Huawei Cloud: Unleash Digital with Everything as a Service-HUAWEI CLOUD

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[Bangkok, Thailand, September 19, 2022] HUAWEI CONNECT 2022 kicks off in Bangkok, Thailand today. Huawei Rotating Chairman Ken Hu delivered a keynote speech themed "Unleash Digital", where he encouraged organizations to embrace the cloud for leapfrog development.

CEO of Huawei Cloud Zhang Ping'an announced plans to launch new Regions in Indonesia and Ireland, unveiled the "Go Cloud, Go Global" ecosystem plan, and reaffirmed the commitment to Everything as a Service and mission to build the cloud foundation for an intelligent world.

President of Huawei Cloud's Global Marketing and Sales Service Jacqueline Shi spoke on the global market progress and innovation of Huawei Cloud, and launched more than 15 Huawei Cloud services for the first global implementation, covering cloud native, AI development, data governance, digital content production, software development, and MacroVerse aPaaS.

Society is moving towards a digital, intelligent future. All over the world, digital transformation is in the fast lane. All industries are turning to digital technology to boost resilience and productivity, and to reinvent their business models. Huawei leverages its industry exploration and practice and those of customers and partners. In his speech, Mr. Hu made proposed three strategies for today's enterprises: boosting digital infrastructure, making the most of cloud, and building a stronger digital ecosystem.

Mr. Hu pointed out cloud advantages of high efficiency, convenient access, and flexible resources. These advantages make cloud migration the indisputable choice for enterprise digital transformation. However, many enterprises still lack effective and easy use of the cloud, so Huawei Cloud integrates more than 240 services and 50,000 APIs to provide the latest AI, application development, and big data tools, as well as consulting support. These offerings are available on demand, making cloud-based innovation a real driver of digital development.

Mr. Hu then used Huawei Cloud AI to demonstrate how this innovation unleashes productivity for thousands of industries. In the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Professor Liu Bing's team developed super antibiotics using Huawei Cloud's Pangu drug molecular model, shortening the R&D cycle of lead drug compounds from several years to one month while reducing costs by more than 70%.

"At Huawei, we're doing what we can to help organizations go beyond simple cloud adoption and truly make the most of cloud," said Mr. Hu. "With the help of cloud, you can focus more on your own business innovation and achieve leapfrog development to go digital and smart."

In his keynote speech, Mr. Zhang said that Huawei Cloud will continue to enable thousands of industries in the future. Through Infrastructure as a Service, Technology as a Service, and Expertise as a Service, Huawei Cloud will provide Everything as a Service to unleash digital and build the cloud foundation for an intelligent world.

As one of the world's five leading clouds, Huawei Cloud is continuously building one global network to provide high-quality cloud services with consistent global experience. In the Asia Pacific since 2018, Huawei Cloud has operated local nodes in Singapore and Malaysia, and is the first public cloud provider to do so in Thailand. Huawei Cloud builds 3AZ data centers in Bangkok, Chonburi, and Samut Prakan, and provides website and consulting services in Thai.

"At present, we are planning greener and smarter cloud data centers around the world," said Mr. Zhang. Huawei Cloud will launch new Regions in Indonesia and Ireland in the near future. By the end of this year, Huawei Cloud's Regions will reach 29 and AZs will reach 75, covering more than 170 countries and regions.

Huawei Cloud provides secure, stable, and low-latency high-quality networks to build a 50 ms service experience circle, ensuring agile and efficient low-latency services for real-time multimedia, gaming, and online classes. Mr. Zhang pointed out that in the future, enterprises will no longer their own data centers, since Infrastructure as a Service on the cloud is available in one click, just like using water and electricity. Digital infrastructure capabilities will be convenient, economical, and environmentally friendly.

Huawei Cloud also focuses on building Technology as a Service. Enterprises do not need to invest heavily in general-purpose technology R&D, thanks to accessible cutting-edge technology. Such technology is available in the form of cloud services through Huawei Cloud's four pipelines for AI development, data governance, digital content production, and software development. With the help of the cloud, enterprises innovate even more easily.

In addition, Huawei Cloud distills Huawei's more than 30 years of digital transformation experience and best practices of global cloud partners to deliver Expertise as a Service and help enterprises achieve stable digital development.

