In the past six months, Huawei has withstood the pressure, but it has been "calm and calm" 。 Two years ago, Hua Weiyun was also faced with external and internal invisible pressure. Now, although the situation is not the same, the results in front of the pressure are the same. With the gentle breeze, Huawei Cloud is more leisurely today, On HUAWEI CONNECT 2019, Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei Cloud Business, described the state of Hua Weiyun as "the painful period has passed" 。

Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei Cloud Business

Indeed, from the market perspective, Huawei Cloud has not only come out of a painful period, but also become more and more nourishing. today, 30 of the top 50 Chinese Internet enterprises have chosen Huawei Cloud, 100% of the top ten domestic car manufacturers have chosen Huawei Cloud, and the number of Huawei Cloud customers on SAP has exceeded 200, ranking first in the industry , and other achievements show that Huawei Cloud is increasingly favored by customers.

Although from the horizontal comparison of market data, Huawei Cloud has not significantly changed the market pattern for the time being. However, Zheng Yelai did not change his original mind. When Hua Weiyun was founded in 2017, he put forward in his internal speech that "calm down and forge ahead with perseverance". He said that everything now was in his original expectation.

Zheng Yelai stressed that“ My eyes are always on the market and customers ”They don't care about business growth and market share, but tell the team to do two things well: first, listen to the needs of benchmark customers in each industry, and second, serve them well to help their business development.

In the growth and development gene of Huawei Cloud, "customer-centric" is always the first priority. According to Zheng Yelai“ If I encourage the team to deliver offline projects, it is easy for a project to reach tens of millions, but this is irresponsible to the customer 。 Because in today's cloud computing environment, especially in the AI era, the closed-loop of production operation and development training is becoming more and more important. Only on the public cloud can we form a continuously evolving AI service. "

This can be seen as, Huawei Cloud has been practicing internal skills since it was launched in 2017, which is a process of accumulating energy and momentum 。 In fact, such energy has been put into the market, which has been felt by the head customers for the first time. From the top customers in the industry attracted by Huawei Cloud above, it can be seen that Huawei Cloud "has technology, future and is trustworthy" is not an empty statement. As for changing the market pattern and being chosen by a wide range of corporate customers, Zheng Ye“ In another one or two years, there will be changes and they will become more obvious 。”

If you want to ask Zheng Yelai why he is so confident, I believe that those who took part in HUAWEI CONNECT 2019 these two days must have a clear feeling that the internal skill cultivation and energy storage of Huawei Cloud in the past three years are strong enough.

The future cloud competition must be about R&D investment and technology competition, "Today, Huawei Cloud is not afraid of any manufacturer in technology. ”Zhang Yuxin, CTO of Huawei Cloud, confidently said in the interview 。

Zhang Yuxin, CTO of Huawei Cloud

Take the most obvious example, On HUAWEI CONNECT 2019, Huawei Cloud released Huawei Cloud EI cluster service based on Atlas 900 It is currently the fastest AI training cluster in the world, representing the peak of global computing power 。

Huawei Cloud EI cluster service is composed of thousands of Shengteng 910 AI processors. The powerful performance of Shengteng 910 is fully released through Huawei's collective communication library, resource scheduling system, and ultra high-speed training data cache. his The total computing power reaches 256P~1024P FLOPS @ FP16, equivalent to the computing power of 500000 PCs 。 In a case of astronomical exploration in conjunction with the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory and SKA, astronomers need to find a star with certain characteristics from 200000 stars in a southern hemisphere sky map. The traditional way of working requires 169 days of work Using Huawei's cloud EI cluster service, this task can be completed in only 10 seconds 。

In addition, based on the powerful AI computing power, Huawei Cloud also released industrial agents for the industrial manufacturing field this time, bringing the leading technical capabilities into various industries, and transforming them into the improvement of production efficiency and business volume. For example, Huawei Cloud has cooperated deeply with PetroChina to build a cognitive computing platform for exploration and development, Reduce the identification time of oil and gas reservoir by 70% ； Cooperate with Sanlian Hongpu, Make the matching rate between production process and dynamic customer demand increase by 28.5% ； Cooperate with Xinlei Group to introduce AI capability into coal blending and coke production quality prediction, Make coal blending accuracy more than 95% The cost saved per million tons of coke is more than 10 million yuan.

Huawei Cloud continues to transform its leading technical capabilities into improving the productivity of enterprise business. In this process, another key link cannot be ignored, that is, cost performance. “ In the past three decades, the ultimate choice of all customers in the development of the IT industry is ultimately economic, that is, the ultimate cost performance ratio 。” Zheng Ye said.

