<p style="text-align: justify;">[Paris, France, November 14, 2024] HUAWEI CONNECT 2024 PARIS commenced today, featuring the first Huawei Cloud Summit France. The event brought together government officials, industry experts, scholars, and business partners to explore technology innovation and practical applications. To seize the historic opportunities of AI development with French customers and partners, Huawei Cloud is building an AI-native cloud through systematic innovation and service reshaping. Moving forward, Huawei Cloud will continue to drive innovation in both the "AI for Cloud" and "Cloud for AI" directions, accelerating the intelligent transformation across industries in France.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, delivered a welcome speech in her digital presence built using Huawei Cloud MetaStudio. She stated, "Innovation is the heart of our success, our competitiveness, and our growth. That's why we invest heavily in R&amp;D to bring you the most secure and reliable cloud services possible, including cloud native, AI, and big data. In Europe, Huawei Cloud has collaborated with over 500 local partners to deliver a wide range of industry-specific solutions and proven expertise, enabling European businesses to expedite their cloud adoption, leverage global resources, and achieve leapfrog growth."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/unclassification/202411/shijilin20241115.jpg" width="750"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Leo LIU, President of Huawei France, delivered an opening speech: Freedom, Future, Foster. Huawei Cloud provides cutting-edge tech, and intelligent platforms for French businesses and startups to move beyond traditional limits and pave their digital highway.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/202411/%E5%88%98%E6%81%A9%E6%A7%8A20241115.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="650"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Leo LIU, President of Huawei France</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In his keynote speech, William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, highlighted the importance of AI in building economic moats. To this end, Huawei Cloud launches Pangu models to enable intelligent upgrades across industries, with over 400 use cases in 30 industries now benefiting from Huawei Cloud's AI-native cloud infrastructure that extends cutting-edge technologies and premium experiences to European customers. On the tech stage, Huawei Cloud is set to amplify intelligence.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/unclassification/202411/donglibin20241115.jpg" width="650"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud's AI-native strategy has been a cornerstone of the company's innovation. This strategy is twofold: AI for Cloud and Cloud for AI, marking significant advancements in Huawei Cloud's capabilities. "AI for Cloud" means integrating Pangu models with cloud services for product R&amp;D, data governance, security, and O&amp;M to make them more intelligent and efficient. Pangu Doer in CodeArts offers intelligent assistance in eight development contexts, including code generation, R&amp;D knowledge Q&amp;A, and unit test case creation, through its three core intelligent functionalities: generation, Q&amp;A, and collaboration. By leveraging these capabilities, developers can concentrate on service innovation, with over 30% of generated code ready-to-use, resulting in a 30% improvement in overall R&amp;D efficiency. MetaStudio provides a one-stop digital content production pipeline that features virtual humans created using AIGC technology. This pipeline significantly reduces the time required for short video production from days to mere minutes, while achieving an accuracy rate of over 95% in lip-syncing.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">With full-stack systemic innovations, "Cloud for AI" covers data centers, cloud platform architectures, and infrastructure services, enabling efficient and high-performance data preparation, training, inference, and application of foundation models. The distributed cloud database GaussDB features high performance, high intelligence, and easy migration. Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5 provides more than 120 locally deployed cloud services and 50 industry-specific solutions, building the optimal hybrid cloud for intelligent transformation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At this summit, Huawei Cloud officially released the Flexus cloud services for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in France. Flexus feature flexible specifications, AI-driven high speed, 6x burst speed, compute hot upgrade, and ultimate experience.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">With a global track record in digital transformation, Huawei Cloud is poised to bring its expertise to French clients. Presently, Huawei Cloud has more than 500 customers, partners, and developers in France. Song Wanying, President of Huawei Cloud France, shared insights on fostering business growth through cloud innovation and introduced new media &amp; entertainment, e-commerce, and retail solutions for the French market, furthering intelligent initiatives.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/china/zh-cn/unclassification/202411/songwanying2024115.jpg" width="650"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Song Wanying, President of Huawei Cloud France</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud has upgraded media services in a 3E approach: efficiency, experience, and evolution, an effort to enhance content production and monetization in the media and entertainment industry. Huawei Cloud MetaStudio is a one-stop digital content production pipeline that provides capabilities including virtual humans and AIGC. For instance, AIGC for virtual humans can significantly reduce the time required for short video production from days to mere minutes. It supports over 20 languages and achieves an impressive 98% accuracy in lip-syncing. AIGC for animation streamlines the production process, reducing it from months to weeks. A simple upload of 30 images in a specific art style is enough for AI model training, and MetaStudio can then convert them into animated content, enabling customers to quickly release and monetize their creations. In terms of experience, Huawei Cloud leverages its self-developed RTP protocol to minimize latency to 500 ms and reduce frame freezing to 10%. For business model evolution, Huawei Cloud offers virtual human technology to facilitate efficient video production, leading to new business opportunities and growth.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In retail and e-commerce, Huawei Cloud has developed the B.R.A.N.D. model to assist retailers in driving innovation and growth. This model is built on a cloud-based digital foundation, an all-domain intelligent middle-end, and omni-channel management. Through professional services, deterministic operations, security, reliability, and 16 sub-scenario solutions, B.R.A.N.D. enables retailers to build agile, efficient, and secure business systems.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In terms of ecosystem expansion, Huawei Cloud has partnered with Station F, the world's largest startup incubator, to launch a sustainability-themed incubation program. This program aims to provide comprehensive support for startups, including cloud resources, mentorship, technical guidance, investment opportunities, and dedicated office spaces. Participating companies will have access to Station F's public services, connect with a large investor community, and engage in over 600 activities and seminars annually. The initial phase of the program will focus on supporting 10 startups in the industrial, retail, and NEV sectors.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Additionally, Huawei Cloud and 20 ecosystem partners have unveiled the Industry Partner Innovation Program at the summit. The goal is to collaborate with more partners to explore new use cases and business models, and drive industry innovation and development.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This two-day event features a packed agenda, including the partner forum and the Cloud Native Elite Club (CNEC) roundtable. CNEC is a global platform for technical exchange, initiated by Huawei Cloud and leading technology organizations like Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Since its inception, CNEC has attracted thousands of top minds from different industries. At this year's HCE 2024, CNEC returned to Europe and invited its first members to join this technical community built for European technology pioneers. In Europe, CNEC will focus on topics such as cloud native transformation, AI, data, media services, and cloud system reliability, driving technological innovation, sharing experiences, and showcasing pioneering practices to foster the growth of the European technical ecosystem.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Recently, Huawei Cloud has been named as a global leader in the<em> Omdia Universe: Cloud Container Management &amp; Services, 2024–25</em>. Huawei Cloud has ranked the top cloud provider in the world for its container services in product strategy and execution, showcasing its leadership in cloud native. This outstanding achievement is attributed to Huawei Cloud's extensive experience and strategic investment in Cloud Native 2.0.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/202411/omdia 容器报告象限图20241101_1.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700"></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>According to the report, Huawei Cloud offers a comprehensive container service matrix.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>·&nbsp; </strong>Huawei Cloud has built an industry-leading hybrid multi-cloud converged infrastructure based on Ubiquitous Cloud Native Service (UCS). This infrastructure covers multiple scenarios, including public cloud, multiple clouds, edge clouds, and on-premises deployment, providing strong support for developers and platform engineers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>·&nbsp; </strong>Huawei Cloud offers two serverless container products, Cloud Container Engine (CCE) Autopilot and Cloud Container Instance (CCI), which excel in scalability and startup speed, enabling users to enjoy amazing elasticity and easily handle surges of up to 10 times the normal traffic.