Huawei invests cloud computing as core strategic research and development investment 10%

On November 1, Huawei, the traditional communications equipment giant that unveiled its cloud computing strategy in 2010 and aggressively entered the business market, has once again demonstrated its commitment to a breakthrough in the IT market.

October 31, Huawei officially announced the establishment of the Huawei Board of directors directly invested in the IT product line, while the company's IT product line CTO Li Sanqi in the Dialogue Phoenix technology, Huawei has made cloud computing as the core strategy for the next decade, and will continue to increase investment in the field of cloud computing. It is reported that the current Huawei in the field of cloud computing investment in research and development has exceeded the overall strength of the company's research and development 10%.

Cloud computing Chenghua for Core strategy

For Huawei, the new IT product line will help Huawei achieve "differentiated customization" under the big platform, although it has been involved in cloud computing for several years. Li Sanqi revealed that Huawei has defined it as a "strategic engagement period" in the first few years of its product line and massive foray into cloud computing.

According to the introduction, Huawei is currently in the cloud computing more than 6000 people, is expected in 2012 years more than 10000 people. Its research and development team is located in the United States, Canada, Shenzhen, Beijing, Xian, Hangzhou, Shanghai and other fields. The Silicon Valley team has become the "nerve center" for Huawei's cloud computing power. According to Huawei Business CMO He Dabing, Huawei has regarded cloud computing as the engine of the new IT industry for the next decade, and is a long-term strategy to help Huawei become an ICT leader.

Earlier, Huawei Enterprise business President Xu had told Phoenix technology that Huawei's business sales will reach $4 billion this year--nearly one-fold higher than last year, Huawei hopes 2015 data will be as high as 15 billion-20 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 20% of Huawei's sales, become Huawei's most important growth.

For Huawei, cloud computing has greatly expanded the scope of business applications, and only large enterprises have the ability to play.

At present, in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Wuxi and other places, the local government set off a new round of cloud computing development boom, all over the launch of cloud computing demonstration projects, this gives Huawei such manufacturers have brought great opportunities.

Zhijun, the company's executive vice president, said that in 2010, 10% of the government's applications were in the cloud, and by 2020 the ratio would reach 44%. He also said Huawei expects the 2014 cloud computing industry to reach $56 billion trillion, three times times the size of 2010.

Li Sanqi also believes that the mainland's cloud computing market and the foreign-developed countries in the cloud computing market is different, because of large enterprises and local governments to promote the development of the cloud computing market is relatively rapid.

It is understood that Huawei is currently in China Mobile, Jiangsu Mobile, Shanghai Unicom, Shanghai Telecom, Sichuan Telecom, Shanghai Zhabei Health Bureau, Shanghai Secondary School, Shanghai Municipal Commission, Beijing Economic Commission, Fujian provincial government, such as the size of the deployment of cloud computing solutions.

Expect to build an open platform

As the "recruit" Huawei in the cloud computing market, the urgent task is to effectively open up the real demand for the market-which is completely different from the way Huawei followed the operators.

Li Sanqi that cloud computing can only be made into a large platform to meet the computing and storage requirements of future mass information. Cloud computing is not just a server, storage package, but a real technological change.

In this regard, Zhijun that cloud computing is an ICT technology in all walks of life, the application of various fields. From the perspective of application there will be a variety of clouds, no one person or enterprise can all.

Li Sanqi said that Huawei's cloud computing must go with partners to open up the market, because in this market sometimes even their own customers do not know where, Huawei needs to energy, medical and other industries familiar with partners to open up their own business.

Based on this judgment, Huawei chooses to promote the development of the industry in a cooperative way, what Huawei calls "the cloud of cooperation for business and application under a large platform".

Specifically, Huawei will focus on the telecom operators market, the desktop cloud as a starting point to promote the development of the cloud IDC market, to help telecom operators to achieve ICT transformation; On the other hand will be focused on enterprise and industry market, joint industry chain partners, enterprises and industries to provide cloud computing solutions.

It is understood that at present, Huawei has with Intel, IBM, Accenture, Citrix, CA and other more than 300 partners to create cloud computing industry chain.

He Dabing said Huawei hopes the model is to build an open platform to attract partners from various industries to come together to open up the market, instead of being alone.

However, in the face of Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and other these are partners, but also a competitor of traditional it vendors, Huawei still need to be calm face. Asked where the "recruits" Huawei is in the face of these "veterans", He Dabing said one of the most important features of cloud computing is networking, Huawei's long-standing commitment to web technology development and the ability to bring that capability into cloud computing hardware and software development. (Wang Peng)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)