Huawei has announced the launch of its Cloud Stack 8.3 offering at the Huawei Africa Connect 2024 conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The launch of the offering, according to the company, was announced in a keynote speech delivered by the vice president of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, Hu Yuhai.
The speech, titled, “Leap to Cloud to Accelerate Industrial Intelligence”, also saw Hu provide details on how Huawei Cloud Stack provides trusted cloud infrastructure, innovative cloud service abilities, and extensive industry know-how to help government and enterprise customers in Africa accelerate cloud adoption.
“Huawei Cloud strives to be the preferred cloud for intelligent transformation. As per our mission statement ‘In Africa, For Africa’, we are ready to work alongside our customers and partners with better technologies, industry solutions, and ecosystem resources,” said Hu Yuhai.
Huawei also held its “Leap2Cloud” event, which attracted more than 300 enterprise executives and IDC experts’ customers from diverse sectors like government, finance, transportation, and energy in Sub-Saharan Africa. They came together to share their insights and collaboratively explore pathways for a leap to the cloud.
During the event, the vice president of Huawei Cloud for the Southern Africa Region, Bai Yan delivered a keynote speech titled, “Huawei Cloud Stack, the Preferred Cloud for Africa Industry Digitalisation.”
He said, “As industry customers drive forward with cloud adoption and intelligent transformation, they encountered certain challenges, such as unforeseen issues with submarine optical cables, inefficient methods of acquiring cloud resources, and concerns over data sovereignty. Huawei Cloud Stack helps them address these challenges with three strengths. It provides on-premise, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure, as well as offers an extensive suite of over 110 cloud services—unmatched in the industry—alongside a diversified partner ecosystem. All these are designed to help government and enterprise customers in Africa accelerate industry intelligence.”
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