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>·&nbsp; </strong>In the Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) era, cloud native has become a solid foundation for AI compute, and Huawei Cloud CCE Turbo provides users with strong cloud native AI compute based on Ascend compute.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>·&nbsp; </strong>Huawei Cloud's continuous contributions in the open-source field have been recognized, including contributing multiple core projects such as KubeEdge, Volcano, and Karmada to Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and continuously providing innovative projects such as Kuasar and Kmesh, demonstrating its extensive influence around the world.</p> <p><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/202411/omdia 容器报告海报英文20241101_1.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="700"></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud has consistently pursued globalization, investing heavily in global storage and compute capabilities. Today, Huawei Cloud operates 93 availability zones across 33 geographical regions, serving customers in more than 170 countries and regions. As cloud native takes center stage in digital transformations, Huawei Cloud is expanding its container services globally to empower enterprises to unleash their full digital productivity. The demand for cloud-native computing has skyrocketed, with Huawei Cloud containers boasting an impressive compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 70% in the past three years.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In China</strong>, Huawei Cloud container services have gained widespread adoption among top enterprises, including 80% of the country's top 100 Internet companies, 75% of state-owned banks and national joint-stock banks, 75% of the top 20 energy companies, and 90% of the top 30 automotive companies. These organizations have relied on cloud-native technologies to drive their digital transformations. For example, in the financial sector, cloud native has become a crucial technology for upgrading to new, distributed banking systems. The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), for instance, leveraged Huawei Cloud containers to develop a cloud-native infrastructure that provides its application systems with high elasticity, high availability, automation, and observability. This infrastructure has enabled the transformation of core service systems into distributed architectures, supporting the bank's massive user base of 800 million individuals. Additionally, the bank has successfully migrated and reconstructed 1.8 billion individual accounts, with daily peak transaction volumes exceeding 1.9 billion. Cloud-native integration with AI compute and intelligent scheduling supports smart banking initiatives.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In Europe</strong>, Huawei Cloud has worked with partners to serve over 3,000 enterprises, establishing 1,000 local partnerships along the way. These partnerships have helped European businesses accelerate their digital and intelligent transformations. One notable success story is the partnership with DeFacto, a leading clothing retailer in Türkiye. By leveraging CCE Turbo clusters, DeFacto has developed streamlined and agile service processes. Abdurrahman Kılınç, DeFacto's CIO, stated, "Our collaboration with Huawei Cloud not only increased our operational efficiency but also elevated our customer experience. With Huawei Cloud's scalable cloud-native infrastructure and innovative cloud solutions on CCE Turbo, we managed real-time traffic fluctuations seamlessly, even during peak online shopping periods, delivering top-tier performance. As DeFacto continues to expand its global footprint, the support from Huawei Cloud is invaluable to us."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In the Middle East</strong>, Huawei Cloud has made significant strides since 2023, offering industry-leading reliability and network latency. One notable beneficiary of this expansion is Starzplay, the region's second-largest streaming platform. By leveraging CCI, a serverless compute service, Starzplay was able to deploy and manage containerized applications without worrying about underlying infrastructure. According to Pankaj Sharma, Director at Starzplay, "Huawei Cloud provides us with highly innovative, reliable, and scalable services. The ultra-fast scalability of Huawei Cloud CCI ensures smooth streaming of high-quality traffic during the World Cup, enabling us to effortlessly manage traffic spikes ranging from millions, to even billions, of requests. The serverless digital transformation has also improved our R&amp;D and operational efficiency."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In Asia Pacific</strong>, Huawei Cloud is experiencing rapid growth and has established itself as a top partner for digital transformations. A prime example of this success can be seen in Ninja Van, a leading logistics provider in Singapore. Its CTO Shaun Chong shared, "We have fully containerized our services and operated them on Huawei Cloud CCE and CCI. This has enabled the development of a cost-effective, cloud-native AI architecture that allows us to swiftly adapt to changing market conditions and maintain our leadership position in the AI space."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In Latin America</strong>, Huawei Cloud boasts the largest geographic presence among cloud service providers. The company is actively promoting digital transformations across various sectors, including finance, media, retail, logistics, and Internet. A notable example of this success is SMU, Chile's second-largest supermarket retailer, which fully migrated its core systems to Huawei Cloud. SMU is now poised to accelerate omni-channel business innovation through a cloud-native upgrade.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In Africa</strong>, Huawei Cloud remains committed to its "In Africa, For Africa" philosophy, empowering local partners and customers across the continent. With over 300 partners in southern Africa operating in education, healthcare, retail, and mining, Huawei Cloud is developing tailored industry solutions for local businesses. Meanwhile, in northern Africa, Huawei Cloud is the fastest-growing cloud service provider and a key partner for government and enterprise digital transformations. To date, the company has served more than 20 government and enterprise customers, with local service teams established in over 10 northern African countries.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud will continue to collaborate with global operators to drive innovation in cloud-native technologies and share its successes. This collaboration will accelerate industry transformations like never before, providing new possibilities for a more inclusive, accessible, and resilient digital society.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Paris, October 10th, 2024] STATION F, the world's largest startup campus, today announced a new partnership with Huawei to launch a sustainability-focused Startup Incubation Program on campus. This program aims to support early stage European companies committed to ecological transition, providing them with unique technological resources and expertise to address environmental challenges.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The program, aligned with Huawei's global sustainability strategy, is designed for startups developing software applications in industrial, retail, or new energy vehicle sectors. Startups will gain access to Huawei's technological support through its cloud and ecosystem resources, which are designed to minimize environmental impact while driving economic growth. By launching its program at STATION F, Huawei gives these startups access to STATION F's dynamic working environment, collaboration opportunities with other tech startups and partners, and a community of 500 investment funds.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei, which invested over 23% of its annual revenue in R&amp;D in 2023, is committed to playing a leading role in the green transition through technological innovation. The company is dedicated to reducing its own carbon footprint while helping other businesses follow suit. In addition, STATION F is also seeing a growing interest in climate and sustainability; companies in the sector have raised more funding than any other (including AI) in 2024, and this is the second sustainability program to launch on campus this year.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Here is an overview of the support that startups in the program will benefit from:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">- Cloud Credits - Receive up to $150,000 in Huawei Cloud credits to support your technological needs.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">- Technical Support - Get personalized assistance to seamlessly adopt Huawei Cloud services.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">- Mentorship and Training - Learn from industry experts to refine your business strategy.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">- Networking Opportunities - Connect with potential investors and partners within Huawei's global ecosystem.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">- Marketing Exposure - Increase your visibility through joint marketing initiatives.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The program will support 10 startups for 7 months. They can apply here until October 31.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">"We are so proud to welcome Huawei to campus and even more proud to be able to work with more sustainability-focused businesses. Huawei will also heavily contribute to our international ecosystem on campus", Roxanne Varza, Director of STATION F.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">"Huawei is thrilled to launch its Startup Incubation Program at STATION F, reinforcing our commitment to fostering innovation and development in the French and European startup ecosystem. As a company deeply invested in R&amp;D, we understand the challenges that come with pioneering new ideas. Through this program, we aim to provide startups with the resources and support they need to scale efficiently,&nbsp; accelerating their growth and helping their industries reach their full potential in an increasingly connected, intelligent world," Mr. Kang Ning, President of Huawei Cloud Global Ecosystem.