AI is empowering industries to become intelligent, and profoundly changing every industry. Intelligence has become one of the strongest driving forces behind the migration of industry applications to the cloud. However, two bottlenecks are hindering the widespread adoption of AI: inefficiency and high costs. Inefficiency is seen in the time-consuming process from early data labeling and model training to AI application. High costs mean the high price of computing power – a much-needed resource for AI algorithms – and models and other resources are complex and difficult to obtain.

Huawei has a wealth of experience in basic research in the AI domain, in everything from chipsets to algorithms. We are well positioned to build open platforms with devices, edges, and clouds. Working with our ecosystem partners and with the help of AI technology, we will help industries become intelligent, and enable more enterprises to benefit from AI.

Bringing Intelligence to Industries

By the end of 2018, HUAWEI CLOUD's portfolio consisted of more than 160 cloud services and more than 140 solutions, such as HUAWEI CLOUD Stack, SAP, and HPC.

Building on chips, Huawei Cloud significantly upgraded its full-stack services in all scenarios on Enterprise Intelligence (EI). By the end of 2018, 56 services and 159 functions were available on the EI platform. In 2018, Huawei Cloud released a one-stop-shop AI development platform, which mainly consists of EI ModelArts and HiLens. The platform focuses on addressing inefficiency and high costs that hinder AI adoption.

Huawei Cloud has implemented over 200 projects across 10 industries. We have combined industry insight with AI in three scenarios to improve efficiency, pass on expertise, and push the limits of human intelligence. Building on our experience in these scenarios, we have become the new engine driving the intelligent transformation of industries. The three scenarios are:

- Performing repetitive and high-volume work: Huawei Cloud EI services help TukuChina automatically import and cross-check hundreds of thousands of copyrighted images and tens of millions of images from the Internet every day.

- Performing tasks that require expertise: Huawei Cloud EI has been working closely with KingMed Diagnostics, a company that provides medical diagnostic testing. This collaboration has produced breakthroughs in the pathological examination of cervical cancer.

- Carrying out work that requires multi-domain coordination: In Shenzhen, Huawei Cloud EI services have reduced the average waiting time of vehicles at the intersections where these services are deployed by 17.7%, and have increased average vehicle speeds remarkably.

Huawei Cloud infrastructure services are leading the intelligent era with full-stack data center capabilities. Huawei Cloud has fully upgraded computing power. We launched C3 and C3ne cloud servers and multiple AI instances in line with our Ascend chips to better meet customer needs for diversified computing power in the intelligent era. We also launched HUAWEI CLOUD Stack, a hybrid cloud solution that can help government and enterprise customers go digital faster.

Leveraging core technologies including Cloud Native containers and microservices, Huawei Cloud launched 18 application services, including an industry-leading intelligent cloud application platform, an intelligent edge platform, the ROMA platform, and blockchain services. These services make it simpler to migrate enterprise applications to the cloud and enable more efficient and agile operations.

Security is and will always be the top priority for Huawei Cloud. In 2018, Huawei Cloud released more than 20 service products, including our security AI platform Miranda. Throughout the year, we added more than 2,000 security features, received more than 10 global authoritative compliance certifications, and blocked more than 10 billion malicious attacks.

Ramping up Innovation Efforts

Thanks to our technological strengths, full-stack product capabilities, outstanding local services, and a robust ecosystem, HUAWEI CLOUD entered the Leaders quadrant in a report from market research firm Forrester. The firm evaluated the most popular vendors in China that provide full-stack public cloud development platforms.

Huawei Cloud is also expanding on the global stage. In 2018, our cloud data centers were launched in Hong Kong, Thailand, and South Africa, and we worked with our partners to serve customers worldwide with 40 availability zones across 23 regions.

Huawei Cloud has developed an innovative intelligent O&M and service platform, which is built on a process system that is based on our years of experience in serving enterprise customers. In addition, we have received the ISO 20000 and ISO 22301 certifications, which recognize the stability of our services.

We have teamed up with partners in the public cloud domain around the world to provide innovative solutions that help enterprises go digital in the cloud era. These solutions include public cloud and hybrid cloud solutions, as well as solutions that combine cloud, network, and digital services.

Building an Open, Collaborative Cloud Ecosystem

Developers are the builders of the future intelligent world. In 2018, Huawei released its AI Developer Enablement Program and full-lifecycle AI development platforms and tools. To cultivate a developer ecosystem, we established a Cloud Community and Cloud Academy for developers on our official website. Huawei Cloud works with developers to explore the practical applications of AI and accelerate the development of the cloud and AI industries.

In 2018, Huawei Cloud actively contributed to an open, collaborative cloud ecosystem founded on shared success. We launched a global partner program, HUAWEI CLOUD Partner Network (HCPN), which is designed to help partners develop services and solutions. There are more than 2,800 new applications in the cloud market, and we currently have more than 6,000 partners.