special feature

Article 1

Huawei Launches High-end Intelligent All Flash Array OceanStor Dorado 18000 V3 for Mission-Critical Services

Lightning Fast, Rock Solid, All Flash, All Cloud, All Intelligent

[Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2018] At Mobile World Congress (MWC2018), Huawei today launches the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3, a high-end, intelligent all-flash array (AFA), which helps customers manage storage resources for mission-critical enterprise services. The OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is designed to ensure a consistent service experience on- and off-premises.

Huawei launches high-end, intelligent AFA OceanStor Dorado18000 V3

"IoT, cloud, AI and other newly-developed technologies have brought us opportunities and challenges," said Joy Huang, Vice President of Huawei’s IT Product Line. "Carriers want to provide better service experience and that’s why data management is increasingly seen to be of critical importance. The new high-end intelligent AFA OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is tailored for mission-critical services at carriers, providing lightning-fast and rock-solid data experience. By continuously going beyond boundaries, Huawei Storage is committed to lead in the era of All-Flash, All-Cloud, and All-Intelligence data storage."

Core features of the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 include:

Lightning Fast: OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is designed for heavily loaded, mission-critical service systems at enterprises. With a flash-oriented operating system, the new offering can fully explore the potential of flash storage. Huawei's proprietary flash chipsets and FlashLinkTM algorithm enable the Dorado18000 V3 to deliver a maximum of 7 million IOPS at 0.5 ms consistent latency. Compared with previous generations, the new model provides twice the performance, topping the all-flash storage market.

Rock Solid: OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 adopts the industry-leading HyperMetro active-active technology. Storage resources of two active-active sites serve the same applications, ensuring 24/7 running of key services. The HyperMetro gateway-free active-active technology has been officially certified by SAP. With latency lower than 1 ms, it can ensure the highest level of reliability of SAP HANA, providing the optimum data management solution for and enterprise’s mission-critical services.

Deploying Huawei's flash acceleration solution helped Hi3G Sweden improve system performance by 300%, reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) by over 50%, and ensuring 24/7 running of critical services.

In addition, the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 has harnessed the trend to lead the era of All-Flash, All-Cloud, and All-Intelligence data storage.

All Flash: With years of experience, Huawei insists on the highest level of carrier-class standards for its products. Huawei is determined to propel technology innovation to the highest standards. Thus, the OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 has adopted the latest Flash-Ice technology, which uses graphene dissipation technology (GDT) and the dynamic heat balance algorithm on SSDs to improve heat dissipation capability by 500 folds and extend the duration of SSDs by 20%. Lightning fast and rock solid, OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 is perfect for carrying carriers' core service systems, such as online real-time billing, CRM, and ERP, supporting smooth expansion from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of users.

Compared with traditional storage products, OceanStor Dorado18000 V3 supports inline data reduction without compromising performance and guarantees a 3:1 data reduction rate, delivering 10-fold performance while helping customers reduce investment and obtain higher return-on-investment (ROI). In addition, technology consulting firm ESG reported that OceanStor Dorado can help users save up to 75% on TCO.

All Cloud: Huawei Storage is committed to deliver consistent data experience on- and off-premises. The Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) solution supports free mobility and unified management of data on- and off-premises, enabling flexible deployment of customers' applications. To help customers move more services to the cloud, Huawei, as the world's only enterprise-class storage vendor delivering both public and private cloud offerings, combines its cloud capabilities and enterprise storage technologies to provide Dedicated Enterprise Storage Service (DESS) and become the first to be capable of moving mission-critical services into the cloud without modification. This ensures consistent storage performance and reliability on- and off-premises.