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Istanbul, Türkiye, October 10, 2024] - Today, Huawei Cloud hosted the Huawei Cloud Summit Türkiye near the Golden Horn of the Bosporus, gathering nearly 1,000 government officials, business leaders, and ecosystem partners to discuss industry digital transformation and Türkiye's digital future.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The First Public Cloud in Türkiye: A 12-Fold Growth in One Year Post-Launch</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Launched in Türkiye in July 2023, Huawei Cloud has become the first and only local public cloud provider. Over the past year, Huawei Cloud has become the preferred cloud for Turkish market leaders through local investment, technological innovation, industry development, global expertise, and ecosystem and talent support.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Adhering to the "In Türkiye, For Türkiye" strategy, Huawei Cloud has continuously invested in local cloud Regions and launched over 110 cloud services. In the past year, Huawei Cloud's business in Türkiye has grown 12-fold, serving more than 360 local customers, including leading enterprises in various sectors such as consortium, banking, retail, e-commerce, media, and entertainment.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To further bridge the digital divide and accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of Turkish enterprises, Huawei Cloud, in the presence of Dr. Çetin Ali Dönmez, Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology (MOIT), and Dr. Recep Kılınç, Vice President of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization (KOSGEB), launched the "Cloud Acceleration Program for Digital Transformation". The program aims to provide USD6 million in resources over the next three years to support high-potential startups and bridge the technical gap in cloud migration and use for Turkish enterprises. It will also support startups in cloud innovation and business growth through dedicated technical support, marketing platforms, business resources, and cloud credits.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/europe/en-us/unclassification/202410/20241010yishi.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Launch of Cloud Acceleration Program for Digital Transformation Program</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Systemic Innovations for an AI-native Cloud to Accelerate Intelligence in Türkiye&nbsp; </strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is committed to helping Turkish customers and partners seize AI opportunities by building an AI-native cloud with systematic innovations and Pangu-reshaped cloud services. "Huawei Cloud has been continuously working on AI for Cloud and Cloud for AI to accelerate Türkiye's intelligent leap," said Bruno Zhang, CTO of Huawei Cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/europe/en-us/unclassification/202410/20241010zhangyuxin.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Bruno Zhang, CTO of Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">With full-stack systemic innovation, "Cloud for AI" covers data centers, cloud platform architectures, and infrastructure services, enabling efficient and high-performance data preparation, training, inference, and application of foundation models. Huawei Cloud offers AI-native infrastructure, distributed database GaussDB, data-AI convergence, and Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5 for AI development. Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5 is a stable, secure full-stack solution for local data center deployment, helping local governments and large enterprises build AI and data sovereignty and accelerate intelligence.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In terms of AI for Cloud, Huawei Cloud combines Pangu models with Huawei's expertise and data in multiple fields, including product R&amp;D, data governance, security, and service O&amp;M. With Pangu, Huawei builds intelligence into cloud services such as Pangu weather model, AI video service, and AI knowledge management.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Deep Industry and Global Expertise: The Cloud of Choice of Turkish Market Leaders</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud brings its global industry digital transformation expertise to Türkiye. "We are committed to providing innovative products, comprehensive solutions, reliable services, and local cloud Regions to our customers," said Tim Tao, President of Huawei Cloud Europe. "This year, Huawei Cloud has helped customers from all walks of life innovate on the cloud and take root in Türkiye."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/europe/en-us/unclassification/202410/20241010taomin_1.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Tim Tao, President of Huawei Cloud Europe</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud insists on bringing innovative solutions based on customer requirements in the Türkiye market. For example, Huawei Cloud cooperates with customers to incubate the distributed One Corporate Cloud solution for large groups that operate across regions and businesses. This solution enables enterprises to obtain one-stop cloud services in different cloud forms based on different business needs. Huawei Cloud also works with partners to create industry solutions to continuously flourish the cloud ecosystem and meet local customer demands. Huawei Cloud has served more than 10 local industries, including government, large enterprises, e-commerce and retail, automobile manufacturing, media, and entertainment, with leading enterprises choosing Huawei Cloud as their cloud partner.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In addition to technological innovations, Huawei Cloud builds a bridge between Turkish and Chinese enterprises. On the one hand, Huawei Cloud introduced world-leading enterprises to Türkiye to inject new momentum into the local industry development. On the other hand, Huawei Cloud leads Turkish enterprises to go global, experience first-hand China's full-process, end-to-end digitalization capabilities, and bring innovative solutions such as new retail architectures and smart stores to Türkiye.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At this event, Huawei Cloud released three action plans at Türkiye: 1) Helps 100 customers migrate to the cloud smoothly through consulting, design, and migration support. 2) Provides all-round marketing, sales, and operations support to 100 partners to help them expand their business. 3) Supports 100 startups to innovate on the cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In Local, For Local: Continuous Efforts in Flourishing the Local Ecosystem</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Innovative technologies drive social progress and sustainable development. At the summit, Aka Dai, Director of Huawei Cloud Marketing, shared the stories of "Cloud for Good". These include building AI assistants to assist medical examination to detect rare diseases, predicting extreme weather conditions through AI to protect production and life, safeguarding the nature with cloud and AI, and accelerating cloud and AI talent cultivation. At the end, he announced the "Cloud for Good" initiative. Through innovative technologies such as cloud and AI, Huawei Cloud will work with local and global customers and partners to accelerate Türkiye's digital journey, focusing on low carbonization, healthcare, talent cultivation, and more. Technology will benefit both people and nature and create a better future.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/europe/en-us/unclassification/202410/20241010dailibin.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Aka Dai, Director of Huawei Cloud Marketing</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As a key participant in digital Türkiye ecosystem construction and talent cultivation, Huawei Cloud works with 30 universities to benefit more than 40,000 students through digital talent cultivation programs such as Seeds for the Future. The 2024 Huawei Developer Competition Europe was also unveiled at the summit with the theme "Spark Infinity" ,aiming to stimulate the innovation potential of developers.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Shanghai, China, September 21, 2024] At HUAWEI CONNECT 2024 in Shanghai, Mr. Kang Ning, President of Huawei Cloud Global Ecosystem, presented a keynote speech titled "Empowering Developers for a Thriving Ecosystem." He highlighted the latest advancements in the Huawei Cloud ecosystem, showcased innovative initiatives to support developers, and announced the Huawei Cloud AI for Startups program.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Kang Ning stated, "Huawei Cloud serves as a central hub for developers, providing access to essential resources like Kunpeng, Ascend, and HarmonyOS to foster innovation." With 7.6 million out of 11 million Huawei developers now part of the Huawei Cloud ecosystem, the platform has launched over 150,000 APIs and assembled a team of 1,600 advocates to support the growth of over 5 million individuals.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/康宁20240921.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Mr. Kang Ning, President of Huawei Cloud Global Ecosystem, delivers a keynote speech</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Empowering Developers with Foundational Tech and Cloud Growth</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud continues to invest in tools, products, and open capabilities to enhance developers' learning and utilization of Huawei's technology.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Developer Space now offers every developer a cloud host, complete with preset resources for learning and application development.</strong> Kang Ning revealed that Huawei Developer Space has upgraded its offerings to better meet developers' needs, with a Membership Program available at basic, professional, and enterprise levels.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Developer Institute has enhanced its learning content, experience, and benefits, covering Ascend, AI, GaussDB, and HarmonyOS.</strong> By leveraging AI, the Institute fosters a learning-by-doing approach, supplemented by generative AI labs, which provides substantial advantages. To further support developers, more than 20,000 coupons and a fund of CNY5 million will be available to aid in course development.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Cloud's investment in six cloud toolchains enables developers to build applications more intelligently and efficiently.