Ankabut, running on the ever-evolving Huawei Cloud Stack, has become a powerful education cloud platform that offers a wide range of services to educational institutions, including universities, research institutions, and vocational schools. The strong capabilities and abundant cloud services of the platform are helping the UAE pioneer in the education and research fields.
Ankabut is the largest ICT service provider in the UAE's education sector. It offers a wide range of ICT services, including IaaS/PaaS cloud services, network connectivity, IT infrastructure, equipment room/cabinet hosting and leasing, management, professional services, and training, to universities, research institutions, and vocational schools nationwide. Huawei Cloud is a strategic partner of Ankabut. Huawei Cloud Stack's multi-cloud management, high reliability, and efficient O&M are transforming Ankabut into a reliable cloud service provider for education and research in the UAE and arguably even the Middle East.
There are three driving forces behind Ankabut's initiative of building an education cloud. The first is to integrate infrastructure. An education cloud can integrate and standardize the data center structure and help build a diversified software ecosystem. Second, with an education cloud, Ankabut can leverage its vast educational experience and knowledge to provide cloud services in the education ecosystem. Third, Ankabut is committed to providing high-quality education for the next generation in the UAE and helping promising students become the greatest minds in the field of ICT.
Running on Huawei Cloud Stack, the Ankabut education cloud covers two regions and one AZ to implement cross-region data center disaster recovery (DR) and provide services with 99.99% reliability. In addition, more than 40 cloud services in computing, storage, network, security, DR, container, and big data, as well as the heterogeneous management of VMware, have made Ankabut the ideal choice for customers in the UAE.
The Ankabut education cloud is serving the health research platform of the UAE's Research Support & Data Intelligence Center (RSDIC). The secure and reliable storage service achieves 99.9999999% (nine 9s) data durability for health data. The health research platform provides complete genome analysis powered by high-performance computing for 5000 people. The cloud native security access control provides researchers with secure and controlled access to health data, ensuring data security and sharing for efficient research.
With the continued operation of the Ankabut education cloud, the overlay of Huawei AI services will further enhance the education cloud's capabilities in areas such as scientific computing and research, helping Ankabut become the leading cloud service provider for education and research in the UAE and possibly even the world.