Cloud is arguably the most influential technology of the past decade. It has accelerated innovation, business continuity, spurred employee productivity, and helped businesses navigate challenging phases. In the Middle East, investments in the region’s digital economy are already starting to rebound as many countries recover from the challenges of the last year. Analysts are also expecting spending on IT to rise, with investment in both public and private cloud services anticipated to grow in the double digits.
It has been a particularly exciting year for Huawei in the Middle East. We are now at an inflection point in our cloud business, and are doubling down on our efforts in the region to support organisations in their digital transformation journeys.
This all stems from an accumulation of ICT expertise over more than 30 years. That breadth of experience is now directed at bringing digital to every person, home, and organisation for a fully connected, intelligent world. As part of that mission, we believe that it is critical to provide the ultimate computing power to deliver ubiquitous cloud and intelligence to the world.
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In 2020, HUAWEI CLOUD joined the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. HUAWEI CLOUD services were provided in various regions across Asia, Europe, and Latin America, allowing us to work with partners and research institutes to weather these challenging times together.
Today, a key element of our work is in diversifying the cloud services ecosystem within the Middle East. This enables the delivery of a rich catalog of industry-specific software as a service (SaaS) solutions that can accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises across the region. Through the HUAWEI CLOUD brand, we have already implemented the ecosystem strategy of ‘co-creation, sharing, and win-win’, using HUAWEI CLOUD as the foundation to build a ‘black soil’ for cloud ecosystem development.
We are enhancing synergy between cloud, AI, and connectivity to provide public cloud services and hybrid cloud solutions that deliver several layers of added value, especially in terms of stability, reliability, security, trustworthiness, and sustainability. In 2020, HUAWEI CLOUD ranked No. 5 in the global IaaS market, and being the fastest growing mainstream cloud vendor, it has become one of the top five clouds in the world. HUAWEI CLOUD has launched more than 220 cloud services and 210 solutions, and earned over 80 industry recognised security certifications. HUAWEI CLOUD works with more than 20,000 partners, including more than 14,000 consulting partners and more than 6,000 technology partners, and has brought together 1.8 million developers. To date, over 4,500 applications have been launched on the HUAWEI CLOUD Marketplace. As according to Gartner, Huawei is
In the Middle East specifically, in less than a year, we now have 66 SaaS partners working with us in the cloud realm, focusing on seven general enterprise solutions ranging from OA Collaboration to Customer Service & Call Center, Traditional Enterprise Applications, Security, AI Applications, Audio & Video, and Professional Services. To date, we also work on industry-specific scenarios in finance, education, healthcare, and various other fields. We continue to diversify this ecosystem and welcome more partners to hold hands with us.
This expansion of the ecosystem is being met by an expansion of our own availability zones (AZs) within the Middle East. This will enable us to offer customers more choice in the market, and address their data locality requirements working with a single end-to-end partner. We have done this rapidly and successfully in geographies such as Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Africa. This is an ongoing effort, and today we are only scratching the surface of the potential we see in the Middle East.
That is, in short, where we see the Middle East’s cloud services market. This is a region full of potential, with a deep-seated desire from governments and enterprises alike to leverage cloud services in realising their ambitions. By applying a laser-like focus to diversifying and enriching the region’s cloud service market, there is no ceiling to what can be accomplished.
Huawei has been in the Middle East region for more than 20 years, and has deep understanding towards enterprises and consumers. We are confident that we can help cloud-based customers to protect their data in the cloud and also help new customers to migrate to cloud. In addition, Huawei’s global cloud services platform can help customers and partners build success on HUAWEI CLOUD by providing valuable business and technical support that can lead them to expand their business beyond the Middle East region and take a proactive and robust approach to internationalisation.
Cloud is another area where we’re pushing technology to its limits to bring the benefits of innovation to everyone. We want HUAWEI CLOUD to serve as fertile ground for the intelligent world to flourish. To make this happen, we provide stable, reliable, secure, trustworthy, and sustainable cloud services that enable our customers to develop applications more easily and do more with their data.
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