Huawei seeks closer tech sector collaboration to boost innovation

The Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei says it’s looking to create a closer collaboration across the digital industry by launching its own open platform in Europe. 

The Chinese telecommunications giant says such cooperation is key to innovation and helping to develop a thriving digital ecosystem.

Logo of Huawei [File Photo: AP]

In a news release, the company said that they hope the new open platform will inspire cross-industry innovation, create a digital culture, and bring clear value to European communities and enterprises.

The company made the announcement at Huawei Eco-Connect Europe 2017, being held in Berlin, which brought together over 2,000 partners, customers, media, analysts and key opinion leaders (KOLS), including Intel, Altair, Commvault, KUKA, Orange Business Services and SAP.

During the conference, Huawei also announced plans to build a global cloud network based on its own public cloud system, as well as clouds it has built together with partners. Cloud systems involve the sharing of servers, storage, applications and services accessed via the internet. Huawei says it believes the cloud will prosper only when it helps customers create value on an ongoing basis.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has been running their workloads on a public cloud jointly developed by Huawei and T-system. Relying on thousands of Huawei's high-performance computing nodes, CERN has lowered the overall maintenance costs of Large Hadron Collider experiments by around 67% and shortening the online processes from 90 down to 15 days.

"Digital transformation is no longer a future trend; it's happening now, but digital transformation cannot be done by one single company, or organization, alone." Said Vincent Pang, President of Western European Region, Huawei.

Meanwhile, Huawei has also unveiled several new Mobile Services and content partnerships with 15 key app and game developers, and two strategic partnerships with key video content providers ahead of the launch of the Huawei App Store and Huawei Video Service in 2018.