Huawei Connect: Huawei Unveils FusionCloud 6.5 Full-Stack Private Cloud Solution

At Huawei Connect 2018, Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd. held a summit themed of Activate Intelligence: The Innovative Path to Intelligent Cloud Data Centers.

Hou Jinlong, president, IT product line

At the summit, Hou Jinlong, president, IT product line, Huawei, delivered a speech Activate Intelligence: Innovative Path to Huawei Intelligent Full-Stack Cloud. The representatives from finance, healthcare, energy, and Internet companies shared their joint innovation practices in AI, cloud, and HPC fields. The company awarded customers with the Cloud Data Center Super User Award 2018 to commend their support to the firm.

Also, the company released the full-stack private cloud solution FusionCloud 6.5 and introduced the new-generation mission-critical cloud storage FusionStorage. These solutions add capabilities to the firm’s array of cloud and storage support to lay a foundation for building an intelligent world.

Jinlong said: “Extensive applications of AI technologies drive our society into a more intelligent world. Huawei is committed to integrating AI technologies with IT infrastructure such as cloud data centers, intelligent cloud computing and storage, helping customers create business value in their digital and intelligent transformations by leveraging full-stack cloud solutions with full lifecycle service capabilities and comprehensive ecosystem competitiveness.“

To commend customers’ support, the company presented Cloud Data Center Super User Award 2018 to following firm’s customers:

• Best innovation practices of the year: China Merchants Bank (CMB)

• Best digital enterprise transformation of the year: Sonatrach

• Best AI exploration in healthcare of the year: KingMed Diagnostics

• Best cloud service deployment of the year: Sina Corporation

• Best cloud data center practices of the year: China Mobile Group Beijing Co., Ltd.

• Most improved IT efficiency of the year: Sberbank of Russia

• Best cloud transformation of the year: Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd

• Best Huawei cloud practices of the year: Kingnet Network Co., Ltd.

At this summit, the company released the next-generation full-stack private cloud solution FusionCloud 6.5 and introduced a generation mission-critical cloud storage FusionStorage.

FusionCloud 6.5 offers several capabilities:

• Compared to FusionCloud 6.3, FusionCloud 6.5 provides more than 50 cloud services in nine categories. With enhanced capabilities in AI-powered heterogeneous computing, enterprise intelligence, and hybrid cloud, Version 6.5 allows the firm’s full-stack AI solutions to be deployed on private cloud platforms and offers cloud-edge-cloud synergy. With an eye toward next-generation networking, it enables enterprises to extend data from private clouds to the Internet edge.

• FusionCloud solution helps enterprises implement large-scale, intelligent edge-computing management and collaboration. Version 6.5 also expands the integration of ISV algorithms and applications so that ISVs can integrate their AI algorithms and applications into private cloud platforms.

• FusionCloud Private Cloud solution provides an unified experience that ensures consistent on- and off-premises connectivity through standardized public and private cloud architectures. Version 6.5 supports increasing demands for cloud-computing services such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Data-as-a-Service (DaaS).

• FusionCloud 6.5 shares unified architectures, APIs, services, and ecosystems with the company’s cloud to allow users to leverage more than 100 online cloud services. The solution can also connect to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and other third-party public cloud platforms through hybrid clouds. This versatility enables cross-cloud business deployment and migration that provides long-term support for business development. It provides full-stack services, platform, and ecosystem to help meet customers’ digital transformation requirements.

FusionStorage offers cloud storage capabilities
for enterprise mission-critical applications:

• FusionStorage leverages the technology innovations of storage software and compatibility with hardware to provide performance, robust reliability, and on-demand storage resource services for mission-critical applications. With this platform, enterprises can cope with the challenges of migrating core applications to the cloud.

• FusionStorage offers distributed linear expansion capabilities that include linear expansion of exabyte-level storage capacity, IO/s, and throughput. It also implements coordinated storage of hybrid cloud data on- and off-premises, and boasts reliability and ease of use, so that mission-critical applications can securely run in cloud resource pools.

• FusionStorage also delivers multi-level BC assurance for users to deploy on demand. Equipped with the company’s fully distributed gateway-free active-active solution, it provides 99.9999% solution-level reliability to ensure uninterrupted business operations in virtualization and database scenarios. Additionally, this solution offers an asynchronous replication technology that supports RPO for long-distance data protection scenarios.

The company is committed to working with customers in the long term and takes a future-oriented approach to drive enterprise digital transformation through the power of the platform. So far, 211 of the Fortune Global 500 companies (including 48 Fortune Global 100 companies) have selected the firm as their digital transformation partner.