. A total of 19,000 developers from 30 countries and regions formed 3,000 teams to showcase their skills. At the Awards Ceremony, over 25 teams took home coveted prizes.</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/17004493755582296image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo of the Huawei Developer Competition Final</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Developers from diverse fields have participated in this Competition to sparkle their innovative skills. Some of the remarkable projects include the smart management systems for construction sites, exoskeletons for after-stroke recovery, communication apps for the deaf and hard of hearing community, remedies for sleep apnea, and live interpretation for video dubbing. All these achievements are all built on Huawei technologies, including ModelArts, MindSpore, and Pangu models. The winners are all social innovation projects that excel in technical expertise, innovation, and potential for business growth.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the <strong>Chinese mainland region</strong>, team <em>Tiantuwanjing </em>stood out as the Gold Prize winner in the <strong>Enterprise track</strong> for their AI-powered audio-visual spatial computing project. Teams <em>Yueshi (Shenzhen) </em>and <em>Juliweidu (Beijing)</em> secured the Silver Prize. Teams <em>Guolanzhongtian</em>, <em>Motphy</em>s, and <em>Gengyunzhumeng</em> were honored with the Bronze Prize. Teams <em>Wanshangyunji</em> and <em>Intellifusion-Product</em> were recognized with the Innovation Award.</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/17004495537724138image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Gold Prize – Enterprise track, Chinese mainland</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Students from Chinese mainland</strong> also brought out their best skills. Team <em>IoT Zhihuilyudianjie's</em> Smart Aluminum Electrolytic system came out on top. The Silver Prize winners were teams <em>Zhigan</em> and <em>Zhuoyuenaokang</em>. The Bronze Prize went to teams <em>Yibahuo</em>, <em>Rongchuangyanyuan</em>, and <em>Zhishuixin'an</em>. Teams <em>Yuyunshouhu</em> and <em>Zhengxinzhiyan</em> were awarded with the Innovation Award.</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/17004497183411911image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Gold Prize – Student track, Chinese mainland</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As for the <strong>Asia Pacific region</strong>, team <em>Nozama</em> was crowned as Grand Winner for their virtual-physical toy, Magik. Teams <em>DecentraRating</em> and <em>Netizen</em> were the 1st Runner-Ups. Teams <em>HeyHi</em>, <em>SmartAM</em>, and <em>IC</em> were recognized as the 2nd Runner-Ups. The Innovation Award was claimed by teams <em>Soca.AI</em>, <em>Aye-Aye</em>, <em>and CyberWhiz</em>.</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/17004497976512631image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Grand Winner – Asia Pacific region</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Kang Ning, President of Huawei Cloud Ecosystem, said in his speech: "The global digital economy is thriving, with foundational models emerging that are reshaping the industry. Developers, who are at the heart of this ecosystem, are also experiencing unprecedented opportunities. Huawei stands ready to collaborate with developers to explore the realms of multi-architecture computing, AI, and cloud native technologies, paving the way for a digital future."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Zhang Yuxin, CTO of Huawei Cloud, said, "Developers are changing the world and they are at the forefront of this digital era, shaping an intelligent world. Huawei aims to provide a platform that connects developers, enterprises, and investors, enabling more developers to focus on software development and contribute to building a new world. Moreover, this collaboration empowers enterprise developers to innovate products, add value, and accelerate enterprise growth. This, in turn, opens up more opportunities for investment and business growth. Together with developers, we strive to drive global progress and create a smarter world through innovative technologies and products."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In his speech, Xiao Ran, Vice President of Strategy & Industry Development at Huawei, delved into the company's focus on investing in cutting-edge technologies, emphasizing the dedication to empowering developers. He said, "We will continue to increase investment in technologies and innovation, and work with customers, partners, standards organizations, and developers to promote the progress of the entire industry. Our goal is to provide technical assurance and value-driven digital transformation for all industries to promote high-quality development of the digital economy."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As an ICT flagship event, Huawei Developer Competition encourages developers to solve real-world problems using cutting-edge technologies.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Competition offers a total bonus of CNY5 million. Apart from the generous bonus, Huawei Cloud provides each team with cloud resource coupons with no threshold, high-quality courses, sandbox experiments, and certification coupons. Additionally, developers are continuously nurtured and empowered through Cloud Institute. Outstanding teams can also receive business success support from Huawei Cloud's marketplace KooGallery, Huawei Cloud Developer Program (HCDP), and Spark Program (for startups). Furthermore, exceptional talent has the opportunity to join the company's talent market and participate in job fairs.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud aims to build an open global ecosystem with a focus on developers. 