So, How to reflect the ultimate cost performance ratio? Multi computing architecture is the answer given by Huawei Cloud 。

“ Let the right application load run on the right architecture 。” Zhang Yuxin said that this is the simplest purpose of Huawei Cloud Multicomputing.

In Huawei's entire computing strategy, it will create an industrial layout of "one cloud, two wings and two engines" 。 Dual engines refer to the two self-developed chips built around "Huawei Kunpeng Processor" and "Shengteng Processor" in addition to the traditional x86 to build a heterogeneous computing architecture, so as to provide diversified computing power for the end, edge and cloud. One cloud refers to Huawei Cloud. Through full stack innovation, it provides a safe and reliable hybrid cloud and becomes a black land for ecological partners And provide the world with inclusive computing power.

In other words, in the layout of the new computing industry, Huawei not only provides physical server products for multi computing, but also moves this multi computing capability to the cloud and provides it to enterprises in the form of cloud services.

Computing strategy is Huawei's current overall new layout, and the purpose of doing so is not difficult to understand. In Zhang Yuxin's opinion, At present, x86 is not suitable for all application loads. For example, applications involving containerization, function calculation, smaller granularity, and high concurrency are more suitable for the ARM platform; Scenarios such as video codec and AI reasoning training are more suitable for AI computing platform 。

Therefore, in addition to traditional x86 computing power, Huawei Cloud also provides universal computing power based on Huawei Kunpeng processor, AI computing power based on Shengteng processor, and heterogeneous computing power based on various acceleration chips. And, Huawei Cloud officially released 69 cloud services based on Kunpeng processors and 43 cloud services based on Shengteng processors : Huawei Kunpeng elastic cloud service provides 15% of the industry's leading multi-core integer computing power, which is the strongest in the industry, with a 30% increase in cost performance; The AI cloud service based on "Kunpeng+Shengteng" has doubled the reasoning and training performance, and combined with Huawei's full scene AI framework MindSpot, it has improved the overall development efficiency by more than 50%.

According to reports, At present, the use of computing power based on Kunpeng processors on Huawei Cloud has reached 30%. In the next few years, Huawei Cloud hopes to increase an indicator to 60% 。 In this process, in order to better support ecological development, Huawei will invest 1.5 billion dollars in the development of industrial ecology within five years. In addition, for cloud service, Zhang Yuxin described it as the "root" of the development of artificial intelligence, because it seems that the industry's investment in AI algorithms and applications is relatively concentrated, while the investment in infrastructure is small Therefore, it cannot effectively support the optimization of business algorithm and training process. With "root", AI will release its computing power and lead the inclusive AI.

Therefore, from a further perspective, if the technical capabilities of Huawei Cloud are summarized as a process of constantly improving internal skills and accumulating energy, the multi architecture is Huawei Cloud's consideration based on better cost performance. So, what else can Huawei Cloud show its own differentiation and competitive advantages?

Another key word frequently mentioned by Zhang Yuxin is "ability release" 。

As we all know, Huawei's own digital transformation and practice are leading at home and abroad. The core of Huawei's cloud release is the process of transforming Huawei's own digital capabilities into public services.

Take WeLink as an example It comes from Huawei's own IT applications. WeLink covers 172 national branches within Huawei, serving 190000 Huawei employees, 520000 active groups, 600+Welink applications, 6 million meetings every year, 2.1 billion knowledge sharing, etc., which has improved Huawei's collaboration efficiency by more than 30%. Huawei Cloud WeLink service is to share Huawei's own digital transformation achievements through cloud services and create an enterprise specific intelligent workspace for enterprises.

In addition, Huawei Cloud also released Huawei's R&D capability, which has been accumulated for 30 years and served more than 80000 top R&D engineers internally, and launched a one-stop, secure and reliable DevOps service—— Huawei Cloud Software Development Service DevCloud 。 It makes the application iteration cycle from once in the past few months to multiple times in a day, accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises and industries.

There are many similar examples, including the AI service of Huawei Cloud Intelligent Customer Service and Huawei Cloud Industrial Agent mentioned above, which are all the achievements of Huawei's digital capability transformation.

So, In the past three years since the establishment of Huawei Cloud, Zheng Ye has felt more comfortable doing cloud services 。 The most important thing is that Huawei Cloud does not intend to expand short-term revenue. When it abandons the mentality of seeking quick success and instant benefits, and under the continuous release of capacity and energy storage, at a certain time point, the market feedback to Huawei Cloud must also be the "surprise" it deserves. I believe that this time point will soon come!