Huawei will expand its server product portfolio to deliver Hybrid Cloud solution for Microsoft Azure Stack, a hybrid cloud powered by Huawei servers and switches. The jointly-engineered solution will enable enterprises and service providers to deploy Azure services on-premises with seamless consistency with Azure, allowing enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation and adopt a hybrid cloud platform with confidence.
The jointly-engineered solution – based on Huawei's latest-generation FusionServer and CloudEngine switches – uniquely offers built-in integration between Huawei's eSight management software and Azure Stack, enabling customers to implement 360-degree management on hardware devices. Azure Stack is an extension of Azure, providing the same application model, self-service portal, and APIs. This enables the modernisation of applications across hybrid cloud environments, balancing flexibility and control.
The Huawei and Microsoft jointly-engineered solution shares the same architecture and user interface as Azure, allowing users to seamlessly deploy, manage and migrate applications across clouds. As a result, enterprises can transform their businesses through automated IT services, maintain critical data on-premise, and deploy new services and cloud-native applications faster, with fewer costs.
Huawei's hybrid cloud infrastructure features FusionServer, which delivers integrated high-density architecture, a large storage capacity, and reliable management. The solution is targeted at cloud computing, big data, and high-performance computing (HPC) applications.
"Combining Huawei's competitive strength in server hardware with Microsoft's cloud expertise, the groundbreaking Huawei Hybrid Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is an ideal option for enterprises moving to hybrid cloud," said Qiu Long, President of Huawei IT Server Product Line. "The jointly-engineered solution epitomizes the successful and symbiotic relationship between the two companies."
Mike Neil, Corporate VP, Enterprise Cloud, Microsoft said, "Huawei has a strong market position and rich product portfolio, and will help to accelerate the adoption of hybrid cloud platforms with existing and new customers, and expand the strategy to new markets."
By the end of 2016, Huawei had delivered over 2 million virtual machines
and 420 cloud data centres to customers in 130 countries in sectors
such as government, public utilities, carrier, energy and finance.
The news follows Huawei's announcement of a joint engagement partnership with SAP at the Huawei eco-Connect Singapore show, held in conjunction with CommunicAsia2017 in Singapore, to explore new opportunities in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region in the areas of big data and analytics, smart cities, safe cities, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud. Under this agreement Huawei aims to expand its existing collaboration with SAP on the SAP HANA platform running on Huawei’s cloud virtualisation platform FusionSphere 5.1.
The partner ecosystem is a critical factor in Huawei’s strategy and solutions for vertical industries, particularly the public sector, telecommunications, utilities, transportation, manufacturing, education and healthcare, bringing high-speed computing to address business needs for real-time data processing and analysis.
“Huawei's business positioning is focused on being the best partner to enable a digital society, to create an open, flexible, secure and agile information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure platform, in alignment with SAP’s strategy and solutions. By building a win-win ecosystem and collaborating extensively with SAP, we plan to further explore opportunities together in various areas and help customers in various industries achieve success in digital transformation,” said Lim Chee Siong, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of Huawei Southern Pacific Region.
Huawei and SAP have a longstanding partnership around the SAP HANA platform, cloud, big data and IoT solutions, now in place at more than 500 clients globally. A co-innovation centre was established in 2015. Both companies continuously invest in ICT innovations and create more technical synergies, leading to enterprise solutions designed to bring value to an increasing number of industries and markets.
“SAP has seen an increasing amount of interest from customers moving towards a digital core to power their digital transformation journey,” said Rohit Nagarajan, VP, Digital Enterprise Platform Group at SAP Asia-Pacific and Japan. “We see Huawei playing a vital collaborative role towards the adoption of our solutions.”
Huawei eco-Connect Singapore is an inaugural gathering of key industry players to learn, share insights and experiences, forming alliances, as well as matching business opportunities for the development and sustainability of this ICT ecosystem.
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Huawei Hybrid Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is expected to be commercially available by Q118.
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