At the beginning of April this year, Gartner's latest report "Market Guide for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, China" was released. Huawei Cloud was selected and became the first-tier "Hyperscale" cloud vendor of Cloud IaaS by virtue of its full-stack technology capabilities.
Coincidentally, in mid-April, Forrester also released the "Now Tech: Public Cloud Development Platforms In China, Q2 2018" report. With its market revenue performance in the public cloud field, HUAWEI CLOUD has successfully entered the camp of large manufacturers as a comprehensive cloud platform provider. .
It can be seen that the two authoritative organizations have continuously listed HUAWEI CLOUD as a heavyweight player in the Chinese cloud computing market. Whether it is the first echelon of "Hyperscale" cloud manufacturers or the camp of large manufacturers, the key indicators for HUAWEI CLOUD's repeated success are undoubtedly It has a comprehensive cloud platform or full-stack technical capabilities behind it.
There is no doubt that in the new Cloud 2.0 era, cloud service providers should have the ability to integrate related technologies and products into a service that matches customers' business needs, and cover the entire lifecycle management of enterprises' cloud migration to realize capability-based services. deliver.
From this point of view, due to Huawei's continuous investment in technology over the past 30 years, HUAWEI CLOUD, by focusing on IaaS, enabling PaaS, and integrating SaaS strategies, not only meets the actual needs of users in this new stage, but also truly builds " I have what others do not have, and I am superior when others have it.” Differentiated competitive advantage.
Innovative Internet Business Cloud Infrastructure 2.0
At this year's 2018 Huawei Global Analyst Conference, Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei Cloud BU, put forward a new concept, namely Internet Business Cloud Infrastructure 2.0, which is different from the resource-based services in the 1.0 era, which emphasizes more on capabilities. type service.
Therefore, around the delivery of capability-based services, Huawei not only has accumulated but also advanced technology in most of the underlying architecture capabilities. Among them, the bare metal, cloud OS, host OS, server, storage, and chips at the IaaS level have formed powerful capabilities that can It is said that the world's top computing power has become an inclusive technology that everyone can use.
First, the bottom layer redefines the cloud through chip technology. In order to achieve high performance, large bandwidth, and low latency for enterprise applications on the cloud, HUAWEI CLOUD redefines three types of chips, such as jointly customizing CPU with Intel, self-developed NVMe SSD and Smart NIC network chips, including intelligent fusion network chip Hi1822, SSD control chip Hi1812, intelligent management chip Hi1710, etc.
Second, the middle layer HUAWEI CLOUD has created a new generation of intelligent cloud hardware platform Atlas, which fully covers several major fields such as general-purpose computing, heterogeneous computing, and even bare metal servers. Among them, HUAWEI CLOUD general-purpose computing provides 6 categories of 26 sub-category computing service instances, covering 200+ enterprise-level application scenarios, such as HUAWEI CLOUD's latest generation of general-purpose computing enhanced cloud host C3, based on Huawei's combination of software and hardware, virtualization technology Compared with the previous generation, the performance has been improved by 200%, and the overall computing power is 15% ahead of the industry.
At the same time, HUAWEI CLOUD heterogeneous computing includes a full range of instances of GPU and FPGA. The G series products mainly focus on graphics and images; the P series products focus on heavy-duty computing scenarios such as HPC and AI; the F series covers gene sequencing, video transcoding, and image compression scenarios. And can provide more than 10 times more computing performance than ordinary CPU.
It can be said that the ultimate performance of HUAWEI CLOUD heterogeneous computing cloud host does not come from the simple stacking of hardware, but from Huawei's years of technical accumulation in the hardware field and in-depth understanding of user scenarios, which can be widely used in many heterogeneous computing scenarios. .
In addition, HUAWEI CLOUD Bare Metal Service adopts the exclusive SDI (Business Driven Infrastructure) architecture, which supports fully automatic provisioning in minutes and fast reconstruction after failure. It also supports shared volumes to meet the requirements of scenarios such as Oracle RAC. At the same time, it supports VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) and customized high-speed network to realize flexible interoperability of resources on the cloud. It is now widely used in high-performance computing, core database, big data, SAP HANA and other application scenarios.
Third, the top-level HUAWEI CLOUD has built a unified hardware orchestration system through FusionSphere, a cloud operating system with independent intellectual property rights. It also provides powerful virtualization functions, resource pool management, rich cloud basic service components and tools, and open APIs. Interfaces, etc., ultimately make the customer's application non-aware, and smooth migration to the cloud can be completed without any changes.
It is not difficult to see that the competition threshold of the public cloud IaaS layer is actually very high. Without diamonds, it is difficult to do porcelain work. By redefining the Internet business cloud infrastructure 2.0, HUAWEI CLOUD has built a comprehensive and in-depth layout of the underlying chips, the middle-level intelligent hardware platform, and the upper-level unified orchestration operating system, undoubtedly building a full-scale competitive advantage at the infrastructure level.
