<p style="text-align: justify;">Gartner®, a renowned international research institute, recently released a research report <em>Market Share: IT Services, Worldwide 2023</em>. The report shows that Huawei ranks No.2 by revenue in China's IaaS market and No.3 in that of Thailand.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20246/gartner20240607_1.png" width="700"></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">According to the report <em>Emerging Asia-Pacific Hybrid Cloud Market Report 2022</em> by Frost &amp; Sullivan, an authoritative analysis organization, Huawei Cloud in Thailand ranks No.1 by revenue in the hybrid cloud market.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20246/shaliwen20240607.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="650"></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In 2023, Huawei Cloud achieved a global sales revenue of CNY 55.3 billion, with a year-on-year public cloud revenue growth of 110% outside the Chinese mainland, making it one of the fastest-growing cloud providers globally. Huawei Cloud has become a trusted cloud service provider for many customers and partners in Thailand.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is expanding its global footprint through KooVerse, its global cloud infrastructure, committed to providing high-quality cloud services that offer a consistent global experience. Huawei Cloud follows the principle of "In Local, For Local" and delivers innovative technologies and localized services to its customers, an approach that paves the way to digital for a wide range of industries. Up to date, Huawei Cloud is operating 93 availability zones (AZs) in 33 Regions, serving customers in more than 170 countries and regions.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei is the first global cloud vendor to have a presence in Thailand. Since the launch of Huawei Cloud in Thailand on September 30, 2018, the company has introduced over 100 cloud services, developed more than 300 local partners, and served thousands of customers. Huawei Cloud has deployed three AZs in Thailand, with the third AZ becoming operational on March 25, 2022. Huawei Cloud fully complies with local compliance requirements. The company also supports payment and billing in local currency. Furthermore, Huawei has established a local OpenLab innovation center to collaborate with customers and partners and drive continuous innovation to satisfy the local market needs.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">For 25 years, Huawei has established a strong presence in the Thailand market and has assembled a local team that makes up 77% of its workforce. Huawei Cloud Thailand is collaborating with over 300 local cloud partners and 120 startups to create a thriving local ecosystem. Furthermore, Huawei is closely collaborating with more than 40 Thai universities and has trained over 10,000 developers. The company aims to increase this number to 20,000 in the next three years to cultivate technical talent essential for Thailand's digital economy development.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>*Gartner, Market Share: Services, Worldwide, 2023, 12 April 2024</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.</em></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Cloud</strong> has ranked No. 1 in China's virtual desktop market for 8 years in a row, according to IDC's <em>China Semiannual Virtual Client Computing Software and Cloud Services Tracker, 2023H2</em>.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20246/云桌面英文20240607.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="600"></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In recent years, with the expansion of office applications and the SaaS market scale, the iteration of cloud services has accelerated. As a result, more organizations from both the public and private sectors have opted for digitalization, including migrating office workloads to the cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>All-cloud foundation</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">With the maturity of cloud native technologies and the upgrade of market requirements, cloud computing has entered a new stage. Huawei Cloud continuously invests in cloud native research and provides ever-evolving cloud desktop solutions from local deployment to cloud services based on the cloud migration paces of different customers. Huawei Cloud Workspace can be deployed on multiple infrastructure platforms, such as the public cloud, Huawei Cloud Stack, CloudPond, and virtualization platforms. The Huawei Delivery Protocol (HDP) enables Workspace to offer consistent and premium experience.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is the only vendor in China that supports the full-stack deployment of cloud desktop services at the edge of the public cloud. Workspace on CloudPond not only meets the requirements for local data storage, but also has the advantages of the public cloud desktop, ensuring data compliance and unified O&amp;M.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To streamline applications on different platforms and allow enterprises to choose their desired office devices and software, Huawei Cloud Workspace supports operating systems such as Windows, UOS, and Kylin OS. It can be used on various terminals such as computers, laptops, TCs, and tablets, and adapt to nearly 10,000 software products and thousands of peripherals.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Unparalleled experience</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Workspace continuously optimizes user experience, including upgrading the HarmonyOS style and launching the real-time report function to control high-frequency operations and push key information.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In terms of visual experience, the HDP allows for 4K ultra-HD lossless display with 144 FPS and 10-bit color depth, meeting the visual requirements of designers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">When the network is unstable during business trips or work from home, Workspace can automatically adjust network parameters using scenario-based coding algorithms to ensure smooth user experience.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As collaborative work becomes the normal for more companies, Huawei Cloud collaborative desktops enable team members in different places to start collaboration with just a few clicks. In this way, employees can simultaneously edit complex files such as CAD, significantly improving collaboration efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>High security</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">For enterprise managers, data security holds the key to protecting their business secrets and enterprise assets.