During the Huawei Full Connect Conference, many industry insiders noticed a piece of news: Digital China solemnly released Kuntai series products from Kunpeng, produced by Digital China and adopted Kunpeng architecture for the first time in front of the world. Debut.
Why has this conference attracted the attention of the industry? Why does the strategic cooperation between Huawei and Digital China continue to deepen? What impact will the strong cooperation between the two parties have on the ecology of Kunpeng? What changes will it bring to China's ICT industry?
Through the interviews with several senior executives of Digital China, the answers to these questions will be revealed one by one.
20 years of sharpening a sword: a new starting point for Digital China’s dream
2020 coincides with the 20th year of Digital China's establishment. This conference is also the first launch of its own-brand products in the field of computing power since the establishment of Digital China. It is not difficult to imagine that for Digital China, the release of Kuntai series products is a milestone of extraordinary significance.
The Shenzhou Kuntai series of products released this time include a variety of desktops, all-in-ones, servers, and a wealth of cloud computing and software-defined storage products. From hardware, to software, to adaption, it fully demonstrates Shenzhou. Kuntai series products are comprehensive and powerful.
"This is the new starting point of our dream. We have lofty ambitions and ambitions, and want to do something different. We are more focused on the integration of software capabilities, industry capabilities, and solution capabilities, and customer-centric , Taking solutions as the starting point. As for product development and hardware platforms, these are only carriers that carry the value to customers." Han Zhimin, vice president of Digital China Group and president of China Xinchuang Group, told Quwei Technology, "We understand customer scenarios, industry applications and Demands can provide consulting, solutions, services and even almost everything on the cloud during the digital transformation of enterprises."
Han Zhimin pointed out that in the past 20 years, Digital China has not exerted its power on the underlying hardware computing power platform. In recent years, the X86 market has been fighting fiercely. Therefore, Digital China has to corner overtaking and use technology upgrades and ecological upgrades to replace its own brands. In this way, we use our own understanding of industry applications, customers’ understanding, and solutions to integrate applications to the Kuntai China platform, so as to unleash Digital China’s deep accumulation in the industry over the past 20 years, give full play to its advantages, and make up for shortcomings in the future. China has a place in the ICT market.
Kunpeng ecology: maturity beyond people's imagination
As we all know, the X86 architecture has experienced more than 30 years of development and has long formed a very mature industrial ecology. However, with the high-speed popularization of mobile internet and smart terminals, the ARM architecture that can build a higher-performance and lower-power computing platform is winning the favor of more and more enterprise users. According to statistics, the total computing power output of processors based on the ARM instruction set will account for 82% of the world in 2020, and it will become the main driving force of the semiconductor industry.
"From the perspective of the global market, the ARM market has been growing rapidly due to the advantages of multiple concurrency, high performance, and low power consumption. Today, the shipment volume of ARM chips has surpassed that of X86. In such a powerful market as Huawei and ecological cultivation Given its capabilities, the ARM architecture has taken only a short year from last year to the present, and it has undergone earth-shaking changes and has been widely accepted by users in all walks of life. As the ecology becomes more and more mature, we hope that the localization of computing in the future Power can account for more than half of the ratio.” Han Zhimin said, “The maturity of Kunpeng ecology is beyond our imagination. Although there is still a big gap with X86, we hope to be able to spend two to three years in the country. Catching up in the market."
Cui Yong, general manager of the product center of China Xinchuang Group, also said that from the perspective of desktops and servers based on the Kunpeng architecture, the maturity of the Kunpeng ecosystem has exceeded people's previous imagination. Based on Digital China’s own testing and development capabilities, and benefiting from Huawei’s massive empowerment, it is possible to push the product through a series of processes such as migration, transplantation, development, tuning, and complete testing in a very short time. To the market.
"From the perspective of the Shenzhou Kuntai series of products released this time, from the IaaS layer, to the PaaS layer, and then to the SaaS layer, including computing power platforms and storage platforms, Shenzhou Xinchuang has a layout, and this is only a small part. We are adhering to the idea of'planning one generation, developing one generation, and launching one generation'. We have a layout in the diversity of computing power, the cloud, the pipe end and the edge computing end, from the cloud application layer to the end-side collaboration, and the hardware base layer. , Combined with the ecological transformation, from the X86 system to the ARM system, from the traditional single computing power architecture to the diverse computing power architecture, including cloud computing, edge computing at the pipe end, and the perception layer of the terminal, forming a comprehensive digitalization, helping Companies from all walks of life use our capabilities in cloud and management, plus the entire Digital China Group in industry software and cloud capabilities to carry out rapid digital transformation." Cui Yong said.
