Huawei signs off on Saudi data centre investment, set to finalise location

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Chinese tech giant Huawei will soon be taking a decision on where to locate a data centre in Saudi Arabia, its second in the Middle East. It was last year that it went operational in Abu Dhabi with the first data centre.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/business/huawei-signs-off-on-saudi-data-centre-investment-set-to-finalise-location-1.89774910  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #huawei #technology

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00:00Actually, in Huawei Cloud, we have a philosophy so-called everything-as-a-service,

00:07starting from infrastructure service.

00:09So our strategy is that we will build the best infrastructure across the whole global.

00:16You know, Huawei has been doing business in this region since more than 20 years ago.

00:22We started our business actually not in the consumer market,

00:27but each business has a different business model.

00:31In our business, we're used to, especially in the carrier business,

00:36we don't need the same level of brand awareness as our consumer business.

00:42That's why it only became recently on the consumer.

00:47And the 5G is another story because of the external issues.

00:53It's being put on the spot.

00:55Everybody came to know that Huawei is the leader in 5G.

01:00So what I'm saying is, for Huawei, our business came from the 2B business,

01:07and that still remains one of the most important businesses in our portfolio.

01:13And of course, the consumer remains another sector.

01:17It's being very diversified.

01:20Let's come to the cloud.

01:21In general, we as Huawei, we believe there is an insight to how we see the world.

01:30We believe in the next few decades,

01:33digitalization will more profoundly change the whole world.

01:39Today, you see new technology coming every day, but we think that's only the beginning.

01:45New technology, including artificial intelligence, data-driven economics,

01:51will profoundly change the whole world.

01:54That's one.

01:55And second, we believe to reach the ultimate goal of a real intelligent world,

02:05digital infrastructure is the foundation.

02:09And to be more precise, cloud technology, cloud platform is their foundation that we're talking about.

02:16I believe cloud itself is part of the infrastructure.

02:20If you see, not only providing computing storage capability,

02:25but more importantly, the latest IT technology came from cloud,

02:30not came from the traditional IT company now.

02:34Or if you see the latest breakthrough into database,

02:40into artificial intelligence, into the most one service,

02:45they all came from as a cloud service.

02:47This change not only because of the business model,

02:51but also come to today, the data volume we're handling or processing

02:57and the consistency between different systems require a really strong and big capacity

03:04and also processing capability, which ultimately came to a cloud platform.

03:10In most of the countries in the region, we have been operating business for more than 20 years.

03:14When we break through in the country, we stayed there,

03:19we became a most important partner of the whole country as an ICT vendor.

03:26Come to the cloud, yes, the answer is definitely yes.

03:30We are increasingly investing into the whole region.

03:35In UAE, we have our Abu Dhabi region already launched.

03:38And in Saudi, we are on the final stage to finalize about where to put our data center.

03:47The cloud technology model is very different from any traditional.

03:51Basically, we call it DevOps.

03:54On the software side, we have patches and updates every day.

03:59And when we expand, we have a very systematic plan to upgrade or expand by every quarter.

04:10It's not like you build the infrastructure, five years, you upgrade it to a new version.

04:16No, because the key of the cloud service is elasticity.

04:22So, we usually have a threshold that when we reach it, we have to make a whole expansion plan.

04:31And that is being automated as well.

04:33Huawei has invested heavily into technology.

04:37Last year, we invested more than $24 billion.

04:42One of the highest.

04:43In fact, because different countries have different figures on status.

04:48According to Germany, we are number two.

04:51We have invested across all industries in the world.

04:56And we keep investing heavily because we believe that in the future,

05:03only technology advancement can make us bring real value to our customers.

05:08And that's the only reason Huawei exists.

05:10And I want to add a few more.

05:14When you present as a cloud service provider,

05:19there is a whole shared responsibility between a cloud service provider platform and the tenant.

05:26For example, as Huawei Cloud,

05:30we have done to the most extent to ensure data security of our tenant.

05:37It's a shared responsibility because the tenant has his own system.

05:41He has an application.

05:42He will design his application as secure as he can.

05:45But as a platform,

05:48from all the way from the reliability to availability to durability on data,

05:55we have gone all the way.

05:58And there is a difference.

05:59I want to explain a little bit on the difference between reliability, availability and durability.

06:04In terms of reliability,

06:06when we build our platform hardware and software,

06:10we're trying to use the best breed of our component,

06:15both software and hardware,

06:17which means to prevent any component from failure.

06:22But every component will eventually fail.

06:25This cannot prevent it from happening.

06:27When a component happens,

06:30then it comes to a service availability.

06:33For example, in data storage, in our object storage,

06:36today we are providing 99.5% availability,

06:42which means a whole year,

06:45you have a downtime of 26 minutes,

06:48which means even when you have a component failure,

06:52we still have a redundancy to ensure the highest availability of the service.

06:57But like I said, there is no system that is 100% available.

07:00It still goes to failure.

07:02When the system, a service, our storage service goes to failure,

07:05which means in this period of time, the service is not accessible.

07:09What do we do?

07:10We still ensure the data is secure.

07:12That comes to durability.

07:14Today, in our OBS, we're providing 11.9 on a single AZ,

07:22and we're going to update in three AZs,

07:25which are going to be 12.9.

07:28What does that mean?

07:29Let me give you some figures.

07:3111.9, which means if you, as our tenant, put your data there,

07:38you put 100 million objects in our storage,

07:43over 1,000 years, you have a chance to lose one object in our storage.

07:48When that comes to 12.9, which means 10,000 years.

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