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The AI development pipeline, ModelArts, equips developers with full-stack capabilities for model development. ModelArts Studio uses the Model as a Service (MaaS) approach and allows for model fine-tuning, deployment, and application. This capability halves training iteration time, improves inference and deployment efficiency by over 30%, and cuts computing costs by 40%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">CodeArts, the software development pipeline, is a native DevOps platform for HarmonyOS application development, supporting the generation of ArkUI and ArkTS code, unit cases, and multi-turn chats, significantly improving development efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud also launched Pangu Doer, an assistant for SQL statement generation and data acquisition, pooling Huawei's expertise in Pangu models and data governance to enhance developers' data development and analytics efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To help developers focus on requirement development rather than engineering building, Huawei Cloud has built AppStage. It streamlines AI, software, and data governance pipelines. With this capability, developers can build cloud native and AI-native applications in one place and improve development and O&amp;M efficiency by 50%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In digital content production, MetaStudio provides services such as virtual humans, AIGC-based video production, and enterprise 3D spaces, enabling developers to quickly participate in digital content creation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">For hardware development, Huawei collaborates with industry partners to build CraftArts, the hardware development production pipeline, offering full-stack toolchain services including system design, mechatronics synergy, industrial simulation, and digital manufacturing.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei has also established a team of 1,000 DTSEs to offer comprehensive services for developers</strong>, providing SaaS reconstruction, cloud-based innovation consulting, and architecture optimization based on Huawei's ecosystem capabilities. The Huawei Cloud Developer Program (HCDP) has empowered 230,000 developers and helped over 700 enterprises build more than 2,600 cloud applications, with enterprises also able to adapt their systems to HarmonyOS and Ascend to enhance service efficiency and business success.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Huawei Cloud aims to involve more developers in the open-source ecosystem, contributing to the Open-Source for Huawei ecosystem, where excellence is built on excellence.</strong> Huawei Cloud has built an ecosystem resource pool, launched the 1,000-card program for Kunpeng Cloud and Ascend Cloud, and upgraded the HCDP, offering up to CNY2 million in incentives to fuel open-source developer innovation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud also actively supports mainstream open-source communities. Mr. Jiang Tao, founder, chairman, and CEO of CSDN, officially released the GitCode AI Model Community, built on developer requirements and industry mission. This community will become a new high ground for Chinese AI developers based on CSDN's content and user resources as well as Huawei Cloud's AI technology.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/GitCode 20240921.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;">CEO of CSDN released the GitCode AI Model Community</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei has also launched the Huang Danian Chaspark website, connecting global academic and technical resources and providing scientific and technological services for SMEs, with free access to 190 million patents.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Empowering Partners for Competency Building and Business Success</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud is committed to competency-centric support for partners' capability building and business development. This year, Huawei Cloud has increased its investment in policies, organizations, and capability enablement, upgrading the Partner Competency Program, Partner Customer Engagement (PCE) Program, and Service Partner Incentive Program to deploy the ecosystem worldwide. The Partner Competency Program introduces new Pangu + X competency labels, building a series of labels based on Pangu models to strengthen model services and build industry solutions. By combining competency labels and PCE, Huawei Cloud aims to bring competitive advantages to partners and provide customers with reliable choices for win-win outcomes.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud KooGallery has upgraded its global application distribution network, one-stop GTM and business opportunity management capabilities, and dedicated private offers for each customer. KooGallery has attracted more than 7,000 ecosystem partners and over 12,000 offerings, building industry-oriented support capabilities based on the Marketplace as a Service (MaaS) model for a win-win business future with partners and developers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Mr. Kang emphasized, "Huawei Cloud highly values the innovation and development of startup partners and continuously invests dedicated resources and teams to build a global startup ecosystem." Huawei Cloud has launched the Startup Program in China, Asia Pacific, and Europe, providing over 5,000 early-stage startups with cloud service resources worth more than CNY200 million over the past two years. Through technical enablement, Huawei Cloud helps them migrate services to the cloud at a low cost and innovate efficiently on the cloud. Huawei Cloud Accelerator will provide in-depth enablement for growth-stage startups, accelerating their business growth and global development.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the era of AI foundation models, startups face challenges such as high computing power costs, technical barriers, and difficult business implementation. To address this, Mr. Kang released the Huawei Cloud AI for Startups program, which uses Huawei Cloud's leading computing power platform, technical ecosystem, and global business resources to enable AI startups to build diverse innovative use cases, accelerate commercialization, and make AI a new productive force reshaping thousands of industries. Each AI startup can apply for Ascend Cloud computing power worth up to CNY1.2 million. Huawei Cloud will also focus on AI business acceleration to help hundreds of AI startups accelerate application innovation and business success.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/AI创业计划发布20240921.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Mr. Kang released the Huawei Cloud AI for Startups program</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The innovation and prosperity of the ecosystem rely on the collective power of partners and developers. Huawei Cloud will continue to implement the "Everything as a Service" strategy, working with developers, partners, and customers to build a healthy and sustainable ecosystem and create value together.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Shanghai, China, September 20, 2024] A forward-looking vision was presented at HUAWEI CONNECT 2024, as the Huawei Cloud hosted a Summit "One Step to Intelligence, One Leap to Excellence", which gathered global industry leaders to explore the digital and intelligent transformation trend, share pioneering cases, and assist customers in their journey to cloud-based operational excellence. At the summit, Huawei Cloud, in collaboration with global customers, unveiled the Data Center-to-Cloud solution and the PRIME Framework white paper, designed to guide businesses towards excellence.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, expressed her gratitude in her opening remarks: "We appreciate our global customers for joining us and sharing their digital transformation success stories. Their support enables us to innovate with customers across finance, retail, autonomous driving, and the Internet sectors. Only by knowing the need can we take the lead. Together, we will take the first steps to uncover new opportunities, create new value, and achieve new growth. Huawei Cloud is dedicated to joining forces with you. By combining cutting-edge technologies with industry know-how, we pave your way to digital and intelligence."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/shijilin20240920.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Kevin Gao, President of Huawei Cloud Public Cloud Business, presented a keynote speech "One Step to Intelligence, One Leap to Excellence" on the importance of AI and cloud infrastructure for enterprises seeking a competitive edge. "Cloud has become a must for AI infrastructure, and those who make better use of AI will take the lead," Mr. Gao emphasized. He outlined three critical factors for accelerating cloud migration and AI use: global infrastructure, continuous technological innovation, and lean operations.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/高总20240920.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Kevin Gao, President of Huawei Public Cloud Business</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In terms of global infrastructure, Huawei Cloud's global infrastructure, KooVerse, offers extensive coverage, exceptional experience, and excellent quality.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>·&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong>Extensive coverage: With 33 Regions and 93 Availability Zones (AZs) worldwide, Huawei Cloud supports over 10,000 customers in achieving business globalization. In China, three Cloud Oceans in Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, and Anhui cater to the compute demands of AI model training and inference.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>·&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong>Exceptional experience: Huawei Cloud has interconnected with over 2,400 peers of global carriers, ensuring one hop to cloud and global business deployment for customers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>·&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong>Excellent quality: Huawei Cloud data centers are built to higher standards, with all-digital detection and full-link visibility technologies, achieving Tier IV reliability based on the Tier III data center architecture.