Service companies: Digital China's huge advantages
"Although Shenzhou Xinchuang Group is still in its infancy and in its infancy, we did not start from zero, but started our own brand business as early as 20 years ago." Shenzhou Xinchuang Group CTO Xiangyang towards Fun Technology said, "As the saying goes,'The sparrow is small, but it has all five internal organs.' After 20 years of development, the product line of all aspects of Digital China's own brand has been relatively complete, including the company's various organizational systems and capabilities. ."
As a veteran IT company that has been deeply involved in the Chinese enterprise IT market for 20 years, Digital China has created a unique in the industry, covering more than 1,000 cities across the country, covering major vertical industries, and gathering more than 30,000 marketing ecological partners. Ecological network, which is not only one of the most important strategic resources of Digital China, but also a solid foundation and strong guarantee for the promotion of Xinchuang business.
In the past 20 years, Digital China has formed 4 categories, 22 categories, and more than 600 own-brand products covering ARM servers, networks, storage, and all-in-ones, providing powerful cloud computing and big data services. With computing power support, and through its own intellectual property virtualization software, software-defined computing power, software-defined storage, and software-defined networking are realized, independent innovation and application of cloud basic resources are realized, and the hardware foundation of Xinchuang's full-stack product lineage is laid.
In terms of R&D and innovation, Digital China has always insisted on independent innovation and cultivated a complete ecosystem around domestic IT core technologies. At present, Digital China has completed the five ISO system certifications, established R&D centers in Xi'an, Wuhan, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Xiamen, and recently established China Xinchuang Xiamen Research Institute.
"With the help of the newly established China Xinchuang Group, Digital China hopes to fully release the group's 20 years of accumulated capabilities and experience in the infrastructure, PaaS, and application layers through the hardware platform of the infrastructure layer IaaS layer. So although The establishment of Shenzhou Xinchuang is relatively short, but the investment is very large. At present, our main work is to solve ecological problems, including ecological adaptation, ecological testing, etc., with a lot of work content." Xiang Yangchao said.
Join forces: Digital China's "Greater Huawei" strategic upgrade
Speaking of the combination of Digital China and Huawei, I believe many people will talk about it. In fact, the strategic cooperation between the two parties can be traced back to 2016 as early as possible.
In 2016, Digital China and Huawei announced that they would start docking and collaboration in cloud computing and other fields, jointly build a cloud-to-end cloud ecosystem, and create and explore new cooperation models.
In March 2018, Digital China’s “Greater Huawei” strategy was launched, integrating Huawei’s business from different business segments to form a Huawei business group, forming a unified front, middle and back office to achieve internal collaboration. At the same time, Digital China has launched comprehensive cooperation with Huawei in areas such as smart cities, smart agriculture, smart healthcare, smart finance, the Internet of Things, and supply chain, moving from ecological cooperation to ecological coordination.
In November 2019, Digital China took the lead in participating in the Kunpeng computing industry ecology, building Kunpeng servers and PC production lines, and becoming one of the core partners of Kunpeng computing industry ecology.
Up to now, Digital China has launched in-depth cooperation with hundreds of companies in the fields of databases, operating systems, storage, middleware, basic chips, and supercomputing. In the future, focusing on Kuntai products in China, Digital China will continue to integrate the resources of upstream and downstream ecological partners in the industry chain, carry out software and hardware adaptation and solution development, strengthen the construction of channel systems, grow together with ecological partners, and provide foundations for all walks of life. The IT infrastructure and industry application solutions of domestic computing power have vigorously promoted the "new infrastructure" and the digital transformation of the industry.
Not only that, in order to promote the continued prosperity of the entire Kunpeng industrial ecology, Digital China will also cooperate with ecological partners and various universities and scientific research institutions to strengthen the training of industrial workers, technical personnel, and scientific research personnel, and continue to deliver fresh blood for the Kunpeng ecology. Provide a wealth of practical scenarios for educating people and teaching, accelerate the commercialization of scientific research results based on industry needs, and promote the integration of production, learning, research, and use.
“Everyone knows that according to IDC’s research report, Digital China’s cloud business has become the number one in China’s MSP market in just three years. Huawei also values Digital China’s rich resources and capabilities on the cloud. In the future, both of us will be on the cloud. The cooperation will have a high degree of goal consistency and strategic synergy. Whether it is resource or manpower investment, market promotion, it will produce a lot of synergy." Han Zhimin revealed to Quwei Technology.
"Kunpeng spreads its wings and soars 90,000 miles." It is believed that with the strong cooperation and complementary advantages of Digital China and Huawei, Kunpeng Eco will paint a more magnificent picture in China's ICT market in the future.