All Intelligence: Huawei Storage is committed to deliver consistent data experience on- and off-premises. The Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) solution supports free mobility and unified management of data on- and off-premises, enabling flexible deployment of customers' applications. To help customers move more services to the cloud, Huawei, as the world's only enterprise-class storage vendor delivering both public and private cloud offerings, combines its cloud capabilities and enterprise storage technologies to provide Dedicated Enterprise Storage Service (DESS) and become the first to be capable of moving mission-critical services into the cloud without modification. This ensures consistent storage performance and reliability on- and off-premises.

Since its launch in 2016, Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 series has made remarkable achievements in the market. According to an authoritative third-party report, the growth rate of Huawei all-flash storage revenue ranks No.1 in the first three quarters of 2017.More than 2000 data centers around the world have chosen Huawei’s all-flash storage. World-class carriers such as Telecom Italia have opted for Huawei’s all flash storage solutions to enhance their data storage capabilities.

About Huawei:

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better-connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei’s 180,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world’s population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

For more information, please visit Huawei online www.huawei.com or follow us on:

- Linkedin

- Twitter

- Facebook

- Google+

- Youtube

Article 2

Huawei Helps Emerging Markets to Accelerate Digital Upgrade

Building open, cooperative, win-win industry ecosystems

[Barcelona, Spain, February 25, 2018] At Huawei Digital Transformation Forum on the eve of MWC 2018, Huawei outlined its commitment to accelerate digital upgrade in emerging markets. Huawei will continue to cooperate with operators, local governments, and other industry partners on ICT infrastructure initiatives, expanding ecosystem partnerships to introduce new services and delivering innovative solutions that bridge the digital divide across emerging markets caused by the broadband coverage.

However, there are obstacles for operators that hinder network development in emerging markets, namely infrastructure and industry ecosystems. These factors slow revenue growth and increase the costs of network construction, operation, and maintenance.

Zhou Jianjun, Vice President of Huawei Carrier BG, said that “To capitalize on the vast opportunities in emerging markets, operators need to deliver a better scenario-based service and accelerate their return on investment (ROI). Huawei is focused on three core areas to help operators meet the burgeoning demands on their networks. We are engaging with industry partners to build open, cooperative, and win-win industry ecosystems for ICT infrastructure, and creating business solutions to help operators deliver services that generate new revenue streams while simultaneously improving the quality of life in emerging markets.”

New Industry Environment

The relatively weak ICT infrastructure in emerging markets requires that governments introduce top-down top-level design and unified planning, as well as industry support in unconnected areas. Digital economic development must be driven by ICT development and opportunities in the next couple of years must be seized to bridge the digital divide. In recent years, the Malaysian government has attached great importance to the development of the ICT industry. In just three years, the proportion of digital economy in the country’s GDP has risen to 17%, ranking the highest in the world.

New Cooperation Modes

Huawei cooperates with industry partners in ecosystems to promote new forms of cooperation, effectively helping to shorten the ROI of operators, and drive the positive cycle of business development and network construction. Huawei helps operators use existing public assets from governments and tower vendors to build site ecosystems, work with partners to build an FTTH industry alliance, and implement infrastructure collaboration. In 2017, over 30 infrastructure industry alliances have been established to maximize the investment efficiency of infrastructure.

New Business Solutions

Huawei is working with operators to offer a series of innovative business solutions. These are primarily introduced to increase the efficiency of network operation and maintenance, rapidly deploy broadband to the home, and fully leverage existing network and public assets to unleash site potential and maximize spectral efficiency. These solutions are already delivering benefits for operators in emerging markets:

- The CloudAIR spectrum cloudification technology maximizes spectral efficiency in India and Thailand. Unlike traditional spectrum sharing solutions, CloudAIR offers spectrum cloudification to allow different radio access technologies (RATs) to dynamically share spectrum resources. This solution enables the rapid deployment of 3G and 4G networks and releases suppressed traffic.

- The RuralStar solution is developed for remote rural areas in Africa to improve local network coverage. Approximately 80 million users have been served. 40,000 upgraded base stations are planned to be deployed later this year, serving 180 million users.

