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2024May16May 16,2024Huawei Cloud Launches Innovative Cloud Solutions and Programs to Accelerate Intelligence across Middle East and Central Asia<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 & 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 & 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;"> </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;"> </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> </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>
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2024May15May 15,2024COMPASS 2024: Huawei Cloud "Cloud-nects" Businesses in Latin America and China for New Growth<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>
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2024May15May 15,2024Huawei, Mango TV and Kenyan Media Houses Sign MoU to Accelerate Media Intelligence for Kenya<p style="text-align: justify;">[Nairobi, Kenya, May 14, 2024] Huawei Cloud hosted a successful Spark Discovery Kenya Media & Entertainment Summit in Nairobi. The summit culminated in the signing of Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) between Huawei, leading new media platform Mango TV, and prominent Kenyan media houses, including Royal Media Services, and Standard Group. According to the agreement, all parties will actively work together to promote cultural exchanges and media industry cooperation between China and Kenya. This strategic collaboration leverages Huawei Cloud's leading audio and video cloud services and advanced media infrastructure, empowering Kenyan media houses to adopt cutting-edge technologies, drive innovation, and deliver exceptional experiences.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">"AI is fundamentally transforming the media and entertainment industry," said Gao Fei, President of Huawei Eastern Africa Region. "We recognize that African media companies are actively embracing AI-powered new media initiatives. Huawei, with its 26-year presence in Kenya, is committed to providing a digital ecosystem platform that fosters collaboration between Kenyan and Chinese industry peers."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/Garvin Gao Photo20240515.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Gao Fei, President of Huawei Eastern Africa Region</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Timothy Owase, CEO of Kenya Film Commission, representing the Hon. Ababu Namwamba, CS for Youth affairs, Creative Economy and Sports, Republic of Kenya, was the Chief Guest at the Ceremony. He highlighted that: “the Kenyan government recognizes the importance of the digital space as a critical distribution channel for content that emerges from the creative industries. It is critical that we all put our efforts towards seeing how we are able to have products that can go across the World. This can be done with collaboration and partnerships. I want to encourage the Chinese businesses and Kenyan businesses to collaborate, especially in the creative 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/Timothy Photo20240515.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"><em>Timothy Owase, CEO of Kenya Film Commission</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">He concluded: “I welcome Mango TV to the Kenyan landscape and mention Huawei for the effort you have put in place in terms of what you are providing through Research & Development and the kind of ideas, products and solutions that you are putting into the market”.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Looking ahead, Huawei will ramp up its cloud investment in Kenya. This commitment translates into providing the leading AI technologies, a wider range of industry-specific applications, and enhanced customer service. Ultimately, these efforts aim to solidify a foundation for the sustainable development of Kenya's digital economy.</p>
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2024May13May 13,2024Huawei Cloud Introduces AI-Native GaussDB and Database Pioneer Program to Drive Thailand's Digital Leap<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>[Bangkok, Thailand, May 13, 2024] </strong>Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd. today hosted the Huawei Cloud Database Summit Thailand 2024. The theme of the summit was "GaussDB: A Better Way to Database". In collaboration with local customers and partners, Huawei introduced GaussDB solutions to enable various public and private industries in Thailand to access AI-Native Database technologies and accelerate digitalization. Huawei Cloud also launched its GaussDB Pioneer Program in Thailand to promote innovation and application of database technologies in the country. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Cloud GaussDB, a Better Way to Database with Six Leaps</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/20240513David.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>David Li, CEO of Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd.</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">David Li, CEO of Huawei Technologies (Thailand) Co., Ltd., gave an opening speech at the event. He said: “The wave of digitalization and intelligence has transformed traditional infrastructure. Database is the foundation of this wave. To fully unleash the data value in the era of Big Data and AI, there are four main challenges. First, how to process massive, distributed, and heterogeneous data with databases. Second, how to maintain high performance under high concurrent processing. Third, how to ensure all-round security and address the challenge of data breaches. And fourth, digitalization trend that sweeps all industries demand a rich local ecosystem. We proudly introduce GaussDB, our next-generation distributed database to Thailand, which will offer a powerful solution to unlock the full value of data to give the world a better choice.”