5 million developers and 42,000 partners have joined the Huawei Cloud ecosystem, and over 10,000 SaaS applications have been released on KooGallery, and more than 110 universities are in the ecosystem together to build talent and prosper the ecosystem. Foundation models are trending. Huawei Cloud also offers Pangu models for developers to use. By building the model community and courses, developers can perform research and development efficiently. In the past, it used to take five months to prepare for the end-to-end development of a foundation model with hundreds of billions of parameters. However, with the availability of Ascend AI cloud services and model development suites, the preparation time for development takes only one month. Providing these resources was borne out of Huawei Cloud's belief in developers – that with the best resources, they can build a thriving ecosystem for a vast range of models and applications.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei is committed to advancing the integration of software, hardware, edge, device, and cloud, as well as partnering with development ecosystems, including Huawei Cloud, Kunpeng, Ascend, and HarmonyOS, increasing investment in R&D innovation, and collaborating with developers across different industries to drive global technological progress.</p>
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2023Nov17Nov 17,2023Huawei Cloud: Continuous Innovation Drives Digital Transformation in European Internet Industry<p style="text-align: justify;">Kicking off on November 15, 2023, HUAWEI CONNECT 2023 Paris took center stage in Paris, France. During the Huawei Cloud Internet Industry Forum, William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, delivered a keynote address titled "Continuous Innovation for a Better European Internet Industry." He elaborated on four innovative practices that Huawei Cloud is employing to accelerate the digital transformation of Internet enterprises. Concurrently, William Fang, Huawei Cloud's chief product officer, showcased the company's technological advancements in the Internet domain, grounding his insights in real-world business scenarios. Representatives from leading European internet companies also shared their unique digital transformation journeys.</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/1700207330905508image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, delivering a keynote speech</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">According to William Dong, Huawei Cloud has established a strong foothold in the Chinese market, serving 90% of the top 50 e-commerce enterprises, 85% of the top 50 game enterprises, and 75% of the top 50 digital media enterprises. Leveraging this extensive experience in Internet services, Huawei Cloud is empowering Internet companies through four key innovations: content productivity, delivery efficiency, immersive experience, and global presence. These innovations enable customers and partners to accelerate their digital transformation journeys and achieve shared success.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the realm of content productivity, every industry, enterprise, and individual can use Huawei Cloud AI technologies and solutions to upgrade creativity. Meitu, a leading image processing and social networking platform in China, partnered with Huawei Cloud. Leveraging its deep expertise in aesthetics, Meitu has developed an AI model fitting SaaS application powered by the Pangu model. This application generates realistic, natural, and lifelike models, significantly reducing the time required to produce clothing images from days to seconds. This innovation effectively helps the clothing industry enhance its services and redefine content productivity.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Regarding delivery efficiency, the utilization of Huawei Cloud big data intelligent prediction algorithms has enabled swift dissemination of news, prompt arrangement of ride-hailing services to the nearest request, and delivery of fresh vegetables to doorsteps. A Chinese fresh food e-commerce platform collaborated with Huawei Cloud to upgrade and reconstruct its big data platform architecture. Huawei Cloud's big data intelligent prediction algorithms were integrated to accurately forecast customer order demands. The overall prediction accuracy surpassed 90%. Additionally, Huawei Cloud CCE and CCI provide highly scalable compute resources, ensuring the platform's stability even when the number of concurrent requests doubles.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the domain of immersive experience, Huawei Cloud's 3D virtual space facilitated an online launch event for a leading convenience store chain in China. The fun experience seamlessly connected retailers to their franchised stores, and led to a 27.47% boost in the inquiry-to-order rate. Additionally, Huawei Cloud's Pangu virtual human model empowers e-commerce platforms to effortlessly create their own virtual humans. Equipped with precise text and voice control, these virtual humans can introduce products with naturalness, accuracy, and fluency, achieving lip-sync accuracy exceeding 95%. Furthermore, virtual humans can engage in real-time interactions with audiences according to the on-screen comments. Together with Low Latency Live (LLL), Huawei Cloud delivers an exceptional experience for e-commerce companies.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In terms of global presence, Huawei Cloud has built KooVerse, its global infrastructure of storage, compute, networking. So far, KooVerse consists of 84 availability zones (AZs) in 30 Regions and serves customers in more than 170 countries and regions. This extensive global reach enables users worldwide to access Huawei Cloud within a mere 50 milliseconds. KooGallery, powered by Huawei Cloud MacroVerse aPaaS, maximizes the business value of development achievements for global customers through intelligent search and recommendation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">By far, 4,000 go-global enterprises have benefited from Huawei Cloud's comprehensive solutions addressing security compliance, technical support, and local operations. Huawei Cloud has earned more than 120 security certificates, and has local technical support teams around the world, empowering customers to seamlessly expand their business scenarios, explore new market frontiers, and achieve global success.