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Huawei Cloud launches UCS as its everything-as-a-service platform

Last week Thursday Huawei held its Huawei Connect 2021 event via a global livestream. For those living in South Africa, there was some local flavour as representatives from government and the ICT sector unpacked the importance of digital services in the country.

The event featured several announcements, with one of the most significant being the Huawei Cloud’s new ubiquitous cloud-native service (UCS), which aims to deliver Everything-as-a-Service.

“With UCS, Huawei plans to provide enterprises with a consistent experience while using cloud-native applications that are not constrained by geographical, cross-cloud, or traffic limitations, thereby accelerating digital transformation in all industries,” explains a press release that followed.

While the company did not expressly state so, it appears as if the larger play with UCS will be to make Huawei Cloud a hyperscaler akin to that of AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google locally.

“As organizations go digital, they tend to see exponential growth in network complexity. To tackle this, Huawei has been innovating solutions for global networks based on the concept of autonomous driving network (ADN),” noted rotating chairman, Eric Xu, during his Connect 2021 keynote address.

“The company has been working with customers in the finance, education, and healthcare sectors to innovate and deploy new applications, and build networks that are self-fulfilling, self-healing, self-optimizing, and autonomous,” he added.

While it still remains to be seen how local businesses and enterprises will be able to leverage UCS moving forward, the company has outlined an ambitious plan in terms of making these offerings available in regions across the globe.

“The key to successful digital transformation is to think cloud native and act cloud native,” Zhang Ping’an (pictured in header image), CEO of Cloud BU and president of Huawei Consumer Cloud Service.

“HUAWEI CLOUD joins our customers and partners to dive into digital and explore the potential of Everything as a Service – Infrastructure as a Service for global accessibility, Technology as a Service for flexible innovation, and Expertise as a Service for shared excellence,” he elaborated.

With Huawei announcing a split of its Cloud and AI business earlier in the year, last week’s Connect 2021 conference has outlined what shape the former will take in the coming years.

“Nonstop innovation has been the driving force behind digitalization thus far. Moving forward, if we hope to reach more ambitious goals for digitalization, nonstop innovation will continue to be key. So let’s innovate nonstop for a better future,” concluded Xu.

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