In partnership with Commvault, a U.S. provider of enterprise backup, recovery, archive and cloud services, Chinese information and communications technology solutions provider Huawei unveiled plans to create a joint lab in Chengdu, China.
The new facility will allow the two companies to develop data backup, recovery, archive and cloud solutions based on both companies’ technologies.
Both Commvault and Huawei will commit personnel, software and hardware to the lab, which will have a testing and development center as well as an executive briefing center.
The lab will focus on incubating, testing and demonstrating cloud backup, Data Protection-as-a-Service and other innovative solutions, the companies said.
Commvault and Huawei have been collaborating over the last three years. The most recent collaboration between the two firms targeted the Huawei Cloud Data Center Offerings, which include DPaaS capabilities.
“This represents a significant milestone on the path toward even closer collaboration. This lab will function as a platform for our continuous joint innovation, incubating Data Protection-as-a-Service and data management solutions,” said Ruiqi Fan, Huawei’s president for the storage product line.
“This new lab further strengthens the Commvault-Huawei partnership by helping us develop new solutions that maximize the value of our customers’ data management and storage investments,” said Commvault SVP for global sales, Ron Miiller.
TIM to open millimeter wave technology lab in Turin
In related news, Italian mobile operator TIM announced it will open a lab dedicated to millimeter wave technology in the city of Turin.
The Italian telco said the millimeter wave lab will work to test and develop new high frequencies and new antenna systems to be exploited by new ultrabroadband wireless networks.
TIM’s lab will feature a Far-Field Compact Antenna Test Range and a Spherical Near-Field Test Range, to evaluate and optimize frequencies from 6 to 100 gigahertz.
The operator also said that the new facility will contribute to development of international research projects and will start cooperation with key technological partners able to accelerate “5G” new equipment availability.
“5G will support a new range of services and applications able to support the digitalization of the economy, with a special focus on ‘internet of things’ and vertical markets (transportation, logistic, automotive, health, manufacturing, energy, media, entertainment),” head of TIM’s Engineering & TI Lab, Gabriela Styf Sjoman, said. “To support all these applications, a strong capacity and performance increase of the wireless network is required. Very high frequencies and innovative antenna systems are among the main building blocks of 5G.” The executive also said the new lab will allow TIM to understand, develop and exploit these new technologies, and to cooperate with key international partners to accelerate equipment availability.
TIM is fully owned by Italian telecommunications group Telecom Italia.
