"In 2018, Huawei Cloud domestic business revenue increased by 10 times; the number of online paid users increased by 15 times; the number of developers increased by 20 times." At the " Huawei Cloud Inclusive AI" annual summit held recently, Huawei Cloud China President Hong Fangming announced Huawei Cloud's 2018 report card.
2018 is a challenging year: this year is the second year of Huawei Cloud as an independent operating unit, and it is also a year when competition in the cloud industry continues to be fierce. Because of this, the outside world's curiosity about Huawei Cloud has become increasingly strong: Why did Huawei Cloud achieve such achievements less than two years after its establishment? Next, where will Huawei Cloud point its sword?
technology advantages help Huawei Cloud accumulate strength and develop
According to IDC's forecast, the market for Chinese public cloud platform construction will continue to grow rapidly in the next five years, and the market size will reach US$8.66 billion in 2021. Among them, the hardware market size will reach US$6.86 billion, accounting for 79.3%. At the same time, in the forecast of the China Private Cloud market report, the overall market share of infrastructure hardware also accounts for the largest proportion.
Cloud computing , big data, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and other information technologies, and digital transformation in traditional industries, the data volume has shown a geometric growth, bringing a large amount of data stock. At the same time, the rapidly declining computing cost has also laid the economic foundation for the popularization of computing power , and the two jointly promote the growth of computing power demand. The computing power demand generated by scenarios such as autonomous driving and industrial Internet is becoming a huge gap, posing challenges to cloud service , and also bringing more opportunities. Cloud computing is entering the era of computing power. Whoever can provide cheap, efficient and stable computing power services will become the biggest winner in the future cloud service market.
This is also the driving force behind the frequent entry of domestic IT manufacturers into the cloud service market since 2018. Although it cannot form a scale in one year, it will be a force that cannot be underestimated in 2019 when computing power demand explodes.
In essence, providing universal computing power is the foundation for cloud service providers to base their foothold, and the basis of computing power lies in chips, and the universal computing power lies in application scenarios, which happens to be the advantage of Huawei Cloud.
In the past 2018, Huawei Cloud has carried out a strategic layout of "cloud-edge-end" and quickly launched a series of combined punches to show all-round strength to the outside world.
First, launch a full stack and full scenario AI solution. Full stack refers to the full stack of technologies including chips, development tools, training and reasoning frameworks, and application enablement; the full scenario refers to the deployment environment of public clouds, private clouds, edge computing , Internet of Things industry terminals and consumer terminals. "Full stack and full-scene AI" can be said to be a possibility for manufacturers like Huawei that started with ICT infrastructure.
Secondly, ModelArts, a more affordable AI development platform. This is a one-stop development platform for AI developers, providing massive data preprocessing and semi-automated annotation, large-scale distributed training, automated model generation, model tuning, and end-edge-cloud model deployment capabilities, greatly improving the efficiency of AI development. In the recent international benchmark test of Stanford DAWNBench, Huawei Cloud ModelArts ranked first in the world in image recognition with a training time of 10 minutes and 28 seconds.
Furthermore, cloud AI chips Asteng 910 and Asteng 310 are released, focusing on ultra-high computing power in cloud scenarios and edge computing respectively. Compared with most cloud manufacturers that do not have the ability to make chips, Huawei has used Astron 310 for Huawei Cloud, making AI's inference capability a standard for high-end virtual machines, and users can obtain 16 times inference computing power.
Overall, Huawei Cloud’s problem-solving idea on Inclusive AI is based on full-stack full-scene AI solutions, providing full-stack capabilities from chips to APIs. Through the significant increase in computing power, AI will be transformed into a basic productivity like power and the Internet, thus bringing all walks of life into a new era of intelligent computing.
data shows that as of the end of 2018, Huawei Cloud's Huawei Cloud EI intelligent solution for the industry has covered eight major industries including transportation and industry, and has implemented more than 200 projects. EI can currently provide more than 45 services and achieve more than 142 functions.
grasps the enterprise-level market, HCS came into being
. A particularly significant feature is that all manufacturers value the growth potential of the TO B market. With the weak global economic growth and the disappearance of population and traffic dividends, the TO C market is losing its previous vigorous hematopoietic ability. Internet giants such as BAT are living a bit "back" and their market value has dropped sharply.
