At Huawei Connect 2017, the company released its new-generation intelligent cloud hardware platform, Atlas. Atlas follows along with several other key cloud products announced at the event Along with new cloud products, Huawei is heavily investing in a strategy that will aide companies that are currently in the process of their own digital transformation.
Data processing is moving into an entirely new era. Data is being generated in massive quantities and with things like smart, secure cities and automated vehicles, this data needs to be processed and done so in a quick manner. An example given by Huawei is the following: a city with 100,000 cameras installed can produce 100 billion car plate records and 1 trillion facial recognition records a year. With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing, this data can be processed but not with traditional computing methods.
Atlas, named after the titan that holds up the sky or world, is well positioned to address the above concerns. A result of Huawei’s Boundless Computing strategy, Atlas leverages technologies such as public cloud, AI, and HPC as well as heterogeneous resource pooling and intelligent orchestration to deliver, what Huawei is calling, new levels of hardware resource utilization and adapt more flexibly to service demands. Based on Huawei’s FusionServer G series heterogeneous servers, the Atlas platform pools resources such as GPUs, HDDs, and SSDs, and provisions hardware resources on demand to suit the needs of specific service models. Atlas is able to drive an over 50% higher resource utilization efficiency and have 10x the performance of traditional x86 architecture.
The Company announced several other Cloud products at Connect 2017 including:
Atlas and the other above listed cloud products can be useful to several different companies but adopting and executing digital transformations can present any number of issues. Noting this, Huawei is investing half a billion U.S. dollars over the next 5 years in end-to-end cloud transformation service solutions enabling customers to build, use, and manage their cloud platforms effectively. On top of this, Huawei is investing an additional quarter of a billion dollars in partner programs, making it easier for partners (which as of this writing number over a thousand) to work with Huawei and in turn, easier for the partners to get the benefits to their customers.
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