</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">GaussDB has been under development for over 20 years, since 2001, and it has been fully validated in practical applications. For example, Huawei’s commercial database has been migrated to GaussDB, reducing the time needed to generate annual reports from 30 days to just 10 days. One of China’s top banks has used GaussDB to transform legacy databases supporting over 150 business systems.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/20240513张宇昕.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Bruno Zhang, CTO of Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Bruno Zhang, CTO of Huawei Cloud, detailed six major leaps that make GaussDB a better way to future database.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">First, there is the architecture. GaussDB adopts the cloud-native architecture, with three resource pools, amazing performance, and fantastic multi-tenancy support, eliminating performance bottlenecks. Second is the models. GaussDB integrates multi-model databases, eliminating data bottlenecks and supporting more new businesses. Third is availability. GaussDB provides hardware-software synergy and dual-cluster strong consistency to eliminate availability bottlenecks. Fourth is intelligence. A large model for databases has been built and interactive O&M are enabled on GaussDB, eliminating experience bottlenecks. Fifth is the security. GaussDB supports E2E security with full encryption and anti-tampering, eliminating security and privacy bottlenecks. Last is the ecosystem capabilities. Third-party databases can be seamlessly migrated using automated tools and through cooperation with partners, eliminating ecosystem bottlenecks.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Cloud Database: The Bedrock for Data Value Maximization</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/20240513fengke.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Feng Ke, Chief Architect of Huawei Cloud GaussDB </em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Feng Ke, Chief Architect of Huawei Cloud GaussDB, detailed the pivotal shifts currently reshaping the database landscape. These shifts include a transition from centralized to distributed systems, a move from hardware to software for reliability, a switch from fixed to cloud-based elastic resources, a leap from manual to intelligent maintenance and optimization, and an evolution from single-point to more comprehensive security measures.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To cater to the varied business needs of its customers, Huawei Cloud has introduced an array of database services and tools. At the core of this suite are three enterprise-class databases: GaussDB, GaussDB for MySQL, and GeminiDB—a versatile multi-model NoSQL database.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>GaussDB Pioneer Program Launched in Thailand</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Celine Cao, CEO of Huawei Cloud Thailand, made a speech “Building a Smart, Digital Future by Taking a Cloud Leap”. She shared that Huawei Cloud is now among the top three vendors in Thailand’s public cloud market, and ranked No. 1 in the hybrid cloud market. “Now, we are proud to be the preferred cloud provider for customers across various industries in Asia Pacific. More Importantly, our team has been offering robust support and working with partners to build a local ecosystem in Thailand”, she said.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em> </em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/20240513celincao.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Celine Cao, CEO of Huawei Cloud Thailand</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">During the Summit, Huawei Cloud launched the GaussDB Pioneer Program in Thailand, with three privilege packages tailored to different stakeholders:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>Customer Pioneers Package: The first 100 customers to sign up will be granted a one-month free trial of GaussDB, complemented by unwavering support from Huawei Cloud during their first month of use.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>Partner Pioneers Package: The first 100 partners are invited to co-create solutions with Huawei Cloud, sharing in business development opportunities and benefiting from an additional rebate incentive.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>CNEC Members Package: The first 100 members to join the Huawei Cloud CNEC circle will have an exclusive opportunity to engage in monthly events. These events provide a platform for exchanging insights with global top minds and partaking in specialized training sessions.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Official Launch of Huawei Cloud GaussDB Pioneer Program in Thailand</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/20240513fabuyishi.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>CNEC (Cloud Native Elite Club) and GaussDB (DWS) 3.0 Launched in Thailand </em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud convened a CXO roundtable to discuss database challenges, new database features required in the intelligent transformation process with over 50 business and tech leaders in sectors such as finance, telecom and internet from APAC region.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, initiated CNEC in Thailand during the roundtable. He stated, “Through CNEC, Huawei Cloud will work with industry organizations, including CNCF and CAICT, to Help local enterprises connect to latest technologies, best practices, and industry trends and achieve digital intelligence.”</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20245/2040513donglibin.