Product Innovation Award : Frost & Sullivan

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1 2013 PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD IN CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE RECIPIENT HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD Frost & Sullivan s Global Research Platform Frost & Sullivan is in its 51th year in business with a global research organization of 1,800 analysts and consultants who monitor more than 300 industries and 250,000 companies. The company s research philosophy originates with the CEO s 360-Degree Perspective, which serves as the foundation of its TEAM Research methodology. This unique approach enables us to determine how best-in-class companies worldwide manage growth, innovation and leadership. Based on the findings of this Best Copyright 2013 Frost & Sullivan - 1-

2 Practices research, Frost & Sullivan is proud to present the Best Practice Award Product Innovation Award in Cloud Infrastructure to Huawei. Significance of the Growth Leadership Award -Market Overview Cloud computing technology has brought remarkable improvement to the ICT industry. It has been widely applied to every aspect of the industry, and promoted high growth of related markets. According to Frost & Sullivan, the market size of cloud service market in 2011 has reached 11.4 billion USD with a growth rate of 20.4% compared to It is estimated that the market has boosted to over 14 billion USD in Meanwhile, cloud infrastructure market has experienced rapid growth under such circumstance. In 2011, hardware investment of data center has achieved billion USD worldwide, and the year-on-year growth is around 12.2%. Up to 2012, the total investment of data center hardware is expected to reach billion USD. On the other hand, the virtualization market has kept its two-digit fast growing speed. The virtualization software revenue has increased 33.6% from $4.8 billion USD in 2011 to $6.4 billion USD in The revenue is estimated to reach $11 billion USD in Copyright 2013 Frost & Sullivan - 2-

3 Source: Frost & Sullivan The development of cloud computing technologies has brought innovation to related vertical industries, in which telecom, internet and finance industries have benefited the most. Facing the challenges of big data, these industries have devoted a lot in cloud technology development, and therefore, they are gradually capable of providing cloud service. Take telecom operators as an example, there were only 18 of them offering cloud service in 2006 worldwide, but the number increased to 61 and 145 in 2009 and 2012 respectively. Copyright 2013 Frost & Sullivan - 3-

4 Source: Frost & Sullivan The development of cloud technologies has also helped in the progress of cloud infrastructure market. Infrastructure providers have continuously released innovative products to better serve the users. As various policies regarding environmental protection have been released by the governments, the construction of green data center has been speeded up; at the same time, the upgrade of old data centers has been started up. Both will further drive the development of cloud infrastructure market. Best Practice Award Analysis for Huawei Frost & Sullivan 2013 Product Innovation Award in Cloud Infrastructure is presented to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd in recognition of the innovation demonstrated by the company in the area of cloud infrastructure products market. The award recognizes the long-term R&D efforts and the Copyright 2013 Frost & Sullivan - 4-

5 technological advantages of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. It also acknowledges the company's consecutive efforts to improve the development of cloud infrastructure product market. -Brief Introduction of Huawei Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology solution provider. It provides competitive solutions and service to create maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Huawei has established end-to-end advantages in telecom networks, devices and cloud computing. Entering the field of cloud computing in 2008, Huawei is maintaining more than 10,000 dedicated R&D and service staff. As early as 2001, Huawei has started its research on servers, in which its X86 series is among the top in 81 functional criteria according to SPEC. In 2007, Huawei and Symantec established a joint venture, and in 2012, Huawei did the buy-back Copyright 2013 Frost & Sullivan - 5-

6 successfully, which greatly improved Huawei s capabilities in storage and security. By the end of 2012, Huawei has delivered more than 260 data centers in which 35 are cloud computing data centers. -Huawei s Performance in the Cloud Infrastructure Market With the explosive growth of data volume, IT structures of enterprises have become more massive and complicated. Enterprises have no choice but invest more in their IT construction and maintenance. The development of virtualization technology has provided them with an alternative. No doubt that virtualization has helped in reducing the number of servers, and the consumption of electricity; it has raised the difficulty level of installation, operation, and management at the same time. As a result, featured of converged infrastructure, and the synergy of hardware and software, onestop cloud infrastructure solution has been highly recognized by the market and the users. Huawei s one-stop cloud infrastructure solution FusionCube commits the user with an one-stop cloud platform, which can integrate as well as simplify the internal IT system. Not only that, FusionCube is characterized of depth convergence, which reaches each level of the cloud infrastructure. Meeting the basic requirements of HW/SW synergy, FusionCube is designed with the capability of providing scale-out storage, and intelligent cloud OS to further upgrade the performance of the product. Copyright 2013 Frost & Sullivan - 6-

7 There are 2 major components of FusionCube: Cloud OS FusionSphere, and hardware platform E Cloud OS offers hypervisor, resource virtualization, unified management, automatic deployment and efficient maintenance. It consists of 3 parts: FusionCompute integrates full-scale virtualization capabilities and provides a high-efficient and comprehensive virtualization platform. FusionManager includes resource management function, automatic installation and deployment, which offers a unified management platform to converged infrastructure. It is also able to detect the system faults, and recover automatically. Converged storage DSware is specifically designed for converged infrastructure. With a distributed storage engine, DSware is able to unify all the storage devices, provide centralized storage service, and support fast data recovery. Parallel I/O also increases overall throughput. 2. Hardware platform E9000 integrates computing, storage and networking vertically, and ensures up to 14.4 Tbps of backplane bandwidth, which guarantees the performance overall. Huawei s E9000, as a leading product in the market, supports up to 512 CPU cores, 12 TB memory capacity, and 240 TB computing ability in storage within one chassis. Furthermore, the outstanding design in cooling of the hardware platform helps in reducing the energy consumption to a large extent. Copyright 2013 Frost & Sullivan - 7-

8 Emphasizing on depth convergence, FusionCube is able to provide an all-inone management system to the users, and help to reduce IT expenditures, simplify management and maintenance, as well as optimize the cloud platform conveniently and efficiently. Compared to traditional data center systems, FusionCube, as one-stop cloud infrastructure, entitles the following competitive advantages: Deployment Time Scalability Cost Traditional DC 3-5 months because of the difficulties and large scale of a project Traditional architect limits the infrastructure expansion as business grows. High cost due to separate consumption of equipment, long FusionCube Pre-integrated infrastructure and pre-validated solution shorten the project procedure to 2-3 weeks With innovative scale-out storage engine and cloud OS, infrastructure can be expanded linearly, smoothly and quickly. Deep convergence reduces the space occupancy, energy Copyright 2013 Frost & Sullivan - 8-

9 Maintenance Service project process, and high energy consumption Large maintenance investment due to separate management of each equipment Different vendors usually have uneven customer service levels consumption, thus reduces the OPEX Intelligent and unified management over Cloud OS Better customer experience through great services provided by Huawei only -Conclusion Due to efforts demonstrated by Huawei in technology R&D and product innovation, FusionCube has gradually been recognized by the market and the users. In recognition of its dedication to improve the cloud infrastructure market, and its potential high growth, Frost & Sullivan is pleased to present Huawei with this Award. About Frost & Sullivan Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research and bestpractice models to drive the generation, evaluation and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages 51 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 40 offices on six continents. To join our Growth Partnership, please visit Copyright 2013 Frost & Sullivan - 9-