In the past decade, almost all heavyweight Internet and IT giants in the world have been focusing on cloud computing, trying to seize strategic advantages.
In 2018, the growth rate of leading cloud manufacturers was high, and the "Matthew effect" was highlighted, directly pressing the acceleration button for China's cloud computing. The seemingly clearer cloud computing market structure has been added by a "new giant", disrupting the competitive landscape.
In 2008, we started to contact private cloud . Huawei, which established Cloud BU in 2017, is undoubtedly a "latecomer" to the outside world. However, Huawei Cloud entered the market at the most intense time and shouted the goal of "one of the five clouds in the world", which surprised the industry.
In this regard, Huawei Cloud BU President Zheng Yelai once said: "We may not be the best today, but we must be the fastest-progressing!"
must do what we say. In less than two years, Huawei Cloud has become the fastest-growing cloud in the industry.
In 2018, Huawei Cloud began to appear on the list of front-line camps in evaluation reports such as Gartner and Forrester. According to official data from Huawei Cloud, as of the end of 2018, Huawei Cloud launched more than 160 cloud service , and basically one or two new cloud services will be launched every week; the number of new applications in the cloud market has reached 1,500, an increase of more than three times compared with 2017.
There is no doubt that in 2018, Huawei Cloud proved its strength with practical actions and officially joined the ranks of world-wide first-line cloud computing players such as AWS, Alibaba Cloud , and Azure.
At the same time, the cloud computing industry has also completed the first historic transformation, moving from Internet IT infrastructure to larger scale expansion, higher density, lower power consumption and lower costs. At the same time, it must have flexible, elastic, intuitive and in-depth management methods, and provide them to industry customers in a standardized and generalized form.
In other words, starting from 2019, the intensity of the cloud computing market will be far more intense than the previous ten years.
When the door to cloud computing for the next decade slowly opened, is Huawei Cloud, which just got the ticket to the second half of cloud computing, ready for this?
Black soil and wheat planting
At the end of 2017, Huawei Chairman Ren Zhengfei In an internal email from Huawei, highlighted Huawei's future mission and vision: "We are essentially focusing on I CT infrastructure and smart terminals provide an informatized, automated and intelligent ‘black soil’. This ‘black soil’ can grow ‘corn’, ‘soybean’, ‘sorghum’, ‘peanut’, ‘potato’… Let the content, applications and clouds of each partner grow on it, forming a common force for customers.”
Huawei Cloud inherits the concept of “black soil”, like a thunder in the flat ground, and quickly sets off a brand in the industry. The value proposition of "no application on the top, no data on the bottom, no equity investment" only provides fertile innovation soil, so that customers and partners can cooperate with Huawei Cloud with confidence.
Nowadays, with the support of AI technology, this "black land" has been nurtured more abundantly. Huawei Cloud believes that "+intelligence" will become a basic productivity, which will definitely change the existing production relationship, change the production cost structure, and promote unprecedented changes in all walks of life.
It is worth noting that the new brand slogan proposed by Huawei Cloud this time emphasizes "+intelligence" rather than "intelligence +".
In this regard, Zheng Yelai, president of Huawei Cloud BU, said that "black soil" enables all walks of life to greatly release productivity through "+intelligence", rather than subverting various industries. In the end, "wheat grows or wheat grows."
The concept of black soil clearly outlines Huawei Cloud's business boundaries and development direction. When Huawei Cloud is determined to use AI technology and concepts to solve current and future problems, its essence is that the "black soil" can enable the continuous evolution of all industries and directions, so that enterprises can enjoy the new productivity-driven and progress in production relations brought by AI.
Because of AI empowerment, the value of cloud access to enterprises is not only a reduction in cost, but also a change in the strategic level of the enterprise, and it is also an inevitable choice for if you don’t advance or retreat.For Huawei Cloud, growing together with customers, innovating together, and facing the future together, AI will also become the key to building competitiveness in the future.
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Huawei Cloud’s views on AI are quite representative of the industry. Today, Alibaba Cloud’s industry “super brain”, Tencent Cloud’s “AI as a Service”, and Baidu Cloud’s “ABC Trinity”, actually reflect this trend.
However, knowing is easy to do, and it is not easy to implement "inclusive AI". AI faces challenges in technology, resources, talents, etc. Zheng Yelai summarized it as "difficulty in development, computing power, expensive": "difficulty" lies in low development efficiency, scarce talents, and long learning cycle; "expensive" lies in the scarce and expensive basic AI resources, especially computing power.
So, how does Huawei Cloud, which is committed to providing "black soil" for various industries, view this industry-specific problem?
computing power, algorithm , and data are the three cornerstones of current AI. The large amount of data generated in the industry currently accounts for more than 70% of the time in cleaning, annotation, and training, so computing power is still a scarce resource. At the same time, most AI algorithms need to be trained in the cloud and then deployed at the terminal. AI applications undergo multiple migrations of underlying computing environments between training and deployment, which is also an extremely troublesome and inefficient process for enterprises and developers.
Faced with these common problems, Huawei Cloud began to think about whether it can provide the society with a huge computing power foundation, realize one-time operator development, consistent development and debugging experience for customers, and implement the cloud service concept of "affordable, well-used, and reliable" to "inclusive AI"? The question of
directly hits Huawei Cloud's business model and technical advantages. Returning to the essence of cloud computing, providing universal computing power is the foundation for cloud service providers to base their footholds, 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.
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In 2018, Huawei Cloud launched the integrated strategic layout of "cloud edge and end" and quickly launched a series of combined punches to show all-round strength to the outside world.
first, launching full-stack full-scene AI solution. Full stack refers to the full stack of technologies including chips, development tools, training and inference 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.