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In today's intelligent era, data is growing exponentially and becoming more diverse, while business operations are increasingly real-time and systematic. These trends present new challenges for data warehouses supporting data analytics, particularly in terms of scalability and performance. To address these challenges, Sang Wei, Vice President, Cloud Service Product Center, Huawei Cloud APAC, released GaussDB (DWS) 3.0, a new-generation high performance cloud-native data warehouse, with innovations spanning from decoupled storage and computing architecture, lakehouse, to on-demand creation of disaster recovery scale.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hands-on Lab: Real-Time Interaction with GaussDB </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the Hands-on Lab, more than 30 trainees followed instructors to experience GaussDB’s three advanced features, namely one-stop migration, NDPQ (near-data parallel query) and an intelligent assistant. The one-stop migration automation tools UGO and DRS can reduce manual workload by over 90%. The NDPQ function can improve the performance of complex queries by more than 10 times. With the intelligent assistant, users can obtain answers by asking questions.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">GaussDB provides a vast range of comprehensive solutions to remain competitive in the age of cloud and AI. These include high availability, mitigating data loss and inconsistencies while providing critical remote data recovery services. Its leading performance and scalability enables it to handle billions of complex queries in seconds. The AI-native GaussDB’s end-to-end intelligence guarantees 5 times diagnosis efficiency. GassDB is fully software-encrypted, earning industry’s highest security certifications. Most importantly, GaussDB is easy to deploy and migrate to. To date, there are already over 2,500 Huawei Cloud database deployments across sectors including finance, government, traditional business, internet, and manufacturing.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Deeply rooted in Thailand for 25 years, Huawei is strongly committed to Thailand’s digital development in line with its commitment of ‘Grow in Thailand, Contribute to Thailand’. Dedicated to embracing the upcoming intelligent world with its "All Intelligence" strategy, Huawei will continue to provide cutting-edge solutions, with a focus on cloud and AI technologies, to stimulate growth and efficiency, sharpen competitiveness, enhance local collaborations, and propel Thailand's transformation towards a future Digital Economy Hub of ASEAN.</p>
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2024Apr29Apr 29,2024Leap to Cloud! Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 Commercially Available in Asia Pacific<p style="text-align: justify;">[Bangkok, Thailand, April 29] At the Huawei Digital and Intelligent APAC Congress 2024, the Huawei Cloud Stack Summit, "Dive into Cloud and Accelerate Intelligent Upgrade", was held. At this summit, Huawei Cloud officially released Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3, the industry's first hybrid cloud for large AI models, and the <em>Visions of Diving into Cloud</em> white paper, empowering customers in Asia Pacific to accelerate data-AI convergence. Customers and partners, such as Office of the National Digital Economy (ONDE) in Thailand, Advanced Info Service (AIS) in Thailand, Bank Neo Commerce (BNC) in Indonesia, and Chinasoft International, delivered keynote speeches, sharing their experience on how to dive into cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/商用20240429.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud also launched the "Leap2CLoud" initiative at the summit, aiming to work with government and enterprise customers in Asia Pacific to leap from virtualization to cloud and unlock infinite possibilities of cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Today, the technological and industrial revolution is reshaping the innovation landscape and economic structure in Asia Pacific. Most countries and regions in Asia Pacific have developed strategies to drive digital transformation, accelerate cloud native adoption, expedite the convergence of data and AI, and modernize applications faster. Huawei Cloud Stack provides a dependable hybrid cloud solution that supports on-premises deployments for government and enterprise customers in Asia Pacific.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 Is Officially Released in Asia Pacific</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Enterprises in Asia Pacific are actively promoting data-AI convergence and the integration of innovative digital technologies into R&D, production, and sales. They are increasingly interested in diving into cloud. In this context, Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, announced the release of Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 in the Asia Pacific market. He said: "Huawei Cloud Stack has been reinforcing cloud services and key features. This brand-new version provides six highlights: a solid cloud foundation and five innovative capabilities covering databases, mainframe modernization, data lakes, large AI models, and industrial Internet."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/HuYuhai20240429.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, announcing the release of Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 in Asia Pacific</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Stack provides high availability, robust security, multi-architecture compute, and an open, trusted, more resilient cloud native infrastructure.