[Baku, Azerbaijan, May 15, 2024] Huawei Tech Carnival and Partner Summit 2024 for the Middle East and Central Asia region commenced today. At the summit, Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, unveiled Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 and the Visions of Diving into Cloud white paper for the region. This was coupled with the launch of the "Leap2Cloud" initiative, aimed at encouraging regional customers to leap to the cloud and to accelerate digital and intelligence transformation.
Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud
The world is now experiencing a major technological revolution. The Middle East and Central Asia regions are at the forefront. Most nations and enterprises in the regions have crafted comprehensive digital strategies, actively harnessing cutting-edge technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), to spearhead cloud innovation. Qi Xiao, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia, said in his opening speech: "Cloud is the key to the digital and intelligent era, and Huawei Cloud stands out with systematic innovation, vast industry-specific expertise, and a thriving digital ecosystem to accelerate your leap to intelligence and boost your business success."
Qi Xiao, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia
Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 Unveiled for the Middle East and Central Asia
Over the years, Huawei has consistently prioritized technological innovation and research, with their 2023 investment in R&D reaching a significant 23.4% of their total annual revenue. Huawei Cloud has distilled over 30 years of ICT expertise into cloud services. Huawei Cloud Stack, a hybrid cloud solution, is tailored to large government and enterprise customers, empowering them to build intelligent, secure, trusted cloud infrastructure within their own data centers.
In his keynote speech, Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, announced the release of Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 for the Middle East and Central Asia regions. The new version boasts over 110 on-premises cloud services, which is the most extensive portfolio in the industry. This version is fortified with a robust, reliable cloud-native infrastructure and introduces five groundbreaking tech innovations:
GaussDB: a distributed database with high performance and reliability
Mainframe Modernization: accelerated transformation of core systems
A converged data lake: data sharing and circulation
A hybrid cloud for large AI models: one-stop custom large AI model creation for enterprises in every industry
Industrial Internet: integration with AI for new industrialization
Hu Yuhai highlighted: "Huawei Cloud Stack leverages trusted cloud infrastructure, innovative cloud services, and extensive industry practices to help government and enterprise customers dive into cloud and achieve their digital and intelligent transformation goals."
Based on a wealth of experience serving enterprises and forward-looking technological insights, Huawei Cloud publicized the Visions of Diving into Cloud white paper. It predicts the top 10 most impactful technologies or innovative use cases to put into place in the government and enterprise markets. Huawei Cloud is eager to progress in tandem with industry partners and help more enterprises dive into cloud.
At the summit, Huawei Cloud also launched the "Leap2Cloud" initiative. This initiative calls for government and enterprise customers in the Middle East and Central Asia regions to leap to cloud native, AI, and big data for diving into cloud.
The Visions of Diving Into Cloud White Paper Publicized in Azerbaijan
"Leap2Cloud" Initiative Launched: Now Is the Time to Take a Cloud Leap
Over the past ten years, as IT infrastructures expand and technologies like big data and AI mature, cloud computing is increasingly taking precedence. This shift is due to the superior management efficiency it enables, a more comprehensive suite of in-house cloud services, and the adaptable business models that cloud computing offers.
At the Huawei Cloud Stack Tech Tour forum, Zhai Xu, CMO of Huawei Hybrid Cloud for International Business, outlined the trend towards a leap to cloud and detailed the solutions Huawei Cloud provides to help enterprises stay ahead in this evolving landscape.
Zhai Xu, CMO of Huawei Hybrid Cloud for International Business
Zhai Xu highlighted that cloud computing offers not just fundamental infrastructure like computing, storage, and networking, but also innovative capabilities in AI, big data, blockchain, and even higher-level applications—all delivered as services. A cloud is a platform for large-scale management, sustainable innovation, and ongoing evolution. It lays the foundation for digital and intelligent transformation. To this end, many enterprises have been harnessing cloud computing to accelerate digital transformation, and there will be an unmistakable trend towards taking a leap to cloud native, AI, and big data for diving into cloud.
Huawei Cloud delivers not only industry-leading technical solutions but also an extensive suite of over 100 professional services. These services are backed by years of Huawei's experience serving the government and enterprise sectors. They encompass the entire lifecycle of cloud adoption—from consultation and planning to construction, migration, and ongoing operations and maintenance (O&M). Furthermore, Huawei Cloud has established five remote O&M centers around the world, offering 24/7 troubleshooting support. All these comprehensive measures are set to help customers move to, use, and manage cloud better.
Join Hands with Huawei Cloud Stack to Accelerate Digital and Intelligent Transformation
With innovative technologies and a vast array of industry-specific solutions, Huawei Cloud Stack currently serves more than 5,500 government and enterprise customers around the world, leading multiple markets, such as the hybrid cloud markets in China and the emerging Asia Pacific region. In the Middle East and Central Asia regions, Huawei Cloud Stack, in collaboration with partners, consistently delivers high-quality products and services across multiple sectors:
Government: The Uzbekistan government, in partnership with Huawei Cloud, has established a secure, reliable national government cloud. This state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure is designed to run all the e-government applications of the country. It supports multi-level virtual data centers (VDCs) for fine-grained resource management. Currently, the cloud provides 447 public services for 4.5 million users nationwide.
Telecom: CMPak, the second-largest GSM mobile service operator in Pakistan, has partnered with Huawei Cloud to spearhead digital transformation for enterprises. By seamlessly integrating telecom data with advanced database and big data technologies, the performance of database increased 30%, data processing allows for the real-time identification of phone fraud and spam, significantly boosting user satisfaction.
Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud is poised to engage in open collaboration with stakeholders across the Middle East and Central Asia regions, eager to embrace the new horizons of industry intelligence and co-author the next chapter of the intelligent era.