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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>
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2024Apr22Apr 22,2024Huawei Cloud: An Agile, Intelligent, and Resilient Cloud for Smart Finance and FinTechs in Brazil<p style="text-align: justify;">Recently, the <strong>Huawei Cloud Brazil Finance & FinTech Summit</strong> was held in Sao Paulo. The theme was "Accelerating Industry Intelligence with Huawei Cloud". Driven by guiding policies and increasing market demands, financial institutions have embraced the cloud and intelligent transformation and are working with cloud vendors to innovate financial services.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Kevin Gao, the President of Huawei Public Cloud Business Dept, said: "Huawei Cloud is always poised to bring you industry-leading technologies like databases, big data, and cloud native, as well as our best resources and services deployed across 3 AZs and professional services. We are ready to help you take a leap to intelligence. So far, Huawei Cloud serves over 500 financial customers worldwide, including top institutions such as the six largest state-owned banks in China."</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240422-1高.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Kevin Gao, President of Huawei Public Cloud Business Dept.</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The shift from traditional finance to all-scenario finance results in the changes in customer needs – ubiquitous experience, agile services, maximized data value, and a high-availability system.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Alex Zhao, the General Manager of Global Finance for Huawei Public Cloud Business, demonstrated how Huawei Cloud's solutions address these demands. He said that Huawei Cloud is helping financial institutions go digital and intelligent through three innovations. The first is agile innovation, which enables resources to be quickly provisioned and services to be rolled out faster. Huawei Cloud has developed a digital core solution that can handle large-scale high-concurrency services and facilitate agile iteration. With the Mainframe Modernization solution, applications can be migrated automatically, and there is no need for service reconstruction. The second is intelligent innovation, in which big data and AI are used to improve market insights, decision-making, and risk control capabilities,which greatly improves financial service efficiency.. The third innovation is unprecedented resiliency, which ensures the stability, reliability, and security compliance of financial services. For example, a modular multi-region multi-active solution limits the blast radius of faults to a single module. It can achieve 99.999% service availability.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240422赵.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Alex Zhao, General Manager, Global Financial Domain, Huawei Public Cloud Business Dept.</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Based on experience serving over 100 top financial customers, Huawei Cloud has identified four key stages of cloud transformation for finance & FinTech: preparation, application migration, data migration, and cloud governance. Huawei Cloud introduced six excellent solutions to Brazil: distributed cloud native infrastructure, cloud native databases, data-AI convergence, storage disaster recovery, an IT governance system (Landing Zone), and deterministic operations. Together, these solutions help provide financial institutions with an enjoyable cloud journey.</p> <p><strong>Preparation: Landing Zone for Lean IT Governance</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Chen Longfei, the General Manager of Huawei Cloud Landing Zone, explained how Huawei Cloud helped a top state-owned bank in Southeast Asia set up a lean IT governance system. Currently, risks in global banking have been on the rise. Many banks urgently need to improve their service agility and reduce security compliance risks. Huawei Cloud Landing Zone provides them with a lean IT governance system that allows for one-click account creation and provisioning, centralized security network operations, data leakage prevention, and multi-account compliance audits. It helped this bank significantly improve their management efficiency, ensured service isolation and security compliance, and eliminated more than 200 risky or non-compliant operations.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240422chen.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Chen Longfei,General Manager of Huawei Cloud Landing Zone</em></p> <p><strong>Application Modernization: Cloud Native and Containerization </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Zuo Shaofu, the Chief Cloud Native Product Officer of Huawei Cloud, shared how Huawei Cloud helped one of the world's largest banks build a cloud native infrastructure with millions of computing cores. Focusing on multi-active deployment, cross-region disaster recovery, service innovation, agile iteration, central management, and IDC modernization, Huawei Cloud delivered a reliable, efficient, and innovative cloud native infrastructure. With an architecture that was a step ahead of other vendor offerings, Huawei Cloud leads the cloud native industry with 30% higher performance than the competition while reducing costs by 20%.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240422zuo.