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Stack has been stepping up efforts to boost innovation in the following key areas and making new technologies available on-premises as fast as possible:</p> <p><strong>· GaussDB: a distributed database with high performance and reliability</strong></p> <p><strong>· Mainframe Modernization: accelerating transformation of core systems</strong></p> <p><strong>· Converged data lake: promoting data sharing and circulation</strong></p> <p><strong>· Pangu Models: helping enterprises in every industry build custom large AI models in one stop</strong></p> <p><strong>· Industrial Internet: integration with AI for new industrialization</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Diving into cloud is a long journey. Huawei Cloud Stack is a partner customers can count on when they move to, use, and manage the cloud. They have been streamlining and optimizing product portfolios, professional services, and customer-oriented workflows since 2021, and so far, have launched more than 40 scenario-specific solutions tailored to customer needs. Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud Stack will continue to simplify technologies, develop more easier specific-scenario solutions, and share experience.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A Hybrid Cloud Helps Enterprises in Asia Pacific Build Custom Large AI Models</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The past few years have seen exponential growth of computing power, parameters, and data volume as well as a large number of revolutionary products like ChatGPT and SORA. AI is rapidly advancing. Johnny Lyu, CTO of Huawei Hybrid Cloud for International Business, said: "Huawei Cloud is committed to building a cloud foundation for an intelligent world. We created the industry's first hybrid cloud for large AI models by incorporating Pangu models into Huawei Cloud Stack. This solution helps enterprises build their own large AI models. We provide the industry's most comprehensive AI pipeline, including computing platforms, cloud services, development kits, and professional services. It enables numerous models and applications and empowers a myriad of industries."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">So far, Huawei Cloud Stack has worked with more than 10 large government and enterprise customers to develop industry models running on the hybrid cloud, consolidating extensive practical experience. Based on Huawei Cloud Stack, Shandong Energy Group deployed the industry's first large AI model for coal mining. This model has been deployed by 26 organizations or units under the Shandong Energy Group, covering more than 40 scenarios in nine professional domains.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/Johnny20240429.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Johnny Lyu, CTO of Huawei Hybrid Cloud for International Business, launching the industry's first hybrid cloud for large AI models</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Leap to Cloud</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">With the advent of AI, relying solely on virtualization cannot keep up with business growth. To accelerate digital transformation, it is vital for enterprises to embrace cloud computing and unleash value from cloud. To this end, Huawei Cloud launched the "Leap2Cloud" initiative. This initiative calls for government and enterprise customers and partners in Asia Pacific to seize strategic opportunities to bid farewell to legacy virtualization and 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.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/倡议20240429.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Huawei Cloud Stack launches the "Leap2Cloud" initiative</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Diving into Cloud and Ascending to New Horizons Together with Partners in Asia Pacific</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the summit, Tan Shijie, Vice President of Asia Pacific Cloud Solution Sales, introduced Huawei Cloud Stack's investment and achievements in Asia Pacific in his keynote speech. He said: "Over the past few years, with increasing innovation and excellent on-premises services, Huawei Cloud Stack has become a hybrid cloud leader in the emerging Asia-Pacific region (according to <em>Emerging Asia-Pacific Hybrid Cloud Market Report 2022</em> released by Frost & Sullivan). Huawei Cloud Stack was positioned ahead of all other providers in terms of market performance, technical innovation, and customer services, and was also ranked No. 1, in terms of market share, in Hong Kong (China), Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Maldives." And Mr. Tan, on behalf of Huawei Cloud for the Asia Pacific region, released the <em>Visions of Diving into Cloud</em> white paper. With continuous technological innovation and new technologies, services, and business models, Huawei Cloud looks forward to joining hands with customers and partners in Asia Pacific to dive into cloud and accelerate intelligent transformation of almost every sector.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/Leap2Cloud20240429.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Tan Shijie, Vice President of Asia Pacific Cloud Solution Sales</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Government</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Thailand's Government Data Centre and Cloud Service (GDCC) used Huawei Cloud Stack to establish a national government cloud. This cloud has supported Thailand's government departments, helping them develop digital services more easily and providing better public service capabilities in the fields such as e-health, public transportation, and customs.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Carriers</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">AIS leveraged the hybrid cloud solution from Huawei Cloud Stack to enjoy high stability, reliability, and robust O&M support in on-premises deployments while innovating fast using extensive hybrid cloud services. Huawei Cloud Stack also provides capabilities, such as cross-cloud DR and hierarchical orchestration and deployment, to help AIS deploy an open, secure cloud architecture.