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HUAWEI CONNECT's theme in 2018 was \"Activate Intelligence.\" It emphasized the technical innovations that are chiefly driving the growth in AI

and its application throughout industry.

Xu Zhijun, Huawei's Rotating Chairperson, released Huawei's AI strategy, which focused on the current problems that AI can solve and the areas

where AI can add the most value.

For AI, Huawei is investing in technology, talent, basic research, and industry applications, effectively building a full -stack solution, with an open

ecosystem and talent cultivation to enhance solutions and improve internal efficiency.

In the past year, HUAWEI CLOUD has been integrating industry wisdom with AI in eight industries and over 200 projects by leveraging its technical

innovations. With its Ascend series chips, Huawei can now deliver full - stack solutions that include chips, chip enablement, training and inference

frameworks, and application enablement. Huawei offers deployment environments for a variety of scenarios, including the public cloud, private

cloud, various edge computing scenarios, IoT industry terminals, and consumer terminals.

Bruno Zhang – CTO of Huawei Cloud BU

▌ Intelligence Demanded by the Cloud 2.0 Era

According to Zhang, \"the Cloud1.0 era had

distributed, automatic, large - scale, and

elastic features, while the Cloud 2.0 era now

requires AI, big data, and computing power, as

well as a comprehensive system architecture

for enterprise applications and Internet

applications besides the basic demands for

security and reliability.\"

In the future, the cloud will be the principal environment for most enterprises to explore AI

solutions due to the requirements for massive computing and storage resources.

Zhang Yuxin, CTO of the Huawei Cloud Business Unit, believed that the arrival of Cloud 2.0 leads

to several business scenario changes, as compared with Internet development in past decades.

Initially, in Cloud 1.0, enterprises migrated their key applications to the cloud. The customer

entity, entity demands, and service modes also changed with the advent of cloud computing.

Government and enterprise markets were the first targets. According to Zhang, with the advent

of Cloud 2.0, \"the main cloud applications are now switching from personal entertainment and

consumption fields to the production field.\"

Second, traditional Internet applications have encountered bottlenecks. In the past, Internet

applications mainly relied on traffic dividends. In the Cloud 2.0 era, the core of new Internet

business changes from traffic dividends to data dividends.

Huawei Vmall is one of the largest e-commerce companies in China, serving 400–500 million

users worldwide. Its services are carried on HUAWEI CLOUD, which has become the choice

for multiple Internet customers. The technical platform of HUAWEI CLOUD helps Internet

customers improve performance and guarantee smooth processing, even during peak traffic

periods. According to Zhang, \"the Cloud 1.0 era had distributed, automatic, large - scale, and

elastic features, while the Cloud 2.0 era now requires AI, big data, and computing power, as well

as a comprehensive system architecture for enterprise applications and Internet applications

besides the basic demands for security and reliability.\"

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▌ Unique, Full - Stack Technology Innovation

Jia Yongli, the general manager of

the EI Service Product Department

of Huawei Cloud BU, announced that

HUAWEI CLOUD EI will provide 45

services and 142 functions targeted

toward improving basic computing

capabilities to achieve inclusive AI

covering all of the scenarios available

for AI senior data scientists, data

engineers, common IT engineers,

service personnel, and others.

Zhang believes that HUAWEI CLOUD offers many innovative and full - stack basic technologies,

which continuously add AI value and overcome bottlenecks from traffic dividends to data dividends.

The majority of Chinese cloud vendors are not currently able to make chips. Huawei has

released AI chips, and one Ascend chip is configured for high-specification H - series VMs. The

Ascend 310 chip delivers computing performance that is 16 times faster than other chips.

For a range of AI computing scenarios, Huawei offers a variety of services covering VMs,

containers, and bare metal servers. You can configure services with the highest 512 TOPS

inference performance as required by using ECS and CCI. For training scenarios, Huawei

provides ECSs and BMS with the computing capability of up to 2 PFLOPS.

Also at HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, Jia Yongli, the general manager of the EI Service Product

Department of Huawei Cloud BU, announced that HUAWEI CLOUD EI will provide 45 services

and 142 functions targeted toward improving basic computing capabilities to achieve inclusive

AI covering all of the scenarios available for AI senior data scientists, data engineers, common IT

engineers, service personnel, and others.

Huawei has developed the Hi1822 chip and launched the industry's first intelligent NIC with

the single-chip rate of 100 Gbit/s, enabling Huawei's network rate to be the first to enter the

100G era. The 100 Gbit/s intelligent NIC also achieves a breakthrough in network forwarding.

In addition, network connections among millions of nodes in data centers is enabled through

reconstruction of the control-plane architecture.

