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HUAWEI CLOUD has launched cloud data centers in
Singapore, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru, and worked
with partners to serve customers worldwide with 45
availability zones across 23 regions. HUAWEI CLOUD
provides multinational companies with public cloud
services that deliver consistent service performance
and experience worldwide.HUAWEI CLOUD’s AI solutions help enterprises
and other organizations apply AI to support their
operations, and have been implemented in over 500
projects across 10 industries worldwide.In December 2019, HUAWEI CLOUD launched WeLink,
an intelligent work platform that provides functions
such as videoconferencing, daily health check-ins,
online work, and secure access to existing business
systems and applications. WeLink provides stable
and efficient support for telecommuting in various
industries.Intelligent computing
Huawei continues to invest and innovate in
general-purpose computing and AI computing.General-purpose computing: Huawei works with
hardware and software partners to develop a wide
range of computing products and solutions, which
have been commercially deployed on a large scale in
government, finance, Internet, and other sectors. For
example:■ SAIC Volkswagen adopted our TaiShan servers to
build its R&D High-performance Computing (HPC)
platform and optimize the open-source OpenFOAM
software, increasing its R&D efficiency by more
than 30%.■ Japan’s U-NEXT used our TaiShan servers to build
a video content storage platform, which improved
performance by approximately 20% and is expected
to reduce the company’s total cost of ownership
(TCO) by approximately 20% in three years.AI computing: Since the launch of our Atlas AI
computing series products, we have released more
than 30 joint solutions with independent software
vendors (ISVs), and teamed up with industry
customers across Europe and Asia Pacific, including
Digi Singapore, Italy’s AGS, SARADA in South Korea,
the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, and thePeng Cheng Laboratory. Other examples include the
following:■ Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau under China
Southern Power Grid adopted an intelligent
inspection solution, powered by Atlas 200, which
enables unmanned patrols of transmission lines,
essentially eliminating the need for linemen
to climb up transmission towers or walk along
transmission lines.■ The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organization
used Atlas 900 to sift through mountains of data
on 200,000 stars and locate and identify specific
types of stars in just 10 seconds, a task which used
to take 169 days.■ Russia’s ITV adopted Atlas 300 to accelerate
its video analysis algorithms, which more than
doubled the overall performance of its original
solution.■ We released our AI Ecosystem Program in Europe
and announced an investment of EUR100 million
over the next five years, aiming to jointly shape the
European AI industry with our partners.Intelligent data and storage
In the data infrastructure domain, we constantly
innovate, provide services throughout product
lifecycles, and implement a comprehensive ecosystem
partnership strategy. This enables us to provide a wide
array of scenario-based intelligent data and storage
products and solutions and continuously create value
for our customers.For example, Russia’s Absolut Bank used Huawei’s
OceanStor all-flash storage to build an efficient office
automation platform. This platform provides 3,000
desktops for 76 office branches, improving end-to-end
performance 4-fold. The active-active solution ensures
uninterrupted office and banking services 24/7. Online
deduplication and compression greatly decreased
construction and O&M expenses in terms of overall
footprint, power consumption, and cooling, while TCO
is expected to drop approximately 50% over the next
five years.According to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Primary
Storage report released in September 2019, Huawei’s
storage products were in the Leaders quadrant.