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Workspace accumulates Huawei's years of experience and capabilities in R&amp;D data security, protecting your digital assets through cloud, pipes, and devices. With measures such as terminal and peripheral control, encrypted transmission, access control, and cloud desktop policy control, enterprises can flexibly control data permissions of different employees to ensure data security and controllability. In addition, to restrict administrators' permissions, Workspace supports rights- and domain-based security management and separation of roles to ensure that important data operations are approved separately.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Workspace also supports self-service snapshot capturing, data restoration upon accidental deletion, active-active DR, and array replication DR to maintain long-term stability and reliability of your business.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Intelligent O&amp;M</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Workspace enables global visualized management, cross-cluster resource scheduling, and unified planning for your office IT resources, maximizing resource utilization and improving O&amp;M efficiency by 10 times compared with traditional office modes.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Workspace supports intelligent dashboard-based management. With visualized statistical reports updated in real time, the IT team can clearly view the desktop resource usage. In this way, the IT team can efficiently manage desktops throughout their lifecycle, such as desktop deployment, startup and shutdown, service change, user self-service, and reclamation. In addition, Workspace supports automatic risk warning. Routine health checks are performed on the network, login, and resource usage to proactively defend against potential risks.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Workspace serves over 4 million users in more than 110 countries and regions, and continues expanding its innovation to industries such as government, finance, manufacturing, carrier, media, healthcare, and energy.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud will continue diving into digital with Everything as a Service, with the ever-evolving Workspace that unleashes the productivity of digital office work.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Shenzhen, China, June 6, 2024] Huawei Cloud today hosted the "Leap for Cloud, Leading the New Era of Financial Evolution" forum as part of the HiFS Frontier Forum 2024. The event spotlighted Huawei Cloud's commitment to fostering intelligent transformation within the financial industry through systematic innovation and strategic partnerships.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, opened the forum with his address "Accelerate Intelligence with Everything as a Service". He emphasized Huawei Cloud's dedication to creating a flexible, agile, and intelligent cloud foundation tailored for the financial sector, designed to expedite its intelligent evolution.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20246/donglibin20240606.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>William Dong, President, Huawei Cloud Marketing</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Cloud's Global Growth</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In 2023, Huawei Cloud achieved a remarkable global sales revenue of CNY55.3 billion, solidifying its position as one of the fastest-growing cloud vendors worldwide. Internationally, Huawei Cloud's public cloud services revenue saw a staggering 110% year-on-year increase.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The company's ongoing expansion of its global cloud infrastructure, KooVerse, now spans 33 geographical Regions and 93 Availability Zones (AZs), ensuring a seamless, one-hop cloud experience for customers across over 170 countries and regions. Progress has also been made in upper-layer cloud services, industry-specific AI models, and local ecosystems.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Pangu Models: AI for Industries, AI for Science</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Mr. Dong also highlighted Huawei Cloud Pangu Models 3.0, an industry-specific AI model series built on a 5+N+X three-layer architecture.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The L0 layer provides five foundation models: NLP, CV, multimodality, prediction, and scientific computing. The second layer L1 contains models for N industries, including government affairs, finance, manufacturing, mining, and meteorology. The L2 layer provides off-the-shelf models for specific industry scenarios and tasks.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the financial field, Pangu provides financial institutions with model services such as intelligent assistant and financial anomaly analysis. Huawei Cloud has collaborated with over 150 partners and 200 customers, implementing more than 30 industry-specific models and over 400 AI use cases.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Systematic Innovations in an Intelligent Cloud Foundation for Finance</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud's distributed QingTian architecture represents a significant step forward in compute diversity, offering a full-mesh interconnection of resources and transcending traditional physical and technological limitations in compute, storage, and networking.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The company's MetaStudio and CodeArts are testaments to its commitment to enhancing digital content production and software development, respectively. MetaStudio provides capabilities such as virtual human generation, video generation, video translation, and video-to-animation to redefine digital content productivity. CodeArts enables one-stop, full-process, secure, and trusted software development, making coding faster and easier.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">With security, stability, and quality at the forefront, Huawei Cloud has established a robust "zero trust" security framework consisting of one security center and seven layers of defense, achieving over 140 global security compliance certifications. The company's global network of over 2,000 SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) engineers ensures round-the-clock security and stability.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">A resilient, agile, and intelligent financial cloud foundation is essential to innovation and transformation, and Huawei Cloud is built for this purpose.