- The Zambia National Data Center project officially commenced in January 2016, and installation and delivery were completed by the end of December 2016. The center was handed over to the government on February 28, 2017. The ZICTA National Data Center is now officially in operation.

- In Mongolia, Philippines, South Africa, and Sri Lanka, wireless-to-the-x (WTTx) has provided the most cost-effective home broadband services. Over the course of one year, in Mongolia and Morocco, broadband connections are provided for 10% and 5% of families, respectively. In Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the traditional copper cables will be introduced to improve user experience.

MWC 2018 will be held from February 26 to March 1 in Barcelona, Spain. Huawei will showcase its products and solutions at booth 1J50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1, booth 3I30 in Hall 3, and the Innovation City zone in Hall 4. For more information, please visit http://www.huawei.com/mwc2018/

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to build a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei’s 180,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world’s population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

For more information, please visit Huawei online www.huawei.com or follow us on:

- Linkedin

- Twitter

- Facebook

- Google+

- Youtube

Article 3

Huawei Outlines Vision for Digitally Advanced Traditional Enterprises to Lead in the Digital Era

Innovation must drive digital transformation

Digital transformation has touched nearly every industry imaginable. From manufacturing and financial services to healthcare and retail, digitization is transforming business in ways we’ve not seen since the Industrial Revolution – fundamentally changing how enterprises operate, compete and thrive.

By embracing digital transformation and adopting new ICT such as cloud, big data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), “traditional enterprises” have the opportunity to compete with “digital natives” and lead in the digital era.

While the early stages of digital transformation focused on establishing an online presence, enterprises are now transforming their operations and production processes through new ICT to significantly increase agility and rapidly deliver new services to customers.

However, due to technology complexities, many enterprises are struggling to make this shift. These enterprises’ digital transformation approach often focuses on adding digital technologies to legacy systems which can result in fragmentation of services.

For example, a manufacturer may invest in an industrial IoT solution to automate its manufacturing processes but still carry out traditional, analogue-based marketing, sales, and after-sale services. By digitizing these functions manufacturers could gain insights into customer trends, behaviors and activities to improve responsiveness to customer needs.

The pressure is on enterprises to change their perspective on digital transformation and how to measure successful use of it. Gartner believes “You should not be known by infrastructure you keep, but by outcomes you provide”.* In other words, enterprises should develop cloud or AI strategies, but only in terms of how they enable “business outcomes” such as driving innovation, new customer experiences and business growth.

The challenge for traditional enterprises in their digital transformation journey is finding partners that understand their industry as digital transformation varies widely and needs to be driven by business context and the actual ICT needs of the specific industry. A one-size-fits all approach to digital transformation will no longer enable today’s intelligent environments.

But with the right infrastructure, partners and ecosystem, digitally advanced traditional enterprises will have the opportunity to lead over emerging enterprises and grow established industries.

Innovation Must Drive Digital Transformation

So how will traditional enterprises become industry leaders? The answer lies in driving innovation to deliver new customer experiences. Take Apple for example, its innovation created products people wanted and ultimately changed an entire industry.

However many enterprises have built digital capabilities based on a response to competition rather than seeing rapid innovation as a priority. Instead of taking a reactive approach to digital transformation, enterprises need to embrace digital to drive innovation, and the ICT infrastructure needs to be tailored to their specific business needs to make this goal possible.

Fortunately, ICT leaders such as Huawei are already addressing this. While Internet players who offer web-based solutions are hindered by their lack of network, integrated digital platforms and global service capabilities, Huawei’s approach enables enterprises to achieve digital maturity through a digital platform that combines video, big data, IoT, GSI and Integrated communications information.

By integrating the cloud, networks and devices, also known as ‘cloud-pipe-device’, the digital platform brings together data, processes and applications to help enterprises create new services and value for customers.

