Huawei Cloud Signed MoU with 7 Partners in Dubai
Oct 17, 2022
The Huawei Cloud TechWave Summit for the Middle East and Africa themed "Inspire Innovation and Unleash Digital Productivity" was held in Dubai on October 12. The summit invited industry leaders, experts, partners, and the media from the Middle East and Africa to exchange ideas on innovation, ecosystem, and digitalization. Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud's Global Marketing and Sales Service, delivered an opening speech, where she pointed out that embracing the cloud is the key to unleashing digital productivity, and that cloud native is an approach essential to digital transformation.
Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud's Global Marketing and Sales Service
Embracing the Cloud to Unleash Digital Productivity
Recent years have seen more government organizations and enterprises worldwide adopt digitalization to tackle challenges amid economic uncertainties. Statistics show that the global digital economy grew by more than 15% in 2021. Cloud computing, the infrastructure of the digital economy, is also on the fast track. According to Gartner, global public cloud spending will increase by more than 20% in 2022, and is expected to amount to nearly USD600 billion in 2023.
"Embracing the cloud is the key to unleashing digital productivity, and cloud native is an approach essential to digital transformation," Ms. Shi stressed. "Digitalization would be impossible without cloud native. Cloud native is the best way for enterprises to embrace agile application modernization."
Years of intensive R&D investment make Huawei Cloud a constant leader in cloud native. As the only founding member of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) from Asia, Huawei contributed KubeEdge, CNCF's first intelligent edge computing project, and Volcano, CNCF's first batch computing project.
Ms. Shi indicated that Huawei Cloud builds full-stack cloud native and provides Everything as a Service with a cloud native mindset: Infrastructure as a Service, Technology as a Service, and Expertise as a Service.
Infrastructure as a Service: To better serve local customers, Huawei Cloud has launched 92 cloud services in the Middle East. Huawei Cloud will also build a new Region in Saudi Arabia and keep building one global network for secure, stable, and low-latency cloud services in the Middle East and Africa.
Technology as a Service: Huawei Cloud builds four pipelines: DevCloud for software development, DataArts for data governance, ModelArts for AI development, and MetaStudio for digital content production. These four pipelines provide futureproof technologies for a faster, easier cloud journey of organizations.
Expertise as a Service: Huawei Cloud has been working with industries worldwide to promote innovation and digital transformation for decades. Now the acquired expertise is integrated into APIs that are open to developers on MacroVerse aPaaS. In doing so, developers no longer need to reinvent the wheel and can focus on scenario-specific innovation.
With a focus on Everything as a Service, Huawei Cloud unveiled the "Go Cloud, Go Global" ecosystem plan. According to this plan, Huawei Cloud will share its localized experience acquired in the services for more than 170 countries and regions, as well as insight into businesses and industries in major regions, and contribute its technologies and solutions to a global ecosystem. Such effort will help more tech companies use cloud better and go global more successfully.
Growing with Partners in a Vibrant Cloud Ecosystem
Market demands are increasingly diversified in this digital and intelligent world. It has become a consensus in the industry that collaboration is the key to building a digital ecosystem to facilitate the business innovation of customers. During the summit, Ms. Shi, on behalf of Huawei Cloud, signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with seven partners from the Middle East and Africa, including Omantel, Abacus & Orient Group, Ignite, Systems Limited & PMEX, OZI Technology, Oengo, and KlayyTech.
Huawei Cloud signed MoU with KlayyTech
To build an ecosystem of shared success in the Middle East, Huawei Cloud presented eight awards to partners that have made significant contributions over the past year. They are:
Techvista Systems - System Integrator of the Year
Gold Mantis - Seller of the Year
OneOffice - ISV of the Year
China Mobile International - Sustainable Partner of the Year
Abacus Consulting Technology - SAP Migration Partner of the Year
Rounak Computers - New Star
iVolve Technologies - Emerging Technology Solution of the Year
2B Innovations - Marketing Star
"We have been growing together with customers in the Middle East and Africa," said Ms. Shi. The Huawei Cloud ecosystem has been thriving over the past few years, with more partners joining. In Saudi Arabia, Huawei Cloud has built a national AI platform for the Neom city. In Kuwait, the Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA) has authorized Huawei Cloud as service provider to the 2035 Vision. In Africa, Huawei Cloud is headquartered in South Africa and serves more than 30 countries, becoming the fastest growing cloud service provider in the continent.
Huawei Cloud will provide advanced technologies and expertise to help local enterprises digitally transform, enable partners to grow, and empower startups to succeed. Huawei Cloud will also build the best platform for developers, a platform to transfer knowledge and skills, and provide the latest tech to cultivate the most needed talent for the digital economy in the Middle East and Africa.
By Local, For Local: Building a Robust Digital Ecosystem
Huawei Cloud has achieved rapid development in the Middle East over the past few years. Officially established in 2020, Huawei Cloud soon launched a Region in Abu Dhabi in 2021. The local node and support teams in the Middle East enable Huawei Cloud to provide responsive services for more than 50 government organizations and enterprises in the region.
Huawei Cloud is committed to building the cloud foundation for an intelligent world with ubiquitous cloud and pervasive intelligence. Huawei Cloud strives to enable customers, partners, and developers in the Middle East with cloud native to fuel digitalization across industries.