Huawei Launches Fusion Strategy With Intel, SAP and Seagate

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. kicked off the Huawei Cloud Congress 2013 (HCC 2013) at the Shanghai Expo Center.

Building on its innovation in the IT infrastructure field in collaboration with industry partners such as Intel, SAP and Seagate, Huawei launched its "Fusion" strategy for the IT area at this year’s HCC. Themed "Make IT Simple, Make Business Agile", the two-day event attracts over 10,000 participants, including industry experts, partners, customers, media and analysts.

Since the first HCC held in 2010, Huawei has worked with global partners to promote the deployment and application of cloud technologies around the world.

"IT industry is an open industry and Huawei has a very clear strategic roadmap. We will focus on developing and offering future-oriented cloud data center solutions and products, including servers, storage, data center networks, cloud OSs as well as cloud management platforms," said Eric Xu, deputy chairman, Huawei. "Meanwhile, Huawei is committed to conducting open and close collaborations with partners across multiple industries, jointly offering innovative, competitive and differentiated ICT products and solutions to global enterprises, helping customers realize informationization."

Open collaboration is central to the success of the ICT industry. With a strategy to develop an open industry architecture and enhance integration within the industry ecosystem, Huawei is dedicated to developing closer collaborations with partners around the world, jointly offering effective and agile technology solutions to customers to help enterprises improve business efficiency.

"IT is an area of strategic growth for Huawei. With unwavering commitment to technology innovation, we are devoted to the ongoing development and evolution of the IT domain," said Zheng Yelai, president, IT product line, Huawei. "Today, we have a team of over 10,000 technical experts in IT R&D facilities around the world, including in Europe, Canada and Russia. Through collaboration with these facilities and our partnerships with leading universities, technology institutes and key industry players, we are able to provide reliable IT products and solutions that help customers enhance competitiveness and achieve business success in the era of ICT convergence."

The highlight of this year’s HCC is the launch of Huawei’s Fusion strategy, which combines an array of IT technologies, including computing, storage, virtualization and data center technologies, to lay the foundation for an open platform that enables third-party system integration, simple deployment, simple management and simple operation and maintenance of enterprise IT infrastructures. At the event, Huawei unveiled and showcase a series of IT products and solutions developed to support the Fusion strategy, including the world’s first "converged data plane" storage philosophy, a fully-distributed cloud OS FusionSphere 3.0, the high-performance converged all-in-one appliance FusionCube 2.0, and a converged big data infrastructure platform integrating storage, filing and analysis.

The first of the benefits of Fusion strategy is to help enterprises simplify IT deployment and reduce business launch time. The second is to help enterprises streamline O&M and to reduce TCO. And the third is helping enterprises to simplify management and thus improve business efficiency.

Delivering on its commitment to customer-centricity, Huawei has been striving to understand customers’ needs, innovate hand-in-hand with customers, helping customers realize business success. Building on the cloud platform independently developed by Huawei, and consolidating software development resources in the industry, Huawei helped Shanghai Tower, a new landmark of the city, deploy China’s first Building Information Modeling (BIM) cloud for engineering construction. BIM Clouds can enable engineering construction companies to rent computing infrastructure, software and system resources on the Internet according to their needs, reducing the costs for hardware deployment and system maintenance. During HCC 2013, a launch ceremony was hosted by Huawei in conjunction with the Shanghai Tower to unveil the BIM cloud.

By offering competitive products and solutions based on its customer-centric approach to innovation, Huawei is gaining recognition from industry customers across government, transportation, energy and power, finance and large enterprise sectors. As of August 2013, Huawei has constructed 330 data centers worldwide, including 70 cloud data centers, and enabled over 260 cloud computing customers around the world to explore the business value of cloud technology with Huawei. In addition, it deployed the world’s largest and most complicated desktop cloud system, which supports 100,000 users on simultaneous business operations within the company.

Meanwhile, it also recorded progress in the storage and server markets, becoming the first Chinese vendor to be included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers, as well as its list of global mainstream storage vendors. In the first quarter of 2013, the shipments of Huawei’s storage solutions ranked number one in the China market, while the shipment volume and capacity both ranked number eight globally. The shipment of Huawei servers was ranked number three in China.