For Huawei's cloud storage support of key enterprise applications, Huawei has adopted an

innovative EC Turbo technology based on years of investment in mathematics and algorithms,

effectively making Huawei the leader in both disk usage and valid capacity. Now, Huawei applies

these HUAWEI CLOUD technologies to meet customers' requirements for data intelligence.

Huawei has made significant technical breakthroughs in vertical sectors to react to the challenges of

providing enterprise intelligence. These advances include chips, hardware, data center management,

basic cloud services, application development platforms, application deployment and O&M platforms,

tool frameworks, basic AI models and algorithms, and domain - specific models and algorithms.

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▌ Driven by Technologies and Customer Requirements Customer requirements and technologies

drive continuous innovations in HUAWEI

CLOUD. Today's rapid pace of development

demands innovations in different areas.

HUAWEI CLOUD employs a new method

to continuously innovate with customers

interactively through multiple iterations.

Huawei has a three - stage strategy: collect, develop, plan for the future. The cloud field requires

long-term investment in underlying technologies. Multiple technologies in research have not yet

moved to the production environment.

Huawei always begins technical preparations 3 – 5 years, or even 5 – 10 years in advance, so

they have invested nearly 400 billion RMB in R&D in the past eight years, with nearly 90 billion

RMB in this past year alone.

Customer requirements and technologies drive continuous innovations in HUAWEI CLOUD.

Today's rapid pace of development demands innovations in different areas. HUAWEI CLOUD

employs a new method to continuously innovate with customers interactively through multiple

iterations. Huawei provides customers with professional data engineers and scientists to aid

them in abstracting business models, classifying and labeling data, and training models for

trial use in their systems. Based on trials, engineers then tune and retrain the model to the

necessary level of precision before integrating it into the customer's system.

At the keynotes on the second day of HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, HUAWEI CLOUD officially

released the EI City Intelligent Twins solution, which is built on a digital twin and leverages

multiple technologies such as AI, big data, edge computing, and IoT to deliver a complete system

covering data generation, data analysis, and data closed - loop. The solution demonstrates

how to control and manage aspects of the physical world more intelligently through digital

computing power.

Li Qiang, technology division chief of the Shenzhen Traffic Police Bureau, said, \"We are

building a city traffic brain incorporating video cloud, big data, and AI core technologies and

then constructing traffic intelligence through those technologies and policing to enable more

intelligent cities. The Huawei cloud platform provides logical servers and complete deployment

within seconds, significantly accelerating service deployment. With comprehensive traffic

awareness and AI-assisted law enforcement, HUAWEI CLOUD supports high - quality, efficient

transportation services for citizens.\"

A new era of AI has arrived. With powerful computing power and service upgrades brought by

Huawei's latest AI chips, HUAWEI CLOUD remains at the cutting edge of innovation, accelerating

value creation.

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Huawei and Bosch

– Making the Connected World a Reality

At Huawei Connect 2018, Bosch Software Innovations and Huawei Cloud announced a partnership to accelerate the development of the Internet

of Things (IoT) in China. According to this agreement, Bosch IoT Suite services will be delivered to Chinese customers by Huawei Cloud. The first

service was made available in October this year: the Bosch IoT Remote Manager, a service for managing and controlling gateways, sensors, and

devices, which is now listed on the Huawei Cloud website. Other Bosch IoT platform services will follow in 2019.

■ By Wang Jianguo, Bosch Software Innovations General Manager, China

▌ Technological excellence and shared values

Bosch has chosen Huawei as its cloud

partner in China because our companies have

a lot in common.

Firstly, Huawei and Bosch Software

Innovations both deliver cutting - edge

technological solutions in their respective

domains.

Huawei Cloud is investing heavily in cloud

computing and big data development,

and has set up numerous R&D and

innovation centers. Huawei collaborates

with top scientific research institutions

to enhance its innovation capabilities

and core competitiveness in public cloud

computing, artificial intelligence (AI), big data,

algorithms, and architecture. All of these

have enabled Huawei to build an innovative

and highly reliable cloud platform. For its

part, Bosch Software Innovations has been

active in the Internet of Things for ten years

and accumulated solid expertise in this

area. With our domain-specific software

architectures and organizational know - how,

Bosch Software Innovations has become the

go - to source of inspiration for companies

embarking on their digital transformation.

The Bosch IoT Suite, an award - winning

IoT platform (“Top Industrial IoT Platform in

APAC”, Frost & Sullivan, 2016/2017), offers all

the functions necessary to connect devices,

users, and businesses, serving as the brain of

the connected world.

Alongside recognized technological

excellence, another important thing our

companies have in common is the shared

vision that IoT technology needs to be built on

industry standards and open source software.

Huawei is a strong believer in openness and

co - innovation and actively participates in

and contributes to open source communities.