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Building Resilience in the Financial Industry</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Alex Zhao, General Manager of Global Finance at Huawei Public Cloud, addressed the challenges facing the financial industry, including the rise of ransomware attacks and the complexities of diversified services and O&amp;M. He stressed the importance of rebuilding financial resilience and outlined Huawei Cloud's strategy to assist the industry in constructing a six-layer resilience architecture.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20246/zhaoyingjie20240606.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Alex Zhao, General Manager of Global Finance, Huawei Public Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the application layer, Huawei Cloud introduces a finance-centric full-lifecycle application resilience framework that streamlines O&amp;M and disaster recovery (DR) operations. This approach, featuring assessment, diagnosis, fault injection, and drills, achieves a seconds-level recovery time objective (RTO).</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the data layer, the GaussDB high availability (HA) solution ensures strong data consistency and swift failover, with an RTO of less than 60 seconds, ensuring minimal to no application downtime.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the computing layer, leveraging a distributed cloud-native architecture, Huawei Cloud's Ubiquitous Cloud Native Service (UCS) offers cross-cloud multi-cluster management and enables migration of faulty clusters in just seconds.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the storage layer, Huawei Cloud provides comprehensive anti-ransomware capabilities, with backup six times faster and restore three times faster than peer vendors.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the resource management layer, Landing Zone provides lean IT governance that boosts security and scalability.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At last, Huawei Cloud's deterministic operations solution builds a proactive system, converting the inherent uncertainty in rapidly growing customer services into deterministic service level objectives (SLOs), reducing fault recovery time by tenfold compared to the industry average.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Mainframe Modernization and Accelerated Transformation</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Johnny Lyu, CTO of Huawei Hybrid Cloud for International Business, delivered a keynote speech, "Mainframe Modernization, Transforming Financial Core Systems Faster", which highlighted the Huawei Mainframe Modernization solution. This solution provides cloud-hardware synergy, more dependable processes, and innovative scenario-specific solutions to help financial customers modernize their core systems.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20246/lvjinjiang20240606.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Johnny Lyu, CTO of International Business, Huawei Hybrid Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud offers foundational technologies and implements cloud native RAS²P based on high-availability cloud software, ensuring 99.999% availability on the cloud. The solution also provides five-stage financial-grade support from top-level design consulting, low-level design (LLD), integration enablement, performance optimization, to O&amp;M. Additionally, Huawei Cloud offers four baseline modernization solutions for infrastructure, applications, data, and O&amp;M, which can be customized and assembled to achieve flexible evolution.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Unleashing Data Value with GaussDB(DWS)</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the forum, banking industry representatives discussed their collaboration with Huawei Cloud on a next-generation financial data warehouse platform using GaussDB(DWS). As the industry demands hitless, swift service migration in one go, Huawei Cloud proposed an innovative scheme, unifying processes and automating migration tools, to ensure stable, efficient migration to GaussDB(DWS). The new open architecture excels at scalability, performance, security, and reliability. Post-migration, the platform enhances operational efficiency, integrates R&amp;D and O&amp;M into the bank's DataOps system, and supports the strategic transformation to digital and intelligent banks.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>SunCBS Distributed Core Banking Solution</strong></p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20246/hezhao20240606.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Sunline Technology and Huawei launched the SunCBS distributed core banking solution for global markets</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In a significant industry move, Sunline Technology and Huawei launched the SunCBS distributed core banking solution for global markets. This solution, deeply integrated with Huawei Cloud GaussDB, offers banks a powerful, scalable, and future-ready technical architecture. It incorporates microservices, distributed framework, and API- and domain-driven design to visualize operations, accelerate customer acquisition, and boost business growth.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Cairo, Egypt, May 21, 2024] Huawei launched a cloud Region in Egypt today, making it the first company to establish a public cloud in the region. The Cairo Region will deliver Huawei Cloud's intelligent and innovative capabilities and serve as a hub for countries in Northern Africa.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/埃及开服合照20240522_1.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The announcement, made at the Huawei Cloud Summit Egypt 2024, adds to Huawei Cloud's global presence of 93 availability zones in 33 Regions.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud also announced its new Arabic Large Language Model (LLM), an important step in supporting companies in the region with the digital transformation of vertical industries. The automatic speech recognition (ASR) service supports functions covering over 20 Arabic-speaking countries, with an accuracy rate reaching 96%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Speaking at the Summit, Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, said Huawei Cloud will also provide, in addition to LLM, capabilities such as artificial intelligence and databases, in support of Egypt Vision 2030.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/石总20240522222.