The digital transformation race is driving exponential growth of cloud computing in the post-pandemic phase and as the cloud becomes the digital backbone of business, Huawei Cloud paves the road to the global market.
According to Gartner’s research report in April 2022, entitled ‘Market Share Global IT Services’, Huawei Cloud ranks among the top five in the global IaaS market, second in China, third in Thailand, and fourth in the emerging Asia-Pacific region.
“Digitalisation and intelligence are the most certain trends for the future development of human society. Enterprises should firmly embrace the cloud to achieve leap-forward development,” Ken Hu, the Rotating Chairman of Huawei, said at Huawei Connect 2022 held in Bangkok under the theme of “Unleash Digital with Everything as a Service” on September 19. For the first time outside of China, this event will roadshow internationally, including to Dubai, Paris and Shenzhen.
Mr Hu suggests organisations for digitalisation successfully by developing digital infrastructure, resolutely embracing cloud to achieve leapfrog development, and promoting the development of local digital ecosystems.
Parade of cutting edges technologies
Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud’s Global Marketing and Sales Service, commented that at least 15 products and services will be available soon covering cloud natives, namely, CCE Turbo, a container engine that can scale out 3,000 pods in one minute to help customers easily cope with traffic surges. Another Ubiquitous Cloud-Native Service (UCS), the industry’s first distributed cloud native that enables enterprises to centrally manage their cross-cloud, cross-region services to achieve consistent experience. Cloud-native innovation enables enterprises to achieve faster application agility and modernisation, accelerating enterprise digital transformation.
In the AI development field, Huawei is building ModelArts to help AI developers efficiently complete data annotation, model training, and model deployment in one-stop-shop mode.
The AI+RPA service enables enterprise contract processing and financial reimbursement to be intelligent. Spatiotemporal computing services create accurate 3D modelling for smart cities.
“Embracing AI with the cloud will lead to more innovation and faster time to market. For example, Pangu Drug Molecule Model helps the first affiliated hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University discover super antibiotics using AI-assisted drug R&D.”
AI is adopted to pre-train foundation models for faster discovery of new drugs. ‘Drug X’, the world’s first such drug in nearly 40 years, is a result of slashing the R&D cycle of lead drugs from an average of 10 years to one month and cutting R&D costs by 70%.
Bringing customers together with “Go Cloud, Go Global” Program
Zhang Ping’an, CEO of Huawei Cloud, reveals the latest unique program “Go Cloud, Go Global” which enables Huawei to help cloud-empowered enterprises go global with its global marketing, service and ecosystem support derived from Huawei’s globalisation and localisation experience in more than 170 countries and regions as well as industry insights and practical experience in hotspot areas.
“We not only enable our customers to transform their business digitally through the cloud but we also support them to expand overseas more rapidly,” Zhang Ping’an said.
For example, Huawei Cloud has helped ReverseAds expand its services from Thailand to Singapore and to South America. ReverseAds has obtained financing of $24 million. This program will be going global for more enterprises to grow more easily with the cloud.
Moreover, Huawei has cooperated with partners to release the Go Cloud, Go Global ecosystem to continuously enable ecosystem partners. By aggregating more than 38,000 partners and over 3 million developers, Go Cloud, Go Global will help more cloud-based enterprises achieve business success globally.
Huawei has also launched the Asia-Pacific branch of Cloud Native Elite Club (CNEC), providing a platform for global cloud-native professionals to share and connect with each other in China and within the region.
Zhang Ping’an said: “Our cloud services are dedicated to building the one global network capability. This is the future we are looking at: ‘Everything on the cloud. Everything a cloud service’.”
“We build and take care of the infrastructure – the servers, storage, networks, redundancy, security and all the rest – so you don't need to build your own data centres. With a local connection to our cloud, it takes just one click to get Infrastructure as a Service. It’s as easy as turning on a tap, at lower cost and smaller carbon footprint."
By leveraging its strength in telecom network carrier expertise, Huawei directly connects to over 1,700 carrier networks globally, building a high-speed backbone network, and a 50 millisecond high-quality user experience service circle.
Soon, Huawei Cloud will launch regions in Indonesia and Ireland. By the end of this year, it will have 29 regions and 75 availability zones, covering 170 countries and regions. It aggregates more than 38,000 partners globally, 3 million developers, and 7,400 applications on the cloud market.
To date, Huawei Cloud has integrated over 240 services and over 50,000 APIs, bringing the latest AI, application development, and big data technologies and development tools to the cloud, helping enterprises move from “good cloud” to “good cloud use”.
Accelerating digital transformation in Asia Pacific and Thailand
The Asia-Pacific region is the fastest-growing mainstream public cloud provider. Huawei Cloud has already served more than 20 financial customers, over 100 government customers, and more than 170 Internet and cloud-native valued customers in the region.
Thailand is Huawei’s strategic overseas market for cloud service with currently three available zones helping 15 industries, 300 local partners and thousands of customers. This makes Huawei Cloud the fastest-growing mainstream public cloud provider in Thailand and TOP 3 in the Thai market
Testifying to how important the Thailand market is for Huawei in the Asia-Pacific region and globally, Bangkok is the first overseas station in of Huawei Connect 2022, enabling Huawei to bring new advanced technologies closer to customers and to provide better service to the local market.
Driven by Thailand 4.0 and 5G ASEAN leader readiness leading it to be on course to becoming the Digital Hub of ASEAN, Huawei will be supporting its digital transformation by providing quality services continuously to customers in Thailand. For example, its cloud native platform fuels the banking services of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) on Digital Lending. These faster financial services attracted 45,000 digital users with a total credit limit of 204 million baht within the first three months.
Startup is one of key target markets migrating to the cloud under Huawei Cloud’s global start-up program. The program provides cost optimisation, technical support, training, and business resources. It aims to have at least 10,000 startups globally in the next three years. Currently, over 120 startups in the Asia-Pacific region have joined the program.
Huawei Cloud always stands ready to help customers and partners in Asia Pacific dive deeper into digital transformation. To this end, it proposes three initiatives: act with strategic resolve, embrace cloud native, and cultivate digital talent.
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