Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 is officially released to Hong Kong with six highlights to inspire the leap to the cloud – Hong Kong Economic Daily – Newspaper – Special

On April 23, 2024, at the Huawei Cloud Hong Kong Summit 2024, Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, released Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 to the Hong Kong market, providing 110+ local cloud services and six major highlights to help Hong Kong governments and enterprises in China continue to improve their use. Cloud depth drives business innovation.

At the same time, Huawei Cloud has also launched the “Leap2Cloud” action initiative for customer partners from all walks of life in Hong Kong, hoping to work with all Hong Kong government and enterprise customers and partners to make the leap from virtualization to cloud, promote the widespread implementation of deep cloud use in the entire industry, and embrace the smart blue ocean. , opening a new era of digital intelligence.

Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, said: “In April 2023, Huawei Cloud released Huawei Cloud Stack 8.2 version for the Hong Kong market. In the past year, we have continued to enhance our cloud service capabilities and key technologies. Today, we launched the new Huawei Cloud Stack 8 .3, and brings 6 major highlights: 1 solid cloud base, and 5 major innovation capabilities of database, host cloud, data lake, artificial intelligence large model and industrial Internet, bringing more to Hong Kong government and enterprise customers and partners Value and a better experience.”

First of all, Huawei Cloud Stack ensures high availability and security of services, while providing diversified computing power to ensure the openness of the platform and create a trustworthy and more resilient cloud-native base.

In addition, Huawei Cloud Stack continues to innovate on five key technologies, allowing new technologies to be quickly implemented locally and making innovation within reach:

1. GaussDB, a high-performance, highly reliable distributed database: It is more than reliable in high-concurrency scenarios, and has demonstrated performance that is 30% better than the industry. It also focuses on improving business capabilities in core production scenarios of government and enterprises with flexible disaster recovery and one-stop migration capabilities.

2. Hosts are moved to the cloud to accelerate core system modernization process: In response to the needs of industries such as finance, energy, and manufacturing to migrate core systems from traditional, closed host architectures to open platforms, Huawei has launched a host cloud solution based on collaborative innovation of software, hardware, and service capabilities. The three major cloud migration routes, core component replacement and core migration, have built a new foundation for cloud-hardware collaboration, implemented new process standards, and scenario-oriented baseline solutions.

3. Integrate data lakes to promote data sharing and circulation: Including three major components: MRS big data service, DWS data warehouse service and DataArts Studio one-stop data management platform, it provides enterprises with an enterprise-level real-time data lake, supports OLAP and HTAP workloads, and unifies data standards to allow government affairs, finance, etc. Enterprises realize efficient cross-source and cross-domain data collaboration, real-time analysis, and shared exchange.

4. Pangu Large Model helps thousands of industries build exclusive large models in one stop: Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 is the first in the industry to implement large model capabilities based on hybrid cloud deployment, providing the industry’s most complete AI production chain including computing platform, cloud services, development kits, and professional services, demonstrating that government and enterprise customers can build exclusive large models in one stop Ability enables hundreds of forms and empowers thousands of industries.

5. Industrial Internet, integrated development with AI, empowers new industrialization construction: The new industrial Internet platform reference architecture provides three key capabilities: “industrial global connection”, “industrial digital intelligence enablement” and “industrial application innovation” to solve the pain points of different links in the industrial production process. By accelerating the integration development with AI, Empower new industrialization construction.

In-depth cloud use is a long process. Huawei Cloud Stack is committed to serving customers to use the cloud well, use the cloud well, and manage the cloud well. Starting from 2021, it will continue to open up and optimize the product portfolio, professional services, and customer-oriented business flows. , has currently built and released more than 40 scenario-based solutions for government and enterprise customers, and will continue to explore more business scenarios to make the technology easy to use, the scenarios simple, and the experience replicable.

Hosting on the cloud, a new trusted choice

At the meeting, Lu Jinjiang, CTO of Huawei’s overseas business of Host Cloud Legion, introduced Huawei’s recently established Host Cloud Legion and the credible new options it provides for finance and other industries. Lv Jinjiang said: “As a key facility that carries core financial services, the mainframe system needs to break through root technologies to achieve independent innovation. This is another world-class problem after ERP and database replacement. Huawei’s mainframe cloud army has assembled technologies and technologies from all fields within the company. service experts, and work with our customers and partners to jointly carry out core technology research, build an open platform based on cloud native, and accelerate the modernization and evolution of core systems.”

From construction to operational excellence, a new leap forward

The construction of a cloud platform is only the first step. How to enable enterprises and applications to better migrate to, use and manage the cloud and maximize the value of the cloud platform is an ongoing process. Gong Qing, Director of Huawei’s Hybrid Cloud Operations Department, said: “Huawei Cloud Stack combines rich practices with global government, financial, and enterprise customers and builds a comprehensive cloud operation solution based on a deep understanding of business pain points and needs, which mainly includes Cloud operation capabilities in four aspects include migration tools and other business cloud capabilities, cloud-native transformation and other deep cloud usage capabilities, high-availability solution design and other active operation and maintenance capabilities, and operation system construction capabilities, helping customers accelerate the move to deep cloud usage and improve digital productive forces.”

Leap to Cloud, leap to the cloud!

Huawei Cloud Stack has served more than 5,500 customers around the world. In mainland China, Huawei Cloud Stack has won the first place in nine fields, including government cloud and financial cloud infrastructure. In Asia-Pacific, Huawei Cloud is the leader in the emerging Asia-Pacific hybrid cloud market.

In 2024, Huawei Cloud launched the “Leap2Cloud” initiative to join hands with customers and partners from various industries in Hong Kong to seize the strategic opportunities of intelligence and make the leap from traditional virtualization to in-depth cloud use marked by cloud native, AI, and big data, allowing innovative technologies to It truly becomes a “combustion accelerant” for business development and accumulates greater “cloud kinetic energy.”

Facing the future, Huawei Cloud Stack continues to lead technological innovation, bring more competitive products and solutions to customers, practice in-depth cloud use, and promote comprehensive intelligence.

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