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Finance</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Stack helped BNC in Indonesia deploy an on-premises cloud platform. The platform automated deployment and enabled fast rollout of a vast range of services. It also provides efficient centralized maintenance, which lets experts in BNC stay more focused on innovation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">With innovative technologies and numerous industry-specific solutions, Huawei Cloud Stack serves more than 5,500 government and enterprise customers around the world. Moving forward, Huawei Cloud will continue to spur innovation, expand industry expertise, and develop more customer-centric services to help more Asia-Pacific customers move to, use, and manage the cloud better. Huawei Cloud looks forward to joining hands with more Asia-Pacific partners and customers to drive the constant development of digital economy in Asia Pacific.</p>
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2024Apr25Apr 25,2024Huawei Cloud Security Debuts at GISEC 2024, SecMaster2.0 Wins “Cloud Security Innovator of the Year”<p style="text-align: justify;">[Dubai, UAE, April 25, 2024] Huawei Cloud Security makes an impressive debut at GISEC Global 2024, showcasing its future-oriented cloud security governance framework, full-stack cloud-native security system, topnotch AI-empowered cloud security innovations, and exceptional cloud security best practices. During GISEC, Huawei Cloud launches its security operations center SecMaster 2.0, which is honored with "The Cloud Security Innovator of the Year" by UAE Cybersecurity Council united with ITP Media group</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/安全演讲120240430.png" width="450"></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Wan Tao, Chief Security Expert of Huawei Cloud Enterprise Digitalization and Cloud Transformation</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">During the GISEC, Wan Tao, Chief Security Expert of Huawei Cloud Enterprise Digitalization and Cloud Transformation, delivered a keynote speech, entitled "A Comprehensive Security System for Global Cloud Customers". Wan Tao emphasized that the cloud native security system of Huawei Cloud is rooted in the cloud platform and integrates assets, security, and secure operations together, making it the optimal solution for the digital intelligent world.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/安全演讲220240430.jpg" width="450"></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Zou Feng, Director of Huawei Cloud Security Governance</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Zou Feng, Director of Huawei Cloud Security Governance, delivered a keynote speech, entitled "Redefining Cloud Security Governance in the Digital Era: Governance as Code (GaC)" at the GISEC. He said by integrating GaC into the full lifecycle process of services, Huawei Cloud takes preventative, inspection, and corrective controls at right stages. Huawei Cloud leverages visualized automation tools to configure security policies at scale to keep its services compliant while protecting cloud workloads from ever-growing and ever-changing threats in digital environments.<strong><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/安全演讲3120240430.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="450"></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>SecMaster 2.0: Reshaping Secure Operations in the Cloud Era</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Cloud security operations face challenges of multi-environment management, exponential increase in complexity and frequency of APTs, and heavy reliance on experts and technical know-hows. To address these challenges, Huawei Cloud launched SecMaster 2.0. Chen Liang, Huawei Cloud Senior Security Architect, stated that SecMaster is a cloud-native, out-of-the-box SOC. It integrates 300+ threat detection models, including 70+ AI fine-tuned ones, 100+ predefined security playbooks, and 10,000 + compliance baselines to enable unified security management of on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud scenarios, accurate threat detection, and automated security orchestration and response.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/安全获奖120240430.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="450"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Huawei Cloud won the "Cloud Security Innovator of the Year" award</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">During the GISEC, Huawei Cloud won the "Cloud Security Innovator of the Year" award, jointly issued by ITP Media Group and UAE Cyber Security Council, which is the most influential authority in security sector in the Middle East, for its exceptional innovation and exemplified excellence in unified, intelligent, and automated cloud security operations powered by SecMaster.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">During the GISEC, Huawei Cloud held a cloud security forum named "Intelligent, Simplified Cloud-Native Security for Greater Resilience of Cloud Services". Security experts, system architects, analysts, and security governance experts from Huawei Cloud, its customers, and partners held in-depth discussions in the forum. Huawei Cloud demonstrated its capabilities of and practices in AI for Security, Security for AI, and end-to-end data security.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Cyber security and privacy protection are always Huawei's top priorities. As one of the fastest-growing clouds in the world, Huawei Cloud is both a provider and a practitioner of security capabilities and solutions. Looking to the future, Huawei Cloud will continue to be transparent, innovative, and dedicated in cloud security to safeguard not only Huawei Cloud but also the highly intelligent digital world.</p>