Enterprise-wide transformation requires interconnectivity driven by end-to-end solutions of this nature. Huawei’s ‘Intelligence of Everything’ approach enables massive connectivity, data analysis and processing in the cloud and intelligence across the network to drive boundless possibilities for future innovation, which is the real value of digital transformation.

Platform with Rich Ecosystem Bridges the Digital and Physical World

Digital transformation extends beyond the implementation of technology, and necessitates a deep understanding of each vertical industry’s processes and business models and a platform that opens the door for continual development and improvement.

Digital transformation cannot be achieved with any one single technology, and Huawei’s open, scalable, secure, and flexible platform enables the integration of innovative applications developed by a rich ecosystem of industry partners. Huawei is continually developing its ecosystem through industry and business alliances, and developer and open source communities to build a digital transformation community focused on accelerating innovation for enterprises.

By bridging the last mile between the digital enterprise and the physical world, these highly connected platforms give enterprises what they really want: the ability to drive innovation to achieve business growth and success.

Digital Transformation to Win in Traditional Industries

These platforms have been deployed in diverse industries, helping enterprises achieve a competitive edge within their markets.

For example, Huawei’s oil and gas solutions are used in 45 countries and regions around the world, serving 70% of the world’s top 20 international oil and gas companies. Huawei continues collaborate with industry partners to build ICT solutions covering all aspects of oil and gas operations including oil and gas IoT, digital pipelines, HPC and management, and intelligent distribution.

Huawei also serves 220,000 km of railways and highways worldwide, more than 60 urban rails, more than 50 aviation customers, and more than 15 airports with over 30 million passengers. Its Smart Airport Solutions have been successfully commercialized at Dubai International Airport, Thailand’s AOT, and Sanya Phoenix International Airport. Huawei’s integrated cloud solution is also enabling BYD’s driverless monorail transit system in Yinchuan.

The opportunities created by digital transformation are compelling, however to win in the future enterprises need to form partnerships with industry leaders that have the understanding, insights and solutions to enable a dynamic environment for business innovation and growth.

Huawei will outline its latest vision for digital transformation during the CEO Keynote Speech at CEBIT 2018. Throughout the event, Huawei, together with its global partners, such as SAP, Microsoft, Honeywell, and Accenture, will showcase new digital transformation solutions. Additionally, these industry giants will jointly host various interesting and informative activities including forums on intent-driven networks, next-generation intelligent storage, hyper-convergence technology, and FusionCloud.

Enterprises need open collaboration and integration of industry partner resources and capabilities to succeed. An iron triangle that is based on an open platform and partnerships with strict boundaries will be crucial to thriving in this new era of digital change.

* Milind Govekar, Chief of Research with Gartner’s Infrastructure & Operations group, speaking at Gartner Data Center Infrastructure and Operations Conference 2017

Article 4

Unleashing the Power of Connected Business through Intelligent Networks

Redefining networks to help eterprises compete

In the race toward digitalization enterprise networks are coming under the spotlight. Digital technologies including cloud computing, mobility, and the Internet of Things (IoT) all depend on a network that is agile and responsive to meet the demands of new services and applications.

However, many companies are hampered by their existing networks which are struggling to keep pace with new digital business initiatives.

More specifically, current networks require time-consuming, repetitive manual processes which reduce the time to provision network services. As the network environment has expanded, it has become increasingly difficult to effectively manage it and guarantee service levels. In addition, current networks lack full visibility of how the network is operating to ensure a seamless user experience. Furthermore, with the adoption of cloud, IoT and mobile opening up new security risks, today’s networks are challenged to constantly detect and defend against threats.

To meet the demands of a digital business, the network needs to become simpler and more intelligent at all stages of network design, management and operation.

To address this, Intent Networking is emerging as a radical new approach to operate and manage networks by automatically aligning the network with ‘business intent’ to rapidly implement new services. Intent networking also leverages AI and big data analytics to continuously learn and adapt services to meet changing business demands.

