Huawei Cloud and Ping An: Create a highland of artificial intelligence computing power and open a new chapter in the integration of data and reality

On May 26, the 2023 China International Big Data Industry Expo (hereinafter referred to as the "Big Data Expo") opened in Guiyang. With the theme of "Integration of Data and Reality, Computing to Open the Future", the conference adheres to the concept of "global vision, national perspective, industrial perspective, and corporate stance" to build a world-wide platform to promote the efficient flow and use of data and empower the real economy.

▲Huawei Managing Director, Huawei Cloud CEO Zhang Pingan

At the opening ceremony, Zhang Pingan, Huawei Managing Director and Huawei Cloud CEO, delivered a speech: "Artificial intelligence is having a profound impact on all industries. We believe that AI large models will reshape the digital transformation and intelligent upgrade of various industries. . In the future, we will increase investment in Guizhou to build Gui'an Yunshangtun Data Center into China's leading artificial intelligence computing center, helping Guizhou become an artificial intelligence computing power highland, an AI ecological highland, and a data ecological base."

▶Accelerate the construction of new data centers and help enterprises enter the fast lane of "digitizing east and west"

With the continuous deepening of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and AI, the digital transformation process in all walks of life is accelerating, and "digital-real integration" has entered the deep water zone. Facing the general trend of digitalization, many enterprises have chosen to build their own data centers at the beginning of their transformation in order to improve their informatization level. Compared with the cloud, self-built data centers have high costs, high energy consumption, low efficiency, and difficulty in expansion. They have become Digital baggage that hinders enterprise development.

In this context, cloud services have become an inevitable choice for enterprise digital upgrades, and cloud technology can effectively solve the above problems.

Take Huawei's human resources, finance, and R&D departments as an example. After the entire business moved to the cloud, the CPU utilization of the servers used by each department increased significantly. Not only did the resources be available at any time, but the efficiency was doubled, and it was safe and reliable. In addition, Huawei Cloud also provides technology as a service. New technologies such as computing power and machine learning algorithms can be obtained on demand on the cloud, which greatly saves company costs.

• In terms of green energy saving

The advantages of cloud data centers are also extremely obvious. For example, Gui'an Cloud Shangtun Data Center is the largest cloud data center in Guizhou hub of China's east and west. It carries the applications and data of hundreds of thousands of customers and also carries 90% of Huawei Group's applications. Through direct ventilation technology, Liquid cooling technology, combined with AI energy efficiency tuning and other technologies, compared with traditional data centers, under full load operation, it is expected to save 1.01 billion kilowatt hours of electricity and reduce more than 810,000 tons of carbon emissions every year, which is highly consistent with the national dual-carbon strategy.

Since the "Eastern Digital and Western Computing" project has been officially implemented, how to allow more businesses to run on the western core hub with massive cloud resources has become a hot topic of common concern to all sectors of the industry. In order for "Eastern Digital" to truly realize "Western computing", "Western storage" and "Western training", three key challenges need to be overcome at the infrastructure level:

First, it needs to match the latency requirements of different services without affecting the user experience.

For example, according to actual analysis, 90% of Huawei's business, more than 2,700 application systems, and 700PB of data can be run in Huawei Cloud's Guizhou and Inner Mongolia data centers. Using this as a reference, it can be said that 90% of most enterprises All applications can be deployed centrally in the core hub of Western Cloud.

Secondly, it needs to meet the security requirements of different enterprise applications and data with different confidentiality levels.

For example, Huawei Cloud takes data protection as its core and provides customers with four security levels of cloud zone services, covering S1 to S4, corresponding to non-confidential services, low-confidential services, key services, and core top-secret services. , fully meeting the security cloud needs of different businesses of enterprises.

Third, the application needs to be able to achieve global automatic deployment and dynamic adjustment without paying attention to the underlying resources.

For example, Huawei Cloud has proposed the KooVerse Regionless architecture, which allows applications to automatically run in multiple cloud data centers spanning within 3,000 kilometers, thereby improving the operating efficiency of applications, making efficient use of resources, and significantly reducing deployment costs. cost and energy consumption.

▶Embrace the new era of AI, build a new data ecosystem in China, and accelerate application modernization

Facing the new wave of AI development, many companies are seizing the development opportunities of the times. AI has penetrated into the core systems of enterprises and begun to create greater value. In the past, in the traditional AI era, different scenarios corresponded to different small models. Now, as business scenarios become more complex, artificial intelligence has shown a development trend of gradually evolving from small models to large models.

According to industry agency predictions, global AI computing power will increase 500 times from 2020 to 2030. At present, Huawei Cloud AI has implemented 1,000 projects in various industries, and has already released the Pangu basic model in 2021, which includes CV computer vision models, NLP natural language processing models, and scientific computing models, etc., further accelerating Deep integration of AI and industry.

In terms of SaaS software services

Looking at the markets of developed countries, SaaS has become the main form of digital services provided by modern enterprises. The development space of the SaaS industry has been proven for a long time. China's SaaS market is expected to maintain a high growth rate of more than 30% in the next few years. After business and data are moved to the cloud, the SaaS ecosystem is considered a new blue ocean for future digitalization. Obviously, the golden decade of China's SaaS development has just begun.

In the past three years, Huawei has completed the replacement and SaaS of 78 software and hardware development tools around software development and hardware development and other R&D production lines, fully meeting the needs of enterprises for SaaS services, while also providing AI, data governance, The collaborative development and on-demand arrangement of digital content has greatly improved the work efficiency of application developers, AI scientists, and data engineers, thereby enabling faster construction of modern applications and promoting the acceleration of cloudification and digitalization in various industries.

At present, digitalization is the focus of the global technological revolution and industrial transformation. It is particularly critical to seize the opportunity and seize the commanding heights of innovation and development. At the end of the speech, Zhang Pingan said that digitalization is the focus of global technological revolution and industrial transformation. "Let the cloud be everywhere, let intelligence be everywhere, and jointly build a cloud base for an intelligent world" is the vision and mission of Huawei Cloud. Huawei Cloud practices "everything is a service" and will continue to provide the most advanced technologies to customers, partners, and developers around the world through the cloud, helping customers in various industries succeed in business.

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