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"><em>Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">"From today, everyone can start the digitization journey on Huawei Cloud. With our unique capabilities across chipset, AI computing framework, and training platform, we believe we can help the country build its data sovereignty and own large language models which are essential to protecting and passing on the country's history, culture, and knowledge," Shi said.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Shi added, "When we combine industry know-how with technology, that's the way to truly help industry make the most of the cloud. This is a shared mindset of our team. We believe each industry should have its own specific LLMs." Currently, Huawei Cloud serves over 800 e-government projects, six major banks in China, 90% of the top 50 e-commerce enterprises, and 90% of the top 30 automakers..</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Mark Chen, President of Huawei Cloud's Global Solution Sales Department, unveiled the CHANGE architecture at the event. The architecture features a new cloud native infrastructure, a comprehensive cloud technology platform (AI), leading solutions for the various industry scenarios, efficient and comprehensive professional services and expert consulting services, which can provide better, more efficient and valuable services for customers in finance, government affairs, e-commerce, media, and various other industries.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">"We believe this is the best practice architecture for digital transformation today. Digital transformation is a complex systematic project, and enterprises need to respond to industry transformation and upgrade challenges with systematic thinking and innovative architectures," Chen said.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the Summit, Huawei additionally announced that it will invest US$300 million over five years to develop the new Egypt Region. Funds will go to over 200 cloud services including AI platforms, data platforms, and development platforms. To nurture a thriving ecosystem, Huawei will support 200 local software partners, empower 1,300 channel partners, and eventually build a prosperous local software and application ecosystem. Over the next five years, Huawei will train 10,000 local developers and educate 100,000 digital professionals in the region, to drive intelligent transformation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud also announced upgrades to its startup program in Egypt, including an advanced cloud platform, training programs, and business resources. The Huawei Cloud Startup Program assigns dedicated teams to advise on startups' cloud adoption and subsidizes their use of cloud. A single startup can apply for cloud credits worth up to $150,000.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Cloud and AI technologies boosts productivity and fuels progress. At this Summit, William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, shared Huawei Cloud's philosophy of applying technologies for the greater good. This includes upskilling teachers and students through the " Technology-enabled Open School Systems for All" project in countries like Egypt, building an AI assistant to help identify patients with rare diseases, and protecting one of the largest coral reefs in the world, the Mauritius coral reef. William stated, "Digital and AI technologies are making a positive impact on our lives, the environment, and sustainability. We stay committed to 'Cloud for Good', and we never stop doing it better." At the end of his speech, he proposed the initiative of joint efforts with more partners and customers in Egypt from industries such as agriculture, education, healthcare, environment, water, and cultural heritage, to make a tech-enabled future more accessible to the local people.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Cairo, Egypt, May 21, 2024] At Huawei Cloud Summit Egypt 2024,, Huawei Cloud launched its new Region in Egypt, becoming the first company to establish a public cloud in the country. This move will further strengthen Huawei Cloud's digital enablement strategy in Egypt, fully accelerating the local digital transformation process.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Cloud and AI technologies are not only the catalysts for digital economy, but also for social progress. At this summit, William Dong, the President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, delivered a keynote titled 'Cloud for Good: Bringing Innovation to Life' , sharing Huawei Cloud's philosophy of applying technology for the greater good, and announcing the "Cloud for Good" initiative. Through cloud, AI, and other innovative technologies, a sustainable, promising future is on the horizen.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/20240522donglibin.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Cloud for Good with Everything as a Service </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud envisions an intelligent future with "Everything as a Service". With Huawei's over 30 years of experience in digital transformation, instead of just integrating global infrastructure resources, or investing billions in the most advanced technologies, Huawei Cloud's mission is to turn all these into cloud services that empower everyone to not only succeed, but to lead in their digital journey. According to William, Huawei Cloud also envisions a future with "cloud for good", and is committed to making this vision a reality, focusing on education, environment, healthcare, and inclusion.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At this summit, these visions were illustrated through three stories:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>·&nbsp; &nbsp;AI Medical Assistants Help Save Patients in Time</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud empowers the healthcare industry with its Pangu Medical Model, trained on high-quality data from 16 million academic journals and equipped with over 1 million knowledge graphs. It works as an intelligent assistant for doctors and patients during medical examinations, diagnosis and treatment, and personal health management.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">William shared that, "We used AI medical model in a hospital in China to help identify 11 patients with adrenal insufficiency, a rare disease, in just three months, preventing them from being misdiagnosed and saving their lives in time." Runda Medical, a leading healthcare service provider in China, developed their medical AI model based on Pangu, which is expectedly to be adopted by 4,000 hospitals for report interpretation and diagnosis, promoting inclusive healthcare.