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Technological innovation is at the heart of Huawei Cloud's mission to accelerate enterprise transformation. At this summit, three key areas were highlighted: compute upgrade, data-AI convergence, and application innovation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Data Center-to-Cloud solution announced at the event dedicates a zone for enterprises, offering data center facilities, intelligent O&amp;M, and DCN as a service, allowing customers to easily relocate and run dedicated compute resources on Huawei Cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As AI models scale to over 1 trillion parameters, the long-term stability, fast recovery, and linear scalability of AI compute clusters are crucial for training efficiency. Huawei Cloud's Ascend AI Cloud Service enables training jobs to run non-stop up to 40 days, shortens the fault recovery time to 10 minutes, and increases the linear scalability to 90% (the industry average are 2.8 days, 60 minutes, and 80%, respectively). The service has adapted over 100 popular AI models and is utilized in more than 400 use cases, such as intelligent Q&amp;A and exact search.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">DataArts Fabric, Huawei Cloud's data-AI convergence platform, supports serverless data lakes, warehouses, databases, and AI inferences. Unified storage and metadata enable these platforms to access and share the same copy of data.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud's deterministic operations system has been adopted by over 300 global customers, maintaining a strong security record with zero intrusions and zero data breaches. The Landing Zone and FinOps solutions have facilitated lean governance for 600 enterprises.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Another highlight in the speech was the new version of the PRIME framework, which integrates the above-mentioned technological innovations to help customers embrace AI and expedite AI application implementation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In conclusion, Mr. Gao called for collective action to embrace AI, leap to cloud, and amplify excellence.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the summit, leading global enterprises shared their success stories in partnering with Huawei Cloud to achieve business excellence.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">DeFacto, a renowned fashion brand in Türkiye, operates over 500 stores and a robust online-offline sales platform across more than 100 countries, serving over 15 million members globally. Leveraging Huawei Cloud's cloud native solution with Cloud Container Engine (CCE), DeFacto has streamlined their services, achieving scalability of 3,000 containers within a minute. This elastic resource scheduling supports DeFacto in managing 1.5 million active users, 13.6 million member operations, and 388.5 million visits annually, with significant improvements in resource utilization and response efficiency. The loading times for product details, category, and checkout pages have been reduced by 63%, 41%, and 76%, respectively.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Chery, a major Chinese automaker with a global footprint in over 80 countries and a wide range of services along the automotive value chain, has implemented the "One Cloud" plan to enhance service experience, resource provisioning, and global IT resource management. Huawei Cloud matches Chery's plan to help Chery deploy, use, and manage the cloud. Currently, Huawei Cloud nodes in more than 10 countries and regions are providing services for Chery, and more than 50 types of Huawei Cloud services are being used by Chery.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">NavInfo, a leader in smart travel solutions, has adopted Huawei Cloud's R&amp;D expertise and CodeArts software development pipeline to establish efficient development management standards and efficiency measurement systems. This has led to a reduction in the software service iteration period from one month to two weeks, requirement delivery from over 30 days to 10 days, and a software requirement acceptance pass rate of over 98%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Kingsoft, a top Chinese office software and service provider, has integrated its LLM-based smart office assistant, WPS AI, into WPS Office, WPS 365, and other product lines. This integration delivers daily office intelligence such as content generation, understanding, and command-based operations for individual users and enterprise organizations. To enhance product stability, Kingsoft and Huawei Cloud have collaboratively developed an excellence framework that supports heterogeneous compute, chaos engineering drills, deterministic operations, intelligent O&amp;M, and FinOps, while optimizing cost management.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Tencent Music's Tianqin Lab has developed the MUSELight AI model acceleration framework, utilizing Huawei Cloud's Ascend AI Cloud Service to create an industry-leading Stable Diffusion visual model inference acceleration solution. This innovation applies Ascend AI compute to cutting-edge audio-visual technologies, enhancing user experiences in music and entertainment, and providing the industry with replicable success models.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the end of the summit, Huawei Cloud and global customers jointly released the Enterprise Excellence PRIME Model White Paper.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/白皮书发布20240920.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Release of PRIME framework white paper for business excellence</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This white paper offers a reference framework for enterprises to leap to excellence with digital and intelligent technologies. Guests attending the release ceremony are Kevin Gao (President of Huawei Cloud Public Cloud Business), Bao Liang (Vice President of Huawei Cloud Public Cloud Business), Dai Chuang (Deputy General Manager of Chery), Abdurrahman Kılınç (CIO of DeFacto), Jiang Sheng (Senior Vice President of NavInfo), Jiang Zhiqiang (Senior Vice President of Kingsoft), Zhao Ran (Co-President of Hailiang Group),&nbsp; Wang Ke (Digital Transformation Officer of Smart Water Platform at Haier), Wang Guansheng (Senior O&amp;M Director of Meitu), Li Qiang (CIO of Bosideng), Sun Bin (Vice President of Qunar), Wang Shanliang (Deputy General Manager of Bailian Omni-channel E-commerce), Lian Yong (General Manager of Glodon Cloud Platform Mgmt Dept), and Zhao Haoyun (Intelligent Technology Director of Muyuan Foodstuff).</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Shanghai, China, September 20, 2024] From September 19 to 21, 2024, the 9th HUAWEI CONNECT convened at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition &amp; Convention Center and Shanghai Expo Center. With "Amplify Intelligence" as its theme, the event drew a prestigious lineup of thought leaders, business visionaries, technical experts, partners, developers, and industry professionals to delve into the transformative potential of digital and intelligent technologies. Together, they explored pathways for industries to harness these technologies to capture new opportunities and thrive in the intelligent future.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">On the morning of September 20, Executive Director of the Board of Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud Zhang Ping'an delivered a keynote speech titled "Thrive with the Cloud: Reshaping Industries with AI". The keynote speech detailed Huawei Cloud's exploration and best practices in adopting an AI-native mindset. During this keynote speech, Zhang announced the release of the CloudMatrix AI-native cloud infrastructure and the Huawei Mainframe-to-Cloud Solution.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Tao Jingwen, Huawei's Director of the Board and President of the Quality, Business Process &amp; IT Mgmt Dept, recounted Huawei's own digital transformation journey to showcase the company's comprehensive intelligent upgrade strategies. In another highlight, Bruno Zhang, CTO of Huawei Cloud, presented insights on how Huawei Cloud is leveraging AI to reshape data centers, infrastructure, and cloud services. His keynote addressed the construction of an AI-native cloud designed to accelerate intelligence in industries.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Thinking AI-native and accelerating the reshaping of industries with AI</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The intelligent era is coming fast. AI is being integrated further into industry applications to accelerate product time-to-market, transform scientific computing, and improve efficiency. Zhang states that enterprises need to seize opportunities in the intelligent era and use AI to build their competitive advantages. The key is to adopt an AI-native mindset now. Enterprises should position AI technologies and tools as core elements as they rethink and design their processes, IT architectures, and business innovations, so as to fully unleash the potential of AI, boost efficiency, innovate business models, and solve complex problems.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/张平安20240920.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Zhang Ping'an, Executive Director of the Board of Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">"First, we must actively embrace AI, open up industry scenarios, and develop enterprise AI platforms. This will enable AI to serve the core business of enterprises. Our practices have shown that the earlier we introduce AI, the faster we can benefit from it. Second, AI computing power is critical. Enterprises need to build AI-native cloud infrastructure that matches their requirements. Third, data quality determines the effectiveness of AI models. We need to build knowledge-centric data foundations so that data can serve AI better, other than just being used for business analysis. Fourth, we need to build suitable AI models based on business applications." Zhang went on to emphasize that, "We must abandon the misconception that larger models are better. It is not feasible to address all manner of needs with just one foundation model."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Building AI-native cloud infrastructure with diversified computing power, elasticity, and efficiency</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Customers' demand for AI computing power is growing rapidly, and such demand is predicted to surpass the demand for general-purpose computing power by the end of this year. Zhang Ping'an said that the key to AI development is an infrastructure capable of providing the optimal diversified computing power with elasticity and efficiency. This means that building an AI-native cloud infrastructure is crucial.