</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/17002073794661957image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>William Fang, Chief Product Officer, Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To unlock new growth, Internet enterprises must effectively integrate business scenarios with cloud technologies. William Fang highlighted Huawei Cloud's groundbreaking innovations in serverless and regionless architecture, coupled with its global intelligent scheduling capabilities, to enable optimal compute and unrestricted service flow. Through continuous technological advancements, Huawei Cloud delivers industry-leading products and solutions for enterprise cloud migration, multi-cloud deployment, deep dive into cloud, and application modernization, empowering businesses to transcend boundaries and accelerate their global expansion efforts.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">During the event, Huawei Cloud launched the European Internet Joint Innovation Camp, aiming to aggregate CXOs and help European Internet enterprises accelerate growth through shared technologies, shared resources, joint incubation, and joint branding.</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/17002074245975697image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>European Internet Joint Innovation Camp launch</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As the intelligent era unfolds, Huawei Cloud is poised to empower Internet enterprises to seize emerging opportunities, generate greater industry value, and forge wider partnerships.</p>
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2023Nov16Nov 16,2023Huawei Cloud: Accelerating Intelligence in Europe, for Europe<p style="text-align: justify;">[Paris, France, November 16, 2023] HUAWEI CONNECT 2023 PARIS was held from November 15 to 16. Jacqueline Shi, the President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, in her keynote speech" Accelerating Intelligence with Huawei Cloud Everything as a Service", stated that "The time is ripe to accelerate intelligent transformation. Huawei Cloud strives to be the preferred cloud for this transformation. We are ready to work alongside our customers and partners through their journeys. We aim to spark innovation, build strong local support, and enable the local ecosystem In Europe, For Europe, creating value and sharing success together."</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/1700145586005863image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Speech by Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p><strong>Continuous innovation in cloud native, data, and AI</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is committed to the "Everything as a Service" strategy. KooVerse is Huawei Cloud's global infrastructure of storage, compute, and networking. Currently consisting of 84 availability zones (AZs) in 30 Regions, it serves customers in more than 170 countries and regions. As the only founding member of CNCF from Asia, Huawei Cloud leads cloud native and has helped 433, the world's largest football community from the Netherlands, improve video content production efficiency and reduce its total cloud cost by 25%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei has over 20 years of experience in databases. GaussDB, a next-generation distributed cloud database, leverages new technologies to excel with high availability, security, performance, scalability, and intelligence. It offers easy deployment and migration experience when building databases. Currently, Huawei Cloud has deployed over 6,000 GaussDB distributed nodes worldwide.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Sticking to its "AI for Industries" strategy, Huawei Cloud tailors intelligent models on its Pangu models for a wide range of industries, such as finance, government, manufacturing, mining, meteorology, and railway. In meteorology, the Pangu weather model is the first AI model to have surpassed the conventional numerical weather prediction (NWP) methods. The prediction speed is also several orders of magnitude faster, so 10-day forecasts for typhoon trajectory now take 10 seconds instead of 5 hours. These results were published in renowned scientific journal Nature this July. In drug R&D, the Pangu drug molecule model reduces the cycle of lead compound discovery from several years to just one month, while slashing R&D costs by 70%. Using the Pangu virtual human model, people quickly build their own virtual humans that come with precise text and voice control. Such virtual humans accurately and fluently introduce and sell products, interacting with viewers in real time in more than 20 languages, once trained in just one language.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Trustworthy cloud services for Europe</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud provides consulting, platforms and data security, and Compliance Compass. It has earned more than 120 security certificates and is a Board Member of the EU Cloud CoC. Huawei Cloud has also released white papers on privacy protection, data security, and cloud security, shedding light on how to safeguard business privacy and data.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Stability and reliability are the lifeline of Huawei Cloud. Services safeguarded with faults prevented, controlled, and rectified. In addition, Huawei Cloud has a three-layer support system, five service teams in Europe, and 24/7 support centers worldwide.