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>·&nbsp; &nbsp;Open Schools Improves Learning Resilience and Continuity in Basic Education</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Education is the cornerstone of society. Looking back to the year 2020, through a partnership with UNESCO and the Ministry of Education of Egypt, Ethiopia, and Ghana, Huawei launched "Technology-enabled Open School Systems for All", or TeOSS. This project aims to build network connections and cloud platforms that enable remote and comprehensive schooling, whether in a classroom or at home.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The results have been remarkable: In Egypt, 950,000 educators have improved distance teaching capabilities. In Ethiopia and Ghana, digital resources become accessible to over 16,000 students from 34 schools. This project just kicked off its second phase last month in Egypt, Thailand, and Brazil. Huawei is working with partners to build digital education, and to make it more inclusive.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>·&nbsp; &nbsp;Restoring Coral Reefs in Mauritius</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Mauritius has one of the best coral reefs in the world, a perfect source for fishing and tourism for the local people. However, these reefs are facing threats from pollution, overfishing, and climate change. "We found the answer in our collaboration with the Ecomode Society and the University of Mauritius. We started on a project to cultivate and restore coral fragments. Using underwater sensors, we collect real-time environmental data, like the weather, water quality, and marine life. Then we transmitted this data to cloud and analyzed it. After almost three years of effort, we managed to transplant 25,000 coral fragments from a nursery to a degraded area on the east coast of Mauritius." said William.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Cloud for Good: Bringing Innovation to Life in Egypt </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">"Each story shared above is a story of collaboration, innovation, and a strong belief in the power of cloud to make a difference for each of you." At the end, William proposed the 'Cloud for Good' initiative, calling on customers and partners in Egypt to join hands in leveraging cloud and AI, to accelerate the digitalization process and help Egypt achieve sustainable development goals in areas of current concerns, including agriculture, education, healthcare, environment, water resources, and cultural heritage, to benefit more people, rejuvenate the nature, and contribute to a better home for all.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Recently, a top international academic conference, ICDE 2024 was held in Netherlands, Utrecht. <strong>At the event, ICDE selected 17 papers from Huawei Cloud's GaussDB, GeminiDB, and data domain, more than were selected from any other vendor.</strong> Nikolaos Ntarmos, the Database Lab director of Huawei Edinburgh Research Center, delivered a speech entitled, "Huawei Cloud GaussDB, a Better Way to Database". The speech introduced GaussDB's techniques and various business achievements to academic institutions and representatives from around the world.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/数据库20240521icdeen.png" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), SIGMOD, and VLDB are three of the top international academic conferences in database field. ICDE has significant academic influence around the world.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">ICDE collects the cutting-edge and top-level database research from major research institutes and technology enterprises. ICDE 2024, the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, selected Huawei's 17 papers. All these achievements come from the joint efforts of Huawei's scientific research teams and partner's teams or organizations. All of the papers will be examined in detail at a later date, but here are some highlights.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>GaussML: An End-to-End In-database Machine Learning System</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In-database machine learning (In-DB ML) is appealing to database users with security and privacy concerns, as data is not copied out of the database to a separate machine learning system.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">One common way to implement in-DB ML is the ML-as-UDF approach, which utilizes User-Defined Functions (UDFs) within SQL to implement the ML training and prediction. However, UDFs may introduce security risks with vulnerable code, and they are prone to performance problems, as they are constrained by the data access and execution patterns of SQL query operators.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To address these limitations, we proposed a new in-database machine learning system, namely GaussML, which provides end-to-end machine-learning capabilities with a native SQL interface.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To support ML training/inference within SQL query, GaussML directly integrates typical ML operators into the query engine without UDFs. GaussML also introduces an ML-aware cardinality and cost estimator to optimize the SQL+ML query plan.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Moreover, GaussML leverages Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and data prefetching techniques to accelerate the ML operators for training.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We have implemented a series of algorithms inside GaussML in openGauss database. Compared to the state-of-the-art in-DB ML systems like Apache MADlib, our GaussML achieves 2-6x the speed in extensive experiments.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>GaussDB-Global: A Geographically Distributed Database System</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Geographically distributed database systems use remote replication to protect against regional failures. These systems are sensitive to severe latency penalties caused by centralized transaction management, remote access to sharded data, and log shipping over long distances.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To tackle these issues, we present GaussDB-Global, a sharded geographically distributed database system with asynchronous replication, for OLTP applications.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To tackle the transaction management bottleneck, we take a decentralized approach using synchronized clocks. Our system can seamlessly transition between centralized and decentralized transaction management, providing efficient fault tolerance and streamlining deployment.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To alleviate the remote read and log shipping issues, we support reads on asynchronous replicas with strong consistency, tunable freshness guarantees, and dynamic load balancing.