It can be seen that digital transformation has swept the world in the past few years. With the wide application of new technologies, new opportunities and values are constantly being discovered and created. In a way, digital transformation is no longer an "optional" but a "must".
Indeed, more than 170 countries and regions have formulated their own digitalization-related strategies; and third-party data show that the global digital transformation expenditure will reach 3.4 trillion US dollars in 2026, which can be said to be the "leadership" of the entire industry chain. "New Blue Ocean", whether it is an enterprise that is undergoing digital transformation or an enterprise that supports digital transformation, will face a huge market space.
As Meng Wanzhou, vice chairman, rotating chairman, and CFO of Huawei, said at Huawei's 20th Global Analyst Conference: " Whether it is now or in the long-term future, once the melody of 'digitalization' plays, it will be Penetrate the boundaries of enterprises, connect dots into lines, gather lines into planes, and jointly create an era of industrial interconnection. ”
But at the same time, with the "acceleration" of digital transformation, digital transformation is also entering a new stage of "deep" level from the previous "shallow" level, and the applications and scenarios it faces are becoming more diverse and complex. Therefore, it becomes even more important to turn digital technology into achievements, make achievements capable, and integrate and apply this ability into actual production scenarios to jointly release digital productivity.
During this process, Huawei believes that digital infrastructure is like a "highway" in the digital economy era. Therefore, only through the "coordinated development" of transportation capacity, computing power, and storage capacity in the future can data collection, transmission, calculation, and Storage and analysis are more efficient, which in turn increases digital productivity and fully unleashes the vitality of the digital economy.
Undoubtedly, behind the coordinated development of transportation capacity, computing power, and storage capacity, it will not only become a "new paradigm" for the leap in digital productivity, but also help more companies realize digital transformation more easily and calmly in the future, and better Create more imaginative new formats, new services and new models for the digital transformation and upgrading of thousands of industries.
Now is the time to leapfrog digital productivity
As early as more than 20 years ago, Nicholas Negroponte predicted in his book "Digital Survival" that digital survival is a new way of life based on information technology in modern society. In the digital living environment, people's production methods, lifestyles, communication methods, thinking methods, and behavioral methods have all taken on a new look.
With the vigorous development of the digital economy, Negroponte's predictions have been verified one by one. Today, digitalization is profoundly affecting all aspects of economy, culture, society, and environment. More importantly, in the post-epidemic era, digitization is also the trend with the highest consensus and certainty in the industry. Similarly, digital technology will also drive productivity from "quantitative change to qualitative change" and gradually become the core engine of economic development.
In this regard, Meng Wanzhou said: "Smart people change with the times, and 'smart' people make changes with the times. In the new era of digital transformation, change will make sense, and generality will last forever. The way humans create new things is changing. Those who used to The truth that is regarded as the standard is constantly being subverted and refreshed, which will inevitably have a deep impact on industrial innovation and economic development.”
At present, the new generation of digital technologies represented by 5G, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence are accelerating their implementation and integrated development, effectively promoting the digital transformation of industries such as energy, transportation, and manufacturing, greatly improving production efficiency, and creating commercial value. At the same time, it also brings new social value, making production safer and labor more efficient.
Taking 5G as an example, in the coal mining industry, 5G is used to realize remote control, allowing coal miners to walk from the underground to the top of the mine, and to realize remote coal mining operations in the office, which greatly improves the working environment and improves the safety production level of the coal mine. ;In the port industry, through the combination of 5G and automatic driving, the terminal operations including loading and unloading, stacking, etc. will be automated and intelligent, making the port safer and more efficient; Intelligent implementation of accurate quality defect detection, greatly reducing labor input, making manufacturing more efficient, these cases are the "miniature" of digital technology driving productivity from "quantitative change to qualitative change".