Gartner defines Intent-Based Networking (IBN) systems as providing lifecycle management for network infrastructure, including design, implementation, operation and assurance. It sets out clear requirements for IBN systems including their ability to provide validation that business intent and network configurations are in sync, and dynamically take real-time action if they are out of sync, which leads to closer alignment between networking infrastructure and business initiatives. ¹

Huawei’s latest networking solutions adopt this approach by introducing Intent-Driven Networking (IDN) and the new Intent-Driven CloudCampus solution which is specifically for enterprise campus scenarios. IDN will close the gap between network infrastructure and business intent, it can translate business needs to network design, and continually monitor and validate with original intent. When network is connecting of millions of IoT devices and users, CloudCampus will ensure a seamless user experience, protect the business from security threats and be more flexible to support business growth.

Redefining Networks to help Enterprises Compete in Today’s Digital Landscape

In the future, competing and thriving in the digital landscape will require a network that is defined by the following:

- Excellent User Experience: Networks need to provide fast and reliable connectivity to applications across the enterprise. When an enterprise network slows down, it can quickly lead to frustration among employees or customers, particularly in industries such as retail where customers demand an immediate experience. Using AI and Big Data analytics, intent-driven networks allow IT administrators to view and diagnose network faults based on each user and each application, enabling predictive fault management to ensure a seamless user experience.

- Autonomous Networks: Large enterprises such as multinational energy companies or car dealerships have a vast number of offices and facilities often requiring different services and applications. IT teams who face budget and manpower constraints are challenged with configuring and managing the network manually to meet changing demands across offices. As enterprises continue to grow in size and complexity, network automation is key to scale the network and accelerate the time to provision new services. By automating network services throughout their lifecycle, enterprises can provision services rapidly while reducing operating expenses (OPEX) by a staggering 80%.

- Realizing Digitization: Enterprises across the world are embracing IoT to create new services and open up new business opportunities. In fact, Gartner predicts that there will be 63 million new devices attaching to enterprise networks per second in 2020.2 Rapidly-advancing connectivity is fuelling digital transformation and changing the way enterprises across industries operate and engage their customers. The network is critical to connect and manage ‘things’ successfully in an I0T-enabled world. Innovations based on IDN will enable enterprises to accelerate digitalization and IoT adoption by simplifying the connection and management of ‘things’ through one unified network.

- Self-healing Network Security: Many enterprise networks are not keeping pace with the growing sophistication of motivated cyber attackers. Part of the challenge is the current approach taken to cybersecurity. A recent study showed that more than 50% of enterprises surveyed said internal breaches have the greatest impact. Yet, two out of three respondents said they lack confidence in their organizations’ abilities to monitor internally for breach activities.3 Enterprises are in urgent need of a solution that can protect from the inside-out. An integral part of intent-driven architecture is end-to-end visibility which allows threats to be detected no matter where they originate from, while AI enables automated action to defend the network. In fact, these networks can reduce the mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) to security threats by 90% compared to traditional solutions.

While it is still early days, IDN represents a fundamental shift in how enterprises can move towards autonomously managing the network.

Huawei’s Intent-Driven CloudCampus aligns the network with business needs and drives improvements in business agility and the user experience. This solution has been designed to make the network more intelligent, simplify operations, converge multiple networks, and be more secure and open to create a successful journey to the future.

Huawei Campus Networks help Enterprises Introduce Applications Faster than Traditional Networks

For example, in Thailand, the King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), which aims to be Thailand’s digital university, has deployed Huawei’s CloudCampus to dramatically increase connectivity for students, lecturers and staffs.

By using CloudCampus, classes do not have to take place in physical classrooms, but virtual classrooms and in the future, KMITL plans to offer complete online courses so its students can remotely attend classes from wherever and whenever they like. The campus network can enable new learning opportunities while simultaneously reducing the university’s daily operational costs.

