The original intention of building Huawei Software Development Cloud: to deliver excellent development methods and capabilities to software companies and developers

[51CTO.com original article] With the rapid development of new technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things, as well as the implementation of Internet+, software technology is constantly being innovated, and the software industry is facing transformation and upgrading and shifting gears to speed up. How to quickly promote the transformation and upgrading of the software industry has become a question of great concern to industry insiders.

On December 22, 2016, the Huawei Dalian Software Development Cloud Launch Conference with the theme of "Cloud Intelligence Software, Sharing the Future" was successfully held in Dalian. The conference discussed the challenges of software industry upgrading and transformation around the theme, and used the advantages of the cloud to improve the R&D efficiency and competitiveness of software companies. At the same time, Huawei released a software development cloud platform that integrates Huawei's R&D practices, cutting-edge R&D concepts, and advanced R&D tools. The platform provides cloud R&D tool services for software companies, universities, and developers, helping users achieve simple and efficient software development.

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Huawei Dalian Software Development Cloud is officially launched

During the break of the meeting, Mr. Yang Ruikai, President of Huawei Enterprise Cloud Business Department, Mr. Song Yong, CTO of Enterprise Cloud Business Department, and Mr. Xu Feng, Director of Software Development Cloud Products, were interviewed by reporters.

Why did Huawei choose Dalian to establish its software development cloud?

In June 2015, the Dalian Municipal Government and Huawei signed a cloud strategic cooperation agreement. Huawei established a cloud innovation center in Dalian and implemented a software development cloud project. After a year of exploration and practice by Huawei, the Dalian Municipal Government and local enterprises, Huawei and the Dalian Municipal Government jointly built the Huawei Dalian Software Development Cloud Platform. Currently, the platform has served more than 200 local software companies, supported more than 1,100 software development projects, and more than 7,000 developers use it online every day.

So why did Huawei choose to cooperate with the Dalian Municipal Government to land the software development cloud here? Song Yong said that the software development cloud is a public service platform, and it needs fertile soil to land. The reason why the software development cloud landed in Dalian is that Dalian is a famous software city and a gathering place for software manufacturing. After more than 20 years of development, Dalian has an output value of more than 150 billion yuan, more than 2,000 companies, and more than 200,000 developers. Many companies are facing the demand for upgrading and transformation. The Dalian Municipal Government actively promotes the transformation of the software industry and builds a public service platform to provide soil for the landing of the software development cloud.

The original intention of building a software development cloud: to deliver Huawei's best development methods and capabilities to software companies and developers

Talking about the original intention of Huawei Software Development Cloud, Xu Feng said that in the 2016 software industry rankings, Huawei has topped the list for 15 consecutive years and has a leading position in software development. Huawei Software Development Cloud is a product created by Huawei that combines its best software development practices, industry-leading R&D concepts, and advanced R&D tools. It is hoped that through this product platform, Huawei's best development methods and capabilities can be delivered to enterprises, universities, and developers to help them improve the quality and efficiency of software delivery. This is the original intention of building the Software Development Cloud.

In addition, in terms of the ecological construction of Huawei Software Development Cloud, Huawei is working with a number of enterprises, universities and other units to jointly build an ecological system, introducing the industry's most cutting-edge and advanced concepts and tools for software business, hoping to promote the rapid growth of the domestic software industry through the continuous improvement of the ecological environment.

Software Development Cloud Core Concept and Unique Competitiveness

Huawei Software Development Cloud is a public cloud service for developers. It is an intelligent software R&D management platform provided by Huawei Enterprise Cloud for software development teams. It is a cloud service provided to developers that is ready to use. Developers can perform project management, configuration management, code checking, compilation and construction, testing, deployment and release operations on the cloud anytime and anywhere.

Xu Feng told reporters that all R&D personnel and enterprise software practitioners only need to apply to obtain this software development cloud service. Huawei Software Development Cloud is based on the four core concepts of cloud development, DevOps/continuous delivery, full life cycle, experience and fun, forming six major product features of "one more (multiple scenarios), two all (all cloud), and three high (high performance, high security, and high intelligence)". Over the years, Huawei has invested heavily in service quality, reliability, and security. Throughout the process of project development, Huawei has professional technical experts to solve security and reliability design. Security discussions are integrated into the product design stage, and security testing is implemented for each piece. In terms of reliability, the reliability and security of customer data are guaranteed through cluster technology and various backup capabilities.

Three typical application scenarios of software development cloud

Software development cloud is mainly used in three typical scenarios: First, it supports incubators to unify R&D tools and environments to achieve collaborative development. Second, it helps Internet companies improve quality and efficiency and reduce costs. Third, it helps colleges and universities improve their teaching methods and enhance students' engineering practical skills.

Taking higher education as an example, in China, college students studying software engineering cannot get in touch with knowledge of enterprise software development engineering such as continuous integration, delivery, and automated testing. As a result, many computer science graduates choose to switch to marketing or support systems after entering society and enterprises, which is a waste of educational resources. Based on this, Huawei has formed a linkage with teachers from Dalian University of Technology and other schools, hoping to introduce Huawei's new R&D concepts and R&D platforms to colleges and universities. Courses are set up in software engineering, and practical skills are provided to college students through software development cloud platforms, so that students can adapt to these internal R&D platforms of enterprises during the learning stage, thereby greatly improving the adaptability of college graduates to enterprises and allowing enterprises to obtain more and more capable fresh blood.

In the future, the positioning of software development cloud in Huawei Enterprise Cloud

What is the positioning of the software development cloud in the enterprise cloud? Yang Ruikai said that at the launch conference of the enterprise cloud last year, Huawei defined the business boundaries of the enterprise cloud, which is to focus on the infrastructure services of the IAAS layer, aggregate the ecological services of the SAAS layer, and better serve customers. At present, China's cloud development is still in its early stages. In this context, in order to better serve partners and customers, Huawei will provide more capabilities on the PAAS layer while providing IAAS layer services, and Huawei Software Development Cloud provides capabilities at the PAAS layer. In the future, Huawei will work with partners to build PAAS capabilities.

In addition, he also said that from the perspective of information industry development, the competition in the future information industry will eventually be reflected in the two aspects of chips, software and platforms. At present, China's software industry is in a period of rapid development. Huawei hopes to combine its years of practice with the development of the software industry, and use its software development and operation experience and capabilities to serve software companies and developers, thereby promoting the rapid development of the software industry.

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