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2024Apr23Apr 23,2024Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 Is Officially Released in Hong Kong, with Six Highlights Inspiring a Leap to Cloud<p style="text-align: justify;">[Hong Kong, China, April 23, 2024] At Huawei Cloud Summit 2024 in Hong Kong, Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, announced the release of Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 in Hong Kong. Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 provides more than 110 on-premises cloud services and six highlights, aiming to help government organizations and companies in Hong Kong dive into cloud and spur innovation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud also launched a "Leap2Cloud" initiative to help more customers and partners in Hong Kong bid farewell to virtualization and embrace cloud transformation. Huawei Cloud envisions promoting wide adoption of the "dive into cloud" concept across all industries to unlock a new era of digital and intelligent transformation.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/玉海总20240423_1.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, said: "In April 2023, Huawei Cloud released Huawei Cloud Stack 8.2 in Hong Kong. Over the past year, we have been reinforcing our cloud services and key features. Today, we are set to release Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3. This brand-new version provides six highlights: a solid cloud foundation and five innovative capabilities covering databases, mainframe modernization, data lakes, large AI models, and industrial Internet. We strive to create greater value and better experience for government and enterprise customers and partners in Hong Kong."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Stack provides high availability, robust security, multi-architecture compute, and an open, trusted, more resilient cloud native infrastructure.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Stack has been stepping up efforts to boost innovation to support the following key capabilities:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· GaussDB provides a distributed database with high performance and reliability</strong>: GaussDB, in terms of high-concurrency handling, delivers excellent reliability and 30% better performance than rival products in the industry. It also provides flexible disaster recovery and one-stop migration capabilities, which are critical to core systems of government and enterprise customers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· Mainframe modernization accelerates transformation of core systems:</strong> Customers in many sectors like finance, energy, and manufacturing are eager to move their core systems from siloed legacy mainframes to open platforms. To address these requirements, Huawei launched the mainframe modernization solution using innovation in software, hardware, and services. The solution provides three cloud migration paths: re-hosting, re-platforming, and rearchitecting of core systems. It provides cloud-hardware synergy, more dependable processes, and scenario-specific solutions.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· A converged data lake improves data sharing and circulation:</strong> Huawei Cloud Stack provides three innovative services: MRS (a big data service), DWS (a data warehouse service), and DataArts Studio (one-stop data governance). It also provides an enterprises-grade real-time data lake that supports OLAP and HTAP workloads and unifies data standards. With Huawei Cloud Stack, customers in diverse sectors like government and finance are now able to achieve efficient cross-source, cross-domain data collaboration and real-time data analysis and sharing.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· Pangu Models help customers in every industry build tailored large AI models in one stop</strong>: Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 is the industry's first hybrid cloud that can be used to deploy large AI models. It provides the industry's most comprehensive AI pipeline including computing platforms, cloud services, development suites, and professional services. It enables numerous models and applications and empowers a myriad of industries.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· Industrial Internet is integrated with AI to enable new industrialization:</strong> Huawei Cloud Stack provides a reference architecture for a new industrial Internet platform. It enables industrial all-domain connections, data intelligence, and application innovation. It helps resolve pain points in different stages of industrial production and drives integration with AI.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Stack is a partner customers can count on when they move to, use, and manage the cloud. They have been streamlining and optimizing product portfolios, professional services, and customer-oriented workflows since 2021, and so far, have launched more than 40 scenario-specific solutions tailored to customer needs. In the near future, Huawei Cloud Stack will continue to simplify technologies, develop more easier specific-scenario solutions, and share experience.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Mainframe Modernization: A New Trusted Solution</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the conference, Lv Jinjiang, CTO of the Huawei Mainframe Modernization BU for International Business, introduced Huawei's mainframe modernization business unit (BU), along with a trusted solution they designed for the sectors such as finance. Lv Jinjiang said: "Mainframes are critical infrastructure for running financial core applications. Making breakthroughs in foundational technologies to achieve independent innovation has become a challenging problem worldwide. The last challenge of this type was ERP and database replacement. The Huawei Mainframe Modernization BU includes Huawei's technical and service experts in various fields. This BU works with our customers and partners to make breakthroughs in key technologies. We aim to establish an open cloud native platform to modernize core systems faster."