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the intelligent era, model parameter scales have increased from tens of billions to hundreds of billions or even trillions. Zhang officially released CloudMatrix, a cloud infrastructure architecture designed to meet the explosive demand for computing capacity, high reliability, and high efficiency. CloudMatrix interconnects and pools all resources such as CPUs, NPUs, DPUs, storage, and memory. It marks an evolution from monolithic to matrix computing power. CloudMatrix comprises an AI-native cloud infrastructure in which everything can be pooled, peer-to-peer, and composed, providing robust AI computing power to meet customers' needs.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/张平安AI原生20240920.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>AI-native cloud infrastructure CloudMatrix is officially released</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Building knowledge-centric data foundations</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Currently, the data platforms of many enterprises are not suitable for foundation models. A large amount of data needs to be cleansed and knowledge needs to be extracted. Zhang Ping'an pointed out that in the intelligent era, enterprises need to build knowledge-centric data foundations that serve AI models.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To simplify data use and improve model training efficiency, Huawei Cloud has fully upgraded DataArts to provide customers with AI-oriented and knowledge-centric data foundations. The updated features include AI + data convergence engines, data development and governance, knowledge services, and AI + data application enablement services. The upgraded DataArts significantly improves resource utilization and data supply efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Building multimodal models of different sizes</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Zhang Ping'an also noted that the diversity of enterprise applications calls for the construction of multimodal models of different sizes. Only in this way can enterprises match applications and models and meet their requirements for cost-effective and professional foundation models.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In June this year, Huawei Cloud released Pangu Models 5.0, which is available in different sizes, such as with parameters in the billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions, and trillions. The complete series of Pangu models, including NLP, CV, multimodal, prediction, and scientific computing models, meet practically all business application needs.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei and the municipal government of Shenzhen Bao'an District jointly established the Embodied AI Industry Innovation Center in Qianhai. Through cloud-device intelligence synergies, embodied AI greatly reduces the complexity of design on the device side and improve the generalization and task execution of embodied AI in industrial applications. Through device-cloud intelligence synergies, the Innovation Center has improved the operation precision of robotic arms from millimeters to hundreds of micrometers, achieving a 99.99% success rate for dynamic insertion of rigid parts.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In addition, Huawei Cloud's Pangu Models 5.0 enhance spatiotemporal controllable generation (STCG) in the field of multimodal generation. Take autonomous driving as an example. Pangu Models 5.0 can generate not only videos of normal driving scenarios, but also videos reflecting random road conditions, as well as accidental and aggressive driving. This greatly reduces the dependency of autonomous driving training on massive road data collection.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">"The intelligent world is approaching fast. We need to think AI-native," Zhang Ping'an said. He called for enterprises to actively embrace AI, make high-value enterprise applications available, and set the flywheel of AI models, computing power, and data in motion to drive business forward and unleash the boundless potential of innovation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Mainframe migration: The last mile in enterprise cloud migration</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Core systems are the most important business systems for all enterprises. In recent years, enterprises such as banks have continued to accelerate the shift from core system deployment on mainframes to deployment on the cloud, in order to respond to the changes in the market and the intelligent era with greater agility. Zhang Ping'an pointed out that core system migration is the last mile on the journey of enterprise cloudification and the way forward to embrace full-scale intelligence.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At this conference, Zhang Ping'an announced the global official release of the Huawei Mainframe-to-Cloud Solution. This solution helps customers build new core systems on the cloud with high availability, easy O&amp;M, and better agility. Based on the distributed cloud foundation of Huawei Cloud, this solution provides the capability of detecting hardware faults in seconds. Based on Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and financial-grade distributed middleware, this solution supports cell-based service deployment. Based on the GaussDB distributed database, the solution implements fast and large-capacity service expansion and multi-site multi-active disaster recovery (DR), building 99.999% financial-grade high availability on the cloud. The solution is designed to detect faults within 1 minute, demarcate faults within 5 minutes, and rectify faults within 10 minutes. In this way, Huawei has built intelligent fault demarcation capabilities to make large-scale cloud infrastructure O&amp;M more efficient. Huawei also pioneers the in-place seamless upgrade technology of operating systems. During the upgrade, VMs do not need to be migrated. In addition, batch concurrent upgrade is supported. The upgrade time of thousands of mainframe nodes is shortened from dozens of days to less than 5 hours, greatly improving the platform evolution efficiency.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/主机上云发布20240920.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>The Huawei Mainframe-to-Cloud Solution is officially released</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Mainframe cloudification is not only a simple replacement of mainframe or midrange computers, but an architectural innovation and user experience upgrade for core systems. Currently, most banks in China have chosen Huawei to build their new core systems on the cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Intelligent upgrade: Driving ongoing quality growth for enterprises</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">AI presents the greatest revolution of our times, and AI and cloud are two super-powerful tools reshaping countless industries.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Tao Jingwen, Huawei's Director of the Board and President of the Quality, Business Process &amp; IT Mgmt Dept, stated that any enterprise that wants to make effective use of AI must first upgrade their AI data governance system. The large amounts of structured data accumulated in the information era and the many documents previously generated from corporate operations cannot be directly recognized and studied by AI. "Enterprises must deeply integrate AI models with their data toolchains and build on their traditional data governance and data platforms to develop an AI security governance mechanism and an AI digital pipeline. Then, supported by Huawei Cloud's new AI computing platforms, they will be able to develop new corporate AI services," said Tao.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/taojingwen20240920.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Tao Jingwen, Huawei's Director of the Board and President of the Quality, Business Process &amp; IT Mgmt Dept</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">AI will usher in a new revolution. Enterprises that want to make the most of AI must deeply integrate it into their processes, organizations, IT, data, and business scenarios to provide services that can create business value. Based on its own experience, Huawei has developed a methodology for this, which can be broken down into three layers, five phases, and eight steps. The three layers are redefining intelligent business, AI model development and delivery, and ongoing optimization of intelligent applications. The five phases they must go through are identifying suitable scenarios, reshaping business processes, transforming organizations, optimizing corporate data, and adopting AI applications. Tao pointed out that not all scenarios are suitable for AI adoption, which is why Huawei has developed 12 criteria to determine which scenarios are ready for and will benefit from AI.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Tao emphasized that while implementing the intelligent upgrade, Huawei focuses on scenario-driven AI adoption for numerous, repetitive, and complex tasks that require lots of time and effort. "Multi-modal systems engineering built with multiple models is the key to AI adoption in enterprises," Tao continued.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">He then shared three best practices from Huawei. The first is Huawei's digital solution for contract-related objects, processes, and rules. The solution allows employees to concurrently and efficiently handle numerous contracts, and supports the intelligent extraction and comparison of key contract terms and conditions in different languages, reducing the time taken to complete contract risk reviews from two hours to 5 minutes.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Second, Huawei has equipped its 110,000-plus R&amp;D engineers with a development assistant. This tool uses foundation models to automatically extract task-context information for line-level code writing, function generation, and code interpretation and annotation. Now, 7 million lines of AI-generated code are accepted every year.