Moreover, it has built more than 10 OpenLab

centers around the world. Huawei actively

cooperates with customers and partners to

build an open ecosystem. Likewise, Bosch

Software Innovations follows the motto

“Nobody can do IoT alone” and is firmly

convinced that only those companies that

are able to collaborate in ecosystems will

succeed in the IoT. A prime example is the

Bosch IoT Suite, which builds on open source

and open standards to provide users with

greater flexibility and maximum compatibility.

Both companies are members of the Eclipse

IoT open source community and leading

players in the OSGi Alliance, a standardization

body that defines globally accepted IoT

standards.

In addition, our companies are both focused

on building strong IoT ecosystems in the

automotive, home, city, and agricultural

domains.

Altogether, the above examples made this

cooperation a logical step in the further

development of our respective companies’

plans for their activities in the Chinese

market. We are happy that, by joining

forces, Huawei Cloud and Bosch Software

Innovations are now able to provide top - grade

IoT solutions to customers in China.

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▌ Bosch’s best-in-class device management on Huawei Cloud

▌ Out on the roads: first cases of Bosch and Huawei IoT cooperation

IoT is about two things, managing applications driven by the data coming from “things” and managing the “things” themselves. Still, IoT application

management is much more talked about than IoT device management, while, in fact, device management is a foundation of any IoT deployment.

Overlooking the device side of an IoT deployment may have serious repercussions for an IoT project as a whole, affecting its efficiency and life

span. Focusing mostly on IoT data collection and analysis is a common mistake many companies make, forgetting that if no data is flowing

because of malfunctioning edge devices, the whole project is compromised. To provide IoT data steadily and securely, IoT devices require

configuration, monitoring and updates. Moreover, these functions must be realized remotely due to the sheer number of edge devices in an IoT

project and their geographic distribution.

With this in mind, Bosch and Huawei have chosen device management as the first service out of the set of Bosch IoT Suite services to be provided

on Huawei Cloud.

The Bosch IoT Remote Manager provides full functionality for connecting, managing, controlling, and updating devices easily without the need for

manual intervention. Yet what makes Bosch IoT Remote Manager so unique is not only its comprehensive set of device management features but

also its proven capability to scale in different use cases ranging from smart homes and buildings to connected vehicles. The device management

capabilities of the Bosch IoT Suite are not limited to a single industry and are being used by diverse customers worldwide. Thus Bosch can provide

strong proof points from already realized client projects. This demonstrates that the Bosch IoT Remote Manager can serve the heterogeneous

device management needs of many different use cases.

Industry experts recognize Bosch’s device management as best - in - class among IoT platforms available on the market. In its report “I4.0 / IoT Vendor

Benchmark 2017\", the Experton Group, a market intelligence and research company, states “The USP of the Bosch IoT Suite is its comprehensive device

management functionality that is unrivalled by that of other vendors.\"

In 2018, PAC analyst agency, part of the CXP Group, analyzed 18 companies in the field of IoT platforms for device management in the European

market. Four companies were rated “Best in Class,” with the Bosch IoT Suite’s device management being selected as benchmark for the second

consecutive year.

Thanks to the cooperation between Bosch and Huawei, the Bosch IoT Remote Manager is now available to all Chinese customers as a service

operated by Huawei Cloud. You can give it a try on the Huawei Cloud website: https://www.huaweicloud.com/en-us/solution/bosch-iot-suite/ .

Bosch considers China as a key IoT market and Huawei as a strong local partner with a proven ability to support our market entry into the IoT

platform segment.

One of the first examples of our successful teamwork belongs to the automotive domain. A leading Chinese automotive manufacturer has chosen

to deploy the Bosch IoT Suite on Huawei Cloud for updating its vehicles’ firmware over the air (FOTA). The solution is expected to be rolled out to

millions of connected cars in China over the coming years.

Most significantly for consumers in China, the world’s largest automotive market, the Bosch IoT Suite enables vital services such as the Vehicle

Management Solution, which is available locally on Huawei Cloud. This solution connects vehicles throughout their service life, providing the

technological foundation for such cloud - based services as predictive diagnostics and over - the - air software updates. The software is the secure

communication interface between the vehicle, the cloud, and the services. Data management allows vehicle manufacturers or fleet managers to

organize vehicle data, analyze it, and keep the vehicle software continuously updated.

▌ About Bosch Software Innovations

Bosch Software Innovations has been active in the Internet of Things for ten years. The team of IoT

consultants, software developers, solution architects, project managers, UX designers, business

model innovators, and trainers brings IoT ideas from strategy to implementation. The company has

designed, developed, and operated hundreds of international IoT projects in mobility, smart city, energy,

manufacturing, agriculture, health, as well as smart homes and buildings. Its cloud - based Bosch IoT Suite

currently connects more than 8.5 million sensors, devices, and machines with their users and enterprise

systems. With over 600 IoT experts worldwide, Bosch Software Innovations has locations in Germany,

Bulgaria, Singapore, Japan and China.