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Global experience, local contribution</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">European digital economy and technological innovation need a more diverse and dynamic ecosystem. Since industries benefit more when working together, Huawei Cloud shares its expertise as a global cloud service provider to help customers and partners in these industries better expand global markets. Such expertise comes in the form of open technologies, globalization practices, digitalization experience, and ecosystem capabilities.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud has helped a Chinese car brand, certify compliance and deploy their solution in just one month for a rapid entry into Europe. Likewise, Huawei Cloud provides French manufacturers with resources needed to expand in China.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Through the "Go Cloud, Go Global" ecosystem program, Huawei Cloud shares its localization experience and industry insights. The number of European partners benefitting in 2023 from this sharing has grown by 400%, and their solutions by 500%. In the next five years, Huawei Cloud will support 1,000 European startups to grow on the cloud and drive tech innovation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud also uses cloud and AI to help Europe conserve ecosystems and species to achieve "Cloud for Good". Huawei Cloud works with global environmental protection organizations, such as IUCN and Rainforest Connection. The use of ICT to protect forests, wetlands, and oceans has helped countries like the Philippines, China, Italy, Norway, Mexico, and Ireland better protect biodiversity.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In continuation of its "Everything as a Service" strategy, Huawei Cloud creates new value for industries and accelerates intelligence "In Europe, For Europe".</p>
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2023Nov16Nov 16,2023Huawei Cloud: Unleash Cloud and Boost Business Excellence in Europe<p style="text-align: justify;">[Paris, France, November 15, 2023] HUAWEI CONNECT 2023 PARIS kicked off today. During the "Accelerate Intelligence for Europe" Summit, Huawei Cloud showcased its expertise and shared successful use cases across various industries in terms of technology, business, and ecosystem.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In her opening remarks, Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, expressed her gratitude to customers and partners for their unwavering support in Huawei Cloud's continued growth in Europe. She reaffirmed the company's commitment to creating value for the region. "Huawei Cloud is dedicated to building a strong local ecosystem and empowering European enterprises to grow globally through our cloud," she stated. "We look forward to achieving shared success with our customers and partners."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As of now, Huawei Cloud operates 30 Regions and 84 availability zones globally, with 42,000 partners and 5 million developers. Huawei Cloud has launched a series of innovative cloud services and solutions. Pangu models have been widely used across industries. GaussDB redefines database building. MetaStudio, the digital content production pipeline of Huawei Cloud, puts virtual humans at the fingertips of every individual and every enterprise.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Tim Tao, President of Huawei Cloud Europe, presented a keynote speech titled "Translate Our Cloud Expertise to Your Business Excellence." He shared Huawei Cloud's progress in Europe over the past year: Huawei Cloud has expanded its global footprint by launching cloud Regions in Ireland and Türkiye. Additionally, local teams have been deployed in Ireland, Türkiye, Hungary, Germany, and France to provide operational excellence and technical support. In Europe, Huawei Cloud experienced a remarkable 121% growth in its customer base and a significant increase in its number of partners. Recognizing the importance of startups, Huawei Cloud has launched dedicated programs that have made good progress.</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/17000673060235765image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Tim Tao, President of Huawei Cloud Europe, delivers his speech</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Tim remarked, "Looking forward, we will work harder with you to accelerate digital transformation and intelligent upgrade in Europe."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Local success stories also continue to emerge. Travelgate, a leading online travel market network, partnered with Huawei Cloud to build a highly available, performing, and scalable cloud native architecture. Their service SLA has reached an impressive 99.95%, and systems are scaled just in a flash. 433, the world's largest football community, also collaborated with Huawei Cloud to modernize their application, enabling fans around the globe to seamlessly engage in real-time discussions and celebrations over any football game.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud proposes three measures to empower more customers for digital, intelligence, and business excellence:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1. Build an excellence team.</strong> Huawei Cloud is continuously increasing its investment in Europe to establish operational excellence and customer success teams, building a three-layer service system for responsive and tailored support. The local operational excellence teams and onsite technical experts help customers design, plan, and implement their cloud migration strategies. The local Huawei Cloud technical team provides 24/7 online technical support and comprehensive excellence services to ensure seamless customer experiences.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2. Build an excellence model.