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Zuo Shaofu, Chief Cloud-native Product Officer, Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p><strong>Data Migration and Management: Databases + Big Data</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Eric Chen, the Chief Data Solution Architect of Huawei Cloud, shared how Huawei Cloud data-AI convergence helped a top Chinese bank,which is a prominent retail banking service provider,implement a data-driven operations strategy. Huawei Cloud combined its MapReduce service (MRS, an open source big data service) and Data Warehouse Service (DWS) into an industry-leading data lakehouse. Convergent data and AI capabilities have helped the customer significantly improve its data-driven experience. The average time required to process a batch task was shortened by 2 hours, and the user satisfaction for ad hoc query response was doubled.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240422eric.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Eric Chen, Chief Data Solution Architect, Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei has been engaged in database development for more than 20 years, with thousands of R&D engineers and 700+ database patents. Danny Chen, the Senior Principal Architect of Huawei Cloud Database Product Dept, described how Huawei Cloud migrated the credit system (including 20 million lines of stored procedures) of one of the world's largest banks to the cloud within 150 days. Huawei Cloud provides professional database services to facilitate architecture selection, high availability assurance, data migration, workload replay, database performance comparison (before and after migration), and optimal cutover policies. More than 95% of database objects were automatically migrated, and the cost for restructuring applications was reduced by over 90%. The credit system has been running stably on cloud for three years without any major faults.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240422danny.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Danny Chen,Senior Principal Architect of Huawei Cloud Database Product Dept.</em></p> <p><strong>Cloud Governance: Storage Backup and DR + Deterministic Operations</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Colin Lin, the President of Huawei Cloud Storage Service Product Dept, shared the use of Huawei Cloud backup and disaster recovery solution in industries including finance, automotive, and telecom. He said: "Huawei Cloud has over 18 years of experience in storage R&D. We provide end-to-end anti-ransomware, multi-cloud backup and disaster recovery, and one-stop professional services to ensure secure, reliable, efficient, and easy-to-use backup and disaster recovery".</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240422lin.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Colin Lin,President, Huawei Cloud Storage Service Product Dept.</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Deterministic operations comprehensively consolidate cloud management capabilities. Fish Wang, Huawei Cloud Latin America SRE Director, shared the case of China's top joint-stock commercial bank. The four objectives of deterministic operations are: a culture of quality, high-availability architecture, dynamic risk management, and intelligent O&M. With these objectives, Huawei Cloud helped this bank achieve the service availability SLO of 99.999%, making O&M revolution completed ahead of digital transformation. This case let customers know how to set up a deterministic operations system to change the way they manage the cloud. With deterministic operations, the O&M will become more stable, secure, and trustworthy with more efficient resource utilization and more agile services. In this process, O&M teams will be change makers. In the future, enterprises will shift from traditional O&M to deterministic operations for more efficient O&M and cloud management.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240422wang.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Fish Wang,Huawei Cloud LATAM SRE Director</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the concluding speech, Ivan Yang, Huawei Cloud Brazil CEO, said that, "Huawei Cloud has covered 30 Regions and 88 AZs around the world through KooVerse, our global cloud infrastructure. 3AZ deployment in Brazil is Huawei Cloud's most important strategy. This strategy works with local services to deliver excellent customer experience for FinTechs in Brazil. The success stories from major customers in China, Thailand, and other areas prove Huawei Cloud's leading capabilities in the financial industry, and present new perspectives of business success for Brazilian customers. "</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240422yang.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Ivan Yang,Huawei Cloud Brazil CEO</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud has been rooted in Brazil for many years. It integrates long-term technical accumulation and global resources. We look forward to working with customers and partners to accelerate the digital transformation of the financial FinTech industry in Brazil.</p>