The PaaS layer uses Kubernetes as the engine to overtake
If the cloud is likened to the new hardware of our time, then PaaS is its operating system. In other words, if an application is compared to a house, the traditional development model may start with the most basic bricklaying, while the PaaS platform can provide an already constructed rough house, and developers only need to On this basis, the "decoration" of water, electricity and furniture is carried out according to the actual needs, so that the development cycle of the application can be greatly shortened, and its importance is self-evident.
In fact, HUAWEI CLOUD has defined PaaS as an application enabling platform at the strategic level, which can not only provide standard general-purpose PaaS, containers and other platforms, but also include the integration of co-creation projects and industry middleware in the industry. In other words, in PaaS, HUAWEI CLOUD encapsulates the industry and business capabilities as a whole and presents it to the outside world, and builds an industry-oriented service catalog, which allows customers or ISVs to quickly invoke industry capabilities, which can be said to play a "connecting link" role.
Specifically, at the technical level, HUAWEI CLOUD has also built its own strong strength in the PaaS layer through cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes+Docker, microservices, and Serverless. Specifically:
First, in terms of Kubernetes, with the intensification of Kubernetes on a global scale, the benefits of containers in business scenarios have been continuously practiced and verified. Containers have become a necessary tool to promote the competitiveness of enterprises in the cloud. Huawei The field of Kubernetes has long been laid out, and it can be said that it is the earliest practitioner and practitioner.
Data shows that Huawei ranks fifth in the world in terms of contribution to the Kubernetes community and first in China. In 2017, Huawei was the only one in China to win the seat of the first Kubernetes Steering Committee. At the same time, Huawei Cloud is also one of the first service providers in the world to pass the Kubernetes certification.
It is worth mentioning that, based on its leading practical advantages in the field of Kubernetes, as of April 2018, HUAWEI CLOUD has released a number of industry-leading container services and microservice products, and created several industry firsts. Such as the first domestic Windows container that supports Windows Server; the world's first Kubernetes-based serverless container service, etc.
Second, in terms of microservices, HUAWEI CLOUD launched CSE, a microservice engine for the enterprise market, in China, which has passed the test of HUAWEI Consumer Cloud's 100 million-level consumer scenarios. In particular, CSE is based on the current new generation of microservice concepts, Service. Mesh has launched the CSE-mesher feature to solve the complex communication problems in the cloud-based architecture of traditional distributed systems, so that the system is no longer bound by a single language, and supports rapid distributed cloud-based transformation of legacy applications in a zero-intrusive way. The performance of the open source Istio is greatly optimized, and the ease of use and reliability are effectively guaranteed.
Third, in terms of serverless, HUAWEI CLOUD has launched the function workflow service FunctionGraph based on serverless. It is the first company in the world to arrange and execute multiple functions to build applications. It also supports features such as workflow tracking and debugging, which can meet complex scenarios with multiple conditions. In addition, HUAWEI CLOUD's Kubernetes-based serverless container CCI is also a leading innovation in the field of containers, especially the "on-demand" method of CCI on a per-second basis, which can be said to further reduce the resources and operations on the cloud. dimension cost.
In general, with Kubernetes as the core, the overall application service panorama of HUAWEI CLOUD has begun to appear, including a total of 16 cloud container engines, microservice engines, function services, APM, API gateways, and middleware series products. Application services cover the entire life cycle of enterprise applications before and after they migrate to the cloud.
At the same time, in the field of data services, which is most concerned by the outside world, Huawei also has industry-leading massive data governance capabilities through its own data governance practices and years of enterprise services. With the PB-level 10 trillion record data scale and multiple query conditions, HUAWEI CLOUD can accurately find the target data in seconds. It can be said that HUAWEI CLOUD is the cloud service provider that understands enterprise data governance best.
Not only that, in the blockchain field, HUAWEI CLOUD blockchain service BCS was officially opened to the public on March 30. Currently, HUAWEI CLOUD blockchain service mainly focuses on 4 categories and 9 sub-categories of application scenarios, including data assets, IOT, Operators and financial fields, etc., involving identity authentication, data storage/transaction, new energy, charitable donations, inclusive finance, etc.
It can be seen that, as the application enabling platform of HUAWEI CLOUD, the PaaS service built with Kubernetes as the core enables enterprise applications to be transparent and seamless from HUAWEI CLOUD, whether deployed on public or private clouds. The migration has also allowed HUAWEI CLOUD to establish the confidence and confidence of "overtaking on a curve" in the PaaS field.
EI: HUAWEI CLOUD enables enterprises to move from digital to intelligent
As we all know, at the beginning of this year, Huawei put forward its mission and vision for the future, that is, by focusing on ICT infrastructure and intelligent terminals, it will provide a "black land" that is informatized, automated, and intelligent.
