Huawei Cloud and Microsoft Enterprise Applications join hands to start a new journey of strategic cooperation

During HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Huawei and Microsoft jointly announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding on cloud service strategic cooperation, and Microsoft enterprise applications will be available on Huawei Cloud. The two parties will carry out in-depth cooperation in the public cloud field, provide enterprises with the best cloud service experience, and jointly assist enterprise customers in their digital transformation.

Huawei and Microsoft jointly announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding on cloud service strategic cooperation

Huawei and Microsoft have a long history of cooperation, which has been continuously developed and deepened in the field of cloud computing. Currently, Huawei Cloud already provides Windows Server and RDS for SQL Server services. The two parties have started a strategic cooperation. According to the cooperation plan, Huawei Cloud will launch more Microsoft enterprise-level products and provide customers with reliable hosting and rich enterprise applications as a service through joint innovation; facing the broad prospects of the global market, the two parties will carry out market expansion and marketing activities as planned.

Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei Cloud BU and President of IT Product Line, said at the signing ceremony: "Huawei has always been customer-centric and committed to becoming an enabler of the intelligent society. As a leading global software, service and solution provider, Microsoft has been playing a significant role in the enterprise market. Huawei Cloud is willing to work with Microsoft to build an open, cooperative and win-win ecosystem. The signing of this memorandum of cooperation marks the beginning of a new journey of strategic cooperation between the two parties."

"From China to the world, a new round of industrial revolution represented by digital transformation is bringing new development opportunities to all walks of life," said Jason Krejciechowski, senior vice president, chairman and CEO of Microsoft Greater China. "Huawei is a world-class enterprise service provider and a strategic partner of Microsoft in the global market. The deepening strategic cooperation between Microsoft and Huawei in the field of cloud computing will help Chinese and global enterprise customers win new opportunities in digital transformation through open and innovative technical cooperation, seamless software and hardware platforms, and a world-leading service system."

HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Huawei's annual global flagship conference for the ICT industry, was held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center from September 5 to 7, 2017. The theme of this conference is "Grow with the Cloud", aiming to build a global sharing platform for open cooperation and discuss with customers and partners how to achieve new growth through digitalization.