Second, the more affordable AI development platform ModelArts. 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 on-demand deployment capabilities, greatly improving AI development efficiency. 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.
, the third one, released cloud AI chips Asteng 910 and Asteng 310, 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 will use Astron 910 for Huawei Cloud in the future, making AI's inference capability a standard for high-end virtual machines, and users can obtain 16 times the 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.
The development of AI technology and cloud platform from Dreamer to Creator
has made basic preparations for all industries to enter AI, allowing enterprises to enter AI with evidence. However, in reality, there are still high barriers for enterprises to apply AI.
First, the ratio between the cost and benefits of AI applications is full of uncertainty. For example, when enterprise parks undergo intelligent transformation, installing smart cameras and reinstalling telephone poles is relatively expensive, which is a multiple burden for enterprises to labor costs, time costs and economic costs. These seemingly subtle points will actually overflow costs that cannot be ignored in the entire enterprise intelligent practice.
Second, the needs and difficulties of various industries when applying AI are different.Many times, these problems are difficult to solve through some general AI idea, but must provide targeted services + platforms to solve AI bottlenecks in different fields.
Huawei Cloud realizes that AI cannot talk about it on paper, and must prove its value in real production and business scenarios. Huawei Cloud began to go deep into the industry and scenarios to find the AI pain points of every city and every enterprise, and actually solve these pain points. These seemingly "cumbersome" tasks have become the unique idea for Huawei Cloud to implement "inclusive AI".
In 2018, Huawei Cloud successfully practiced more than 200 projects in 8 major industry scenarios.
Jia Yongli, vice president of Huawei Cloud BU and general manager of EI service product department, said: "After a year, the biggest gain is not how much services we have done, but through these projects, we know how to see artificial intelligence implemented from the perspective of enterprises and how to make artificial intelligence truly play its value in the industry."
Jia Yongli, vice president of Huawei Cloud BU and general manager of EI service product department,
In this process, Huawei Cloud has found a tool for AI implementation. The core lies in scenario-based development. Finding the right scenario, plus industry data and algorithms, it can generate real commercial value. Regarding the combination of industry and AI, Huawei Cloud summarizes it into three major scenarios:
First, massive repetitive scenarios, which mainly refer to repetitive scenarios that appear frequently in enterprise practice. For example, the cooperation between Debang Logistics and Huawei Cloud, through deep learning and image recognition services, replaces the worker's movement in the camera, which greatly reduces the damage rate of items during package shipment.
Second, expert experience scenario refers to the integration of expert accumulation and experience to enable AI to reach the level of expert assistants. For example, the third-party medical testing institution Jinyu Medicine cooperated with Huawei Cloud to achieve phased breakthroughs in cervical cancer pathological detection, with sensitivity (true positive rate) exceeding 99%, and specificity (true negative rate) exceeding 80%.
Third, multi-domain collaboration scenarios, for exceptionally complex scenarios involving many parameters, complex dependencies and high dimensions, such as industrial production, urban governance, etc., Huawei Cloud's AI technology has also brought new ideas and new methods to these fields.
Huawei Cloud’s actions to benefit AI are far more than that. In addition to helping companies choose scenarios to implement AI, Huawei Cloud also focuses on developers, allowing developers to enjoy the dividends brought by AI, and truly make AI service-oriented.
As Jia Yongli said, I hope more people can turn their dreams into real inventions and creations through the platform provided by Huawei Cloud and combine industry needs. From "Dreamer" to "creator" is Huawei Cloud's key concept in 2019.
This time, Huawei Cloud allows enterprises and developers to no longer face a complex and profound concept, but directly enter a world of AI that can be used, is indeed useful, and wants to use in the future, truly removing the threshold for enterprises to enter AI.
Cloud 2.0 accelerates business to the cloud
If in the Cloud 1.0 era, public cloud pursues sharing surplus computing power, bandwidth, storage and other infrastructure capabilities with users, and its customer base is mainly innovative companies and small and micro enterprises. Then a large number of corporate customers have not actually started to migrate to the cloud business.
When the Cloud 2.0 era arrived and the launch of the enterprise-level market truly brought about all-round competition for cloud services. This is the opportunity that Huawei Cloud must seize in the next ten years.
can be seen that the future competition for cloud services is not simply a competition for online services. As industry innovation transforms from digital to intelligent, extends from non-critical applications to key applications, and from new applications to traditional applications, customers hope to see a more unified and transparent IT infrastructure to achieve unified operation and maintenance of the overall business system, as well as unified scheduling and upgrading of resources.
Based on this trend, Huawei Cloud has launched HCS hybrid cloud solution, which uses "five unifications": unified architecture, unified operation and maintenance, unified upgrade, unified API, and unified ecosystem to ensure users' consistent application experience on public and private cloud platforms, and realize one-stop deployment and unified automated operation and maintenance.
It is worth mentioning that Huawei Cloud HCS not only supports docking management between its own public cloud and private cloud, but also provides regular hybrid cloud and heterogeneous management of multiple resource pools.
Currently, Huawei Cloud HCS supports more than 13 categories of service experiences, covering more than 80 cloud services.Customers such as Duisburg Government Affairs in Germany, Falabella retail in Chile, and Shenzhen traffic police are already using HCS to practice digital transformation.
There is no doubt that Cloud2.0 will push cloud computing into a "deep water zone". For Huawei Cloud, being the "black soil" of the smart world, providing enterprise customers with stable, reliable, secure, trustworthy and sustainable evolution cloud services, and creating value for customers and partners through inclusive AI. This is the fundamental logic of the growth of all things. With the opening of the next decade of cloud computing, the AI industry has entered the fast lane, and Huawei Cloud's accumulation and development have just begun to emerge.
Source: China.com
