Cloud is still the protagonist of Huawei Connect 2017; Huawei invites you to "grow everything" together in the cloud era

[51CTO.com original article] From September 5 to 7, 2017, the global ICT industry event that cannot be missed will usher in a three-day "carnival" in Shanghai. HUAWEI CONNECT 2017 will be held as scheduled at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. Following the theme of the first 2016 Huawei Connect Conference, "Shape the Cloud", this year's theme will be "Grow with the Cloud", discussing how to grasp the future direction and new opportunities, promote the digital transformation of the industry, and jointly move towards a new growth path as the fully connected intelligent society accelerates.

It's time to take action!

It is not difficult to figure out Huawei's intention from the change in the conference theme. If Huawei explained in detail and comprehensively what cloud strategy is for the first time at the first All-Connect Conference in 2016, then the focus of this year's conference fell on "what to do" and "how to do it", which is more down-to-earth and emphasizes practice and action.

The urgency of "taking action" was actually revealed in many details of the conference:

In terms of guest speakers, Huawei invited more customers and partners with practical experience to share more success stories;

In terms of booth layout, Huawei and its partners will showcase more solutions based on actual scenarios, with more than 600 solution experience points, a 50% increase over HC2016. More than 400 partners and industry organizations will co-exhibit, including Microsoft, Intel, SAP, Accenture, etc., a 225% increase over HC2016, giving the audience a more intuitive experience.

More importantly, Huawei will also provide more opportunities for communication during the conference, hoping to stimulate more business cooperation. It is reported that more than 20,000 guests, including business leaders, ecological partners, and industry pioneers from more than 150 countries and regions around the world, will exchange ideas and seek business opportunities at the All Connected Conference.

In the Cloud 2.0 era, Huawei aims to be a practitioner, enabler, and promoter of cloud

In China, the cloud market has maintained a growth rate of more than 30%. Looking at the world, the entire cloud service market, including infrastructure and upper-layer business applications, has a market size of more than 200 billion US dollars and still has a growth rate of more than 20%. It is not difficult to judge that the cloud that Huawei focuses on is a very promising market. So how should Huawei's cloud be implemented and how can it bring value to enterprises?

Zheng Dianhai, Vice President of Huawei Cloud BU, said that in the process of continuous communication with customers, Huawei has truly felt that customers' demand for cloud is gradually becoming prominent, so Huawei chose to follow the trend and provide customers with the capabilities accumulated over the past 30 years, the products formed, and the solutions built with partners to create value for customers. From his speech, we can interpret that cloud-pipe-end is still Huawei's main business. Huawei hopes to use its ICT technical capabilities accumulated over the years to help partners improve the competitiveness of solutions, and through the combination of ICT software and hardware basic capabilities, help customers improve production efficiency and tap business value. In Zheng Dianhai's words, Huawei wants to be both a practitioner of cloud and a promoter and enabler of cloud.

It is understood that the topics of this conference cover business, technology, and ecological strategies in the cloud era, including 3 keynote speeches, 6 summits, and more than 140 special speeches. Among these topics, the most eye-catching highlight is how to implement the cloud and how to present Huawei's products and solutions in the cloud ecosystem.

Although Huawei only officially established the Cloud BU in March this year and announced its focus on the public cloud sector, in just over five months, Huawei Cloud has achieved impressive results: the number of users has nearly doubled, and more than 20 new cloud services have been added to its products, bringing the total to 65 in 10 categories; in addition, it also focuses on enterprises and government groups and has developed a number of differentiated services, such as HPC (high-performance computing cloud) and bare metal services.

Obviously, Huawei is confident about its "latecomer" in the public cloud market. At present, Huawei focuses on promoting the concept of "Cloud 2.0", featuring trust, openness, and offline service capabilities, and has launched solutions for manufacturing and software development, which have received very good market response. According to Zheng Dianhai, at the Huawei Connect Conference, Huawei will also release a number of particularly down-to-earth "small and beautiful" cloud service new solutions, as well as the popular software development cloud 2.0 new products.

Explore the path of cloud ecosystem growth with partners

"Ecosystem" is a key word that is emphasized in almost all Huawei conferences, and it is also a top priority at the Huawei Connect 2017. Last year, Vice Chairman and Rotating CEO Guo Ping's slogan of "taking only 1% of the huge pie of digital transformation" is still impressive. What new plans will Huawei's top management have for ecological construction this year?

According to Suo Dayong, Vice President of Huawei's Marketing Department, on the third day of the conference, Yan Lida, President of Huawei's Enterprise BG, and Zhang Shunmao, President of Huawei's Marketing and Solutions Department, will host Huawei's ecological releases, sharing, and ecological activities. Suo Dayong emphasized that Huawei will continue to implement its business strategy, be customer-centric, and openly cooperate with ecological partners and customers to achieve win-win results, and find a path to growth together in building a sustainable ecological system.

Suo Dayong mentioned a very interesting detail: In October 2016, the Prime Minister of Malaysia attended a digital economy forum. After the meeting, he wrote a sentence on Facebook. He asked where the future of digitalization is. He said it is here, and added Huawei at the end. At that time, Huawei had no idea that the strength and vitality of the open, cooperative and win-win ecological partners created by Huawei would move the Prime Minister. Huawei itself can create an open platform in the industry and bring such an opportunity for the growth of the digital economy to the Malaysian government. This is reflected in why so many partners have joined this year, which shows that Huawei's creation of such a platform and ecosystem is attractive and vital.

In less than a week, Huawei Connect 2017 will open. This ICT feast is worth looking forward to.

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