Huawei Cloud Wins Multiple Awards at China International Big Data Industry Expo 2022
May 31, 2022
The China International Big Data Industry Expo (or Big Data Expo) was held online on May 26, 2022. As the world's first big data-themed expo, this event was co-sponsored by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Cyberspace Administration of China, plus the Guizhou Provincial Government. It is an important platform that promotes the use of big data technologies across industries worldwide.
Each year since 2015, this Expo has given out a number of awards to recognize achievements in big data technologies. This year, Huawei Cloud is once again a big winner.
At the opening ceremony of this event, Mr. Zhang Ping'an, Huawei's Senior Vice President and Huawei Cloud CEO delivered a keynote speech. Echoing the theme of this year's Big Data Expo — Seize New Opportunities, Share Digital Value — Mr. Zhang proposed three initiatives: consolidating data resources to achieve economies of scale; redefining data mining and unleashing the power of data through data-AI convergence; and helping enterprises easily migrate to and use the cloud by promoting the Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) model.
Consolidating data resources to achieve economies of scale
China's "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project aims to seize the strategic opportunities presented by an accelerated digital economy worldwide and shape new paradigms of computing infrastructure in China. In support of this national project and the ambition to build China's "Data Valley", Huawei Cloud has deployed its global HQ and its largest cloud data center in Guizhou. These are all ongoing efforts in China aiming at consolidating data resources across the nation to improve resource utilization and achieve economies of scale.
Redefining data mining through data-AI convergence
In this digital era, it is widely understood that data has become an essential factor of production, just like land, labor, and capital. However, due to reasons like inefficient data governance, the true value of data has yet to be fully explored.
Huawei Cloud has put major efforts into building a cloud platform featuring deep convergence between data and AI. By streamlining both data governance and AI development, Huawei Cloud offers unified development environments, unified metadata management, and unified storage, with data development accelerated from weeks to hours. Data storage costs are reduced significantly, and data and AI development are hugely modernized.
Enabling enterprises to easily migrate to and use the cloud by promoting Everything-as-a-Service
To help enterprises overcome challenges associated with cloud use, Huawei Cloud advocates a model called "everything as a service", or XaaS, where infrastructure, technology, expertise, and more are offered as standard cloud services, so that customers from every industry can easily move to and use the cloud to supercharge their business. For example, we all know that AI is useful, but few have the expertise and data needed to quickly develop AI applications and deploy them to solve real-world problems and create real value. To help accelerate AI adoption, Huawei Cloud offers AI, big data, audio and video, and more technologies, plus integrated development tools on its platform, so developers and customers can access them on-demand, from anywhere.
Huawei Cloud has also condensed its many years of experience and best practices in digital transformation in a wide range of industries, such as government, finance, and manufacturing, as well as those of its partners, and offers them as standard cloud services. Today, Huawei Cloud is offering solutions covering over 50 different scenarios, which are accessible through more than 20,000 APIs. This way, enterprises gain easy access to best practices and cutting-edge technologies and expertise from across many industries, so they don't have to always reinvent the wheel.
The "Data Expo Release" announced multiple awards for Huawei Cloud recognizing its innovation in databases, data lakes, and data-AI converged analytics. For example, the cooperation between Mengxiang Group (a fast-growing e-commerce platform) and Huawei Cloud, where Mengxiang Group used Huawei Cloud's big data and analytics solutions to harness the enormous value of data and help millions of women working from home tap into the e-commerce business, was selected as one of the "Top 10 Big Data Success Stories" at the Expo.
Awards received by Huawei Cloud at Big Data Expo 2022 include the following:
Huawei Cloud GaussDB(for openGauss)
Leading Technology Achievement Award – New Product
This award is one of the most important awards given out by the Expo and is very influential in the big data industry.
GaussDB(for openGauss) is Huawei Cloud's distributed relational database purpose-built for mission-critical enterprise workloads. It is part of the openGauss ecosystem led by Huawei.