In fact, according to GSMA estimates, the added value of 5G alone will reach 960 billion US dollars, accounting for about 0.7% of global GDP; and according to the China Development Research Institute, by 2025, China's growth rate will be about 55%. will be driven by the digital economy. It can be seen that, driven by the new generation of digital technology, it is "the right time" to jump in digital productivity.
Collaborative development of capacity, computing power and storage
Today, more and more companies are accelerating digital transformation, increasing investment, and adopting digitalization to face uncertainty. This seems to make the digitalization process of the industry smooth, but the challenge is still arduous—the reason behind it is that digital transformation The acceleration of the Internet is bringing enterprises a larger scope, more dimensions, and a higher level of internal and external connections. At the same time, the technical complexity involved in their digital transformation has also increased exponentially in the past few years. It is precisely because of this that how to deeply integrate digital technology into the production scenarios of thousands of industries, make data a new factor of production, and achieve a significant leap in social productivity has become crucial.
To this end, Peng Song, President of Huawei's ICT Strategy and Marketing, proposed in the "Towards a Smart World" theme forum held during HAS2023 that in the future, through the "coordinated development" of transportation capacity, computing power, and storage capacity, data collection, transmission, and More efficient computing, storage and analysis will be the "key path" and "new paradigm" to achieve a leap in digital productivity, specifically:
The first is to build leading "capacity" facilities, and use more advanced technologies represented by 5.5G, F5.5G, and Net5.5G to build 100 billion Internet of Things and 10 Gigabit experience network capabilities to transport ubiquitous massive data. Among them, 5.5G has four typical capabilities of "downlink 10Gbps, uplink 1Gbps, 100 billion connections, and endogenous intelligence". 1Gbps uplink and lower latency can further meet the interactive experience needs of XR Pro, holography, 3D video, etc. in the ToC field.
In terms of F5.5G, at the Huawei Global Analyst Conference last year, Huawei first proposed the industry vision of F5.5G. Different from wireless 5.5G, F5.5G technology uses optical fiber as the transmission medium, mainly represented by 10G PON, Wi-Fi 6, 200G/400G and NSU-OTN technologies, with large bandwidth, low latency and wide coverage The four characteristics of safety and reliability can enable Gigabit + FTTR to improve the quality of home broadband, extend optical fiber to more industry scenarios, and improve the digital productivity of thousands of industries; in terms of Net5.5G, Huawei will propose the Net5.5G initiative in 2022. And explained the key development direction of Net5.5G evolution, the main technologies include Wi-Fi 7, 800G and SRv6, etc. Currently, Huawei is using iMaster NCE as the core to help global operators build high-experience and high-quality home broadband networks and services.
The second is to build a solid "computing power" facility and continue to make breakthroughs in diverse computing fields such as general computing and artificial intelligence computing. Today, "computing power is productivity" has become a consensus in the industry, especially as a key productivity factor in the digital economy era, computing power has become the core support and driving force for mining the value of data elements and promoting the development of the digital economy.
In this regard, Huawei has also extensively joined hands with industry partners to build the Kunpeng general-purpose computing and Ascend AI computing ecosystems, continuously achieve innovation in the field of diverse computing, and promote the artificial intelligence industry to "go deeper and deeper." At the same time, Huawei also open source Basic software such as La, Gauss, and Shengsi participated in the construction of multiple artificial intelligence computing centers across the country, assisted Pengcheng Laboratory to build a Chinese computing power network, and jointly built a powerful computing power base that supports the development of China's digital economy.
The third is to build a reliable "storage capacity" facility so that data can be stored, run fast, and used well. Under the background of "explosive" data growth, it requires data infrastructure with increasingly large performance and storage scale; in addition, the low data utilization rate, especially the underutilization of massive unstructured data, is also becoming a An important factor that limits the value of data; at the same time, to truly realize the leap from data resourceization to data assetization, it is still necessary to comprehensively improve data storage capabilities, data insight capabilities, data flow capabilities, and data management capabilities.