CloudCampus is being deployed across diverse industries, for example it is also deploying by a large retailer in Europe, who is taking advantage of the solution’s Wi-Fi and IoT convergence capabilities to deliver a digital shopping experience. By connecting electronic pricing labels, scanners and users in a single wireless network, Huawei’s solution has helped the retailer save 76% of OPEX.

CloudCampus’ ability to transform how enterprises build and manage digital networks will undoubtedly change the way people, things and environments are connected in the future.

By leveraging IDN to improve network flexibility and availability, the solution will help enterprises provision new applications significantly faster than traditional network architectures. This drives a new level of business agility to help enterprises compete in fast-changing markets.

At the same time, CloudCampus brings substantial OPEX savings through automating network services throughout the entire lifecycle and improving network resource utilization through the automated construction of virtual networks. With Wi-Fi and IoT convergence enabling connectivity for all things within one network, enterprises can embrace digital transformation through a simplified digital infrastructure.

By adopting IDN-based solutions such as Intent-Driven CloudCampus, organizations can make the connected future a reality and realize the vast opportunities of a digital world.

For more information about Huawei CloudCampus solution, please visit here.

¹ Gartner Blog: Intent-Based Networking

² Gartner: 2017 Strategic Roadmap for Networking

³ Accenture: High Performance Security Report 2016

Article 5

A Digital Symphony Composed of Technology Ecosystem

Digital technology driving national development and industry transformation

By Lu Qi, President of Marketing and Solution Sales Dept, Huawei Enterprise BG

Innovative technology at the heart of a digital symphony

Germany is well-known for its leadership in industry and digital transformation, and in June 2018 the annual ICT summit CEBIT will be held in Hannover to explore our digital future. As a leading platform and festival for digital technology, innovation and business development, the revamped CEBIT comprises four main pillars – d!conomy, d!tec, d!talk and d!campus.

As well as its industrial and digital credentials, Germany is also home to many renowned composers. Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms, all composers of great symphonies hail from Germany.

The GSMA’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry recognizes individuals, companies and organizations that made significant contributions to the development of the ICT industry and the advancement of mobile communications. In addition to its technological contributions, Huawei was recognized for its commitment to collaboration with the industry: it actively participates in over 360 standards bodies, industry organizations, and open source communities, where it has played an instrumental role in cultivating the broader digital ecosystem.

Digital transformation can also be viewed as a symphony where all technologies need to work together in harmony to transform enterprise operations, employee and customer experiences and ultimately business models.

From June 11 to June 15, 2018, Huawei and more than a hundred partners will host our customers at CEBIT. Together, we will perform a digital symphony which comprises business, technology, and ecosystems. We will demonstrate our innovative ICT solutions across cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), and Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and share our best practices in digital transformation, all of which play a critical role in the digital symphony.

Variation of Industries: Digital technology driving national development and industry transformation

With more enterprises and governments leveraging ICT like cloud computing and Big Data for greater efficiency and innovation, the digital economy is now a new force driving national development, and industry transformation and modernization.

In China, the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, the digital economy is growing faster than other industries. For example, Japan’s digital economy has achieved 6 times the average growth of industries.

In fact, Huawei and Oxford Economics’ Digital Spillover report showed that over the past three decades, a $1 investment in digital technologies has led to an average $20 rise in GDP. This return on investment dwarfs the $3:$1 return for non-technology investments in the same period. The report also concludes that for every $1 investment the average return to GDP is 6.7 times higher for digital investments than for non-digital investments. The global digital economy is growing rapidly and evolving constantly. It has grown 2.5 times faster than global GDP over the past 15 years. IDC forecasts that by 2020, global digital transformation will bring a $18 trillion market. For now, 46% of the world’s enterprises say the task of driving digital services is their first priority in the next year. This figure jumps to 69% in China.

