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Monday, 22 July 2024

Huawei Cloud to accelerate industry digitalisation in Singapore

Source: Huawei. The Go Cloud, Go Global-Singapore Cloud Alliance launched at Huawei Cloud Summit Singapore 2024.

Huawei Cloud has launched the Go Cloud, Go Global-Singapore Cloud Alliance, reflecting its dedication to expanding the cloud ecosystem at the Huawei Cloud Summit Singapore 2024.

To date, Huawei Cloud has trained over 3,000 developers in Singapore while collaborations with educational institutions have produced over 2,200 ICT talents. In addition, the Spark Incubator entrepreneurship initiative with the Singapore government in 2022 sparked 180 startups. 

Jacqueline Shi, President of Global Marketing and Sales Service at Huawei Cloud, said in her welcome speech that cloud technology has significantly advanced Singapore’s digital capabilities, delivering powerful building blocks to the lion city’s aspiration of becoming a Smart Nation.

“Our sights are on the digitalisation industry. We are bringing in the glocalisation experience, and driving the digital economy through cutting-edge technology adoption. Huawei Cloud is dedicated to creating a new base for the smart world in Singapore through continuous technological innovations and we believe Go Cloud is becoming the core competitiveness for industries,” she said.

Huawei Cloud Stack (HCS) 8.3, recently released in Singapore, demonstrates the advancements being made. The new version delivered over 100 cloud services in 13 categories.

Mark Chen, President of Global Solution Sales, Huawei Cloud said: “We are living through an era of technology explosion where cloud, big data, and AI are becoming widely used. 

"By continuously creating innovative technologies and solutions from cloud-native to AI-native and then to digital-native, Huawei Cloud aims to provide end-to-end digital intelligence services for the digital transformation of various industries in Singapore.”

Huawei Cloud's business in Singapore increased by over 100% in the last year. Over the past five years, Huawei Cloud has served over 1,000 local customers and collaborated with over 500 technology partners. Globally, Huawei Cloud’s overall global business grew by 110% last year while its revenue in the Asia Pacific region increased 20x in the past five years, making it the second-largest cloud provider in China and the fastest-growing in the Asia-Pacific region.

Rex Lei, MD, Huawei Cloud Singapore said: “Over the past five years, Huawei Cloud has established a strong presence in Singapore with five availability zones (AZs), with the racks accounting for almost 10% of the market share. This is the largest investment overseas by Huawei Cloud. Huawei Cloud Singapore Region not only serves local customers, but also the surrounding ASEAN countries through high-bandwidth, high-reliability, and low-latency private lines.” 

Singapore also boasts the lowest latency levels for Huawei Cloud in the Asia-Pacific region, with the Singapore node achieving latency below 5 milliseconds, the company disclosed. Singapore unicorn company Huawei Cloud Spark programme graduate Wiz.AI has benefited from Huawei Cloud. Now a global conversational voice AI technology innovator, Wiz.AI enables businesses to deliver hyperpersonalised, omnichannel customer engagement at scale and has expanded its customer base to multiple Southeast Asian countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand.

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