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country including government, finance and
manufacturing. Huawei added the Riyadh
cloud region will cover all existing networks
powered by operators Zain, stc and Mobily.
Further, the vendor cited a plan for China
and Saudi Arabia to explore other business
opportunities and help Chinese enterprises
connect with local stakeholders. It also
pledged to train 200,000 developers
in Saudi Arabia in the next five years,
alongside launching a program for 2,000
startups and joint opportunities with 1,000
local partners. The launch of the cloud
region in Riyadh builds on an MoU struck
in end-2022 by Huawei and the Saudi
Arabian government, which aimed to
increase investments in the country’s cloud
infrastructure.

Huawei Releases Data Center 2030, Leading Innovation and Development

of New Data Centers

The Data Center 2030 report was released into the report. Michael Ma, to limited resources. To cope with this contradiction,
by Huawei at HUAWEI CONNECT 2023. Vice President of Huawei and continuous innovation to improve efficiency will become
Aiming to guide the innovative development President of the ICT Product the core direction of data centers in the future. The
of the industry, the report shares insights Portfolio Mgmt & Solutions industry will embrace a new round of transformation.
into the future of data centers, defines key Dept, released the Data Michael Ma, Vice President of Huawei and President
features involved, and proposes a new Center 2030 report on behalf of the ICT Product Portfolio Mgmt & Solutions Dept,
reference architecture. With the intelligent of Huawei and delivered released Data Center 2030. With a focus on the core
era around the corner, computing power a keynote speech entitled conflict between computing power requirements and
has become the top requirement and data "Exploring the Future of Data resource constraints, Data Center 2030 describes five
centers the key infrastructure. Over the past Centers to Lead the Intelligent future scenarios that will affect data center development
three years, Huawei communicated with Era". Mr. Ma pointed out over the next decade, and proposes an innovative
more than a hundred scholars, customers, that the computing power integration of energy, computing, transmission, data, and
partners, and research institutes regarding requirements are expected to operation efficiency. The report defines for the first time
the future of data centers, and has held grow so fast they will outpace in the industry six key technical features of future data
over 50 workshops. The collective wisdom even Moore's Law while at centers, and systematically explains the development
of industry experts both in and outside the same time the growth of challenges as well as breakthrough directions for
Huawei on the matter was then condensed computing power is subject cloud service, computing, storage, network, and energy
technologies involved in data centers. Data Center 2030
also proposes a reference architecture for new data
centers and quantitatively predicts the future prospects
of data centers based on 22 indicators and forecast data.
Many prominent guests were invited to deliver speeches
at the event. Joe Weinman, a digital strategist, He
Baohong, director of the Cloud Computing and Big Data
Research Institute of the China Academy of Information
and Communications Technology (CAICT), and Hui Tao,
director of Huawei ICT Strategy & Planning and Business
Development Dept, all shared their ideas and practices
with reference to the future of data centers. Huawei looks
forward to working with customers and partners around
the world to promote the high-quality development of
global data center infrastructure and contribute to the
intelligent transformation across industries.

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