"Cross-border talk" Huawei that Dawn Cloud

Borrowed a title used by the IT manager World. As a case study of Huawei's corporate Culture (mashup series), let's talk about the Huawei IT Cloud product line. This view represents only individuals and does not represent the official Huawei.

If the reader has already had the patience to read the "Huawei Impressions of the Remix" series of nearly ten articles. We must have some knowledge of Huawei. Within Huawei, group resources are called "platforms", and product lines are created on this group platform. So each of Huawei's molecular product lines, including the IT cloud-computing product line, carries a series of basic genes from the Huawei Group ("a mix of Huawei's impressions" that lists some of the core genes).

Huawei's cloud computing technology has a long history than the cloud product line itself, dating back to the 2006 year, when the Central Software Research Institute in Huawei (and later 2012 Lab Strong-related entity organization" has set up a team to start research and development of virtualization and cloud computing technology, which is part of the product incubation phase. 2008 , Huawei has started the production and pilot of desktop cloud solutions, cloud data center solutions, and Huawei's virtualization, The technologies and products of cloud management software are integrated into the desktop cloud and cloud data center solutions. The transformation from technology incubation to product transition marks the founding of Huawei's cloud computing product line.

The early cloud computing product line was the PDT organization (PDT, ProductDevelopment Team Products Development Group), which, together with other products, belonged to an SPDT organization ( SPDT,Super Product Development Team ). PDT and SPDT are organizational units in the IPD(Integrated Product Development Integrated products development) process. A single SPDT , like a relatively independent small company, is a dashed line across the solid lines organization with research and development, marketing, sales, service,HR and other molecular organizations. An SPDT independent accounting, need to examine the input and output, with independent companies operating no different.

The difference between the establishment of Huawei product line and the incubation stage of technology is that the product line should bear the technical product, adapt to the customer demand, sales monetization, and finally realize the profit for the purpose.

The SPDT that cloud computing belonged to was known as the "New Frontier". In addition to desktop cloud, cloud data center, and CDN products. The entire SPDT is affiliated with the "core network" product line (larger organization). At that time Huawei had not set up business BG. The core network belongs to a product line in the field of telecommunications. At the time, the main customers of cloud computing products were telecom operators and Huawei's own internal IT.

After years of trial operation, Huawei 's desktop cloud solution began to be formally deployed at Huawei's Shanghai Institute. Huawei Internal It has also made a big change in the year, that is, the implementation of Huawei it Cloud, desktop Cloud is one of them, while the implementation of the it infrastructure cloud. The Institute is the first ringtones of Huawei's desktop cloud solution deployment, reaching the 7000 terminal, where the research and development staff have switched to desktop Cloud Office mode. The commercial deployment and stable operation of the institute's desktop cloud marked the beginning of a formal market entry for Huawei's cloud computing solutions.

Although the first commercial ringtones is the desktop cloud, it is actually commercially available for Huawei's cloud computing products, including virtualization, cloud Management (which is more significant than the former). Huawei's first product Blueprint for cloud computing has been formed and is being implemented.

At that time, the characteristics of Huawei's operator-oriented market did not allow Huawei to look at the corporate market (and not very much about VMWARE ). As a result, it was considered that telecom operators would become an important player in the public cloud market. The typical vendors for the public cloud are Amazon and Google. Huawei hopes to launch public cloud products to suit telecom operators in the public cloud business. The public cloud is characterized by super-scale, when Google Server scale has reached millions,Amazon has been about the size of the server. Therefore, Huawei's cloud platform load-carrying capacity, from the architecture is designed to move to a large-scale cloud data center route.

Huawei's cloud computing products have begun to expand in the National telecom operator market (the establishment of cloud computing marketing organization), while in the industry market, Huawei Cloud computing products are also beginning to try to cooperate with third-party partners to promote. In the same year, Huawei's desktop cloud and cloud data center solutions began to be deployed in multi-ground telecom operators, including Zhejiang Mobile and Shanghai Unicom. In addition to Huawei's cloud computing solution, which is part of the core network's cloud computing product line, Huawei also has a product line, namely, the business software sector, as well as cloud computing solutions for the market, the soft-sector cloud computing solution, and the integration of VMWARE products. Within Huawei, this is the so-called "horse racing" mechanism. The two departments are competitive relations. This competitive relationship is a pressure on both sides to try to do their own product well.

as cloud computing concepts become more and more hot, cloud computing is also growing in the company's internal attention level. The ultimate concern rose to the President of the company, where the boss listened to the cloud computing product line reporting. This ultimately reached a consensus within the company that cloud computing will be an important development direction for the future ICT industry.

for the first time in the cloud computing conference, as the boss for an unprecedented attendance at the press conference ( unclear whether the company was founded for many years, he first saw the media), in the face of news media on Huawei's development prospects in the field of cloud computing, namely: " We are on the cloud platform to catch up, beyond Cisco in the not too long time, in the cloud business we have to catch up with Google. Let all the people in the world, like electricity, enjoy information applications and services. ”

Once Huawei has identified an important new direction, all the internal actions are followed. I am not sure whether it is based on cloud computing considerations , but in the year, Huawei into the industry market, the full expansion of the IT and cloud computing market decision-making has been formed.