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2024Apr04Apr 04,2024Huawei Cloud Launches Startup Program for Nigeria<p style="text-align: justify;">[Lagos, Nigeria, April 3, 2024] Huawei Cloud Startup Summit Nigeria 2024, themed “Unleash the Power of Startups” kicked off in Lagos. Over 150 industry startups, venture capitals, and partners in Nigeria gathered to share ideas on startup innovation, ecosystem collaboration, and digital transformation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Delivering a keynote speech on the summit theme, Hugo Hu, Director of Huawei Cloud Nigeria, called on Nigerian startups to jointly innovate and shape the future of Nigeria digital economy.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240408Hugo.jpg" width="500"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Hugo Hu, Director of Huawei Cloud Nigeria</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Nigerian startup ecosystem is expanding significantly. However, the path of innovation is not only full of opportunities, but also challenges, such as technology, funding, data security and compliance. Hu stressed that the key to accelerating innovation is to embrace the cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is committed to providing an ecological platform for Nigerian startups, as well as help startups obtain cost-effective cloud resource with ease , and reach business opportunities at a faster pace. “We strongly believe Huawei Cloud is a better choice for Nigerian startups. ”, Hu added.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em> <img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240408Paul.jpg" width="500"></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Paul Adigu, Ecosystem director of Huawei Cloud Nigeria</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">It was further disclosed that Huawei Cloud is committed to empowering 100 Nigerian startups to innovate and grow on Huawei Cloud over the next two years. Paul Adigu, Ecosystem Director of Huawei Cloud Nigeria said that through three key initiatives — advanced cloud platform, startup talent development, and business resources —Huawei Cloud startup program will provide startups leading cloud-native infrastructure, professional services, and up to $150,000 credit voucher for cloud adoption.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em> <img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20244/20240408尼日尼亚合照.png" width="500"></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Launch ceremony of Huawei Cloud </em><em>Startup Summit Nigeria</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei has thrived in Nigeria and contributed to Nigeria digital transformation for more than 24 years. Huawei Cloud aims to build a cloud foundation for an intelligent world leveraging the concept of "Everything as a Service". Huawei Cloud is launching a Local Cloud in Nigeria in 2024, and has built 88 AZs in 30 Regions around the world.</p>
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2024Mar25Mar 25,2024Huawei Cloud Proposes Serverless AI at KubeCon EU 2024<p style="text-align: justify;">At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024, held in Paris on March 21, Dennis Gu, Chief Architect at Huawei Cloud, pointed out, in a keynote speech titled "Cloud Native x AI: Unleashing the Intelligent Era with Continuous Open Source Innovation", that the integration of cloud native and AI technologies is crucial for driving industry transformation. Huawei Cloud plans to keep innovating open source projects and collaborating with developers to bring about an intelligent era.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20243/gujiongjiong20240325.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="600"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Dennis Gu, Chief Architect at Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>AI poses key challenges to the cloud native paradigm.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In recent years, cloud native technologies have revolutionized traditional IT systems and accelerated digital advancements in areas such as the Internet and government services. Cloud native has introduced new possibilities, such as lightning-fast sales and agile operations, like DevOps, through microservice governance. These changes have had a significant impact on people's lives, and the rapid growth and widespread adoption of AI, including large-scale models, have become core to industry intelligence.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">According to an Epoch survey in 2023, the compute required for basic models has been increasing by 10 fold every 18 months, which is five times faster than the growth rate predicted by Moore's Law for general compute. The emergence of this "New Moore's Law" due to AI and the prevalence of large-scale AI models presents challenges for cloud native technologies. In his speech, Dennis Gu outlined the following key points:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>Low average GPU/NPU utilization drives up the cost of AI training and AI inference.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>Frequent failures of large model training clusters decrease training efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>The complex configuration of large-scale models results in demanding high AI development requirements.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>· </strong>Deploying large-scale AI inference carries the risk of unpredictable end-user access delays and involves potential data privacy issues.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p><strong>Huawei Cloud AI innovation offers developers ideas to tackle challenges.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The increasing sizes of AI models demand more compute, which creates challenges for cloud native technologies but also creates opportunities for innovation in the industry. Dennis Gu shared stories about Huawei Cloud's AI innovation, offering developers a reference point to tackle the challenges.