For example, Huawei Cloud provided a one-stop data migration solution to help ICBC transform its core transaction systems into a distributed architecture, delivering three major benefits for the customer: high availability, linear performance improvement, and elastic scalability. The migration was smooth, management was simplified, and the reliability of the bank's core transaction systems was improved significantly. In addition, the new systems are able to scale and evolve smoothly to meet demand for both today and tomorrow.
Huawei Cloud's Data-AI Converged Platform
Leading Technology Achievement Award - Excellent Project
Huawei Cloud is building a unified, cloud-based data foundation for digital transformation by combining AI and data. This platform brings together data scattered across different departments and sectors within a large organization and stores it in a unified data lake. This way, developers can focus on using the latest algorithms to extract value from all kinds of data on an integrated development platform, without having to worry about any of the underlying technical details like file management, or the complex management and O&M for analytical or AI engines.
For example, the mobility service platform T3 migrated multiple clusters to Huawei Cloud's integrated lakehouse solution featuring decoupled computing and storage. The new platform supports both BI and AI scenarios. It cuts the TCO by over 20% and improves data processing efficiency by 150%. In addition, it supports fast rollout of a broad choice of payment methods, so T3 can serve a considerably larger user base, no matter what payment method they use. The convergence of data and AI has made it easier to manage data and more efficient to run machine learning algorithms. This also helps T3 deliver a better, safer passenger experience.
Huawei Cloud FusionInsight MRS IoTDB
Leading Technology Achievement Award - Excellent Project
Huawei Cloud FusionInsight MRS IoTDB focuses on processing complex time series data in industrial IoT. It eliminates the functionality and performance bottlenecks typically experienced by general-purpose databases when faced with large volumes of complex time series data. It is a powerful industrial IoT big data solution spanning the cloud, edge, and device.
Currently, Tsinghua University and Huawei Cloud are working together on exploring new forms of academia-industry collaboration based on the open-source Apache IoTDB. The joint efforts are accelerating the development and integration of a commercial IoTDB solution powered by Huawei Cloud's FusionInsight MRS cloud-native data lake solution, and also enhancing the "three data lakes + one data mart" architecture of MRS. The goal is to develop an enterprise-grade database for analyzing massive amounts of time series data for industrial scenarios.
IoTDB technologies are now used in many industrial-scale time series data analysis applications in industries like transportation and manufacturing.
Huawei Cloud Drives Agile Innovation at Mengxiang Group:
Top 10 Big Data Success Stories
A pioneer in new e-commerce, Mengxiang Group is laser-focused on data-driven innovation by leveraging Huawei Cloud's cloud, big data, and AI technologies. The platform equips more than 2 million women to secure an independent income by marketing and selling products through online mini stores, without any technological background or major financial investments. This example of using data and AI to drive innovation and advance social good has been selected as an exemplary case study for showing how to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Huawei Cloud's data-AI converged solution helped Mengxiang Group lower TCO by 30% and improved the real-time analytical capacity by 50%. Huawei Cloud's GaussDB(DWS) service provides a wide range of analytics services, including T+1 batch analysis, stream analysis, small and micro-scale real-time analysis, IoT analysis, interactive analysis, and complex high-dimensional analysis, with a 100 PB of capacity. With support for ultra-large clusters and hybrid workloads, this solution guarantees steady SLA compliance in multi-tenant and high-concurrency scenarios, enabling Mengxiang Group to expand freely without worrying about IT.
With over 10 years of R&D and steady investment in the field of data technology and its mature, end-to-end data governance solutions, Huawei Cloud is well positioned to help customers from e-commerce, gaming, finance, insurance, logistics, retail, and more industries to advance business intelligence and unleash the power of data.
Mr. Zhang Ping'an ended his speech with the following: "Looking forward, we will continue to build and innovate by working closely with our customers, partners, and developers to build a solid, ubiquitous cloud foundation for an intelligent world, so that together we can seize new opportunities and share digital value."