Huawei Cloud: Six Solutions Innovations in Hardware, Software, Data, Connection, Architecture, and Hybrid Cloud

At Huawei Connect 2017, Joy Huang, VP, IT product line, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.,, in a keynote speech titled All Connected, All Cloud, All Intelligent, announced six innovative solutions designed to help enterprises with digital transformation.

Joy Huang, VP, IT product line

These solutions include innovations in hardware, software, data, connection, architecture, and hybrid cloud.

The company also shared success stories and practices learned in working with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile company Ltd. on digital transformation.

“The digital transformation in many industries will bring human beings to an intelligent world in the future, and innovation will be the driving force of the revolution,” said Huang. “Increasingly, innovation will take place in the cloud, and the cloud will need the all-round strength. Huawei Cloud is committed to be an enabler of intelligent world, delivering continuous innovations of technologies and capabilities on Huawei Cloud to help customers succeed in their digital transformation.“

Huawei Cloud released six solutions
in hardware, software, data, connection, architecture, and hybrid cloud:

• Hardware innovation: Atlas is a company’s generation intelligent cloud hardware platform. In the scenarios of the public cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and performance computing (HPC), It pools resources of graphics processing units (GPUs), HDDs, and SSDs using heterogeneous resource pools and intelligent orchestration. The platform provides on-demand hardware resources to meet the requirements of different service models, doubling resource utilization. In addition, logic servers can be deployed within seconds, supporting quick service rollout.

• Software innovation: Firm’s DevCloud enables tools, capabilities, and process services on Huawei Cloud, sharing the company’s accumulated development experience with enterprises.

• Data innovation: Firm’s Cloud enterprise intelligence (EI) services assist enterprises in data innovation to create an intelligent world. Huawei Cloud offers platform services, such as deep learning, graph analysis, and search, and also AI services, such as image tagging, intelligent audits, graph rebuilding, automated handling of customs declarations using OCR, and intelligent packing, enabling smarter enterprises. To meet the enterprise requirements for a distributed IT architecture, the firm introduced three secure and reliable distributed database services on the company’s cloud, including the distributed OLAP enterprise data warehouse LibrA, distributed OLTP enterprise database Derecho, and distributed MySQL database Taurus.

• Connection innovation: Company’s Cloud IoT platform is a full-stack platform that includes SIM card management, device management, and application enablement layer, having features of secure connection, cross-industry ecosystem, and easy integration. The platform provides a spectrum of industry enabling suites and templates, so that the firm’s Cloud better matches IoT and Internet of Vehicles scenarios.

• Architecture innovation: Firm’s Cloud released the FusionCloud Stack solution and introduced enterprise storage services with 99.9999% reliability. As an extended module of the public cloud, It can be deployed in enterprises’ data centers. If the network connecting to the public cloud fails, the local system can continue to provide services to enterprises. This solution maintains a consistent user experience of the public cloud, more secure data sovereignty, low latency, and zero local maintenance, helping migrating enterprises’ mission-critical services to cloud securely.

• Hybrid cloud innovation: The FusionBridge hybrid cloud solution is based on the OpenStack cloud platform, with a injection cascading architecture that is used to implement homogeneous or heterogeneous hybrid cloud. This solution provides a cross-cloud unified service catalog to shield the differentiation of using multiple cloud platforms. With an undifferentiated cross-cloud service image using HyperContainer, cross-cloud overlay network automation, and unified vAPP deployment service, the solution  implements cross-cloud distributed deployment and on-demand expansion of customer services. FusionBridge also provides customers with a GUI or an ‘Operation and Maintenance’ portal to help customers reduce workloads and simplify cross-cloud management.

Since the Cloud BU’s formation in March 2017, it has seen a 238% increase in the company’s cloud user base, and has released 40 new cloud services, including the data warehouse service, advanced DDoS service, and CDN service. As of now, the firm has released a total number of 85 cloud services. In the meantime, over 4,500 new features have been added to Huawei Cloud.