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Our experimental results on a geographically distributed cluster show that our approach provides up to 14x higher read throughput, and 50% more TPC-C throughput compared to our baseline.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>QCFE: An Efficient Feature Engineering for Query Cost Estimation</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Query cost estimation is a classic task for database management. Recently, researchers have applied an AI-driven model to implement more accurate cost estimations for achieving high accuracy. However, there are two defects in this design that lead to poor cost estimation accuracy-time efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Existing works only encode the query plan and data statistics while ignoring some other important variables, like storage structure, hardware, database knobs, etc. These variables also have significant impact on the query cost. The other problem is that, due to the straightforward encoding design, existing works suffer heavy representation learning burden on ineffective dimensions of input.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To address these two problems, we first proposed an efficient feature engineering method for query cost estimation, called QCFE. Specifically, we designed a novel feature, called "feature snapshot", to efficiently integrate the influences of the ignored variables. Further, we proposed a difference-propagation feature reduction method for query cost estimation to filter out the useless features. The experimental results demonstrate our QCFE could largely improve the time-accuracy efficiency on extensive benchmarks</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>TRAP: Tailored Robustness Assessment for Index Advisors via Adversarial Perturbation</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Many index advisors have recently been proposed to build indexes automatically to improve query performance. However, they mainly consider performance improvement in static scenarios. Their robustness, i.e., their ability to maintain stable performance in dynamic scenarios (e.g., with minor workload changes), has not been well investigated.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This paper addresses the challenges of assessing the index advisor's robustness in the following ways.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">First, we introduced perturbation-based workloads for robustness assessment and identified three typical perturbation constraints that occur in real scenarios.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Second, with the perturbation constraints, we formulated the generation of perturbed queries as a sequence-to-sequence problem and propose Tailored Robustness assessment via Adversarial Perturbation (TRAP) to pinpoint the performance loopholes of index advisors.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Third, to generalize to various index advisors, we placed TRAP in an black-box setting (i.e., with little knowledge of the index advisors' internal design), and we propose a two-phase training paradigm to efficiently train TRAP without elaborately annotated data.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Fourth, we conducte comprehensive robustness assessments on standard benchmarks and real workloads for ten existing index advisors. Our findings reveal that these index advisors are vulnerable to the workloads generated by TRAP.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, the assessment shed light on various insights into how we can enhance the robustness of different index advisors. For example, learning based index advisors can benefit from fine-grained state representation and a candidate pruning strategy.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Temporal-Frequency Masked Autoencoders for Time Series Anomaly Detection</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In today's era of observability, massive amounts of time series data have to be collected to monitor the status of a target system, where anomaly detection serves to identify observations that differ significantly from the remaining ones. The ability to extract value from such data is of the utmost importance. While existing reconstruction-based methods have demonstrated favorable detection capabilities in the absence of labeled data, they still tend to result in training bias on abnormal times and distribution shifts within time series.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To address these issues, we proposed a simple yet effective Temporal-Frequency Masked AutoEncoder (TFMAE) to detect anomalies in time series data through contrastive criterion. Specifically, TFMAE uses two Transformer-based autoencoders that respectively incorporate a window-based temporal masking strategy and an amplitudebased frequency masking strategy to learn knowledge without abnormal bias and reconstruct anomalies based on the extracted normal information.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Moreover, the dual autoencoder is trained using a contrastive objective function, which minimizes the discrepancy of representations from temporal-frequency masked autoencoders to highlight anomalies, as it helps alleviate the negative impact of distribution shifts.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, to prevent overfitting, TFMAE uses adversarial training during the training phase. Extensive experiments conducted on seven datasets provide evidence that our model is able to surpass the state-of-the-art in terms of anomaly detection accuracy.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Huawei database papers selected for ICDE 2024 cover a wide range of technologies, including AI4DB, time series databases, query optimization, and machine learning model training and inference for databases. Huawei has devoted many years to cutting-edge database technologies and worked with world-leading academic institutions to resolve international database challenges. Based on collaboration between industry, academia, research, and applications, Huawei continuously integrates innovative research outputs into product technologies, putting great effort into building a robust ecosystem and providing innovative, competitive products and services for customers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei is dedicated to innovation and exploration in the database field and to demonstrating its influence on industry development.