Ubiquitous Cloud and Intelligence for All Scenarios

One of a business leader’s chief imperatives as they transition their organization into the post-COVID era is accelerating their cloud strategy. As the need to spawn next-generations of innovation and growth continues to be a main driver for technological adoption, businesses are looking to cloud services that are increasingly affordable, constant, dependable, and secure.

Cloud supports and advances intelligent technologies, and provides numerous opportunities for businesses who want to breathe new life into existing digital capabilities and services, or further their digital transformation. The cloud was a key technology during the onset of the pandemic, and the cloud computing market is forecasted to reach $760.98 billion by 2027. 

Ronald van Loon, a Huawei ambassador, recently had the opportunity to speak with Jacqueline Shi, the President of the International Business Department and the Marketing Department of Huawei Cloud & AI BG at Huawei Connect 2020 in Shanghai, China. Though COVID-19 restrictions prevented him from attending personally, he was still able to conduct an interview and learn more information about Huawei Cloud and AI innovations.

Today and beyond, businesses must develop a flexible computing ecosystem that enables them to implement intelligent capabilities across a diverse range of scenarios, and the cloud is the foundation for this ecosystem to thrive and operate.

Advancing Intelligence with The Intelligent Twins

Advancing intelligence requires a reference architecture, which Huawei terms The Intelligent Twins, which is composed of four parts: intelligent interaction, intelligent connection, intelligent hub, and intelligent application. This aspires to drive ubiquitous cloud and intelligence into all scenarios to build smart cities, enterprises, and industries. It requires a powerful partner ecosystem working in collaboration in order to cultivate social, commercial, and customer value, and close the gap between industry and AI knowledge. 

In a smart city scenario, Intelligent Twins utilizes an intelligent interactive device to gather comprehensive data about the city using its 5G high-speed and low-latency intelligent connection network. Through AI at the core of its intelligent hub and cloud as the foundation, it facilitates data flow and network-wide collaboration. It develops intelligent applications and provides smart services for all scenarios related to citizens, the government, and enterprises.

The following details how Intelligent Twins strives to bring ubiquitous cloud and intelligence across different scenarios:

• Smart city: Enables the government to supervise city operations via an integrated and collaborative infrastructure and change centralized management to scenario-based services. It helps improve quality of life for citizens by offering convenient city services, and assists enterprises in boosting innovations. For example, A QR code payment solution enables citizens to board buses and metro with a quick scan in Shenzhen, China.
• Smart Enterprise: Aids enterprises in augmenting creativity and competitiveness, enhance processes and services, and better innovate. For example, HEXA FOOD Malaysia built a chili sorting identification model based on a unified sorting criteria and increased sorting efficiency by 50% while reducing human errors.
• Smart Industry: Helps different industries innovate service and business models and improve efficiency. For example, in healthcare during the pandemic, HUAWEI CLOUD El healthcare Intelligent Twins significantly lower time requirements for virus testing via AI-based genome analysis, and the systems have been deployed to over 100 hospitals throughout 40 countries to help combat the virus.

As the digital world continues to advance it becomes more crucial for companies to have the tools and connectivity that expands their use of modern technologies and collaboration within their own organization and with their clients and partners without sacrificing time, efficiency, and money trying to implement intelligent solutions that are already complicated in design.

Businesses must plan and advance their intelligent solutions, improve their market progress, and use the power of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) to their fullest capacity and capabilities. This ensures they can continue to improve their own business models and processes, and provide advancements to the world that shapes the future towards positive change and development.

Building an Exceptional Business Ecosystem

Building a business ecosystem, composed of diverse computing capabilities and intelligent technologies, is a cornerstone of competitive advantage, and something that the best and brightest organizations are doing today. An intelligent ecosystem can support technologies like AI that are fundamentally important to business survival, success, and growth. It also ensures organizations can be competitive, and equip their employees, partners, and customers with the capabilities and support necessary to perform their jobs well, and to interact with the business in convenient, real-time ways that promote excellent experiences.

The cloud is the support system for this business ecosystem, offering the capabilities to continuously operate, adapt, and innovate now and in the coming years. The concept of the ubiquitous cloud is really taking a foothold within this context, as it drives cloud accessibility and cloud environments that reinforce intelligent technologies.

Huawei’s vision for the cloud and computing aligns with this notion of pervasive cloud. Their developments in cloud-based solutions are designed to help organizations better embrace technological advancement and guide their experience with technology and organizational acceleration. 

Hou Jinlong, President of Cloud & AI BG, Huawei gave his keynote at Huawei Connect stating that "Industries are upgrading from 'go cloud' to 'go intelligent'. AI innovation is no longer confined to one single scenario, and bringing intelligence to all scenarios is an irreversible trend."

This strategy will be also used to promote four development trends: basic innovation, developing industry ecosystems, developing inclusive AI, and leveraging cloud-based inclusive AI for numerous technology integration and driving new services, experiences, and business forms.

Creating an Intelligent World 

The cloud impacts the intelligent world on so many levels. From accelerating digital transformation, providing improved connectivity, furthering 5G capabilities, improving transportation, and advancing logistics - these are some of the many reasons why the cloud has become so integral to business growth and innovation.

But the cloud also has important societal and cultural implications as well. Environmental sustainability is one of the most critical and compelling subjects of our generation, and technology, like the cloud, is going to help protect the environment by generating sustainable solutions and improving research and development, as well as helping to reduce our carbon impact and save precious natural resources. 

The cloud also helps to bring education to all corners of the globe, not just by improving existing education in developed countries, but by helping to democratize education everywhere so that no matter who you are or where you are from, you can have access to the tools that give you the capabilities to learn. 

All of these advancements, and more, that contribute to the intelligent world are the cornerstones for discussions that take place at Huawei Connect this year.

Ubiquitous Cloud and Intelligence

The cloud has a tremendous impact on how the intelligent world operates, acting as the glue that binds technologies together and the foundation for which our intelligent ecosystems operate and function. 

The cloud promotes inclusive AI that is highly effective and reliable so that businesses can continue to innovate, collaborate, and provide global solutions that help us take another step towards making the intelligent world a reality for everyone.

Be sure to check out my interview and video with Huawei at Huawei Connect in Shanghai, China so that you can learn more about how the cloud impacts businesses, society, people, and the world around us.