In the next three decades, the real economy will experience extensive digitization and digital technology will reshape every industry. To respond to these changes and accelerate innovation, organizations must adopt new, yet proven technology and business models. Huawei is helping enterprises embrace reliable and easy-to-use digital platforms, and our commitment to research and innovation is enabling us to become the best partner for digital transformation.

♫ Cities becoming intelligent

With more cities striving to improve citizen’s quality of life through more efficient services, Huawei helps cities leverage new ICT to build a nervous system that enables intelligent analysis for effective decision making on city services.

With a comprehensive ecosystem in place, Huawei offers holistic smart city solutions from top-level architecture to service applications. As an example, in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, Huawei is working with industry partners to develop a series of smart applications on a unified platform. The Intelligent Operation Center and Big Data applications have already improved Yanbu’s overall administration, increased local investment by 18%, and created 18,000 new jobs.

With Smart City development dependent on visual and intelligent awareness, Huawei’s video cloud solution supports on-cloud operations and distributed network-wide intelligence to enable collaborative security protection where video is not only watched but used to take meaningful action. In Shenzhen, China, the solution which was deployed in 2017 helped the city reduce its annual crime rate by 25% and solve more than 60% of its criminal cases.

♫ Digital technology innovation accelerates the modernization of traditional manufacturing

Many countries have outlined national strategies to advance their manufacturing industries. These strategies include Germany’s Industry 4.0, Made in China 2025, and Made in India, and are all based on digital technology innovation and development.

Enterprises across industries need to partner with established technology leaders such as Huawei as we collaborate with our partners to deliver new ICT solutions that help enterprises on their transformation journeys. For example, Huawei’s communications capabilities and advanced AI technologies are helping automakers digitize to seize new opportunities.

Huawei has decades of experience in communications and the company has proprietary AI chips to enable connected and intelligent car development. For these reasons, PSA, a European automobile giant, has chosen Huawei as its partner to build the CVMP connected car platform. To date, the platform covers 89 countries and PSA plans to connect 8 million cars to the platform by 2025, offering online car-hailing, onboard entertainment, driving behavior analysis, emergency rescue, fleet management, car resale, and many other services. Huawei has also helped Dongfeng Motor Group develop a private cloud to connect the group’s 15 subsidiaries to the cloud data center, drastically accelerating Dongfeng’s business transformation and reducing the group’s IT cost by 30%.

♫ Digital technology gives banks a new competitive edge

In the digital era, the financial industry is facing a revolution with new rules, new technologies, new customer behavior, and economic globalization. McKinsey says that banks must master digital technologies in three to five years if they are to survive incoming market competition.

Huawei enables financial customers to achieve this through a series of innovative solutions covering campus networks, video surveillance, data centers, financial clouds, and financial Big Data. For example, Huawei helped China Merchants Bank develop a cloud platform for Big Data, which has improved the accuracy and speed of data analysis to drive new business opportunities and customer satisfaction. Furthermore, Huawei and Pacific Insurance Group have jointly built a Big Data platform to help the Group in key business functions including counterfeit claims, risk prevention, and precision marketing.

♫ Bits drive watts: ICT enables a better future for the electric power industry

The electric power industry is already undergoing digital transformation and in the next decade ICT and smart grids will converge to achieve faster development, create new opportunities, and help electric companies meet customers’ rising expectations.

Huawei offers the Electric Power Cloud, Electric Power Communications Network, Electric Power IoT, and other solutions to help world-leading power companies develop intelligent services. These solutions not only help power companies improve energy management efficiency, but also offer security protection to ensure stable power grid operations. For example, Huawei’s POL Solution helped Enel drive digital transformation and build a more reliable, efficient, and energy-saving communications network. The new network has lowered power consumption by more than 60%, reduced equipment foot print by 80%, raised deployment efficiency by 50%, cut OPEX by more than 50%, dramatically improved Enel’s cloud and mobile service experience, and boosted office efficiency.