To this end, Huawei is actively building a reliable storage base for all applications, so that data can be "stored, run fast, and used well", enabling operators to innovate in business; on this basis, in a diversified data ecosystem, Huawei Converged storage resource pools include OceanStor Dorado, OceanProtect and other products, which achieve double extremes in performance and reliability. These innovations will inject more new power and provide greater imagination for the higher value of data elements.
It can be seen that through the "coordinated development" of transportation capacity, computing power, and storage capacity, and maximizing the release of the value of the integration and innovation of new-generation digital technologies, can we better provide "adapted to local conditions" technology for the digital transformation of thousands of industry customers. Solutions and services to cope with the "ever-changing" digital transformation.
Huawei's Digital Transformation Actions and Thoughts
It can be seen that during the continuous transformation of Huawei in the past 10 years, whether it is research and development, manufacturing, sales, delivery, finance and other fields, it has also greatly improved its capabilities through digital transformation. Through "practice", Huawei Three core insights have also been accumulated in the field of digital transformation.
First of all, strategic drive is fundamental. Digitalization is essentially strategic choice and strategic planning. Successful digital transformation is driven by strategy, not technology.
Meng Wanzhou believes that the key to digital transformation lies not only in digitalization, but also in the awareness of change. Digital transformation must align with the strategic direction, support the achievement of strategies, and achieve the established business goals. This is the starting point of digital transformation. In the process of digital transformation, it is essential to introduce new technologies and new equipment, but this is only the means of realization. In other words, the key to the success or failure of digital transformation is that enterprises themselves need to set off a "cognitive" revolution, driven by digital strategies and supported by emerging digital technologies, so as to achieve quality digital transformation.
Second, data governance is the foundation. It means that only through the scientific governance of data, the flow of data in a wider range within the enterprise and the aggregation of data of different dimensions can create new value.
The significance of data "convergence" is that enterprises can clearly understand the data scale, data type, data quality, and data temperature. After a clear understanding of data attributes, enterprises can use different technologies to further organize and process data, thereby improving data utilization, using data more conveniently, and giving full play to the value of data.
For example, the Huawei Coal Mine Corps and the National Energy Group have jointly developed Mining Hong, a new generation of industrial IoT operating system for mining equipment, so that all equipment can speak "Mandarin". As of the end of 2022, Kuanghong has deployed more than 10 coal mines and realized the digital management and operation of more than 3,300 sets of equipment. This is the huge new energy generated after "data governance".
Finally, data intelligence is the direction. In Huawei's nearly 10-year digital transformation process, digital operations, digital platforms, platform intelligence, and intelligent combat are being realized. Automatic decision-making and automatic execution of "small problems" and push analysis and auxiliary decision-making for "big problems" are being realized. Digitalization of operations and digital platformization make data clean, transparent, and aggregated, which is the basis of transformation; intelligent platform and intelligent combat make data on-demand, easy to understand, and useful, which is the deepening of digital transformation.
From the three core insights accumulated by Huawei, it can be found that if strategy is the driver of enterprise digital transformation, and data governance is the key foundation, then data intelligence is the ultimate goal of digitalization, and only by this can we truly achieve a leap in digital productivity.
The full text concludes that digitalization is the new blue ocean of the entire industry chain. In this process, as an explorer and practitioner of digital transformation, Huawei not only provides important reference and reference value for the digital transformation of enterprises through its own "practice". At the same time, through continuous technological innovation, it promotes the "coordinated development" of transportation capacity, computing power, and storage capacity, and releases the value of the new generation of digital technology integration and innovation. I believe it will definitely contribute to the high-quality development of the digital economy in China and the world. more power.
Shenyao's Science and Technology Observation was founded by a senior technology media person, Shenski, who has 20 years of experience in dissemination of enterprise-level technology content. He has long focused on the observation and thinking of industrial Internet, enterprise digitalization, ICT infrastructure, and automotive technology.