</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/吕金疆20240425.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Lv Jinjiang, CTO of Huawei Mainframe Modernization BU for International Business</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Leap to New Growth with Operational Excellence</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Deploying a cloud platform is just the first step. What is more important is helping customers move to, use, and manage cloud, so they can create greater value. Gong Qing, Director of Huawei Hybrid Cloud Operations Department, said: "Huawei Cloud Stack provides a comprehensive cloud operations solution based on our extensive experience serving customers across many sectors like government, finance, and enterprises. The solution provides a broad set of capabilities, covering cloud migration tools, cloud native transformation, proactive O&M capabilities such as the design of a high availability solution, and operations system establishment. It helps customers move faster to dive into cloud and thrive with digital power."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/贡青20240425.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Gong Qing, Director of Huawei Hybrid Cloud Operations Department</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Stack serves more than 5,500 customers around the world. In China, Huawei Cloud Stack is a leader in nine markets, such as the government cloud and financial cloud infrastructure markets. Huawei Cloud is also a leader in the emerging Asia-Pacific hybrid cloud market. Huawei Cloud Stack is a trusted partner who always stands by their customers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Leap to Cloud</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In 2024, Huawei Cloud launched the "Leap2Cloud" initiative to work in tandem with customers and partners in diverse industries in Hong Kong to seize strategic opportunities in intelligence. Huawei Cloud is prepared to help customers bid farewell to legacy virtualization and embrace cloud native, AI, and big data. Huawei Cloud Stack fuels business growth with accelerated innovation and unleashes greater power from cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/倡议20240425.jpg" width="550"></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Leap2Cloud News Photo</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud Stack will continue to stay at the forefront of technical innovation, to provide more competitive products and solutions to customers, to dive deep into cloud, and to promote comprehensive intelligence.</p>
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2024Apr23Apr 23,2024Huawei Cloud Helps Hong Kong (China) Leap to Intelligence as a Future AI Industry Highland<p style="text-align: justify;">[Hong Kong, China, April 23, 2024] Today, the Huawei Cloud Summit Hong Kong, themed "Leap to Intelligence", brought together more than 500 prominent figures including government leaders, industry experts, business leaders, and partners to dive into technological innovation, industry practices, and ecosystem development. In addition to showcasing key products and technologies such as Huawei Cloud Stack8.3, Pangu models, Ascend AI Cloud Service, GaussDB, and data-AI convergence, Huawei Cloud also unveiled CloudPond and the Hong Kong AI Acceleration Program in an effort to build Hong Kong (China) into a global AI industry highland.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, said in her remarks that Huawei's three-decade accumulation of ICT technologies, innovation, and expertise is now open to Hong Kong (China) as their launchpad towards intelligence with better technologies, industry solutions, and ecosystem resources.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/石总照片20240423.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></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;">Ir. Tony Wong, JP, Government Chief Information Officer of Hong Kong SAR, stated that The Hong Kong SAR (China) has been committed to giving full play to cloud computing in smart government and smart city. Launched in September 2020, the next-generation Government Cloud Infrastructure Services (GCIS) leverage a secure, stable private cloud and a new application system architecture to facilitate government departments in developing e-gov services at ease and lower costs. Fostering an AI industry ecosystem is also very important to Hong Kong's future. We expect to witness brand-new AI cloud services from Huawei, a leader in the AI realm, propel AI R&D and industry development and ultimately benefit the people of Hong Kong (China).</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/政府嘉宾20240423.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Ir. Tony Wong, JP, Government Chief Information Officer, Hong Kong SAR, China</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">According to Mark Chen, President of Huawei Cloud Solution Sales, to turn Hong Kong (China) into a global hub of innovation and technology, Huawei Cloud has packaged leading technologies and best practices into three "Natives": Cloud Native, which a solid cloud foundation; AI Native, which unleashes digital productivity; and Ecosystem Native, which brings the industry together.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/陈亮总20240423.