In this regard, Zheng Yelai also said that HUAWEI CLOUD is the "black land" for partners' applications, content and cloud growth. In the future, it is committed to becoming an "enabler" of the intelligent world, connecting the present and the future of enterprises.
It can be said that HUAWEI CLOUD can not only provide full-stack public cloud solutions and services, perfectly integrating chips, platforms and services, but also embrace new technologies and new applications and support all partners to develop on it. For this reason, HUAWEI CLOUD has achieved ecological win-win in the SaaS field through the EI enterprise intelligence platform, cloud market, and solutions jointly developed with partners.
First, Huawei launched the Enterprise Intelligence (EI) platform, which makes intelligent applications delivered through the Huawei Cloud platform simpler and faster. At present, the platform provides EI basic platform services, EI big data, EI vision, EI speech semantics, EI specific scenario solutions and heterogeneous computing services.
In addition, HUAWEI CLOUD EI is positioned as an enabler of industrial AI. Based on AI and big data technologies, it provides an open and trusted cloud service (including public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud) through cloud services. The intelligent platform, combined with industrial scenarios, enables enterprise application systems, so that more enterprises can better use AI and big data services.
Today, the pharmaceutical retail giant Jointown is applying HUAWEI CLOUD EI to improve logistics route planning and other businesses, step by step toward a smart Jointown; Shenzhen urban traffic is using HUAWEI CLOUD EI to realize automatic adjustment of urban signal lights, and urban traffic will be smarter, etc. Wait.
Secondly, HUAWEI CLOUD is still building a batch of high-quality products on the cloud, and recently launched the Yanxuan Mall. The HUAWEI CLOUD Market will carry the business of Yanxuan Mall, better improve the customer's purchasing experience, and build a cloud transaction ecosystem with partners.
At present, Huawei Cloud Market Strict Selection Mall covers enterprise cloud access, intelligent manufacturing, industry solutions, security strict selection, site construction strict selection, video strict selection, IoT strict selection, API strict selection, etc., with rich categories. Each link is ingeniously built to provide customers with the best software applications and services.
Finally, in terms of solutions, HUAWEI CLOUD and its partners have launched a series of industry-oriented solutions, such as e-commerce, gaming, manufacturing, finance, Internet of Vehicles, retail, government, education and many other industries. This year, the HUAWEI CLOUD Partner Program has been upgraded to version 2.0, and plans to invest 320 million yuan for partner incentives, capability enhancement, solution verification, and marketing promotion.
It can be expected that with the in-depth advancement of the 2.0 version of the HUAWEI CLOUD Partner Program, more nutrients will be poured into the HUAWEI CLOUD platform, so that various content, applications and capabilities of partners can grow more fully on HUAWEI CLOUD, and jointly build HUAWEI CLOUD. Cloud ecosystem, expand the industry, and achieve a win-win situation.
Summary: Why HUAWEI CLOUD Wins the Game of Giants
In my opinion, in the past year, HUAWEI CLOUD has become the biggest "dark horse" in China's cloud computing market with its strong technical capabilities and integration capabilities, as well as its long-term accumulated and accumulated experience in the industry. It shows the potential of "accumulation and development", which is undoubtedly directly related to the full-stack technology capabilities of the Cloud 2.0 era created by HUAWEI CLOUD.
In fact, regardless of whether the enterprise's cloudification path is "platform first" or "application first", HUAWEI CLOUD has a layout in the three-tier architecture of cloud computing. When HUAWEI CLOUD entered the cloud market, it insisted on building full-stack technology capabilities. From a global perspective, there are not many companies that can do it so far. HUAWEI CLOUD is one of them, and its strength should not be underestimated.
At the same time, HUAWEI CLOUD's R&D capabilities, engineering capabilities, and technical capabilities are actually unmatched by other companies. The reason why it is unique in the operator market and the enterprise market is that it has the best technology, engineering, and architecture capabilities. verify. With such genes as the cloud, it is reasonable for HUAWEI Cloud to win.
More importantly, HUAWEI CLOUD adheres to the strategy of "platform + ecology". Public cloud services are an online model for Huawei to invest in ICT infrastructure for customers. Huawei will use all investments, technologies, and capabilities. , released to more customers and partners, and truly become an aggregator and enabler centered on the digital transformation of the industry.
It can be said that HUAWEI CLOUD may present full-stack technical capabilities to the outside world, but the open and win-win pattern and big mind released behind it are the key foundation for HUAWEI CLOUD's success.
Shen Yao's Science and Technology Observation was founded by Shen Yao (WeChat: shenyao) , a cross-border technology media person . He has 15 years of media work experience and has experience in self-driving on 100,000 kilometers of highways in China and the United States. Column, dedicated to the observation and thinking of the technology industry, here to understand the technology industry, know the trend, and win the future!