Huawei's Cloud computing

Huawei has always been a company with distinctive features, and Huawei's cloud computing is also striking.

October 31, in the formal announcement of its cloud computing strategy in less than a year, Huawei held in Shenzhen, "2011 Huawei Cloud Computing Conference and partner Conference", from around the world more than 1000 Huawei Cloud computing partners and customers to attend. At the meeting, Huawei officially released the "Cloud Sail Plan 2012", the first clear three strategies of Huawei Cloud Computing: A large platform, to promote business and application of the cloud, open and win. Clearly, after a year of groping, Huawei's understanding of cloud computing is deeper and its strategic objectives clearer.

At present, Huawei's cloud computing has formed two distinct characteristics: first, focus on the business and application of the cloud, emphasize to bring the actual value to the customer, Huawei's "cloud" is not only floating in the sky, more can become the "rain"; the second is Huawei Cloud computing at will, as Huawei Vice president, it product line CTO Li Sanqi said at the conference: "Huawei's cloud computing investment does not set the ceiling", "Huawei has just started the cloud computing, but also in the initial stage of strategic investment, to do must endure loneliness." ”

In meeting the needs of users on the basis of cloud computing, Huawei will not lose direction, to create value for customers at the same time realize their own interests. Huawei, too, realizes that cloud computing is not an overnight thing, and therefore continues to invest it as a strategy. Huawei's cloud computing is not only pragmatic, but also long-term. This is distinctly different from the vague talk of cloud computing by many other vendors.

Huawei Executive vice president Zhijun said, "Huawei is willing to spend 10 years in the field of cloud computing can occupy a global place."

Customer oriented

Huawei's focus on cloud computing at the cloud-computing conference is "the need to consume information like electricity", a vision that is certainly good, but the flowers of Huawei's cloud computing are also stuck in "cow dung".

"A flower in the cow dung" is often used to describe a beautiful girl to marry an ugly timid man, let a person regret. But from another point of view, the flowers inserted in the cow dung can grow stronger than the average flower. Huawei's president, Ren, uses his usual intellectual dialectic to quote this phrase to describe Huawei's cloud computing strategy: "Huawei's long-standing strategy is based on the ' flower in the cow dung ' strategy, never leaving the tradition to blindly innovate, but based on the existing to open, to innovate." Flowers grow good, and become a new cow dung, we always based on the existence of innovation. ”

In Ren's view, the telecoms operators market remains the focus of Huawei's cloud computing. "Bind telecom operators to innovate, or our cloud will not survive." First of all, we are based on the needs of telecom operators to do cloud platform, cloud applications. With other manufacturers from it to go clouds different. The cloud that we do, telecom operators can immediately use, easy to promote its maturity. ”

"Customer-centric" has always been the principle of Huawei's emphasis, Huawei cloud computing also requires a deep combination of user needs, as Ren said: "The value of the cloud is the market to decide, only for customers to use the cloud to survive." ”

The "cloud of business and application" must be realized to meet the needs of users. Huawei Enterprise Business CMO He Dabing when it comes to cloud computing, with particular emphasis on the "application scenario" of cloud computing, Huawei's cloud computing is used in specific industries or customer needs, a variety of flexible, tailored to the needs of users.

It is reported that the current Huawei Cloud computing solutions in the telecommunications, government, medical, education and other industries to achieve scale applications. Huawei Shanghai Institute has deployed tens of thousands of user-scale desktop cloud for staff day-to-day office, compared to traditional PC systems, saving 40% of investment, reduce power consumption 71%, equipment CPU utilization from 5% to 60%.

Li Sanqi said Huawei has developed a wealth of products and solutions for green Cloud data centers, series servers, desktop clouds, cloud platforms, cloud storage, media cloud, etc. for the needs and applications of various industries.

Huawei's cloud computing program has a distinctive "lighthouse" project The project includes "Office Cloud", "Health Cloud", "petition cloud" and so on, Li Sanqi said the launch of the "Lighthouse" project is to illuminate the actual application of cloud computing the way forward, so that all sectors can see, have confidence to step into the "cloud" early.

He also revealed that Huawei's two years to continue to build the "Lighthouse" project, while the also into strategic projects, rapid replication projects and other types of cloud applications, integration of their own advantage resources to promote the application of various industries to the cloud migration, focusing on promoting cloud computing in e-government, medical, education, logistics and other areas of "cloud cloth rain."

Huawei has stepped up its investment in research and development capabilities to drive cloud computing. It is reported that the current cloud computing in the number of Huawei research and development accounted for about 10% of the total number of developers, Li Sanqi is further said that the future Huawei will also vigorously enrich the cloud computing human resources, from the internal deployment of research and development staff, while increasing social recruitment, from China, the United States to recruit a large Ming and the next is expected to appear the effect of thick accumulation of thin hair.

Not the Black Widow.

