ANTHONY SAVVAS CLOUD 2.0
Optical Cloud Expansion
China’s Huawei is on a long march to build a true industry ecosystem to support organisations’ digital transformation e orts through the cloud, reports Antony Savvas . As part of its e ort, it is seeking new alliances that will generate the open standards and technologies to help develop “Cloud 2.0”
ANTONY SAVVAS
A t its annual Western announced that the “new ICT” market and corporate digital transformation e orts were now its prime objectives, as the communications giant seeks to further build up enterprise sales, which had already reached over $75bn in 2016. Europe Partner Summit in Paris this April, Huawei
a community that leads the way in digitally transforming the world.” So which sectors
are leading Huawei’s phenomenal growth?
He said that big data and analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), corporate digital transformation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, software-defined networking and storage, and other business areas are all driving Huawei’s evolving optical networking strategy. CLOUD 2.0 He said “Cloud 1.0” was all about the likes of Amazon, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce and the services they provide, but that “Cloud 2.0” would see Huawei play a leading role in delivering cloud-based digital transformation and a BDII (business-driven ICT infrastructure). Huawei is looking to widen its existing relationships with partner companies including Orange, Telefonica and T-Systems, and bring
Ruiqi Fan addressing attendees at this year’s Western Europe Partner Summit.
ENABLING THE ENTERPRISE
BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM An open partner ecosystem for the development of this strategy is something that Huawei wants to focus on. The company said it will assist partners to construct an ecosystem that will be “independent” and “regenerative”, in other words continually evolve to meet the needs of both the communications industry and its end customers. In this vein, in addition to setting aside the $300m to support business
in others, to support the delivery of evolving business applications in the cloud. As part of its aspirations, Huawei has put aside $300m to support business pipeline development with Huawei partners. “There will be continuous research and development in the future to support the all optical networks required, covering silicon photonic chips and all optical cross connects,” said He. Software- defined networks (SDNs) will also play a leading role, he added.
Leon He, president of Huawei Enterprise Western Europe, told hundreds of partners at the meeting: “As the business community continues its transition into the digital age, Huawei aspires to be an enabler. We provide one-stop enterprise ICT infrastructures
across clouds, pipes and devices to enable such
client businesses to remain competitive. Together with our partners and customers, we are committed to building
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