In the latest news, according to No.1 Financial News , Huawei’s mobile phone head Yu Chengdong has been appointed as the President of Cloud BU. Huawei issued a statement that Yu Chengdong, the current CEO of Consumer BG, plans to appoint the president (and) of Cloud & AI BG, the director of the Cloud & AI BG administrative management team, and the president (and) of Cloud BU and the director of the Cloud BU administrative team. Hou Jinlong, the current president of Cloud and Computing BG, plans to appoint the chairman of Digital Energy this time.
According to people familiar with the matter, the purpose of Huawei's personnel adjustment this time is to strengthen the collaboration between the mobile phone-based "end" and cloud computing, further improve internal operation efficiency, further integrate core capabilities, strengthen Internet business layout, and promote ecological development.
Huawei’s official definition of the Cloud&AI BG organization is: the goal is to be responsible for the competitiveness and commercial success of Huawei’s cloud and computing industry, and to assume responsibility for the cloud and computing industry’s R&D, marketing, ecology, technology sales, consulting, and integration enabling services. Build an ecosystem around Kunpeng, Shengteng and Huawei Cloud, build a black earth, and become the foundation of the digital world.
At the beginning of 2020, Huawei made a new round of adjustments to its internal organizational structure, involving the appointment of a number of important executives. Among them, what has attracted the most attention from the outside world is that Huawei has upgraded Cloud&AI to Huawei's fourth largest BG. Prior to this, "Cloud&AI products and services" belonged to BU (Huawei's second-level department) within Huawei, but were on the same level as the three major BGs. After this adjustment, Cloud&AI BG has become Huawei’s fourth largest BG after operator BG, enterprise BG, and consumer BG.
At that time, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei personally issued a document to appoint Hou Jinlong as President of Cloud&AI BG, Peng Zhongyang as President of Enterprise BG, former Enterprise BG President Yan Li was transferred to President of Category B National Management Department, Wu Weitao as Deputy Director of the Company’s General Managers Department, and Liu Hongyun was added as President. President of Southeast Asia Region.
It is worth mentioning that Huawei Cloud has grown rapidly in the past year. According to the Global Enterprise Storage System Quarterly Tracking Report for the third quarter of 2020 released by IDC last month, Huawei servers accounted for 4.9% of the global market share, ranking fifth with revenue of 7.2 billion yuan; storage business ranked in the global market Fourth place, with a market share of 9.4% and revenue of 4.1 billion yuan. Data shows that as of May 2020, Huawei OceanStor storage has entered more than 150 countries around the world, serving more than 12,000 customers.