Why Huawei Is Staying Out Of The Public Cloud Business

The theme of #Huawei ’s Connect 2016 conference in Shanghai, China, is ‘Shape the cloud’. Certainly Huawei, an IT and communications technology provider, is becoming a serious player in the cloud space. But despite having the capabilities to launch its own public cloud service, it has chosen to stay behind the scenes, providing technology to power other people’s clouds instead. Huawei explains why it’s not interested in becoming the next #Amazon Web Service ( #AWS ). If there’s one thing that’s evident from the Huawei Connect conference, it’s that the company is heavily invested in cloud. Executives and customers took to the stage, extolling the transformative powers of the cloud and how that would affect all enterprises. This story isn’t particularly new. Cloud has been around for long enough and we’ve heard all the spiel about it. What was of interest was learning about the suite of cloud technologies Huawei possesses and how intimately it has worked with telcos around the world to build their own public and private cloud services. Huawei is fervent in acquiring partners and customers, enabling them to build their very own cloud. That’s part of Huawei’s strategy outside of its China, its home turf; to partner with telco providers that want to get into the public cloud business. It makes sense given that telco providers have infrastructure already in place across their respective countries to move data around. However, in China, Huawei launched its own enterprise public cloud service, proving it has the capabilities to be an operator in this space on its own. So the question on many people’s minds, including myself, was whether Huawei has any ambitions to expand its public cloud operations globally. I asked Huawei acting CEO Ken Hu about this at a press conference at Huawei Connect. “The cloud era has a couple of characteristics; one is the market size is enormous. Secondly, there are many ways of entering this market,” he said through an interpreter. “… I think Huawei has some unique advantages, which is we can work together with our partners, leveraging Huawei’s innovation capabilities and technical expertise, to realise value in business strategies and processes for industry verticals and enterprises to come up with the best solutions for them.

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