Bosch Software Innovations opened its first office in China, Shanghai, in 2012. In 2018, the company

also established an IoT services delivery center in Nanjing that provides local consultancy and solution

development for IoT projects.

More information can be found at www.boschsi.cn and our official WeChat account: Bosch - si.

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Deppon Logistics Supercharges Express Delivery

Operations with HUAWEI CLOUD

With the rapid development of e - commerce in China, the demand for express delivery has increased rapidly. On November 11, 2018,

China's major e - commerce enterprises generated 1.352 billion express orders, with a year - on - year increase of 25.12%. On that day,

in-country postal and express enterprises reached a record high by handling a total of 416 million orders. With the increases each year

from the sales-spree event, the express shipping industry is having to find new ways to keep up with the spiked volumes.

▌ Major Problem: Decreasing Labor Force, Increasing Demand

The pressure is immense and only mounting! The labor force

population in China has declined for five consecutive years now. The

portion of couriers to the total amount of logistics workers exceeds

the 50% range. The shortages in the labor force is being felt expressly

in the courier job because few are attracted to the 16-hour workdays

and irregular opportunities to eat. Delivery outfits need to correct this

situation, but how?

In the next three years, the daily delivery volume from courier devices

will increase from 114 million to 200 million. Extrapolating the current

numbers, the shortage of couriers will be about 1 million in three

years, which means the delivery end of the operations will face even

greater pressure.

In addition to the delivery end, the infrastructure on the backend

also show series lag if the operations are going to keep up with

demand. Lack of unified management capability and idle resources

stagnate efficiencies and increase costs for delivery service providers.

These enterprises need viable solutions to reduce the burdens on

delivery personnel and improve the entire layout if they hope to

remain competitive. They need to automate and graft higher levels

of intelligence into their processes to supercharge their operational

efficiency and save on manpower.

▌ Deppon Express Partners with

HUAWEI CLOUD

Deppon has been continuously leveraging cutting - edge technologies

such as cloud services and AI to improve competitiveness in the

express delivery industry. It has implemented AR, unmanned vehicles,

intelligent customer services, logistics cloud, and more to achieve

the rapid growth of its business. In June 2018, Deppon and HUAWEI

CLOUD signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Shanghai,

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▌ HUAWEI CLOUD OCR Increases

Efficiency While Decreasing Costs

with Fast -scan and Pick - up

Capabilities

HUAWEI CLOUD OCR constructs the data repository by efficiently

and accurately extracting key information of images. Currently,

HUAWEI CLOUD OCR has reached accuracy greater than 99% and

can recognize one image per second. Deppon has applied OCR,

instead of manual recording, to identify waybills. During pick-up,

delivery personnel take a photo or screenshot of the waybill, and

OCR automatically identifies and then records the information about

the sender and receiver on the image into the system. OCR delivers

high-precision recognition and can handle various problems, such

as complex backgrounds, uneven illumination, blurring, and missing

corners, which reduces manual processing time of exceptions and

greatly improves service efficiency and user experience. OCR helps

reduce management cost by about 25%.

▌ Labor Cost Saving Through Automated

Operations, Accurate Information

Extraction, and Auto - sorting

▌ Automatic Detection of Violent Sorting

Deppon uses HUAWEI CLOUD OCR to implement intelligent and

efficient destination - based automatic package management. After

a package is retrieved and uploaded to the pipeline, the system

automatically takes photos of and identifies information related to

the package, including the sender of the package, goods information,

whether the package is covered with inspection seal, and more.

Violent sorting behaviors in the express industry have been widely

criticized, which not only hurt consumers' rights and interests, but

also leads to huge amounts in compensation from damages. The

intelligent analysis service of HUAWEI CLOUD EI enables real - time

behavior analysis of surveillance videos and automatically recognizes

the pickers' behavior such as throwing, pushing, and kicking packages.

It automatically generates the video segments of violent sorting,

including its occurrence time and location. The solution reduces

manual monitoring costs and effectively reduces violent sorting

behavior. With more secured operations, goods and packages can be

delivered to all recipients intact.

By means of technical enablement and practice, HUAWEI CLOUD

has given Deppon the accelerations it needs to stay at the top both

now and well into the future with a partner it can trust. Enabling AI

technologies in the delivery services of Deppon, HUAWEI CLOUD has

helped the enterprise achieve the complete upgrades needed for the

new era. Huawei's vision is to bring digital to every person, home and

organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. In practicing this

vision, HUAWEI CLOUD is creating benefits for more enterprises.

