(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) With the theme of "Accelerate Intelligence with Everything as aService”, Huawei Cloud TechWave Summit 2024 was held in Baku,Azerbaijan, on May 15. At the event, a series of new launches,innovative cloud services, and programs were introduced by HuaweiCloud, such as Huawei Cloud AI video Service Technical White Paperand the new release of Data-AI Convergence Ecosystem Alliance toaccelerate the intelligent upgrade across governments andindustries for Middle East and Central Asia.
Alan Qi, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia,delivered the opening speech at the event, reiterating HuaweiCloud's commitment to accelerate digital transformation across theregions. He said,“Cloud is the key to the digital and intelligentera, and Huawei Cloud stands out with systematic innovation, vastindustry-specific expertise, and a thriving digital ecosystem toaccelerate your leap to intelligence and boost your businesssuccess.”
Alan Qi, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East & CentralAsia, giving the opening speech
To achieve better economic growth and citizen livelihood,Azerbaijan developed its national digitalization strategy andinnovation plan. Inara Valiyeva, the Chairperson of the Innovationand Digital Development Agency in Azerbaijan, shared in her openingspeech,“Our vision of digitalization is to create a seamlesslyintegrated digital society where advanced technology enhancespublic services, boosts digital literacy, and fosters an innovationecosystem, driving sustainable growth and improving quality of lifefor all citizens.”
Inara Valiyeva, the Chairperson of Innovation and DigitalDevelopment Agency, giving the opening speech
Huawei Cloud Stack – The Preferred Cloud for IntelligentUpgrade
Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, shared thatHuawei Cloud is now serving 30 regions with 88 availability zones(AZ), achieving a remarkable growth of 21.9%. In his keynotespeech, Hu Yuhai announced the release of Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 inthe Middle East and Central Asia market. He said: "Huawei CloudStack provides trusted cloud infrastructure, innovative cloudcapabilities, and rich industry know-how to help governments andenterprises dive into cloud, leap to intelligence, and unleashdigital."
Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, announcingthe release of Huawei Cloud Stack 8.3 in Asia Pacific
Hu Yuhai also launched a white paper on the Vision of Diving into Cloud , showcasing howcloud services are changing the world. Concluding his keynote, heannounced the Leap2Cloud initiative, which calls for government andenterprise customers and partners to bid farewell to legacyvirtualization and embrace cloud-native, AI, and big data. HuaweiCloud is determined to fuel business growth with acceleratedinnovation and unleash more power from the cloud.
Building the Cloud Foundation for an IntelligentWorld
The world is entering a new era of intelligence, propelled byfoundational models and AI-generated content (AIGC). Projectionsindicate that by 2026, over 80% of businesses will adopt AIGC in their operations, reshaping 70% of design and development processes . Toaccelerate intelligence, systematic innovation is required.
Tim Chen, Vice President of Product Management for Huawei PublicCloud, shared insights on building an AI-native cloud foundationwith continuous innovations through 'Cloud for AI' and 'AI forIndustries'.
Under the 'Cloud for AI' strategy, Huawei Cloud has builtproducts and solutions such as the distributed QingTianarchitecture, AI-native storage, GaussDB database, and the digitalintelligence integration platform. These support deployment and useacross clouds, networks, edges, and terminals and help customers invarious industries build intelligent cloud infrastructure throughsystematic innovation.
'AI for Industries' aims to help bridge the gap between AI andindustry needs through different industry models with HuaweiCloud's Pangu Model-an open, decoupled three-layer architectureoffering a powerful foundation for a vast range of models andapplications.
Chen said,“Huawei Cloud adheres to the principles of 'Cloud forAI, AI for Industries', and builds intelligent cloud bases throughsystematic innovation, helping enterprises lead in the large modelera.”
Tim Chen, Vice President of Product Management for HuaweiPublic Cloud, giving a speech
At the summit, Li Wei, Deputy Director of EI Services at HuaweiCloud, launched the Huawei Cloud AI Video Service Technical White Paper detailingthe trend of AI meets Video and how Huawei's AI video service andsolutions can help governments and enterprises improve efficiencythrough intelligent video applications. Li Wei shared,“The moreyou use Pangu large pre-trained models, the better it gets. AIvideo service powered by Pangu enables cameras to speak.”
Li Wei, Vice President of EI Services at Huawei Cloud,giving a speech
At the Huawei Cloud TechWave Summit 2024, Huawei Cloud, togetherwith partners - Percent, Iflytek, Dyna, Neuxnet, 51WORLD, HCL,863soft, and many others - launched the Data-AI ConvergenceEcosystem Alliance, to foster a dynamic ecosystem that leveragesthe power of cloud computing and AI technologies to address complexchallenges and unlock new opportunities across industries.
Huawei Cloud together with partners launching the Data-AIConvergence Ecosystem Alliance
About Huawei
Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider ofinformation and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure andsmart devices. We have more than 207,000 employees, and we operatein more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than threebillion people around the world.
Our Vision and mission is to bring digital to every person, homeand organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To thisend, we will drive ubiquitous connectivity and promote equal accessto networks; bring cloud and artificial intelligence to all fourcorners of the earth to provide superior computing power where youneed it, when you need it; build digital platforms to help allindustries and organizations become more agile, efficient, anddynamic; redefine user experience with AI, making it morepersonalized for people in all aspects of their life, whetherthey're at home, in the office, or on the go.
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