2011 year, the Enterprise network (later Enterprise BG ) was established, The span style= "Font-family:calibri" >it product line was established to implement mergers and acquisitions for Huawei Symantec, and to integrate cloud computing, data center, Symantec Storage, and the original industry soft server division into a joint it product line, until 2011 Year 11 Huawei Cloud Computing Conference at the beginning of the month, Huawei it The product line has been fully displayed in front of the crowd. The author in 2011 years 4 Month entry, Just in time for the drastic changes in the internal organization of the year, so drastic internal organization changes, but did not affect Huawei Cloud computing products external sales and development, which fully benefited from the Huawei Company's IPD process, The span style= "Font-family:calibri" >IPD process ensures continuity of all products and services in the event of a change in the organization of personnel. 2011 years, Huawei in a number of telecom operators have cloud computing projects, in the enterprise market has also begun to have a project landing, such as: Sinotrans Cloud Platform, Shanghai medical Cloud Platform, Many provinces and cities, such as government cloud platform. 2011 the cloud Computing conference for the year, Huawei officially released the Cloud Data center solution.

in the year, the Enterprise BG formally established, Huawei it product line integrated into the Enterprise BG, this organizational change, so that Huawei Cloud computing products into the industry market to provide organizational and human security.

The biggest difference between the industry market and the telecom operator market is that in the years, the industry market mainly needs virtualization software, followed by private cloud solutions. And the industry market is relatively small IT size, need more is a lightweight software version. It was also at this stage that the design of Huawei's cloud computing products began to focus on lightweight software for the industry market. VMware 's cloud computing products are also starting to become the main competitor of Huawei's cloud computing software. Competing with VMware , lightweight alone is not enough and requires a range of performance, reliability, stability, functionality, ease of use, and more. Huawei's cloud computing software has done a great job in terms of performance, reliability and stability, but functionally, there is a distance from VMWARE , which makes it hard for Huawei's cloud computing software to be sold independently. The author personally participated in the gold tax three period of virtualization software bid, the result is the end of the defeat.

Fortunately, the east is not bright in the West, Huawei has another advantage in the overall solution, because Huawei also has cloud data center solutions, desktop cloud solutions, which allows Huawei Cloud computing software to continue to grow rapidly in market share. 2012 year, there is an extremely important killer product launch, that is the integration machine . fusioncube integrates compute, distributed storage, networking, virtualization, cloud management software and integration. Not only achieve extremely high integration (space saving 50% above), but more crucially, it is based on x86 The architecture provides high performance, stability, and reliability, not only the core business deployment model of "minicomputer high end Storage" is completely overturned, but also far exceeds the performance of minicomputer and high-end storage, while the database processing performance more than once known as the world's first oracle Exadata . fusioncube product was launched by Huawei Internal it First Use , Data Warehouse analytical processing for the financial core business intelligence business (performance improved 3-5 times). fusioncube so far has made a large number of business cases, become a minicomputer and high-end storage.

In the aspect of cloud computing software, the core software ofFusioncube is distributed storage software fusionstorage. The launch of Fusionstorage was two years before VMWARE 's vSAN software problem, and Fusionstorage once launched, supporting the operation of Oracle ,DB2,SAP HANA,MS SQL and other database Data warehouse systems, and obtained the certification of these database vendors, far away from other vendors behind.

over the years, the number of commercial ringtones for Huawei Desktop Cloud Solutions has been hundred, and within Huawei has built a desktop cloud platform, all Huawei developers migrated to the development of cloud platform, the number of cloud data center reached dozens of. Huawei's cloud computing products have started to be deployed on a wide scale worldwide. Huawei's big data products also began to enter the market quietly this year.

After years of hardships (a metaphor for the cloud-computing product development team), Huawei's cloud computing product FusionSphere can finally blossom independently in the market. years of the author and finally failed the gold tax three project, in the year a big comeback, Huawei Cloud computing software won the bid. And the number of large customers began to increase rapidly: State Grid,CNTV, Xinhua, telecommunications, Mobile, unicom and so on. Huawei's big Data products are officially released after more than 1 years of market tempering (longer incubation period).

Huawei's cloud computing product line, together with the IT product line, is again separated from the enterprise BG , and is part of the product and solution system, independent of enterprise BG and carrier BG. Huawei's focus on cloud computing is once again balanced between telecoms and industry markets. for Huawei Cloud computing, there are two major new strategic developments, one that embraces the open framework of the OpenStack Open Source community, and one that is a big leap forward in the cloud for telecom business.

The full embrace of OpenStack marks the end of the Huawei Cloud platform to open the path, in addition to mark Huawei products are no longer limited to computing virtualization and distributed Storage (virtualization), more investment in cloud management, software-defined network development. The boundaries between cloud computing and it are increasingly blurred, and it is almost as if cloud computing is both itandit is cloud computing.

The latter is very important for Huawei, which is the strategic direction of the entire group. Because the telecom business embraces cloud computing, it means that cloud computing has become the focus of Huawei's overall strategic development. So far, Huawei Cloud is no longer confined to the IT cloud product line, almost every product line is related to cloud computing. The IT Cloud product line is the foundation and spindle of the group's cloud-related products.

Huawei's cloud computing products continue to be on the market. A growing number of big customers are known, and the new market share of cloud computing has reached the top two. The two major operators are virtualized, and Huawei shares are close to or more than half of the share. Gartner 's x86 virtualization and all-in-one four quadrant were selected by Huawei as the only Chinese manufacturer in the four limit. Huawei Big Data Products Fusioninsight A breakthrough in the domestic large commercial banks, become the financial industry Big Data star products. Huawei Desktop Cloud has launched a fully self-developed software solution that enables more than 6 Wanduan deployments.

over the years, hybrid cloud has become another theme of Huawei's cloud computing products to meet the large demand for hybrid cloud deployments at home and abroad. Development never ends, still continues.

Huawei does not record history, especially its own history, which is not the same as many enterprises. Because Huawei believes that looking back on history will put itself in a daydream of nostalgia for the past. To survive, companies must always look forward. But standing on the third party's point of view, the history of Huawei will help us understand and explore the rules of the development of enterprises such as Huawei, and absorb the experience and use it for ourselves. The growth of Huawei's it Cloud product line is a vivid example of Huawei's corporate culture.

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