With a focus on Everything as a Service, Mr. Zhang released the "Go Cloud, Go Global" ecosystem plan to share Huawei's local compliance and human resources in more than 170 countries and regions. The plan also shares Huawei Cloud's insights into industries and the hottest domains, as well as corresponding product and solutions for more enterprises to go global.

Huawei Cloud continuously invests in R&D innovation and the construction of the best cloud platform for it. At the conference, Ms. Shi launched more than 15 new Huawei Cloud services for the global market.

Two products promote cloud native innovation: CCE Turbo (Cloud Container Engine) and UCS (Ubiquitous Cloud Native Service). CCE Turbo accelerates computing, network, and scheduling, giving Sina the elasticity to handle traffic peaks by scaling out 3000 pods in a minute. UCS manages cross-cloud and cross-region applications for consistent experience. Cloud native innovation make enterprise applications agile and modern for faster digital transformation.

ModelArts is a one-stop AI development pipeline for data labeling, model training, and model deployment. AI+Robotic Process Automation (RPA) provides smart contract processing and financial reimbursement, while spatiotemporal computing builds precise 3D models for cities. All-domain sensing adapts to more than 100 AI video algorithms as needed by campuses and other scenarios.

The Pangu model is pre-trained with hundreds of billions of parameters to scale up workshop-style traditional development for bigger applications, an accelerated approach already proven in pharmaceutical, finance, electric power, and coal industries. For example, the new Pangu wave model predicts waves in real time, shortening forecasts from hours to seconds.

The DataArts data governance pipeline adopts a "Data for AI, AI for Data" mindset to help enterprises unleash data value. DataArts LakeFormation uses unified metadata management for mutual data access among AI, data warehouses, and data lakes. DataArts Studio provides automatic and intelligent data processing to accelerate data operations from days to minutes.

The MetaStudio digital content pipeline enables content creation with powerful support for content development in digital movies, animations, collections, education courseware, and virtual humans. The Virtual Live service has been widely used e-commerce and entertainment livestreaming. Low Latency Live (LLL) reduces the livestreaming latency from 3 seconds to 800 ms.

DevCloud, the Huawei Cloud software development pipeline, focuses on application development modernization since it is the key to enterprise digital transformation. It has two new services: CodeCheck and CloudTest. CodeCheck intelligently and promptly detects defects and security issues, using more than 10,000 security rules for low-cost error correction and better code quality. CloudTest provides massive test cases such as performance, functions, and APIs with non-stop automatic testing, greatly improving system-level test efficiency.

For industry enablement, Huawei Cloud partners industry to upgrade of MacroVerse aPaaS platform capabilities, implementing KooMessage and KooSearch for global enterprise innovation. KooMessage all-scenario messaging supports multiple forms and devices. KooSearch search engine supports more than 50 languages and uses AI to provide precise analysis and intelligent recommendation. In addition, Huawei Cloud's marketplace KooGallery is a one-stop shop for enterprise applications.

"We believe that it is only when the local ecosystem grows, can digital transformation grow, and in a healthy and sustainable way," said Ms. Shi. With its goal of "By local, for local", Huawei Cloud continues to provide leading digital technologies for users around the world, enabling enterprises and developers to better achieve digital development.

For cloud-cloud collaboration, Huawei Cloud and Huawei Mobile Services synergize services and resource channels to create more value for global enterprises. In the Asia-Pacific region, Thailand's BBTV New Media worked with Huawei Cloud to successfully release their app on AppGallery, the Huawei Mobile Services marketplace, and quickly enjoyed more than one million downloads.

Huawei Cloud and partners build a digital industry ecosystem by all and for all. Huawei Cloud works tirelessly to build a global startup ecosystem. Multiple forms of enablement, such as cost optimization, technical support, entrepreneurship training, and business resources will empower at least 10,000 high-potential startups worldwide in the next three years, helping startups move to the cloud agilely and focus on innovation.

In the Asia Pacific alone, more than 120 enterprises have joined the Huawei Cloud Startup Program. For example, Huawei Cloud helped ReverseAds expand its business in Thailand, Singapore, and South America. Through this program, ReverseAds has received financing of more than USD20 million. "We will further promote the startup program to the world. We hope that more and more enterprises like ReverseAds can innovate and achieve win-win," said Ms. Shi.