Huawei to invest $220m in 2021 to foster cloud ecosystem

Huawei has announced a $220 million investment into its Huawei Developer Program 2.0 in 2021 which will include the newly announced HUAWEI CLOUD Partner Innovation Program, Kunpeng OpenMind Project, and Ascend OpenMind Project.

This package of support will help to continuously foster a robust ecosystem around HUAWEI CLOUD, Kunpeng, and Ascend.

The announcement cAme at the 2021 Huawei Developer Conference (HDC.Cloud 2021) at University Town in Shenzhen of China on Monday.

At the conference, Huawei launched six innovative products and services, including HUAWEI CLOUD CCE Turbo cloud container cluster, CloudIDE intelligent programming assistant, GaussDB(for openGauss) database, Trusted Intelligent Computing Service (TICS), Pangu Model (including the world's largest Chinese NLP model and CV model), and infrastructure software for diversified computing.

Richard Yu, executive director of Huawei, and CEO of Huawei's Cloud BU and Consumer Business Group opened the event with a keynote speech.

Yu said, "By 2025, 100 per cent of enterprises around the globe will be utilizing cloud technology. Cloud is the future of the ICT industry and the foundation for enterprises' digital transformation. Developers are the soul of the industry."