For Huawei, Big Data is closely entwined with cloud
Cloud computing and Big Data are on crossing trajectories, and enterprise vendors are investing heavily to secure a place at the intersection of the two mega-trends. Huawei, for its part, is expanding core businesses and strengthening partner relations in a push to meet its aggressive growth targets in these segments.
The company expects to generate $10 billion in annual revenue from cloud services and software-defined networking solutions by 2017, the same figure IBM CEO Meg Whitman is looking to achieve with her firm’s Watson cognitive computing platform. At this week’s CeBIT exhibition in Germany, Huawei enterprise boss William Xu said that his firm is placing a particular emphasis on programmable hardware and fostering the channel . “We forged a lot of alliances with our partners and we developed a lot of resale partners,” he noted.
The company is extending this strategy to analytics with the introduction of a new converged infrastructure offering for SAP HANA. Announced yesterday at CeBit, Huawei’s latest FusionCube appliance enables users to run the in-memory database with offers 5 times less latency and 15 times more bandwidth than a leading alternative solution, the firm said. It also takes up less space than traditional deployments and features built-in storage management software that makes it easier for users to scale their environments.
“Moving forward, Huawei will emphasize our strategy to integrate with the industry ecosystem and to continue to focus on the ‘pipe’ segment of Huawei’s overall ‘cloud, pipe, device strategy’. Through open collaboration with our strategic partners, we will continue to provide leading innovative and differentiated products and solutions, working to achieve our goal to become an optimal partner for ICT innovation,” Xu reiterated in a statement.
In addition to the new FusionCube, Huawei announced a collaboration with SAP to “explore opportunities” in the BYOD and smart city domains. The pair will bundle their respective infrastructure and software products into integrated solutions for managing mobile devices and providing citizen services.
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