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>[Baku, Azerbaijan, May 15, 2024]</strong> With the theme of "Accelerate Intelligence with Everything as a Service”, Huawei Cloud TechWave Summit 2024 was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, on May 15. At the event, a series of new launches, innovative cloud services, and programs were introduced by Huawei Cloud, such as Huawei Cloud AI Video Service Technical White Paper and Data-AI Convergence Ecosystem Alliance, to accelerate the intelligent upgrade across governments and industries for Middle East and Central Asia.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Alan Qi, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East &amp; Central Asia, delivered the opening speech at the event, reiterating Huawei Cloud’s commitment to accelerating digital transformation across the regions. He said, “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. ”</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/Alan Qi 20240516.png" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Alan Qi, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East &amp; Central Asia</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To futher stimulate economic growth and improve social wellbeing, Azerbaijan developed its national digitalization strategy and innovation plan. Inara Valiyeva, the Chairperson of the Innovation and Digital Development Agency in Azerbaijan, shared in her opening speech, “Our vision of digitalization is to create a seamlessly integrated digital society where advanced technology enhances public services, boosts digital literacy, and fosters an innovation ecosystem, driving sustainable growth and improving quality of life for all citizens.”</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/Inara 20240516.JPG" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Inara Valiyeva, the Chairperson of Innovation and Digital Development Agency</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Cloud Stack – The Preferred Cloud for Intelligent Upgrade</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, shared that Huawei Cloud is now serving 30 regions with 88 availability zones (AZ), achieving a remarkable growth of 21.9% in 2023. He released Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 in the Middle East and Central Asia market. He said: "Huawei Cloud Stack provides trusted cloud infrastructure, innovative cloud capabilities, and rich industry know-how to help governments and enterprises dive into cloud, leap to intelligence, and unleash digital."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/Hu Yuhai 20240516.JPG" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, releases Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 </em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Hu also launched a <a href="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/huaweicloudstack/diveintocloud2025_en.pdf">white paper on the Vision of Diving into Cloud</a>, showcasing how cloud services are changing the world. Concluding his keynote, he announced the Leap2Cloud initiative, calling on government and enterprise customers and partners to embrace cloud-native, AI, and big data. “Huawei Cloud is determined to fuel business growth with accelerated innovation and unleash more power from the cloud”, he said.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Building the Cloud Foundation for an Intelligent World</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The world is entering an era of intelligence, propelled by foundational models and AIGC. Projections indicate that by 2026, over 80% of businesses will adopt AIGC in their operations, reshaping 70% of design and development processes. To accelerate intelligence, systematic innovation is required.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Tim Chen, Vice President of Product Management for Huawei Public Cloud, shared insights on building an AI-native cloud foundation with continuous innovations through ‘Cloud for AI’ and ‘AI for Industries’.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Under the ‘Cloud for AI’ strategy, Huawei Cloud has built products and solutions such as the distributed QingTian architecture, AI-native storage, GaussDB database, and the digital intelligence integration platform. These support deployment and use across clouds, networks, edges, and terminals and help customers in various industries build intelligent cloud infrastructure through systematic innovation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">‘AI for Industries’aims to help bridge the gap between AI and industry needs through different industry models with Huawei Cloud’s Pangu Model—an open, decoupled three-layer architecture offering a powerful foundation for a vast range of models and applications.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Chen said, “Huawei Cloud adheres to the principles of ‘Cloud for AI, AI for Industries’, and builds intelligent cloud bases through systematic innovation, helping enterprises lead in the large model era.”</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/Tim Chen 20240516.JPG" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Tim Chen, Vice President of Product Management for Huawei Public Cloud</em><em>&nbsp;</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the summit, Li Wei, Deputy Director of EI Services at Huawei Cloud, launched the <a href="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/about/download/White%20Paper/Huawei-Cloud-AI-Video-Service-Technical-White-Paper.pdf">Huawei Cloud AI Video Service Technical White Paper</a> detailing the trend of AI meets Video and how Huawei's AI video service and solutions can help governments and enterprises improve efficiency through intelligent video applications. Li Wei shared, “The more you use Pangu large pre-trained models, the better it gets. AI video service powered by Pangu enables cameras to speak.”</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/Li Wei 20240516.JPG" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Li Wei, Vice President of EI Services at Huawei Cloud, giving a speech</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><br>At the Huawei Cloud TechWave Summit 2024, Huawei Cloud, together with partners - Percent, Iflytek, Dyna.ai, Neuxnet, 51WORLD, HCL, 863soft, and many others - launched the Data-AI Convergence Ecosystem Alliance, to foster a dynamic ecosystem that leverages the power of cloud computing and AI technologies to address complex challenges and unlock new opportunities across industries.