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud used KubeEdge, a cloud native edge computing platform, to create a multi-robot scheduling and management platform. With this platform, users can use natural language commands to tell the platform what to do, and the system will coordinate multiple robots at the edge to accomplish complex tasks. The system is designed with a three-part architecture (cloud, edge node, and robot) to address challenges such as natural language comprehension, efficient scheduling and management of multiple robots, and cross-type robot access management. It uses large models to execute natural language commands and performs traffic prediction, task assignment, and route planning. The three-part architecture greatly enhances the flexibility of the robot platform, enhances management efficiency by 25%, reduces the time required for system deployment by 30%, and cuts down the time needed to deploy new robots from months to days.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">For one leading content sharing platform in China, which has over 100 million active users per month, its primary service is the recommendations on the homepage. This feature is powered by a model with almost 100 billion parameters. To train this model, the platform uses a training cluster with thousands of compute nodes, including hundreds of ps and workers for a single training task. So, there is a lot of demand for better topology scheduling, high performance, and high throughput. Volcano, an open source project, enhances the support for AI or machine learning workloads on Kubernetes and offers a range of job management and advanced scheduling policies. Volcano incorporates algorithms like topology-aware scheduling, bin packing, and Service Level Agreement (SLA)-aware scheduling, resulting in a 20% improvement in overall training performance and a significant reduction in O&M complexity for the platform.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Serverless AI is at the forefront of cloud native development.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Many enterprises and developers face the challenge of running AI applications efficiently and reliably while minimizing operation costs. Huawei Cloud has developed a solution to this problem by identifying the key requirements of cloud native AI platforms and introducing a new concept called Serverless AI.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">During his speech, Dennis Gu explained that Serverless AI is designed to simplify complex training and inference tasks by intelligently recommending parallel policies, making it easier for developers to use. It also includes an adaptive GPU/NPU automatic expansion function that dynamically adjusts resource allocation based on real-time workload changes, ensuring efficient task execution. Additionally, there is a fault-free GPU/NPU cluster in Serverless AI, freeing developers from concerns that hardware faults may interrupt services. Most importantly, Serverless AI is compatible with mainstream AI frameworks, allowing developers to easily integrate their existing AI tools and models.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Serverless AI is also a very significant development for cloud service providers. Serverless AI provides multiple benefits like improved GPU/NPU utilization, more efficient hybrid workloads for training, inference, and development, and green computing through better energy efficiency, so you can save money on electricity. Furthermore, Serverless AI enables GPU/NPU sharing among multiple tenants in difference spaces or at different time, improving the resource reuse rate. The most significant aspect of Serverless AI is its ability to provide guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) and SLAs for both training and inference tasks, ensuring stable and high-quality service.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the sub-forum, technical experts from Huawei Cloud noted that the AI or machine learning workloads running on Kubernetes have been steadily increasing. As a result, numerous companies are constructing cloud native AI platforms over multiple Kubernetes clusters that spread across data centers and a diverse range of GPU types. Karmada and Volcano can intelligently schedule GPU workloads across multiple clusters, supporting fault transfer, and ensuring consistency and efficiency within and across clusters. They can also balance resource utilization across the entire system and the QoS of workloads with different priorities to address the challenges of managing large-scale and heterogeneous GPU environments.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Karmada offers immediate, reliable automatic application management in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud scenarios. An increasing number of users are using Karmada to create adaptable and effective solutions in production environments. Karmada was officially upgraded to the CNCF incubation project in 2023, and the community is looking forward to more partners and developers joining in.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Volcano Gang Scheduling is a solution for AI distributed training and big data scenarios and addresses the issues of endless waiting and deadlock in distributed training tasks. With task-topology and I/O-aware scheduling, the transmission delay of distributed training tasks is minimized, improving the training performance by 31%. Additionally, minResources resolves resource contention between the Spark driver and executor in high-concurrency scenarios, optimizes the degree of parallelism, and improves the performance by 39.9%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Dennis Gu believes that the key to improving AI productivity lies in the agility of cloud native technologies and the innovation of heterogeneous AI computing platforms. Huawei Cloud is dedicated to open source innovation and aims to work with industry peers to usher in a new era of intelligence.</p>
