The Chinese ICT firm seeks to increase focus on cloud-based services
SHANGHAI–Chinese ICT provider Huawei wants to increase investments in human resources for the development of cloud-based technologies.
The Asian company expects to train approximately 10,000 engineers in the cloud field within the next three years.
Speaking at the 2015 Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai last week, Huawei’s rotating CEO Eric Xu said engineers will be trained to develop cloud services and cloud applications. The executive added that the engineers will be trained at Huawei innovation labs.
Xu said that Huawei will increasingly focus on cloud technologies as they will shape the future of the IT industry. “In next few years, Huawei wants to create a leading cloud operating system offering a vibrant cloud ecosystem,” Xu added.
According to the executive, Huawei will focus on IT infrastructure, software platforms and enterprise cloud services when creating a cloud ecosystem.
“We will create a cloud ecosystem with business cooperation at its core, and technical partnership and talent development as its foundation. This ecosystem will enable our partners to jointly expand the industry size and achieve mutual success,” said Xu.
The Chinese company invests over $500 million each year for the development of new cloud-based technologies. Huawei currently has 660 data centers around the world, of which more than 255 are cloud data centers.
“In the coming years, Huawei will develop a leading cloud OS, big data platform, and PaaS platform by combing our technical strengths with those of our partners. Together, we will create an open and dynamic cloud ecosystem, the executive added.
Huawei’s IT services business, covering cloud computing and big data, is forecast to contribute $2 billion this year and $10 billion in 2020, Huawei said.
Also at the Cloud Congress event, Huawei unveiled its OceanStore DJ solution, a data service platform that can provide data storage and management services on demand through unified management over storage resources. The new platform was announced by the Chinese company during the Huawei Cloud Congress 2015, which took place last week in Shanghai, China.
According to Huawei, OceanStor DJ defines services by customer-oriented dictions and provides configuration and matching of optimal storage resources, which significantly reduces the time needed for deploying an IT application.
Huawei’s executives said that the new solution allows administrators to flexibly select needed data management services from enterprise application markets, deploy them in resource pools of their cloud data centers, and quickly establish application systems customized to particular service needs without extra operations such as storage configuration, mounting and tuning.