The changes that cloud computing has brought to Huawei are not just technological changes, but also business expansion and conceptual innovation. Ren said Huawei could no longer be a "black widow", and that Huawei should now be open, like the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, and the Mississippi R., to allow rainwater to flow into the same convenient access anywhere and in any way. We are surging cloud business, to more inclusive, we can never do success alone a few clouds, tens of thousands of cloud to rely on thousands of companies to do. ”

Huawei has been able to surpass Cisco, Nokia Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent and other world-renowned companies in its 24-year period, relying on Huawei's spirit of struggle. Huawei's growth process has experienced hardships, as an emerging enterprise, Huawei does not have much outside resources to rely on, so has been adhering to the "independent" and "hard work". This spirit of hard to do for Huawei has accumulated in the technology, cost and many other areas of advantage, but it is also easy to make Huawei formed a relatively closed-loop concept, that on their own can overcome all difficulties. But as Huawei moves overseas, it is becoming more and more aware of the need for the outside world to understand itself.

So, cloud computing not only pushes Huawei toward openness, it offers an opportunity to open up. Cloud computing is the entire IT industry revolution, including IT hardware, software, solutions and other enterprises are among the participants, Huawei can not work to complete the cloud computing revolution. In the enterprise business market and terminal business market, Huawei accumulation is not deep enough, many times need to rely on the strength of partners, therefore, to open the banner, the accumulation of industrial chain resources, the Huawei Cloud computing strategy is the meaning of the problem. Huawei launched the "Cloud Sail Plan 2012" special emphasis on open and win, and partners together for the industry to provide the richest information solutions, to build a winning ecological chain.

August 3, 2011, Huawei and Shenzhen National High-tech Industry Innovation Center, China Telecom Shenzhen branch, Chinese mobile Shenzhen branch, unicom Shenzhen Branch, Kingdee International Software Group, Shenzhen Thunderbolt Network Technology Co., Ltd., National supercomputing Shenzhen Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School and other units jointly launched the Shenzhen Cloud Computing Research and Research Alliance, the implementation of the "Kun Cloud plan." The program aims to promote the pilot of cloud computing innovation solutions, promote the development of major public technologies, promote intellectual property management and standardization, strengthen certification testing and integration of interoperability testing services, and strengthen the training of professional personnel. Huawei's cooperation with industry chain partners is becoming more in-depth.

At present, the entire IT industry is facing the transformation of CT (communication technology) to ICT (information and communication technology), Huawei needs not only to maintain its advantages in the field of communication "pipeline", but also to move forward to integrated information service. Huawei's cloud computing strategy is an important driver of Huawei's transition to ICT.

"Cloud Tube End" integration

Focusing on ICT, Huawei has developed a cloud computing solution and terminal strategy based on the telecom network solution, forming an end-to-end ICT solution for the cloud-tube end (cloud computing, network, terminal), thus forming a distinctive feature of Huawei's cloud computing, namely "cloud tube end" integration.

Huawei named the Cloud Platform solution "Singlecloud", "single" meaning is unified, Huawei cloud computing to achieve "software and hardware decoupling", change the past specific software to use specific hardware practices, all software to share all the hardware resources, thereby increasing the utilization of hardware resources.

In fact, "unification" is the core concept of the whole cloud computing, only the realization of the unified scheduling of hardware and software resources to maximize the efficiency of resource utilization. This concept is also embodied in Huawei's "cloud Management End" integration strategy.

Cloud computing implementation, "cloud" is essential, "network" and "terminal" is also the necessary facilities to achieve cloud computing. Huawei has accumulated years of experience in the "Pipeline" field, and technology has matured. On the "cloud" side, Huawei has years of experience building data centers, and Huawei has launched its own-brand servers, which continue to force in the cloud. In recent years, the terminal has become Huawei's new focal point.

Huawei has launched smartphones, mobile broadband products in the terminal area, as well as integration products including tablet information machines and home multimedia terminals, and Huawei Terminal products have penetrated into the daily lives of many consumers as Huawei's terminal sales continue to rise. With the help of end-users, Huawei can bring more and richer services to end consumers through the "cloud" and network "pipelines" in the background. For example, Huawei's vision (vision) mobile phone as the representative of Huawei's cloud phone products, through the Huawei Cloud, can achieve SMS transfer, information erasure of remote management, 160GB Super storage space and security backup functions.

In the IT sector, businesses like Huawei are all over the cloud, and there are not many companies in the network "plumbing" and terminal areas. Apple, for example, is very strong in the terminal area but has no advantage in the "Pipeline" field. Huawei's "Cloud tube End" integration strategy can achieve full business synergy, reflecting comprehensive competitiveness.

However, Huawei's "Cloud Management End" integration is not a closed system, in the provision of cloud computing solutions, Huawei is also actively working with partners to provide the most competitive cloud computing solutions. As Ren said: "We (Huawei) to maintain the ' beach, low weir ' attitude, more to the difficulties to their own, more benefits to others." ”

In the cloud computing business, Huawei's pace is very solid, but slow thinking can adapt to the fast changing ICT field? Huawei still faces many challenges in the process of transforming to ICT. Its telecoms equipment maker's genes are hard to change in the short term, and Huawei needs to adapt and adjust.

Fortunately, Huawei stands at a right starting point. Huawei has always been a marvel-maker, and we look forward to the time when Huawei can prove itself again at a critical juncture in the transition.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)