</strong> Huawei Cloud assists customers in building excellence in organizations, architectures, and processes tailored to their unique business scenarios based on Huawei Cloud's globalization best practices and customization experiences. By providing the optimal architecture and deterministic operations, Huawei Cloud paves the way for customers to go, use, and manage the cloud better.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3. Build an excellence platform</strong>. Premium services and a robust local ecosystem enable sustainable digital transformation. In the next three years, Huawei Cloud will cultivate 20,000 local developers through the Huawei Cloud Academy and develop joint solutions with 1,000 local partners to help them expand their business locally and globally. The startup programs will extend cloud resources, technologies, and go-to-market support to 800 European startups.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the event, Ray, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Europe Marketing and Solutions, and Leon Yu, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Global Ecosystem, introduced Huawei Cloud's cloud native technologies and ecosystem services in their speeches "Make the Most of Cloud and Become a New Cloud Native" and "Driving Growth Through Cloud Ecosystem".</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/17000673609346848image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Launch of Huawei Cloud Startup Program for Europe</em></p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/1700067327148574image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Launch of "Go Cloud, Grow Cloud" Partner Program</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The event culminated in the launch of the Huawei Cloud Startup Program for Europe and the "Go Cloud, Grow Cloud" Partner Program, signifying Huawei Cloud's unwavering commitment to fostering comprehensive collaboration with European startups and partners to achieve shared success.</p>
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2023Sep22Sep 22,2023Grow with Huawei Cloud: Accelerating GTM and Sales with Empowered Benefits<p style="text-align: justify;">[Shanghai, China, September 22, 2023] The theme of the Huawei Cloud session at this year's HUAWEI CONNECT was "Grow with Huawei Cloud: Accelerating GTM and Sales with Empowered Benefits". Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, led customers and partners in keynote speeches while sharing some of Huawei Cloud's achievements with global partners. She also explained some of the latest partner policies and joint sales initiatives, as well as the Huawei Cloud Partner Sales GTM Acceleration Program.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, delivered opening remarks, which highlighted some of the shared achievements made by Huawei Cloud with global partners and expressed Huawei Cloud's stance on supporting partners to achieve business success. She said, " With our tech innovation, Huawei Cloud is leading the cloud native journey globally. You will enjoy direct access to our cutting-edge services, such as Pangu models, virtual humans, and GaussDB, via KooVerse, anytime, anywhere. In our new GoCloud and GrowCloud partner development frameworks, we share market opportunities as we open up our tech to help you build competitive solutions. We grow together as we go together."</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/16953948610305590image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Speech by Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Over the past year, Huawei Cloud has collaborated with software partners to create cutting-edge solutions and expand its customer base worldwide, and, through partnerships with system integrator (SI) partners, Huawei Cloud has developed digitalization strategies for different industries and provided digital transformation solutions tailored to the needs of each enterprise customer. Huawei Cloud and partners gained market insights and focused on high-value segmented scenarios to quickly replicate global best practices.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud will continue to provide Everything as a Service and build a global cloud infrastructure of quality cloud services accessible for 84 availability zones (AZs) in 30 regions and customers in 170 countries and regions worldwide. Huawei Cloud services have already been available for customers from Türkiye and Saudi Arabia. Regarding technical innovation, Huawei Cloud offers scenario- and industry-specific Pangu models to tackle the big challenges of various industries, creating new chances for businesses to grow with AI. For ecosystem development, Huawei Cloud has always placed great importance on building a robust global ecosystem and partner network, and has released two new partner frameworks focusing on partner competency: GoCloud and GrowCloud. This year, Huawei Cloud will continue to improve the partner development framework and incentive policies, enhance the product GTM for partners, and increase investment in joint sales.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the session, Mark Chen, President of Huawei Cloud Solution Sales, delivered a speech titled "3 Key Actions to Boost Your Business with Huawei Cloud". According to Mr. Chen, Huawei Cloud will keep adhering to the concept of "shared technologies, shared success" in the cooperation with Partners and is going to offer four partner sales acceleration programs, three types of support for partner sales, and 10 offerings and GTM support to support partners' business growth.</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/16953948381926963image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Speech by Mark Chen, President of Huawei Cloud Solution Sales</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This year, Huawei Cloud will release four new sales acceleration programs for partners, designed to help them monetize their capabilities and resources, including Partner Customer Engagement (PCE), Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), KooGallery Sales Program, and Enterprise Discount Program (EDP).