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HUAWEI WOWS GITEX GLOBAL 2024 WITH CLOUD STACK 8.5 ROLL OUT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA
GITEX Global highlighted how Huawei is enabling digitalisation of diverse industries across the region .
Roy Luo , Director of Cloud Consulting Solution Sales Dept , Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia
At the Huawei Cloud Summit held during GITEX Global 2024 , Hu Yuhai , Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud , announced the release of Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5 , Huawei ’ s latest hybrid cloud version , for the Middle East and Central Asia .
Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5 aims to create a superior hybrid cloud in the AI era to accelerate industrial intelligence in a region increasingly leveraging the digital economy to boost competitiveness .
Roy Luo , Director of Cloud Consulting Solution Sales Dept , Huawei Cloud Middle East and Central Asia , said : “ Huawei Cloud Stack is the first of its kind , combining intelligent hybrid cloud technology with continuous innovation . It integrates seamlessly with public cloud services , allowing us to continuously download and synchronise successful advancements from the public cloud to on-premises environments . This provides customers with the most advanced cloud services and a strong ecosystem .
“ We have three main advantages . Firstly , we prioritise security and reliability in our cloud infrastructure while maintaining openness . This ensures that we can work with mainstream IT hardware vendors to provide diverse computing power capabilities .
“ Secondly , we introduce advanced data and AI convergence technologies on this platform . This allows customers to easily utilise AI and Big Data technologies .
“ Thirdly , we aim to help industry customers own and develop their large language models . With our recent release of the Pangu model , we empower customers to maintain AI and data sovereignty within their data centres , fostering innovation .”
Drawing on extensive industry expertise , Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5 offers over 50 scenario-specific solutions across six major sectors . The solutions include the Mainframe-to- Cloud Solution for the finance sector , National Government Cloud , and cloud transformation of carriers ’ in-house workloads . These solutions are designed to expedite Digital Transformation and promote intelligent upgrade .
This year , Huawei established a mainframe modernisation business unit ( BU ), integrating core R & D resources , promoting systematic innovation , and addressing the challenges of moving core services from mainframes to the cloud . They are dedicated to creating highly available , easy-to-maintain , and more agile open new core systems for customers .
“ In the Middle Eastern region , the digital economy is booming , and everyone is talking about Digital Transformation , digital operations and intelligence upgrades ,” said Luo . “ We aim to share our global successes with this region by bringing industry-specific solutions to businesses across Central Asia , particularly in sectors such as the finance and telecommunications sectors .”
Jacqueline Shi , President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service , said a joint digital survey Huawei Cloud — as a knowledge partner of Intelligent CIO and CXO Priorities — showed more than 80 % of Middle East enterprises will invest more in digitalisation this year with Cloud and AI the focus of investment .
“ We are pleased that Huawei Cloud is the first choice for more and more customers . Huawei Cloud has rich experience in digitalisation in large-scale government and enterprise , retail , finance and Internet industries . We believe that the core of digitalisation is to transform industry knowledge into digital assets , reconstruct productivity through AI and accumulate industry knowledge into digital assets . Data + AI is the key technology and the best way to carry data and AI is cloud ,” said Shi . p
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