Huawei has reiterated its commitment to building a global
startup ecosystem to empower 1, 000 local startups to innovate and grow on
Huawei Cloud over the next three years.
Through its three key initiatives including an innovative cloud
platform, entrepreneurship enablement, and business resources, Huawei Cloud will
provide life cycle support for startups in the Middle East, Central Asia, and
Africa.
This came to light at the just-ended second Huawei Cloud Summit
Middle East & Africa "Unleash Digital with Everything as a
Service" which brought government leaders, cloud-native industry experts,
and customer representatives together from the Middle East, Central Asia, and
Africa with the aim of exploring how to optimise the cloud to boost the digital
economy.
The Chinese Ambassador to UAE, Zhang Yiming who gave the
keynote speech disclosed that China is poised to partner with the UAE and
countries in the Middle East and Africa in their digital cloud journey.
“Together, we will revitalise the industry with innovation,
expand pilot projects with partnerships, and promote technical advances with
young minds. We will achieve technological and industry development centered on
cloud computing, and pave the way for digital transformation and enablement,”
he said.
Jacqueline
Shi, President of Huawei Cloud Global Marketing and Sales Service shared
updates about Huawei Cloud in the Middle East, and its belief in supporting the
success of local customers and partners, as well as the companies that want to
run businesses there. "We keep developing. We keep going digital. We want
to share our latest technologies and proven experience in digitalization with
you" said Shi.
Frank
Dai, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East talked about digital transformation
trends in the Middle East, and how Huawei Cloud can pave the way to digital
success by providing technical innovation, expertise, and ecosystem support.
Dai
explained: "There is consensus that the cloud is the best way to
accelerate digitalization. Our role is to help enterprises join, use and manage
the cloud better so we can deal with challenges such as data security, ROI
optimization, and new technology application."
Huawei Cloud is poised to become part of the growth engine
for the local economy. Huawei Cloud launched in the UAE in 2021, providing a
seamless cloud experience to local users.
In February this year, Huawei Cloud made an announcement
for an investment commitment of $400 million USD for the next 5 years to build
a cloud in Saudi Arabia, extending high-quality and secure cloud services to
local customers to help them stay competitive.
Huawei Cloud aims to build a cloud foundation for an
intelligent world leveraging the concept of "Everything as a
Service". Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud will continue to expand its global
cloud infrastructure and provide customers, partners, and developers with
stable, secure, and sustainable cloud services.