Come grow with HUAWEI CLOUD, seize the future of enterprise intelligence!

announcing in-depth cooperation in such fields as cloud computing

and AI to explore the role that AI plays in the whole industry chain

industry, aiming to comprehensively upgrade user experience. Deppon

choose to accelerate and innovate to keep its status as one of the

timeliest and accurate providers, making HUAWEI CLOUD with its

continuous commitments to improve core competitiveness with

technology the perfect match.

The integration with HUAWEI COUD resources strengthens the

reliability of cloud data services of Deppon and accelerates the

entire cloud adoption process. Deppon Express is enlarging

its promotion of automatic recognition, backup, big data,

and cloud - based network transmission capabilities with the rich

tech powerhouse of HUAWEI CLOUD.

Deppon also announced that it is now working with Huawei to build

a smart logistics campus and explore the application of AI in the

industry chain with the advantages available from the energy resource

management, security convergence, and facial recognition features of the

Huawei platforming. Huawei is working intently to integrate technologies

into express delivery service platforms geared to the particular concerns

of the operations. By providing HUAWEI CLOUD services such as OCR,

identity verification, and behavior detection, Huawei is building smart

logistics solutions ranging from campus to delivery to help enterprises

improve efficiency with streamlined processes.

Deppon Logistics Supercharges Express Delivery Operations with HUAWEI CLOUD

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November 8, 2018 was China's 19th Journalists' Day.

A great success story between the Xinhua News Agency and HUAWEI CLOUD was widely broadcasted and forwarded on social media on this day

as a salute to journalists.

Xinhua News Agency, China's official state - run news agency and the country's principal and most influential agency, is the largest news agency

in the world in terms of correspondents worldwide. Xinhua is the sole channel for the distribution of important news related to the Communist

Party and Chinese central government. Despite its size and importance, overseas branches of Xinhua have often suffered from slow download

speeds and frequent disconnections. Inefficient maintenance and troubleshooting make matters even worse. In addition, the agency had to

simultaneously ensure compliance with the laws and regulations of numerous countries.

HUAWEI CLOUD now provides stable cloud services to support the news distribution system of Xinhua and has won high acclaim from the agency

for its cutting - edge technologies and future - oriented approach. This success story takes on even greater significance with HUAWEI CLOUD now

expanding globally.

▌ Pain Points and Requirements of the News Distribution System

Xinhua News Agency's news distribution

platform connects to global news agencies and

forwards news to its partner companies. For

example, Sina, China's leading multi - platform

digital media company, downloads up - to - date

news from Xinhua's news distribution platform.

Xinhua employs their news distribution

system in both their headquarters and

branches. Headquarters has a large

equipment room and a professional technical

team, making it relatively easy to purchase

and set up servers. This is not, however, an

easy task for global branches due to their

locations and resource limitations.

Previously, each branch of Xinhua built their

own mini news distribution system in a small

equipment room with several servers. In spite

of the small size, maintaining these systems

required two or three full - time engineers,

resulting in high costs. Partner companies

often encountered problems downloading

news reports from the news distribution

system, compromising the timeliness of

breaking news.

Upgrading the branches' news distribution

systems did not efficiently solve these

problems because the branches are

located globally. Equipment installation,

deployment, and O&M for all branches

required extensive IT workload and

resulted in high costs. If many branches

require a future upgrade, the news agency

would have no choice but to start over by

purchasing new equipment, planning new

lines, and building new systems, and no

one knows when the next upgrade will be

necessary.

The cloud computing business model

revolutionizes Xinhua's construction and

O&M on news distribution systems at their

branches. With cloud services, the news

agency no longer needs to purchase, install, or

deploy devices. What’s more, they won’t need

full-time maintenance personnel, allowing

them to focus on customer development for

their branches.

To deal with these issues, Xinhua established

the public cloud service procurement

project, which includes an omnimedia

distribution and e-commerce platform,

and is one of the key projects in the media

convergence development of Xinhua.

Ultimately, Xinhua hopes to provide the

most up - to - date news for branches by

improving the speed of their sites.

HUAWEI CLOUD + Xinhua News Agency

Cloud Technologies Empowering News Agency

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▌ Escorting Enterprises' Expansion

Outside of China

Xinhua was not initially optimistic towards the low - profile

HUAWEI CLOUD, but after several rounds of evaluation on the

products, technologies, and services, Xinhua ultimately gave

the bid to HUAWEI CLOUD, citing its leading technologies and

professional support services.

HUAWEI CLOUD has more cloud nodes outside of China than other

Chinese cloud service providers and fully meets all requirements.

Additionally, while Huawei is a global business, it also provides

unrivaled local services. Beyond this, Huawei's extensive experience

as a telecommunications device vendor provides HUAWEI CLOUD with

a competitive edge that enhances the news broadcasting of Xinhua.

Xinhua News Agency has three core systems: collection, editing, and

distribution systems. The first two systems are used by journalists

and editors. The distribution system connects to global media and its

performance defines the external response speed, and ultimately the

experience of news consumers.