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2024Mar23Mar 23,2024Huawei Cloud and Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau Announce Regional AI Model<p style="text-align: justify;">[Shenzhen, China, March 23, 2024] Huawei Cloud and the Meteorological Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality jointly announced that its regional AI weather forecasting model has officially been put into use. The regional model is one of the first of its kind. It enables the rapid generation of five-day forecasts for a precise 3 km range. The announcement was made an event in Shenzhen to mark World Meteorological Day 2024.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20243/气象小智202403231344401.jpg" width="600"></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Named “Zhiji” Regional Model in Chinese, a reference to both AI technology, Chinese culture and beautiful weather, the model is based on Huawei Cloud's Pangu-Weather Model and pre-trained on high-quality regional datasets. It can generate 5-day forecasts with a spatial resolution of 3 km for Shenzhen as well as its neighboring regions. The 3km range is much narrower than typical global models which work with a spatial resolution of 25km. The forecasts cover a wide range of meteorological elements, including temperature, precipitation, and wind speed.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Compared with typical global weather models, this regional model’s capacity to capture smaller-scale meteorological details is much improved. During its trial run starting in February this year, the regional model demonstrated high accuracy in predicting multiple cold-temperature periods in Shenzhen, offering a innovative source for cold weather warnings. Going forward, the team plans to further enhance the model and refine its ability to provide accurate precipitation forecasts.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">For decades, the Meteorological Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality has explored new ways of providing better weather services and enhanced disaster preparedness to meet the needs of a megacity like Shenzhen. "Weather forecasting is crucial to disaster prevention and mitigation," said Lan Hongping, Deputy Director of the Meteorological Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality. "Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau has been consistently exploring ways to refine weather forecasting and warning services, and we see AI as an important way to do that. Through our joint innovation with Huawei Cloud, we expect to further improve our services so we can better serve the residents of Shenzhen and the city's future development."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing Dept, said, “The launch of this regional AI weather model for Shenzhen means that AI can provide new ways to enable accurate, smaller-scale weather forecasts. It also marks an important scientific development following the publishing of a paper on Pangu-Weather Model in renowned scientific journal Nature last July, demonstrating how scientific discoveries can be applied well beyond the laboratory in order to provide tangible benefits.”</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Dong added, “In the future, Huawei Cloud will continue to innovative in AI weather forecasting methods and extend them to benefit more sectors, provide more refined weather services and enhance disaster preparedness.”</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">According to the World Meteorological Organization, weather climate and water-related hazards caused close to 12,000 disasters between 1970 and 2021, resulting in the deaths of more than two million people and causing economic damages of $US 4.3 trillion. Early warnings can significantly reduce casualties and can prevent economic losses. The more precise weather prediction is, the more effective early warnings are. With its ability to process large volumes of information and detect patterns from them, AI can continue to make weather forecasting more precise and speed up prediction time. Across the globe, meteorological bureaus have incorporated AI models developed by technology companies into their forecasting considerations.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The announcement of a regional model represents another significant development for Pangu-Weather. In July 2023, a paper on Huawei Cloud’s Pangu-Weather Model was published in leading science magazine Nature. In August, Huawei Cloud’s Pangu-Weather Model was made available publicly on the website of the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forcasts (ECMWF). Pangu-Weather Model was also named a top 10 scientific achievement in China for 2023. In December 2023, Huawei Cloud also announced an initiative to work with the Thai Meteorological Department to develop a Pangu-Weather Model for Thailand.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The monsoon season in Southern China is approaching. Huawei Cloud and the Meteorological Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality plan to work together to further verify and comprehensively evaluate this regional AI weather forecasting model during this season, as well as continue to enhance the model and use it to provide useful information for weather forecasters.</p>