Sonata of Technology: Huawei’s strength in 3 core areas will secure its leadership in the future digital world

In April 2018, Huawei released our Global Industry Vision 2025. In this report, we forecast that the world will have 40 billion personal smart devices and 1 trillion connections by 2025, bringing a $23 trillion market. By then, everything will be perceived, connected, and intelligent.

If we liken the future digital world to a grand symphony performance, then digital transformation is its core theme and the ICT industry must build a solid stage and provide effective support for this masterpiece.

The ICT industry is entering a new phase of development in which digital transformation will touch every business and every industry, and digital technology will shift from a support system to a production and decision system. This is why Huawei announced its new vision and commitment in 2017 to bring digital to every person, home, and organization for a fully-connected intelligent world.

To deliver on this commitment, we are focused on horizontal platforms that fuel industry transformation. Over the last few years, Huawei has invested in three core areas: chips, mathematical algorithms, and architecture – all required for cloud computing, Big Data, IoT, mobile broadband, AI, and other cutting-edge technologies that will drive this transformation.

Huawei has accrued deep expertise and experience through the development of these essential elements, which can be applied to competitive products across various categories, creating “fertile soil” for ecosystem partners’ innovation, and supporting customers’ digital transformation in all industries.

These capabilities are enabling Huawei to lead in optical communications, wireless, and data center development. For example in the data center arena, Huawei has developed the world’s fastest and most stable all-flash storage product that exceeds the industry average by more than 250% in IOPS. Huawei also designed the industry’s first mission-critical server that supports the online replacement of CPU and memory units. In addition, Huawei chips and architecture help customers reduce data center power and space consumption, cutting power costs by 38% without compromising service performance and reliability.

In cellular wireless communications, Huawei has developed world-leading SingleRAN products that support multi-band, multi-model, and VIP experience assurance. Using these core technologies in enterprises enables advanced communications capabilities such as three-band/ultra-large capacity, multi-model convergence (Wi-Fi + e-Label + ZigBee), user-based signal beam adjustment, and intelligent antenna to improve the employee and customer experience.

Huawei is using its broad experience to offer high performance networking and computing solutions to help enterprises embrace AI to solve complex issues and create new customer experiences. For example, seven Huawei GPU servers equal 200 traditional servers in processing performance. Huawei’s all-flash storage keeps latency permanently below 0.5 ms, which is only half of the industry average. Huawei’s ultra-speed AI Fabric network uses innovative algorithms to shorten AI training duration by 40%.

Huawei leverages its strength in chips, mathematical algorithms, and architecture to drive leadership in ICT products and solutions for the digital era, as well as to ensure its value to the customers by constantly providing innovative products and solutions.

Minuet of Ecosystems: Huawei helps 100 partners achieve CNY100 million income

Like a symphony, digital transformation demands the art of cooperation and innovation and all aspects must perform in harmony to create splendid experience.

Companies can no longer operate alone, they need the support of partners that bring specialized knowledge, capabilities and experience. Huawei recognizes the power of ecosystems and is investing time and resources into their development and partners’ growth – key to creating a digital symphony.

Huawei provides industry-leading “cloud-pipe-device” solutions to help customers implement top-level ICT architecture designs. With our “platform + ecosystem” strategy, Huawei works with partners to achieve win-win outcomes. Our goal is to build a platform to support all platforms and create the “soil” for ecosystems. Together, we are developing an ecosystem that enables enterprise customers to achieve successful digital transformation. To date, 197 of Fortune Global 500 companies, including 45 of the top 100, have chosen Huawei as their digital transformation partner.

Moving forward, Huawei will open our ICT, marketing, training, and service platforms to our partners to help them achieve comprehensive cross-border development. In the next 3 years, we will support 100 partners to help them achieve CNY100 million income, develop more than 1200 solution partners, and establish a CNY1 billion incentive fund for cloud partners.

For more information, please visit Huawei online http://e.huawei.com/topic/cebit2018-en/index.html