</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In addition, Huawei Cloud plans to provide three additional sales supports for our partners to further improve their business development efficiency. Specifically, Huawei Cloud will strengthen the collaboration between PBDs and partners in joint customer development to drive the resource and capability investment of both parties. Huawei Cloud is striving to build a strong PSA team to help partners enhance their skills and to offer additional resources to top-performing sales partners. Huawei Cloud is going to build remote sales support centers that help partners efficiently carry out standard jobs, such as POC, bidding, and technical support, and improve their sales efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Lastly, Huawei Cloud has 10 new offerings about to be launched for partners. These offerings cover 10 key sales scenarios and include the sales suites of over 20 high-value solutions, including introductory materials, sales guides, technical solution designs, and POC. Huawei Cloud is going to build a one-stop GTM support platform for global partners, empowering them with the necessary tools and resources to enhance their GTM capabilities.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In this session, Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, Mark Chen, President of Huawei Cloud Solution Sales, William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing and Dale Chen, Director of Huawei Cloud Global Partner Management jointly launched the Huawei Cloud Partner Sales GTM Acceleration Program to help partners start their journey towards technological symbiosis and shared success.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/16953948242474693image.png"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Official release of Huawei Cloud Partner Sales GTM Acceleration Program</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Multiple global partners were invited to share their experience and discuss their achievements. Pascal Bitterly, Business Owner and Product Director of Orange Business, shared his experience in jointly developing customers and operating projects with Huawei Cloud. He expressed his idea about how to create positive impacts with Huawei Cloud from four aspects: building on Orange Business global reach and local care, driving co-innovation, focusing on customers' business value, and enriching solution portfolio. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jose Luis Rodriguez, Consulting Services & Cloud Lead of Seidor Chile, shared insights on the joint efforts of Seidor Chile and Huawei Cloud to expand the SAP market in Chile. He highlighted the importance of taking risks, learning from mistakes, making advancements, and ultimately achieving success.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jônatas Mattes, CTO of Extreme Digital Solutions, expressed his expectations for fruitful cooperation with Huawei Cloud. He said, "Trust has been a key factor in our accomplishments thus far, and we are confident that it will continue to drive our success in this partnership."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Kraipich Pichpongsa, COO of Vonosis, Thailand's first Huawei Cloud partner for cloud native technologies, said that the partnership between Huawei Cloud and Vonosis since 2018 has been quite fruitful, yielding many accomplishments in expanding the small and medium business (SMB) markets in local regions and cultivating a robust ecosystem. Pichpongsa said that the solid partnership has been instrumental in achieving this success.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Andrey Abreu, CIO of MV, the largest medical information company in Brazil, said, "With Huawei Cloud, MV can provide excellent health as a service for patients, doctors, hospitals, and other players in LATAM region."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, Victor Wang, Product & Technology Manager of Great China, Axxonsoft, one of the world's top AI video software companies, said that building a first-class video analysis VSaaS platform based on Huawei Cloud IaaS and AI capabilities could better serve industry customers, featuring multi-branch and multi-site, such as retail hotels, implement distributed supervision, unified internet-based management, and AI innovation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the coming years, Huawei Cloud will continue to enhance global partner policies and develop essential ecosystem capabilities through ongoing technological innovation as they help partner capitalize on their strengths and monetize their capabilities. Additionally, Huawei Cloud will intensify GTM support and augment joint sales investments to foster the growth of global partner businesses.</p>
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2023Sep21Sep 21,2023Huawei Cloud: From Our Cloud Expertise to Your Business Excellence<p style="text-align: justify;">[Shanghai, China, September 21, 2023] HUAWEI CONNECT 2023 is taking place in Shanghai from September 20 to 22. At the summit "From Our Cloud Expertise to Your Business Excellence", Huawei Cloud shared five excellence stories of their customers, announced the PRIME model and PRIME Club for operational excellence, and unveiled Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 with mainstream availability on September 30, which helps enterprises build versatile models.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, delivered an opening speech. She shared the latest global business progress and industry practices of Huawei Cloud, and stated Huawei Cloud's stance on supporting global customers and partners to go digital. She said, "In the booming digital wave, Huawei Cloud is committed to providing the best innovative technologies and solutions and becoming the best partner for customers in digital innovation. Huawei Cloud also hopes to become a platform for experience and knowledge sharing, so that more Chinese enterprises can go global and global enterprises can thrive in China. This will foster a mutually beneficial relationship where we become a customer or partner of each other on a new journey of digital upgrade."