When it comes to national weapons, what do you think of? The legendary "Jiu Ding", or the "Jade Seal of the State"? These are all old calendars. Recently, there is a new saying about the national weapon: the core technology is the national weapon!
Why do you say that? Because the core technology is the foundation, without this foundation as a guarantee, no matter how large the scale of the digital economy is, it is only water without a source and a tree without roots. What's more, the digital economy is now becoming an important force driving my country's economic development. Relevant statistics show that in 2017, the total amount of my country's digital economy reached 27.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.3%, accounting for 32.9% of GDP.
Such a large digital economy is also forcing China to break through the bottleneck of core technologies as soon as possible and get rid of the situation of being "stuck in the neck". Among the many Chinese companies, Huawei is undoubtedly the company that invests the most in core underlying technologies. In 2017, it ranked among the top global companies with R&D investment of 89.7 billion yuan.
It is precisely because of such high R&D investment that even Huawei's Cloud BU, which was just established last year, is locking in many core technology areas. This not only lays a solid foundation for Huawei's success in the field of cloud computing, but also provides a strong impetus for the advancement of the "Digital China" strategy.
Play the role of expert think tank
Helping the Development of Digital China Strategy
A few days ago, the Digital China Research Institute of the State Information Center was officially established. Huawei not only signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the State Information Center, but also participated in the establishment of the Digital China Research Institute as an executive vice chairman unit. In such a comprehensive think tank platform positioned to build the most authoritative, high-end, and cutting-edge digital China field, Huawei will also exert its own expertise and contribute its own value to the Digital China Research Institute.
In fact, Huawei has been actively preparing for the construction of digital China in recent years. Take Huawei Cloud as an example. In 2017, Huawei announced a major strategic investment in public cloud services. As an online model for Huawei to invest in ICT infrastructure for customers, and as a business that Huawei will invest in in the long-term and in the future, HUAWEI CLOUD will use an online model for all investments, technologies, and capabilities. Exports by enterprises and governments.
At the beginning of this year, HUAWEI CLOUD proposed a new brand slogan: technology, future, and trustworthiness. This can be seen as the best interpretation of HUAWEI CLOUD: the so-called technology means that HUAWEI CLOUD can provide full-stack cloud service products and solutions, as well as the most practical technologies; the so-called future means that Huawei will not only invest in the cloud in a long-term strategy Services will also support the future of customers and partners; the so-called trustworthy means that HUAWEI CLOUD will adhere to the three-no policy (no data, no applications, and no equity investment), as well as the accumulation of word of mouth and trust over the years, to provide users and Partners provide secure, reliable, stable and reliable cloud services.
HUAWEI CLOUD's slogan is not without basis. Authoritative standards committees and third-party analysis agencies in the industry have given strong evidence: In March, the PCI Security Standards Committee announced that HUAWEI CLOUD has passed all platforms, services, and nodes. PCI DSS security certification; in April, Gartner's latest report "Market Guide for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, China" was released, Huawei Cloud was selected and became the first echelon "Hyperscale" cloud vendor of Cloud IaaS with full-stack technology capabilities; In April, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the world's top open source community, officially announced the results of the re-election of the Foundation's Technical Oversight Committee seats, and Huawei and Google entered the TOC.
Aiming at core technology research and development
Stimulate business model change and innovation
As a company that ranks among the top in the world in terms of technology R&D investment, Huawei undoubtedly has a certain authority in its judgment on the development and application of digital technology.
Huawei Cloud Pavilion at the First Digital China Construction Summit
Just a few days ago at the first Digital China Construction Summit, Huawei Chairman Liang Hua shared Huawei's views on the current development of digital technology: digitalization is entering a new stage, and digital technology has changed from the previous support system to a production system and a decision-making system. , digital technology innovation represented by 5G, IoT, cloud computing, and AI is becoming more and more important, becoming the key to building an intelligent world of Internet of Everything, bringing further prosperity to all industries, and driving the further growth of both the digital economy and the real economy. .
In terms of technology research and development, what Huawei is doing is to build an ICT infrastructure platform that integrates terminals, networks, and clouds by relying on core capabilities such as "chip design, mathematical algorithms, and electronic information technology-based architecture design" to create ecological cooperation in various industries. Partner's innovative black land.
In the past, the cloud infrastructure 1.0 of the Internet business was mainly based on resource-based services such as computing, storage, and network; now, driven by the new Internet business, the cloud infrastructure of the Internet business has entered the era of 2.0, and cloud computing service providers must provide a wide range of containers. , AI, big data, DevOps and other capability services to realize the transformation from resource services to capability services.
As an important part of Huawei's ICT infrastructure platform, based on the company's 30-year technology accumulation and accumulation, HUAWEI CLOUD is also committed to using technological innovation to help enterprises' digital transformation and monetizing technology and services; Make application development easier and make application cloud easier. Among them, HUAWEI CLOUD has industry-leading technologies in the fields of IT hardware, IOT, AI, cloud OS, chips, software development and other open source microservice frameworks, automated pipelines, and SDKs.
Taking artificial intelligence as an example, the enterprise intelligence EI created by Huawei can provide enterprises with one-stop artificial intelligence platform-based services, rich in fine-grained APIs, rich algorithms adapted to diverse industries, and heterogeneous computing infrastructure. It enables everyone to use various artificial intelligence algorithms to solve practical problems.
Not only that, HUAWEI CLOUD also has absolute advantages in the field of cloud-native applications. Due to its early investment and active contribution to the open source community, Huawei has been recognized by the open source community, won the seat of the first Steering Committee of the K8S community, and entered the CNCF Technical Supervision Committee to participate in the highest decision-making in the field of cloud native technology. HUAWEI CLOUD is the world's first K8S serverless container. Through CCI services, users can quickly create container applications that natively support Kubernetes without managing and maintaining clusters and servers, and enjoy the ultimate experience brought by containerization. Users improve the running efficiency on the cloud and reduce resource consumption; HUAWEI CLOUD CSE provides users with a high-performance microservice framework and one-stop service registration, service governance, dynamic configuration, and distributed transaction management, helping traditional architectures truly realize microservices Rapid application development and high availability operation and maintenance.
At the same time, HUAWEI CLOUD's strongest computing product series for underlying infrastructure resources (general computing C3 cloud server, dedicated computing BMS bare metal server, heterogeneous computing P1 cloud server) can not only provide stable and high-performance computing capabilities, but also meet the Users have high-performance computing business demands for GPUs and FPGAs in business scenarios such as image rendering, industrial design, scientific computing, and bioengineering. In addition, a series of products and services such as software development cloud DevCloud, blockchain, and security also have certain leading advantages in the industry. We have to admire HUAWEI CLOUD's cutting-edge strategic vision in the field of technology.
From Huawei's own perspective, the reason why HUAWEI CLOUD can meet the demands of digital transformation in so many industries and fields is that, on the one hand, Huawei has accumulated experience in serving global enterprises over the past 30 years, and is more familiar with the governance structure of enterprises than others. Enterprise applications, better understanding of enterprise data governance, etc. On the other hand, HUAWEI CLOUD has a very strong online and offline service team around the world, which can support enterprises and governments in their digital transformation. In the future, HUAWEI CLOUD hopes to join hands with many partners to form a "new foundation" for accelerating China's digital economy.