In the first phase of establishing the omnichannel distribution

platform, HUAWEI CLOUD focused on optimizing the news distribution

lines and building an integrated, intelligent, and interactive

omnichannel distribution platform to meet changing market

requirements and improve the customer experience.

The global news distribution system of Xinhua now consists of the

primary node in Beijing and public cloud service nodes at branches

outside China. HUAWEI CLOUD provides a full portfolio of products,

including private lines between the primary node and the branch nodes.

Chinese enterprises and their global institutions face several issues

in their global expansion. Network resources often cannot be quickly

obtained due to long distances between nodes. The bandwidth cannot

be allocated on demand, resulting in high and wasteful expenditures.

Network resources are particularly difficult to obtain in Asia, Africa,

and Latin America, and enterprises also find it difficult to meet the

laws and regulations in each country they operate in.

HUAWEI CLOUD provides the Cloud Connect service to help

enterprises flexibly expand their global business. The Cloud Connect

service ensures one - stop compliance globally, allowing users

to focus on their own service innovation. In addition, the service

includes an intelligent 'brain' (named Galaxy), providing scheduling

capabilities. It enables millions of users to easily interconnect with

each other at more than tripling speed.

▌ Around - the - Clock Online Services

Of course, the cutting - edge technologies and professional services of

HUAWEI CLOUD are important, but security is a vital issue for Xinhua's

news distribution platform. Special measures must be taken to prevent

tampering with or stealing news reports. Stolen news reports result in

profit losses, and news report tampering leads to serious consequences.

As a leading public cloud service provider, HUAWEI CLOUD provides

full-stack security protection for Xinhua's news distribution platform.

HUAWEI CLOUD is the only cloud service provider in China that has

passed the PCI - DSS security certification, and has obtained the

Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) certification, Information

Technology Service Standards (ITSS) service enhancement

certification, IDC/ISP license, and Trusted Cloud certification (TUV).

Adhering to the principles of never developing apps, never touching

customer data, and never taking equity stakes in partners, HUAWEI

CLOUD makes its business boundaries clear and will not intercept

customers' private information, fully protecting customers' rights

and interests.

HUAWEI has local service teams in more than 170 countries and

regions that can provide 24/7 response to address the requirements

of Xinhua, exactly what the global news agency requires.

Switching from the original business model to public cloud is

considered the core part of the upgrade of the news distribution

platform. With the help of HUAWEI CLOUD, the news distribution

system of the headquarters and branches were migrated to run on

HUAWEI CLOUD within one month. Previously, the migrations took at

least one or two years.

Data migration is complex and successful migration speaks to

the close collaboration between Xinhua and HUAWEI CLOUD. The

technical team of Xinhua transferred the application data and

applications to HUAWEI CLOUD, which then installed and deployed the

apps. During the migration of the Singapore node (the most important

node of Xinhua), HUAWEI CLOUD dispatched a database expert to

work with the technical team of Xinhua specifically on optimization

and data transmission. Xinhua was impressed with the professional

services of HUAWEI CLOUD.

Which cloud services provider dedicates itself to your future? HUAWEI

CLOUD answers that question with the way it does business.

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HUAWEI CLOUD Rendering Service Brings Museums to Life

Two years ago, a documentary titled Master in the Forbidden City 1

revealed the restoration processes and technologies involved in

restoring relics to their past glory, demystifying the practice for many

viewers. New tech is also revamping the way museums do business.

Many people are no longer satisfied with the dimly lit, still cultural

relics, and cold exhibit descriptions that confined the model in the

past. Visitors want to experience the items, immerse into the past and

see the context that the relics fit into, and how the evidentiary pieces

helped progress civilization. As such, many museums are innovating

in restoration of artifacts and blending tech into how the pieces are

presented to the public.

It has become common to see tour guides ready with their speakers

and head - set microphones outside of historical and culturally

significant sites to take visitors around and expand on the backdrops.

While this improves the experience and educates the visitor, the

visual impact is missing and viewing cultural relics for far off is not

as exciting as getting an immersive experience. Xi'an, once the capital

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of China, is the site of several of the most important dynasties in

Chinese history. The Qin Render Cloud presents the story behind

the female dancer figurine in the Han Dynasty and major historical

events in and around Xi'an, and it does it all powered on the HUAWEI

CLOUD. Relics are brought to life, and visitors can become literal eye

witnesses to the 360 - degree backdrop of the times, almost as if they

were transported back to sites thousands of years ago.2

Xi'an, as the birthplace of the ancient Chinese civilization and nation,

has rich history and many museums. In 2018, Digital Qinhan Silk

Road Museum solution was initiated based on tech from HUAWEI

CLOUD. Cultural relics now come to life with the click of button.