</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/16953754730201616image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, giving an opening speech</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p><strong>Digital Upgrades Accelerated by System Engineering</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is deeply involved in industry digitization, enabling continual digital upgrades for hundreds of sectors while maintaining rapid global service expansion. In "From Our Cloud Expertise to Your Business Excellence", Kevin Gao, President of Huawei Public Cloud Business, stated, "With an unwavering dedication to our Everything as a Service strategy, we have consistently ramped up R&D investments. Our approach is grounded in a tireless pursuit of technological advances, ensuring that they satisfy every customer's needs with cutting-edge innovation and a deep understanding of the industry. We aim to realize excellence for everyone, for every industry."</p> <p><em><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/1695375990446533image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Kevin Gao, President of Huawei Public Cloud Business, delivering a keynote speech</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Cloud and AI have made their way into the core production systems of businesses. Digitalization and intelligence will surely be the most promising prospects in the coming decade. However, many typical challenges remain throughout digital upgrades, such as how to monitor IT investment and output, modernize applications, or expend globally. Mr. Gao offers a solution: systematic mindset and architecture.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In order to pave the way to digital and intelligence for its clientele, Huawei Cloud will concentrate on three key aspects, drawing from its extensive experience of serving 3 million customers and practical experience of over 500 customer success managers. Huawei Cloud will establish a team dedicated to operational excellence and customer success, introduce a PRIME model, and establish a fellowship club, all aimed at assisting a greater number of enterprises in attaining excellence in their operations. Currently, Huawei Cloud has set up operational excellence and customer success teams in 21 cities around the world. Leveraging advanced technologies, Huawei Cloud delivers top-notch services to global customers, facilitating seamless cloud deployment, utilization, and management.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The PRIME model focuses on process, root team, implementation, and methodology that lead to excellence, and the PRIME Club is where excellence breeds excellence.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the event, Kevin Gao shared excellence stories in industries such as carrier, retail, automotive, e-commerce, and government.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In the carrier industry,</strong> China Tower and Huawei Cloud jointly build a two-site three-center architecture that boasts exceptional levels of availability, performance, and scalability. The implementation of GaussDB for Redis has resulted in a remarkable 20-fold enhancement in the power swapping system's performance, while cloud native technology has amplified the scalability of their applications by an impressive 50 times. Consequently, China Tower users can now effortlessly monitor the real-time battery volume, locate swap stations at their convenience, and seamlessly exchange batteries by simply scanning QR codes. The batteries have powered e-bikes to run a total distance of over 78.5 billion kilometers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In the retail sector</strong>, Meiyijia has implemented intelligent recommendation on store location selection with the aid of Huawei Cloud MRS and DWS. Stores can now open in just 27 days, down from two months, and operations data queries are notably faster, from the following day to a mere 15 minutes. Additionally, Huawei Cloud CodeArts has facilitated a 25% reduction in the development and delivery period of Meiyijia's store management application. Such one-stop store opening and operations services make 33,000 Meiyijia storekeepers start and run their business effortlessly. More than 300 new stores open every month.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In the automotive sector</strong>, BYD has opted for Huawei Cloud to guarantee the availability of Internet of Vehicles (IoV) services, utilizing the lakehouse architecture of Huawei Cloud Hudi + DWS. This architecture enables the swift retrieval of petabytes of data within seconds, ensuring uninterrupted health diagnosis and global allocation of cloud resources. Through this collaboration, vehicle owners can operate their vehicles remotely, benefiting from a rapid response time and a seamless user experience.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In the e-commerce sector,</strong> DingDongFresh leverages the robust compute, cloud native, and AI capabilities offered by Huawei Cloud to enable full-process intelligence in distributed mini warehouses for goods preparation and order management. This integration ensures precise, efficient delivery. The overall order forecast rate surpasses 90%, with the fastest delivery completed in just 29 minutes. Their customers can relish in the convenience of receiving fresh food without the need to venture outside their homes.