Cisco's toughest rival: Huawei Cloud Computing

It is clear that the telecoms equipment giant has become a deterrent after making it equipment.

The market engine of "information power plant"

A mention of "cloud computing", the industry has a variety of feelings, a view that this is a huge industrial chain, market Research institute Forresterresearch data show that the global cloud computing market will increase from 2011 to 40.7 billion U.S. dollars to 2020 more than 241 billion U.S. dollars; The other is that cloud computing has been fired, like the heat of the internet of things, has not yet felt where there is internet of things, the internet of Things has become a local government, various scholars in the mouth of the fashionable noun.

However, Huawei it product line CTO Li Sanqi in a professional language explained clearly: cloud computing is a technology, the traditional data center is a stand-alone computing architecture, and cloud computing using a "distributed computing architecture" can greatly improve the data center resource utilization, Thus it becomes a new model of computing storage and network resource management.

"In layman's parlance, this is an ' information plant ', just as we may have to have generators, buy petrol, and use it ourselves in the early days of electricity." But then, with power plants and power grids, it is possible to access electricity by plugging in the socket. So from this point of view, cloud computing is a kind of technology that can subvert the existing market and industrial structure. Yang Guoxun, deputy director of the National Informatization Advisory Committee, explains.

This is a huge change in storage technology, leading to a huge overhaul of telecoms and it products and the consequent reshuffle of the telecoms IT equipment industry.

Almost all telecommunications IT equipment giants are Shang, Google proposed a "strong cloud", Microsoft has opposed to the "cloud + End", Hewlett-Packard even proposed 2 billion dollar cloud project financing plan.

The adjustment of Huawei's beaches

Huawei is no doubt the face of a telecoms device maker. According to Huawei's first half of the 2011-year results, Huawei sales in the first half amounted to 98.3 billion yuan, an increase of 11%, operating profit of 12.4 billion yuan, most of which comes from the sale of system equipment and terminals to operators.

However, in the face of such a rapid global cloud computing tide, no enterprise can sit idly by. At a Huawei Cloud-computing conference last year, Huawei President Ren said: "On the cloud platform we have to be more open and unite more and more people to do things together and achieve a total win." ”

A change in Huawei began.

Huawei said it would set up its product line at the Huawei Cloud Computing Conference held in Shenzhen November 1. It product line is a layer of direct investment of Huawei Board of directors, under the Cloud platform domain, server and storage domain, data center solution domain and Media network domain.

In fact, at the beginning of this year, Huawei adjusted its organizational structure to a larger extent, setting up a network of operators, business, personal consumption and four other business groups.

The company's business is Huawei's new business group, Huawei plans to achieve global sales of 4 billion U.S. dollars this year, the world reached more than 15 billion U.S. dollars in 2015, and strive to reach 20 billion U.S. dollars.

"Huawei now has a strong cloud computing research and development team, in the cloud computing more than 6000 people, and will continue to increase, is expected in 2012 years more than 10000 people." "Li Sanqi revealed that Huawei has a comprehensive layout in cloud computing.

In November 1, Huawei also announced the "Cloud Sail Plan 2011", the first clear of Huawei's three major cloud computing strategy: The big Platform, the promotion of business and application of the cloud, open and win.

The toughest opponent in Cisco's eyes

The industry believes that Huawei's foray into cloud computing is unlikely to be entirely smooth, as Huawei is clearly going to have a huge impact on traditional it giants, and the traditional it giants must retaliate.

Cisco CEO Chambers has called Huawei "the toughest adversary", while HP, IBM, Juniper and others are Huawei's main competitors in business.

Huawei's advantages in cloud computing are evident from Huawei's recent developments in cloud computing.

China Unicom's first cloud computing project this year, involving 10 provinces and cities desktop cloud Platform and desktop terminal construction, divided into four sections for procurement, eventually Huawei and Cisco each obtained two of the target segment, become one of the two big winners. At the same time, Huawei has also been in Shanghai, Sichuan, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other provinces and China Telecom to explore the application of cloud computing model landing.

This shows that, with the help of the operator, Huawei has an obvious advantage in the data center business related to operators.

And in other types of markets, He Dabing, chief executive of BG Marketing at Huawei Business, said Huawei's hope was to build an open platform to attract partners from all sectors to come together to open up the market instead of being alone, meaning that Huawei would no longer rely on the proven direct-selling model of the carrier era, But should vigorously expand relies on the channel distributor the distribution pattern.

The biggest advantage of Huawei's business, he argues, is Huawei's strong research and development capabilities, with 6000 people currently working on cloud computing and 10,000 next year.

The server domain is a success story for Huawei. It is reported that into the server market only a few years ago, the first three quarters of this year, Huawei server in the domestic server manufacturers ranked first in sales, the cumulative contract sales of 185 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 136%, is expected to achieve 2011 annual contract sales of 250 million U.S. dollars. Huawei's IT product line server and storage Product Management Minister Yu Zhou said that by the end of this year, Huawei will become the largest domestic server manufacturers.

In the face of these opportunities, Xu, chief executive and president of Huawei's corporate business, said excitedly, "the rise of cloud computing has given Huawei an excellent opportunity to grow, including its business, which includes cloud computing and the overall ICT solution, with a revenue of $2 billion trillion last year, doubling to $4 billion this year;" 2012 business target of 7 billion U.S. dollars, 2015, the challenge of 15 billion-20 billion dollars. ”

(Responsible editor: Songtao)