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Mark Chen, President of Huawei Cloud Solution Sales</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p><strong>Cloud Native: A Solid Cloud Foundation</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud now has 88 AZs in 30 geographical Regions with KooVerse, its global cloud infrastructure. It is the only cloud vendor to deploy a 4-AZ data center in Hong Kong (China), offering top-notch security and stability for customers, not to mention the 9 ms ultra-low latency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Customers now have more options to go cloud as Huawei Cloud has extended to wherever needed through its full-fledged distributed cloud infrastructure, including dedicated cloud, Huawei Cloud Stack, and CloudPond.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This is the first time CloudPond is known to the world. Designed with a "One CloudPond, All Cloud Services" concept, CloudPond is an edge service that extends the public cloud to customer premises, featuring cloud-edge collaboration, local data storage, and high stability desired for use cases in smart manufacturing, unmanned driving, and remote diagnosis scenarios.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Stack, now in version 8.3, provides six highlights: one solid cloud foundation and five innovations covering databases, mainframe modernization, data lakes, AI models, and industrial Internet. Envisioning the wider adoption of cloud, Huawei Cloud also launched a "Leap2Cloud" initiative to help more customers and partners in Hong Kong(China) bid farewell to virtualization and embrace the cloud.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/玉海总20240423.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, announcing Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To ensure network and service stability, Huawei Cloud has SRE centers across the world, translating the inherent uncertainty in rapid business growth into a deterministic SLA for customers. This effort is represented by an SLA of over 99.99% for major Huawei Cloud services.</p> <p>As William Fang, Huawei Cloud Chief Product Officer said, no industry is spared from digitalization and intelligence. The key to navigating this change is to make the most of cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/国伟总20240423.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"><em>William Fang, Huawei Cloud Chief Product Officer </em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>AI Native: Unleashing Digital Productivity</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud has injected systematic innovation to power Hong Kong's digital intelligence from three dimensions.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">First, Pangu models adopt a three-layer "5+N+X" architecture to provide not just general capabilities, but also industry-tailored capabilities especially for government, media, finance, and retail.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Second, an AI cloud service that can be used right out of the box provides stable and reliable AI compute to power efficient model training and inference. This service also includes a full-link cloud-based toolchain to support migration and development. Additionally, Huawei Cloud offers a dedicated zone of foundation models optimized for Ascend Cloud, enabling users to quickly build applications on AI models.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Last but not least, there is no AI without data. GaussDB, a next-generation AI-native distributed database that excels at high availability, security, performance, scalability, and intelligence, allows for a smarter way for database deployment and migration, and greatly improves data processing for AI applications to run smoothly. Huawei Cloud also employs AI to process data, thereby feeding higher-quality data for AI models.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud works with local organizations and enterprises to develop foundation models and AI applications to suit local needs.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>With Huawei Cloud's diverse, efficient, and stable computing power, HKGAI has achieved a significant milestone in AI innovation in Hong Kong by developing the first foundation model trained in the region.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>According to Hong Kong Observatory, Huawei Cloud's Pangu Weather Model extends the forecast period of computer model weather forecasts from ten to fifteen days.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>Huawei Cloud published Hong Kong Finance White Paper with PwC, propelling financial security compliance, innovation, and steady growth in Hong Kong (China).</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Ecosystem Native: Better Together</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">A digital industry ecosystem thrives only with joint efforts.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud will work with industry partners such as Cyberport Hong Kong (China) to establish an AI industry cloud platform and AI enablement center in Hong Kong to upskill partners.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Talent is a must for AI transformation. At this summit, Huawei Cloud announced the Hong Kong AI Acceleration Program which aims to support 100+ enterprises for AI innovation in the next three years.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/董总照片20240423.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Good technologies are a social good. At this summit, William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, shared how Huawei Cloud technologies have helped detect rare diseases, protect the rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia, and predict extreme weather. Mr. Dong proposed the "Cloud for Good" initiative, calling for concerted efforts from customers and partners from Hong Kong (China) and beyond to promote digital inclusion and a better world with cloud and AI.</p>