Cloud rendering technology animates the relics in projections above

the displays. Cold statues are given movement in the renderings, as

tech and history dance to give visitors an unforgettable experience

every time. Legendary events, historical dances, and even figures are

anthropomorphized right in front of tourists. New levels of fun and

learning are now built into the museum visits.

1. This documentary shines light on the unsung life stories of restorers of cultural relics working inside the Forbidden City,

together with the history of the antiques and the palace, the procedures of restoration and the development of cultural

protection.

2. The Han Dynasty, the second imperial dynasty of China (206 BC to 220 AD).

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With the interactive 3D, AR, and VR technologies of Qin Render

Cloud, tourists no longer feel unengaged from being segregated

to a distant view. They can tap on the screen to zoom in or out and

rotate the images.

Huawei's contributions to this transformation are extensive.

Object Storage Service (OBS) on HUAWEI CLOUD adopts advanced

technology to improve the upload bandwidth utilization rate to

95% or more for Qin Render Cloud – 300% higher than previous

transmission speed.

A great number of computing resources are required to reproduce

the historical scenes and likenesses of the items ranging from bronze

lamps from the Han Dynasty to the colored pottery of the Yangshao

Culture. With the auto scaling capabilities of HUAWEI CLOUD, Qin

Render Cloud can schedule tens of thousands of cloud servers across

the country and even across the globe, minimizing the usage cost and

improving the CPU usage. Classic culture is being revived with the

support of modern technologies.

HUAWEI CLOUD partners with Qin Render Cloud to lead to a new era

with the conveniences and affordability of its public cloud offerings.

With the massive cloud resources available on the cloud services arm

of the tech conglomerate, Qin Render Cloud improves the resource

layout, rendering scale and rendering efficiency of its entire profile.

With the AI-powered cloud computing and big data solutions on

HUAWEI CLOUD, time - consuming and costly rendering services for

massive content is now placed well within budgets while delivering

ultimate UX.

In addition to cooperation in the cloud rendering industry, HUAWEI

CLOUD has built up its services and relationships with many other

industries. The cloud service brand is connecting the physical and

virtual worlds with impressive smart utilities to power any profile, no

matter the scale. With the 30 years of technical accumulation in ICT

tech of the parent company, HUAWEI CLOUD is upping its investments

in the cloud field to demonstrate its long-term staying power,

welcoming users of all types to take advantage of its Inclusive AI

strategy featuring affordability, ramped - up utilities, and hallmarked

stability. Organizations of all sizes are accelerating their digital

transformations and cloud adoptions.

Huawei's AI strategy and full - stack, all - scenario AI portfolio was

first released at Huawei Connect 2018. More and more adopters,

like Qin Render Cloud, are banding together with HUAWEI CLOUD to

innovate and completely rethink traditional models as the Activate

Intelligence with the AI, cloud, big data, 5G, IoT, rendering, and long

list of other services and utilities available with the service brand.

Find out what HUAWEI CLOUD can do for your organization!

HUAWEI CLOUD Rendering Service Brings Museums to Life

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HUAWEI CLOUD Powers Special Effects Rendering in

Macrograph's Post - Production of Operation Red Sea

Operation Red Sea, a 2018 Chinese action film, has 2200 special effects scenes and 1000 3D - rendering shots. The special effects took two years

to complete, and the latter more than 25,000 hours. This blockbuster was highly acclaimed nationally and internationally, and left viewers with

spectacular scenes and an immersive - like experience. Yet, few consider the effort that goes into the thousands of elaborately rendered shots

that make it feel real.

Macrograph, a famous film and television post-production company based in Seoul, South Korea, has taken on several films in recent years,

including Operation Red Sea and The Mermaid. These films are noteworthy because they have captivated audiences everywhere with sophisticated

production and extravagant special effects.

Viewers these days are expecting to be thrilled in their movie - going experience. Intense special effects have become the norm, and new tech is

helping improve film production. The special effects in the 2016 movie The Mermaid accounted for 37.5% of the total budget. While making the

movie, Macrograph and dIFFERENT dIGITAL dESIGN lTD, a studio in Hong Kong specializing in visual effects (VFX) and animation, produced a total

of 1000 special effects shots. Qin Render Cloud, a leading cloud-based rendering platform, completed 600 3D - rendering shots taking more than

10,000 hours. Think that's impressive? Think again. These figures doubled in Operation Red Sea.

Special effects in movies, TV shows, and online series are improving dramatically. In addition to satisfying the VFX requirements of audiences,

studios face problems in the production cycle with all the work that needs to go into the post-production. During film production, rendering takes

a relatively long time, and this bottleneck is becoming increasingly more apparent.