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Third, in its manufacturing domain, Huawei adopts a multi-model systems engineering approach and combines decision-making and generative AI models to develop a range of intelligent applications, such as plan solvers, AI-assisted visual quality inspection, predictive equipment maintenance, and manufacturing knowledge enablement. This has greatly improved the company's overall manufacturing productivity, and shortened its order delivery periods by more than 30%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei has developed an AI digital pipeline to better integrate AI with its business processes and data. Tao emphasized that enterprises must load their own data into foundation models and conduct model optimization training to develop their own business-specific models. An enterprise's datasets are its proprietary and business-specific data, knowledge, and information, so the best way to address the uncertainty surrounding AI model results is to constantly improve data quality until it reaches "textbook" level.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Tao concluded his speech by saying that transparency breeds trust and trust promotes sharing. Huawei has developed a digital space governance model for enterprises based on its own experience in digital and intelligent operations as well as industry best practices. This model provides an efficient, intelligent, transparent, and trustworthy digital governance blueprint that is built upon unified data and language. This blueprint can help enterprises achieve digital transformation and intelligent upgrade and drive their ongoing quality growth.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Cloud for AI x AI for Cloud: Forging an AI-Native Cloud</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud's AI-native strategy has been a cornerstone of the company's innovation over the past year. This strategy is twofold: AI for Cloud and Cloud for AI, marking significant advancements in Huawei Cloud's capabilities.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In the realm of Cloud for AI, Huawei Cloud has transformed traditional data centers into AI compute centers on the cloud, offering customers efficient, green, and reliable AI compute on a large scale. A highlight of this transformation is the introduction of CloudMatrix, a next-generation AI-native matrix compute architecture where everything can be pooled, peer-to-peer, and composed, instead of traditional monolithic and general-purpose compute.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Bruno Zhang, CTO of Huawei Cloud, detailed CloudMatrix's innovative use of a new high-speed bus to interconnect multiple resources, achieving resource pooling from the cluster level to the data center level, which aligns with the demands of the AI era for compute in terms of scale, efficiency, stability, and scalability.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/张宇昕20240920.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Bruno Zhang, CTO of Huawei Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In AI for Cloud, Huawei Cloud integrates Pangu models to build intelligence into cloud services. Pangu Doer, Huawei Cloud's intelligent assistant, provides precise responses based on enterprise data, streamlining customer interactions with Huawei Cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The "1+N" Pangu assistant system, unveiled by Mr. Zhang, signifies a new era in cloud service interaction. The "1" represents Pangu Doer, which supports the entire cloud journey, from planning, use, maintenance, to optimization, with intelligent services like knowledge search, data query, and automated execution. The "N" denotes the myriad use cases in product R&amp;D, data analytics, security, and office collaboration, where Pangu models are trained using the scenario-specific data, know-how, and practices to enhance cloud services and boost efficiency with tailored AI.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/盘古助手20240920.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Launch of Huawei Cloud Pangu Doer</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">A case in point is the Postal Savings Bank of China's utilization of Pangu Doer in CodeArts to build an intelligent development platform that streamlines the work of over 4,000 R&amp;D engineers. This platform leverages AI-powered software analysis, code RAG, and other cutting-edge technologies to provide features like code generation, unit test (UT) generation, and technical Q&amp;A. With over 30% of AI-generated code and over 60% AI-generated UT code being ready-to-use, the platform has automatically generated more than 290,000 lines of high-quality code, which efficiently supports the development of over 200 application systems. Pangu Doer is now available on the Huawei Cloud website.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud's commitment to industry collaboration was evident at HUAWEI CONNECT, where a variety of sessions, roundtables, and showcases took place. These events, spanning three days, highlighted innovative technologies and practices in cloud infrastructure, core systems to cloud, application modernization, data governance, and AI enablement across industries, all aimed&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">[Shanghai, China, September 19] The Hybrid Cloud Infra Forum 2024, with the theme, "Dive into Cloud and Leap to a New Horizon", convened at HUAWEI CONNECT 2024 today. At the event, Shang Haifeng, CEO of Huawei Mainframe Modernization BU and President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, announced the launch of Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5. The new version introduces a new solution, Mainframe-to-Cloud Solution, and includes more use cases for Hybrid Cloud for Large AI Models.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service, stated in her opening speech: "Thanks to the strong support from our customers, Huawei Cloud's hybrid cloud business has been continuously expanding in the global market. An increasing number of customers from sectors, such as government, finance, education, healthcare, transportation, mining, and power have joined forces with Huawei Cloud to drive innovation. Huawei Cloud Stack synchronizes a wide array of services from the Huawei public cloud and can be deployed on-premises, breaking through technological barriers and meeting customer demands. With leading technologies, a mature platform, and a robust local ecosystem, we provide our customers with cutting-edge, scenario-specific solutions. Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud looks forward to continuing our collaboration with customers to develop superior hybrid cloud solutions and embark on the digital transformation journey together."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/石冀琳20240919.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Today, hybrid cloud has become the preferred foundation for digital transformation of government organizations and large enterprises. Huawei Cloud has been continuously investing in R&amp;D, committed to providing government and enterprise customers with a sustainable and optimal hybrid cloud foundation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Shang Haifeng said: "Cloud transformation of core systems and intelligent production have become the twin pillars for government and enterprise customers diving into cloud. Huawei Cloud Stack will innovate in resilience and intelligence, elevating the hybrid cloud to a new horizon and helping customers move faster to take a smart, digital leap."</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/20240919尚海峰.jpg" width="550"></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Shang Haifeng, CEO of Huawei Mainframe Modernization BU and President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A New Horizon of Resilience: Creating a New Mainframe-to-Cloud Benchmark</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As industries have been accelerating cloud adoption, the migration of core systems to the cloud represents the final piece of the all-cloud puzzle. It is a gateway to comprehensive intelligence. However, this migration poses many challenges, spanning hardware, software, security, O&amp;M, optimization, and tools. It is an end-to-end comprehensive project that requires software-hardware synergy.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This year, Huawei established a Mainframe Modernization BU, consolidating core R&amp;D strengths across compute, storage, network, cloud, and the Central Research Institute to drive systematic innovation. This initiative aims to fully exploit the power of software-hardware synergy to overcome the world-class challenge of mainframe migration to cloud. They have been persistent in developing an independent and innovative technology system to ensure an ongoing supply of core technologies. The team has been stepping up efforts to develop comprehensive system engineering capabilities, from infrastructure and implementation processes to O&amp;M, aiming to establish new core systems on the cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Mainframe-to-Cloud Solution from Huawei provides comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) for all scenarios, supports modular application deployment, and enables multi-site multi-active DR, satisfying a spectrum of availability requirements. It supports hardware fault detection in seconds, which makes O&amp;M for large-scale clusters more efficient. The application-centric end-to-end visibility speeds up fault identification and troubleshooting. Seamless cloud OS upgrades enable the parallel upgrade of hundreds of nodes without VM migration, and without any service interruptions.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei maximizes the synergy between software and hardware. Hardware NIC virtualization passthrough and the multi-core lock-free design reduce the latency of a single forward for load balancing by 83% and increase the forwarding bandwidth of a single cluster to 400 Gbit/s. Passthrough networking simplifies the network from two layers to just one, which reduces latency by 40%. Moreover, the fusion of the RoCE network and NoF+ protocol slashes end-to-end storage latency by 50%. All of these enable unparalleled performance and superior experiences.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In terms of security, GaussDB, a fully-encrypted database, and Kunpeng Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) safeguard against data breaches and minimize performance degradation, keeping it within 20%.