Huawei has its sights set on transforming industrial cloud in South Africa having recently established the Huawei Cloud Business unit.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the MyBroadband Cloud, Hosting and Security Conference 2017, Fernando Gordo, CTO of Data Center, IT and Cloud Solutions at Huawei Technologies, outlined Huawei\u2019s cloud vision.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world is changing, and the digital area is changing our lives and business, which brings both important challenges and opportunities,\u201d said Gordo.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor business in the digital era, we now have a multitude of sensors and devices, where all things are connected, and connectivity is important, so technology is becoming faster and cheaper. \u201c<\/p>\n
He added that the cloud has gone through two generations \u2013 from companies having to adapt to the cloud or those born in cloud now having to grow in cloud.<\/p>\n
Huawei started investing in the cloud software and platforms ten years ago internally, but now the company offers a portfolio of cloud products and services.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust this year we set up the Huawei Cloud Business Unit, and we have become the first Asian platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation,\u201d Gordo told conference delegates.<\/p>\n
He added that Huawei has noticed that the trend in cloud is for businesses to move to a hybrid model to enjoy the advantages of both public and private cloud.<\/p>\n
Open platform architecture facilitates win-win for Huawei and its partners, and it also means that customers don\u2019t need to deal with multiple contacts at multiple organisations but can enjoy a single interface with Huawei and its partners.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoving to a cloud environment is complex, though, so we test solutions before deploying them to customers, and in mid-2017 we will be deploying our OpenLab in Johannesburg where we test cloud solutions before rolling it out to customers,\u201d Gordo said.<\/p>\n
The new OpenLab will enable Huawei to work with various industry partners across the world to create customer-centric and innovative solutions that enable digital transformation while promoting industry ecosystem development.<\/p>\n
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