, and companies that have been serving the TO B market are ushering in spring, with Microsoft 's Azure revenue growth rate reaching 76%, most of which come from enterprise-level customers. It can be seen that in 2019, To B will be the commanding heights of competition among all cloud service manufacturers and the key point that determines the fate of enterprises in the next few years. The competition between traditional IT companies and Internet giants will also enter a new stage.
In the enterprise-level cloud market, the demand for
is quite clear. The model of using a platform to conquer the world is unsustainable. Customer needs are diverse and complex. Traditional IT manufacturers with strong industry expansion capabilities and deep technical skills have more advantages.
In addition, it is worth noting that many research reports show that enterprise-level customers value the most is the stability of the cloud platform. Unlike the "do your best" Internet services, if there is a second-level interruption of the cloud business of enterprise-level customers, it will cause significant losses, which is also the reason why enterprise-level customers are more demanding in choosing cloud service manufacturers.
While releasing its 2018 report card, Huawei Cloud has launched its killer weapon for the enterprise-level cloud service market: HCS (HUAWEI CLOUD Stack), a solution for public cloud architecture and private cloud deployment, a solution based on considerations of reality and future.
Perhaps to the outside world, the birth of HCS is somewhat unexpected. But for Huawei Cloud, HCS came into being. As early as 2016, Huawei Cloud predicted the arrival of the Cloud2.0 era. The Cloud2.0 era has a feature, where the customer entities transformed from developers and Internet companies to traditional enterprises and government agencies. The last two types of customers are not as simple as replacing the IT system, but have the idea of changing business processes or even undergoing digital transformation. In the process of digital transformation, they generally face the three mountains of "unified operation and maintenance of business systems, unified upgrades and unified resource scheduling", and need a real hybrid cloud architecture.
Huawei cloud hybrid cloud solution HCS perfectly solves these problems. It not only supports the docking management between its own public cloud and private cloud, but also provides regular hybrid cloud and heterogeneous management of multiple resource pools to help customers successfully cross three mountains.
is a complete cloud service platform that delivers a complete cloud service platform in an integrated full stack mode. HCS continues Huawei Cloud's technical leadership in the field of cloud product services, brings full stack technological innovation to customer data centers, and uses the industry-leading five unified (unified architecture, unified operation and maintenance, unified upgrade, unified API, and unified ecosystem) advantages to provide zero-delay upgrades and zero-change cloud-based experiences, achieving high security, compliance, high stability, and sustainable iteration of customer business.
By connecting to Huawei Cloud, HCS can quickly use rich cloud services and enterprise-level intelligent EI, bringing more possibilities to customer business innovation. By delivering Huawei Cloud's service products to the client computer room, HCS solves the problems of customers' one-time business development investment and business value development focus, and meets the demands of government and enterprise customers for rapid business iteration and differentiated competition. The HCS and Huawei Cloud in the
client room are homogeneous and homogeneous, which means that customer business can be deployed locally or according to business development needs, with the help of Huawei Cloud's global Region deployment capabilities, it can be released globally and maintain the same business logic. Based on this advantage, Huawei Cloud hybrid cloud solution HCS truly helps customers realize the concept and technical support of "one cloud" facing the world. At present, HCS has helped customers such as Duisburg, Germany, Falabella retail in Chile, and Shenzhen traffic police to achieve digital transformation practices.
has entered the Cloud2.0 era, and cloud computing will further move towards the "deep water zone". As the "black soil" of the smart world, Huawei Cloud has taken the lead in making preparations to lead the Cloud2.0 era.As the AI industry enters the fast lane, Huawei Cloud's accumulated advantages will become more and more obvious, and will surely bring more surprises and expectations to the industry.
