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Huawei partners with Enterprise Systems, Gulf
Applications, Redington, to build cloud services
Huawei announced its enterprise services
strategy with the introduction of several
channel services policies and programmes
at Gitex 2017. The new strategy will focus
on constructing a comprehensive cloud-
based services ecosystem for its Middle
East customers. This will help accelerate
the shift to the cloud by industries, build
a corresponding service ecosystem,
develop the needed talent in cloud
technology, and lead the service channel
transformation through a network of
multinational service partners.
Huawei will be transforming its cloud-
based services to provide its Middle East
customers with a comprehensive, one-stop
experience with Real-time, On-demand,
All-online, DIY, Social, or ROADS. This
new cloud transformation service helps
customers during the entire process of
their operations, from initial assessment
to planning and design, migration, disaster
recovery, security and optimisation. The
new service has been developed based on
Huawei’s experience building over 400
cloud datacentres and over 100 cloud
migration projects.
In support of this global digital service
platform, Huawei is making significant
investments to construct a cloud-based
tools platform that will deliver remote
automated services. This increasingly
comprehensive offering of services and
solutions is being developed by utilising
Huawei’s extensive partner network,
including strategic relationships with
regional companies such as the UAE’s
Enterprise Systems, Saudi Arabia’s
Gulf Applications, and the pan-GCC
Redington Gulf.
Huawei has among the most
comprehensive services capabilities in
the world, with more than 2,400 Certified
Service Partners CSPs worldwide and
more than 60 CSPs in Middle East.
Huawei also launched a cloud certification
programme at Gitex 2017 in order to
develop the cloud ecosystem’s talent pool
in the Middle East. This includes training
and certifications that meet the needs of
specific industries, with unique, tailored
programmes for each sector.
“Enterprises and governments are
enthusiastically embracing advanced,
comprehensive cloud services because of
the significant benefits they provide. This
includes a one-stop service from initiation
to fully operational. To realise the benefits,
many decisions need to be made before,
during and after the cloud transition
begins. Huawei is offering a cloud
transformation service that helps our
customers in the Middle East throughout
the entire process, from initial assessment
to planning and design, migration, disaster
recovery, security and optimisation,”
said Alaa ElShimy, Vice President and
Managing Director, Huawei Enterprise
Middle East.
Boundless Computing
Huawei also unveiled its Boundless
Computing server strategy to drive digital
transformation for the Middle East’s
businesses. As part of the announcement,
Huawei demonstrated two technologies:
FusionServer V5, and the Atlas intelligent
cloud hardware platform. The former,
powered by Intel Skylake processors is
debuting in the region.
Boundless Computing is Huawei’s
answer to ensuring new smarter and
more connected next-gen technologies are
given the infrastructure and high-power
support they need to be always-on, always-
secure. This type of computing aims to
bring hardware closer to data sources and
reduce the need for additional layers of
overlying software.
It also includes pushing beyond the
boundary of servers, and enabling DC-
level resource pooling and on-demand
Huawei’s cloud services are being built by
channel partners Enterprise Systems from UAE
and Gulf Applications from Saudi Arabia.
provisioning. Moreover, it requires going
beyond the boundary of datacentres,
enabling smart access, and taking
computing even into the data sources,
in this way, to smarten up data at the
remote end.
Atlas was introduced as a way of
utilising Artificial Intelligence for High
Power Computing. As the result of
Huawei’s Boundless Computing strategy,
the Atlas platform positions Huawei to
prepare the infrastructure resource pool
for the digital revolution.
Huawei’s FusionServer V5, is an integral
part of the new strategy, as it delivers
smart features such as: big data application
acceleration solution, all-flash SAP HANA
appliance solution, G series heterogeneous
computing platforms, and edge computing
for smart video analytics solution. These
integrated solutions will help businesses
in the region boost the overall computing
efficiency of their datacentres.
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