Chinese technology giant Huawei reinforced its aim to become an enabler in the information era and provide solutions to improve its customers’ business efficiencies and market competitiveness through open, converged and innovative technologies at its Huawei Cloud Congress (HCC) 2014, in Shanghai, China, last month.

More than 10 000 global Huawei customers, partners and industry professionals attended the HCC to share the latest innovative information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and ideas on ICT practices and transformation.

Huawei rotating CEO Eric Xu gave a keynote address at the opening of the HCC 2014 and stated that the company was positioning itself to become a world leader in the ICT infrastructure field with a large focus on cloud data centre solutions.

“Data is driving companies to practise intelligent business operations and Huawei aims to become an information technology (IT) vendor that is recognised by enterprises and telecom operators for our innovative and differentiated products and solutions.

“The products and solutions that Huawei is showcasing at HCC this year are all based on our commitment to provide customers with open, converged and innovative technologies that enable them to simplify their traditional IT infrastructure, improve business agility and create greater value,” he stated.

Unveiled at the HCC 2014 was Huawei’s Service Driven-Distributed Cloud Data Centre (SD-DC2).

The data centre aims to address the oppor-tunities and challenges on increasing mobility data consumption, Internet of things-based data generation, big data-based data analysis and cloud-based data sharing.

Huawei describes the SD-DC2 as a “future-proof enterprise data centre”, which is service-driven, open and compatible with products from various vendors.

The SD-DC2 enables efficient operation and management of traditional and new services. It shares and resizes resources more flexibly on demand by applications and it aims to make business transformation and innovation more agile.

The key components of the SD-DC2 include Huawei’s FusionSphere open cloud platform for service awareness, FusionInsight big data platform for business intelligence and the ManageOne data centre management solution for unified management.

Huawei IT product line president Zheng Yelai also gave a keynote address at the HCC 2014 and noted that enterprise IT consumption models were changing and that the equipment-centric model was evolving into one that centres on applications and services.

“Independent data management and operation and maintenance will evolve into unified management and operations. Futureproof enterprise data centres will need to be service-driven,” he explained.

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Sashnee Moodley attended the HCC 2014, in China, as a guest of Huawei