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Shang Haifeng expressed that Huawei aspires to set new trustworthiness standards for mainframe-to-cloud migration through innovation in foundational technologies and experience consolidation. Huawei aims to take the resilience of core systems to a new horizon and provide a better choice for the world.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>A New Horizon of Intelligence: Launch of Top Use Cases of Hybrid Cloud for Large AI Models</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The past two years have witnessed fast development in large models. An increasing number of industries are exploring and adopting large models, forging new business models and substantially expanding market demands. New technologies and new use cases are key to the adoption of large models across industries.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In 2023, Huawei Cloud Stack launched the industry's first Hybrid Cloud for Large AI Models, empowering enterprises to build their own large AI models in one stop. In June this year, Huawei Cloud Stack introduced 10 new technologies for Hybrid Cloud for Large AI Models, making them easier to deploy using different infrastructures, algorithms, and engineering capabilities. Additionally, Huawei Cloud Stack curates high-quality datasets, consolidates model application experience, and is fully integrated into industry ecosystems, making the use cases easier.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Stack also uses the innovative ModelArts engineering tool suite that consists of three modules: data, model, and application. It is designed to expedite AI engineering adoption, simplifying the creation, training, and deployment of large models.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the forum, Huawei Cloud unveiled the top use cases for Hybrid Cloud for Large AI Models, targeting five major industries. 20 domain-specific and over 80 industry scenario-specific use case baselines were launched. Shang Haifeng highlighted that these use case baselines are rooted in delivered projects, covering solutions, services, and partners. They are ready for broad promotion and replication. In the future, Huawei Cloud Stack will update use cases twice a year, always delivering more use cases and superior solutions to customers.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/大模型混合云场景发布20240919_1.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Launch of top use cases of Hybrid Cloud for Large AI Models</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud remains steadfast in its commitment to AI for Industries. Leveraging the powerful capabilities and experience of Huawei Cloud Stack and Pangu Models, Huawei Cloud will elevate intelligence to a new horizon, enabling every enterprise to create their own large model.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>From Data to Intelligence: An Outstanding Hybrid Cloud Backbone for All Scenarios</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Diverse computing needs are driving a shift towards a new standard, where general-purpose and intelligent computing engines power the future of enterprises. Huawei Cloud Stack defines computing features and capabilities based on use cases, employing a hybrid cloud foundation to address the varied computing demands of data, containers, and AI. Customers who have deployed the Huawei hybrid cloud can seamlessly expand AI computing capabilities and cloud services, effortlessly evolving from general-purpose computing to intelligent computing.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Dive into Cloud and Leap to a New Horizon Together with Industry Customers</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud has been partnering with top industry customers to explore cutting-edge services and technologies and develop scenario-specific solutions for industries, continuously empowering intelligent upgrades of customers.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud Stack now serves over 5,500 customers around the world and has consistently held a dominant market share in sectors such as government, finance, and state-owned enterprises many years in a row.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In China, more than 60% of large banks and joint-stock banks have chosen Huawei to create new core systems on the cloud. Peng Xiao, Deputy General Manager of the FinTech Department of China Everbright Bank, delivered a speech, with the title "Deepening Technology Enablement: Cloud Transformation of China Everbright Bank's Digital Infrastructure." China Everbright Bank joins hands with Huawei Cloud Stack to significantly enhance the performance of mission-critical service systems through comprehensive optimization powered by cloud-hardware synergy. Their core services, like loans, payments, and deposits, will be migrated to a cloud-native platform soon, which will spur financial innovation on the cloud.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/彭晓20240919.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Peng Xiao, Deputy General Manager of the FinTech Department of China Everbright Bank</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the forum, Mehmet Ali Akarca, CEO of KoçSistem, the leading IT company of Türkiye, discussed how cloud drives new B2B business growth. He stated that KoçSistem, leveraging Huawei Cloud Stack, is intending to launch a multi-cloud strategy and dive into cloud to provide industry-leading secure, efficient, and scalable products and solutions. They are dedicated to supporting the digital transformation of over 1,300 global customers in key sectors such as government and finance.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/Akarc20240919.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Mehmet Ali Akarca, CEO of KoçSistem in Türkiye</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Xu Junjie, General Manager of Huayun Advanced Intelligence (Chengdu) Co., Ltd., shared experiences in developing a digital and intelligent solution in ore flows together with Huawei Cloud. He mentioned that this year, Sichuan Zigong Conveying Machine Group Co., Ltd. (the Transportation Machinery Group) and Huawei officially signed an agreement on all-round cooperation. As a subsidiary of the Transportation Machinery Group, Huayun Advanced Intelligence is dedicated to becoming a world-leading digital and intelligent solution and service provider for ore flows. Using Hybrid Cloud for Large AI Models, from Huawei Cloud Stack, Huayun Advanced Intelligence has established a four-layer AI operations system (center, edge, device, and AI applications), designed for high-value scenarios. In a bid to foster the intelligent, sustainable, and efficient advancement of the mining sector, the Transportation Machinery Group, Huayun Advanced Intelligence, and Huawei have worked with each other to establish a joint innovation center. They will collaborate with each other to focus on research in four pivotal areas: predictive maintenance for conveyor belts, predictive maintenance for mechanical and electrical equipment, unmanned operations of mining equipment, and intelligent equipment transformation.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/20240919许俊杰.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Xu Junjie, General Manager of Huayun Advanced Intelligence (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Songphan Prakobnoppakao, Director of the IT and Service Platform Engineering Department of AIS in Thailand, shared details about the hybrid cloud journey of AIS. He said that AIS, a leading communications provider in Thailand, has shifted from legacy virtualization to cloud infrastructure. Through the partnership with Huawei Cloud Stack, AIS has been pushing forward a hybrid, multi-cloud strategy. Together with Huawei Cloud, AIS has leveraged a trusted cloud platform, worry-free migration capabilities, and the benefits of hybrid cloud solutions to usher in a new era of digital transformation.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/songphan20240919.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Songphan Prakobnoppakao, Head of the IT and Service Platform Engineering Department of AIS in Thailand</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Huawei Cloud continues to collaborate with industry partners to provide better technical and scenario-specific solutions for government and enterprise customers. As a key partner of Huawei Cloud in the finance sector, Kuang Wenchuan, Chief Scientist of China Electronics Corporation and Director of GienTech Research Institute, remarked that GienTech has collaborated with Huawei Cloud to complete comprehensive adaption and performance tuning for products like a cloud-native core system, the financial-grade "ORIGIEN" digital foundation, Huawei Cloud Stack, and Huawei Cloud GaussDB. Through this partnership with Huawei, they have developed a joint financial mainframe-to-cloud solution to transform their core systems, expediting application refactoring and accelerating modernization of their IT infrastructure.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/况文川20240919.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Kuang Wenchuan, Chief Scientist of China Electronics Corporation and Director of GienTech Research Institute</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">At the forum, the 2024 Global "Dive into Cloud Polaris" Awards Ceremony was held to honor global benchmark customers and partners who have made outstanding contributions to cutting-edge technologies, scenarios, and model exploration with Huawei Cloud. A total of 18 government organizations and enterprises around the world from diverse sectors, such as government, finance, oil and gas, and transportation, earned the awards.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="auto" src="https://res-static.hc-cdn.cn/cloudbu-site/intl/en-us/unclassification/20249/北极星20240919.jpg" width="550"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Awards ceremony</em></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The journey ahead is still filled with challenges. Moving forward, Huawei Cloud Stack will persist in innovating and breaking new ground, continuously refining technical solutions, optimizing product portfolios, and diving into industry scenarios. The intelligent world is just around the corner. Huawei Cloud Stack looks forward to joining hands with government and enterprise customers to leap to a new horizon and embrace a better future.</p>