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In the government sector</strong>, Huawei Cloud ROMA Connect, GaussDB (DWS), and SecMaster have played a pivotal role in facilitating the secure, efficient invocation and development of an extensive database comprising hundreds of millions of legal person, credit, and policy records. The Xi'an government has successfully aligned over 2,200 policies with the needs of more than 2 million local individual businesses, and all the operations are done online, significantly mitigating the time and complexity in enterprise declarations.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Diving into Cloud and Leading Intelligent Upgrade</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Deployed on-premises, Huawei Cloud Stack enables enterprises to establish a secure, reliable, and efficient hybrid cloud with continuous innovation and shift from cloud migration to a dive into cloud. Shang Haifeng, President of Huawei Cloud Stack, said: "We are stepping up efforts to serve more industries by sticking to our AI for Industries strategy. Today, only a few companies are able to build AI models. With robust capabilities and extensive expertise of Huawei Cloud Stack and Pangu models, we hope to empower every enterprise to build their own models."</p> <p><em><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/16953763073859547image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Shang Haifeng, President of Huawei Cloud Stack, delivering his speech</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Serving 5,200 enterprises worldwide, Huawei Cloud Stack maintains rapid growth with a leading share in China's public services, finance, and state-owned enterprise markets. Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 is the latest version announced at HUAWEI CONNECT 2023. It manifests the value of data and accelerates the implementation of intelligence through four innovations: Pangu models, industrial Internet, data element circulation, and software development pipeline CodeArts.</p> <p><strong>Building Versatile Models for Enterprises</strong></p> <p>Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 provides a comprehensive AI pipeline, covering AI compute, compute architecture, frameworks, development platforms, development suites, foundation models, and a wide range of professional services, which lowers the barriers to building models and scaling up AI. Huawei Cloud Stack also leverages software-hardware synergy to optimize operator fusion and mixed precision and has improved the training efficiency by 45%. Pangu models have been used by customers in more than 10 industries. Shandong Energy Group joined hands with Huawei to deploy the world's first mine AI model based on the cloud-edge architecture featuring central training and edge inference for intelligent applications in 9 processes and 21 scenarios.</p> <p><strong>Building an Industrial Internet Architecture with Five Core Capabilities</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud, featuring extensive industrial expertise, develops an industrial Internet architecture based on Huawei Cloud Stack. The architecture enables cloud-edge synergy, data collection, data convergence, AI Cortex, and application development for industrial purposes. It accommodates a broad spectrum of use cases and boosts full-link industrial production from data collection to intelligent applications. Using this industrial Internet architecture, FAW Group has built its Weishan digital factory, a factory where four major processes and seven workshops have been managed in an intelligent way. The factory has achieved flexible manufacturing, saves energy, and cuts emissions.</p> <p><strong>Trusted Data Circulation</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud launches a data circulation solution based on their data governance capabilities and data circulation practices to bridge enterprises and data. The solution includes data-AI convergence, blockchain, and privacy computing provided by Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3. It helps enterprises develop high-quality data products such as algorithms, models, and datasets, and makes data available but invisible. Plus, the Exchange Data Space (EDS) service enables trusted circulation and authorized operations of data. It also enables data sharing within a domain.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At HUAWEI CONNECT 2023, Huawei Cloud and Shanghai Data Group launch joint innovation projects for building distinguished city data spaces. Through the projects, the two parties will enhance collaboration in seeking ways to promote data circulation</p> <p><img src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/news/images/16953763527705575image.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Huawei Cloud and Shanghai Data Group launch joint innovation projects for building distinguished city data spaces</em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Boosting Trustworthiness in Software Supply</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud leverages powerful processes and tools plus vast experience in Huawei's Integrated Product Development (IPD) transformation to develop CodeArts, a software development pipeline. Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 has enriched CodeArts capabilities. It can now provide and continuously iterate more than 30 Huawei-developed core capabilities, such as collaborative development, code guidelines, distribute build, and vulnerability check, for the full links of software supply from infrastructure, software dependencies, and tools. Based on this platform, Haizhou System creates a development cradle for industrial software R&D. The structured processes and contractual R&D in IPD ensure zero delivery deviation. A thousand developers can now efficiently work together.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Providing Everything as a Service and partnering with global enterprises, Huawei Cloud aims to bridge the gap between technology and business success — breeding industry excellence with its own excellence.</p>