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Huawei Unleashes the Power of Data and Proposes
Ways of Evolving Storage in the Yottabyte Era at

Huawei IT Day 2023

During the Huawei Middle East & Central Asia Tech Carnival 2023, destructive. Andrew Beklemishev, Vice President of IDC CIS, shared
Huawei successfully held the Huawei IT Day under the theme valuable insights on ransomware resilience strategies and data
'Unleash Data Power, Towards the Yottabyte Era' (a yottabyte protection best practices to achieve reasonable immunity from
is equal to a quadrillion gigabyte). Reinforcing its leadership in cyber threats. An IDC/Huawei whitepaper released earlier this year
storage technology, Huawei shared its latest multi-cloud-oriented showed two-thirds of global organizations were hit by ransomware
storage strategy at the Huawei IT Day. President David Shi, Huawei attacks in 2022. Further, on average, businesses were disrupted
Enterprise Middle East and Central Asia, observed that more and for five days due to ransomware attacks last year. Therefore,
more customers and partners are choosing Huawei storage. "Our traditional approach to security can’t cope with the diverse
biggest strength is that we keep innovating to build leading data infrastructure required by digital businesses. Artem Pavlenko, IT
storage service capabilities driven by technology and customer Infrastructure Director, Halyk Bank, shared a case study about how
requirements, with the increasing number of storage-related patents they are building a reliable, trusted and intelligent IT infrastructure
demonstrating our commitment to evolving this industry. That using Huawei enterprise storage solutions. He said, “Huawei's
said, enterprises' data infrastructure faces three key challenges: OceanStor Dorado storage solution has helped Halyk Bank achieve
evolving data, new-age applications, and ransomware attacks. our strategic objectives and new requirements for IT infrastructure,
Huawei is committed to building a solution that caters to all of them, enabling us to be cloud-ready and boosting our performance by
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including managing diverse data, rapidly upcoming applications over 200%.” Meanwhile, Yahya Kassab, Senior Director and General
and defending all the data against ransomware attacks." Countries Manager – KSA, Gulf & Pakistan, Commvault – Huawei’s Data
across the Middle East and Central Asia are prioritizing the digital Protection alliance partner – discussed data protection in the
transformation of their public and private sector organizations, new era and how the company is working together with Huawei.
preparing for the future intelligent world. This digital transformation At the event, several experts walked the audience through the
will be pivotal for the region's economic development and social latest innovations in next-generation storage architecture. They
progress. However, data resilience remains a constant threat for shared insights on the storage industry and how enterprises can
enterprises globally, with ransomware attacks proving particularly unleash the power of data with all-flash. Customers heard how
Huawei is working with partners to drive business resilience and
also got a glimpse of the future of storage with the latest Huawei
lineup of storage products for smaller businesses. At this year’s
event, the global ICT leader highlighted its green and secure all-
flash data center solution and demonstrated its product innovation
in the commercial market by launching the industry's first entry-
level storage combination with A-A Architecture – Dorado 2000
and OceanProtect X3000.mHuawei also showcased the Huawei
OceanStor Pacific series, elaborating on how it unleashes massive
data value and embraces new data service loads in the Yottabyte
era. The Huawei IT Day was held on the second day of the annual
flagship Huawei Middle East & Central Asia Tech Carnival, which
took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan, for the first time, from June 5 - 7.

Huawei Wins Bulk of Latest China Mobile 5G Contract

China Mobile awarded construction contracts for two 5G networks (CNY400 million). In March, China Mobile said it planned to add
valued at nearly CNY7.8 billion ($1.1 billion), with Huawei to build 260,000 5G base stations this year for a total of 1.6 million. The
more than half the base stations between 2023 and 2024, and China Mobile deal comes at a time when Huawei is focused on its
small shares going to Ericsson and Nokia, C114.net reported. The domestic market in the face of ongoing US trade sanctions, which
first project covers about 63,800 base stations using 2.6GHz to curbed its smartphone business and 5G deployments in many
4.9GHz spectrum and the second 23,141 in the 700MHz band in countries. Huawei won a 57.3 per cent share of a CNY37.1 billion
a joint effort with China Broadnet. C114.net estimated Huawei 5G contract China Mobile awarded in 2020, with ZTE taking 28.7
won contracts worth CNY4.1 billion, involving about 45,000 base per cent. The vendor later took a 55 per cent share of a joint China
stations or about 52 per cent of the total. Based on the news Unicom and China Telecom standalone 5G network contract worth
portal’s calculation, ZTE secured a near 27 per cent share valued CNY32.3 billion, with ZTE awarded 33 per cent, Ericsson 10 per
CNY2.1 billion; Ericsson 8.2 per cent (CNY630 million); Datang cent and Datang Mobile 2 per cent.
Mobile 7.1 per cent (CNY550 million); and Nokia 5.2 per cent

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