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/Data-AI Convergence Ecosystem Alliance 20240516.png" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Huawei Cloud together with partners launching the Data-AI Convergence Ecosystem Alliance</em></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Dongguan, China, May 15, 2024] Huawei Cloud kicked off its COMPASS 2024 for Latin America yesterday, a 200-strong event themed "Unlock New Growth, Reimagine New Possibilities." Enterprise and technology leaders from Latin America and China gathered to explore building new service experiences, innovative business models, and enhanced operational efficiency through Huawei Cloud's advanced technologies. The business summit unveiled the groundbreaking CHANGE architecture, tailored for finance, government, e-commerce, and media industries, to achieve new growth on the cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In his opening speech, Daniel Zhou, President of Huawei Latin America, highlighted Huawei's commitment to supporting local enterprises in their digital transformation journeys. He shared that, "Huawei Cloud is now the fastest growing cloud in Latin America, securing the third-place position in the local IaaS market last year, with a rapidly growing customer base of 7,000. In serving these customers, we streamline the process for you to make the most of the cloud. This year, Huawei Cloud has launched the third AZ in Brazil and planned the same for Mexico to provide services for more customers, partners, and developers. We are committed to bringing more cutting-edge innovative technologies to you as your engine of new business growth."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/20240514周丹金.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Daniel Zhou, President, Huawei Latin America</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, stated that, "We are entering a new era, and Huawei Cloud is always here for you, with innovative technologies to help you reconstruct architectures, modernize applications, accelerate intelligent upgrades, and unlock the value of data. Our industry solutions and expertise are well tuned to pave your way to success. A local ecosystem will be a bridge that connects China and Latin America. We strive to be the best partner for you, and we stride together to a brighter future."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/20240514石冀琳.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Jacqueline Shi, President of Global Marketing and Sales Service, Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Fernando Liu, President of Huawei Cloud Latin America, stressed the company's unwavering commitment to providing stable, reliable, and secure cloud services to accelerate intelligence across various industries. He detailed the hybrid cloud offering with a unified architecture, alongside services like the software development pipeline CodeArts, the next-gen cloud database GaussDB, data warehouse GaussDB(DWS), and virtual human technology – all designed to empower enterprises in tackling digital transformation challenges.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/20240514刘飞.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Fernando Liu, President, Huawei Cloud Latin America</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Two honorable guests shared their success experiences working with Huawei Cloud. MV, the biggest healthcare IT company in Brazil, migrated their database to Huawei Cloud GaussDB, experiencing a significant improvement in medical record query speed (from 3 to 0.5 seconds) and reduced registration time (by 20% on average per patient). Argentina's top 1 multimedia group, Clarin, leveraged Huawei Cloud to manage peak traffic during live streams with enhanced stability and lower latency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Mark Chen, President of Huawei Cloud Global Solution Sales, holds that digital transformation challenges can be resolved with a systematic approach and an innovative architecture. Mr. Chen then presented the "CHANGE" strategic architecture, a best-practice solution for industry digital transformation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">CHANGE encompasses cloud-native new infrastructure, holistic technology platform, advanced scenario-specific solutions, neat and graceful professional services, and expertise consulting service – all designed to deliver exceptional user experiences, operational efficiency, and business value across finance, government, e-commerce, and media sectors.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/20240514陈亮.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Mark Chen, President, Huawei Cloud Solution Sales</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Beyond insightful keynotes, the summit featured industry-themed roundtables and the China-LATAM Business Connect Forum. These interactive sessions focused on advanced technologies, industry challenges, and facilitated communication between Chinese and Latin American businesses, promoting collaboration across diverse industries.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The forum commenced with the speech by Mr. Héctor J. Dorbecker, Counsellor of Economic, Technology, New Industries and Financial Affairs from the Embassy of Mexico in China, who emphasized the importance of international partnership in scientific and technological advancements. He commended the summit for fostering communication and collaboration between China and Mexico, and shared the vision of a digital future built on the joint efforts from the both parties.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/Dorbecker20240515.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Mr. Héctor J. Dorbecker, Counsellor of Economic, Technology, New Industries and Financial Affairs, Embassy of Mexico in China</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, underscored Latin America's significance as one of Huawei's earliest global markets, spanning over 25 years of exploration. "Huawei Cloud is committed to providing you high-quality, low-latency local cloud services alongside cutting-edge technologies such as AI development, data governance, and software development pipelines. Leveraging Huawei's extensive experience in both Latin America and China, Huawei Cloud aims to facilitate market expansion, brand internationalization, and local ecosystem development for you. Being a trusted partner, Huawei Cloud seeks to 'cloud-nect' China and Latin America, enabling more Chinese enterprises to venture into LATAM and more LATAM enterprises into China."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/donglibin20240515.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Moving forward, Huawei Cloud remains committed to its "Everything as a Service" strategy and the "In Latin America, for Latin America" principle. By working hand-in-hand with customers and partners, Huawei Cloud aspires to accelerate industry development and high-quality digital transformation across both regions.</p>