"Open" to the cloud

The current global ICT industry's innovation focus is moving from consumer internet to industrial Internet, transforming enterprise-level ICT, is the "tuyere" of it enterprises.

"Large data drives the upgrading of traditional industries and reconstructs new business models, and each enterprise is at a new starting point." The enterprise's IT system transforms from the support system to it production system, each enterprise needs to make full use of IT system to enhance the competition ability, shortens the product time to market, simultaneously enhances the operation efficiency, reduces the cost. "On the 2014 annual Huawei Cloud Computing Conference (HCC) held on September 18, Zhijun, the rotating CEO of Huawei Technology Co., said.

6 years ago, Huawei saw the restructuring of enterprise ICT as an important opportunity to enter the industry's Internet. To enter the field, Zhijun frankly hesitated, "without the advent of cloud computing ideas and technology, Huawei would not invest in it." "The advent of the cloud has allowed Huawei to see the path overtaking the curve and has continued to invest in it since 2008, offering customers innovative solutions based on cloud computing."

"Open" cloud strategy

6 years later, let's review how Huawei landed its cloud strategy.

Huawei decided to enter the IT field in 2008, after two years of brewing, launched the "Cloud Sail Program" on November 29, 2010, announced the official entry into the cloud computing field. Since then, the annual HCC conference has become Huawei's cloud computing area of achievement, but also a global IT industry event.

2011, Huawei announced the establishment of the IT product line at the first HCC conference and launched the Cloud Data center solution. Then, in the 2012 HCC, Huawei put forward the "streamline it, agile business Road" concept, and to streamline IT system requirements, launched a fusioncube and other products.

On the issue of closed or open cloud strategy, Huawei chose to join the open source Cloud Platform OpenStack Foundation and invest heavily in technical power, starting from the client's pain point. In HCC in 2013, Huawei launched a series of IT products and solutions around the fusion strategy, including products such as the world's first fully distributed cloud operating system FusionSphere3.0, Fusioncube Integration 2.0 and so on.

In this year's HCC, Huawei unveiled a future-oriented SD-DC (business-driven distributed Cloud Data Center architecture) and released FusionSphere5.0 open Cloud Platform and oceanstor fusion storage. Fusionsphere, an open and efficient cloud operating system for corporate and carrier customers, is the soul of Huawei's cloud computing that helps customers deploy server virtualization, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud business on demand. This year, the product entered the Gartner four quadrant for the first time. And it was honored together with the Fusioncube integration machine products, the momentum of direct tracking it vendors.

"Huawei is looking to become a leading IT company for customers or industry-recognized it players," Zhijun concluded. ”

Facing the future, how will Huawei Cloud strategy and enterprise IT architecture evolve? Huawei Cloud Product line President Ningzhi-Peng this process into 3 stages:

1. From the "Application of vertical binding software hardware Architecture" to the "application and software and hardware layered decoupling of the open architecture" transformation, so that the application software can break the hardware boundaries, in the business without interruption, across different vendors of different hardware free migration;

2. From the "server-level virtualization architecture" to "corporate private cloud Cloud architecture" to achieve in a cloud resource pool to maximize the utilization and agility of hardware resources;

3. Transition from "Corporate private cloud Architecture" to "open converged cloud architecture spanning private cloud and public cloud". In other words, the main theme of Enterprise IT's evolution is to build a cross physical device based on the same architecture, innovative cloud platforms across data centers, across private cloud and public cloud boundaries, across traditional applications and new applications, and can truly help customers achieve "it as a Service", that is, the real openness and integration of enterprise it.

Intended to link the global

It is not enough to define the future increment of Huawei in the interconnection and reconstruction of people, enterprises and industries, and the improvement of social comprehensive efficiency still depends on government efficiency, urban efficiency and even the improvement of the efficiency of the State apparatus. Moreover, the restructuring of enterprises, industrial cities and even countries is more difficult and more complicated than the relationship between people and people and things.

Huawei's managing director, strategic marketing President Xu, said, "Huawei predicts that by 2025, 100 billion of the global connections will be generated, of which more than 90% will come from a variety of smart sensors, which means more and more companies will join the link." ”

And what about the government, the industry and even the country-level relay?

On HCC, Huawei released the Global Connectivity Index (GCI), the first comprehensive and objective quantitative assessment of the country-industry connectivity. Global Connectivity Index survey found that the link has become a measure of national competitiveness of the important indicators, according to Huawei's two dimensions of 16 indicators of the study analysis, the linkage index every 1 points, per capita GDP increase 1.4%~1.9%, developing countries will be significantly higher than the developed countries.

In the 25 countries surveyed, Germany's link index ranked first in the world, using ICT to drive the Industrial revolution of 4.0, thus maintaining good competitive vitality. Developing countries have also gained accelerated development through active ICT policies, and the linkage indices in Chile, Kenya and Egypt are among the highest in the spatial dimension of growth. An optimistic fact is that most countries in the world have increased ICT investment to a national strategy, fully releasing the potential of ICT through unified planning, and driving the benign growth of the national economy.

When the link becomes an important indicator of the competitiveness of the country and the industry, the whole process of value creation is being fully reconstructed by ICT, the large data becomes the core asset of the enterprise, and the business-driven cloud data center becomes the core of the future network architecture. The linkage index, which shows Huawei's large data capabilities, is the foundation of Huawei's mastery of the world's technological status and future predictions.