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For the average scene in a film, if a single frame takes half an hour

to render, and there are at least 24 frames per second, rendering a

one-minute video clip would take a month. The rendering time has a

direct impact on the standby time of special effects personnel - the

longer the rendering time, the lower the overall production efficiency.

To improve turnaround, many producers elect to place this process

in the hands of rendering farms (centers specifically dedicated

to rendering that have a certain number of servers depending

on the needs). Large special effects companies typically purchase

large - capacity rendering farms.

Macrograph's annual project production volume and use of rendering

farm capacity are often hard to predict, frequently encountering large

fluctuations. The dynamics of production leave some rendering farm

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Improves Special Effects Production

devices idle in certain phases of each project. For example, many

movies are released during the Chinese New Year holiday. The actual

filming starts at the beginning of the year, leaving post - production

for the second half of the year, which is when rendering farm device

use significantly increases. In contrast, rough estimates put the

average utilization rate of rendering farms in China during the first

half of the year at generally less than 25%, a situation that requires

remedy as idle devices are unable to produce revenue.

With massive computing and elastic scaling capabilities, cloud

rendering is becoming the solution to improve the utilization of

rendering farm devices while reducing the number of idle resources,

space taken up by devices, and depreciation costs. Cloud rendering

has become the future direction of special effects in post-production.

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Cloud computing provides virtually unlimited computing power for

visual effects, bringing creativity to life. To explore the potential of

cloud computing in film - making, Macrograph has partnered with

HUAWEI CLOUD to benefit from cloud - based rendering. On the Xi'an

leg of the HUAWEI CLOUD China Tour in 2018 (a series of activities

held in eight cities), Lee In - ho, CEO of Macrograph, described plans

to build a cloud - based rendering and special effects production

platform supported by Huawei's leading ICT infrastructure and

global service capabilities. With these platforms, the best film and TV

special effects artists worldwide can participate in project production

anytime, anywhere - revolutionizing work methods.

HUAWEI CLOUD provides high - performance, reliable, and secure

computing, storage, and network services to fully satisfy even the highest

of requirements in rendering, yielding the much sought - after reductions

in the production cycle while increasing the bottom line for studios.

Lee In - ho added that Huawei has strong O&M and industry - leading

infrastructure capabilities and resources worldwide.

How does HUAWEI CLOUD integrate with Macrograph's businesses?

Mr. Lee says HUAWEI CLOUD's high - performance cloud services allow

their rendering work to be carried out quickly and smoothly. HUAWEI

CLOUD provides diverse, cutting - edge technologies, such as Elastic

Cloud Server (ECS), Image Management Service (IMS), Auto Scaling (AS),

Elastic Load Balance (ELB), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and NAT Gateway

(NAT). These technologies enable Macrograph to customize the rendering

environment to suit their in - the - moment requirements.

In addition, with the strong manageability of ECS, Macrograph

can effectively manage multiple rendering nodes using Queenbee

(a Macrograph - developed special effects process management

software) and apply these ECSs to their automatic management

system. Based on HUAWEI CLOUD's excellent ECS performance and

AS and ELB functions, Macrograph has developed a rendering farm

management software (RMS) that can scale up or down the number

of rendering nodes on demand and automatically analyze and render

shots without any additional programing or operation, adding in all

new conveniences to special effects processes.

Macrograph knows HUAWEI CLOUD is investing heavily and in it for

the long run, finding ways to combine VFX and cloud technologies to

improve rendering while reducing overall production and operation

costs. CEO Lee commented, \"We agree that future investment in

The innovation binding HUAWEI CLOUD and Macrograph is

technology - driven. HUAWEI CLOUD dedication to technological

development is echoed in its new slogan, \"HUAWEI CLOUD: Leading

Edge, Future Ready, Trustworthy\". HUAWEI CLOUD continues to open up

its capabilities so companies can upgrade their services and innovate

with intelligent utilities.

In 2018, Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei's Cloud BU, shared the

brand's general approach to technical development and project

experience in a series of speeches on accelerating innovation. He

often spoke to the new tech graft - ins and how HUAWEI CLOUD is

committed to building inclusive, affordable, effective, and reliable

AI - enabled platforms. HUAWEI CLOUD has released a series of

AI - related services, such as Deep Learning Service (DLS), ImageSearch,

Enterprise Intelligence, and Video to promote commercialization with

the affordability of mature - tech pricing.

HUAWEI CLOUD helps smooth out transformation, supports growth, and

provides the tools organizations of all sizes need to overcome business

challenges. HUAWEI CLOUD is fostering a robust ecosystem supporting

application, content, and cloud - based developments for customers

and partners.

HUAWEI CLOUD provides advanced platforms and the latest

technologies tunable to the specifics of industries and individual

customer requirements, becoming a solid base for enterprise

innovation. Customers, partners, developers, and a long list of others

are all benefiting from the power, convenience, and innovation

capabilities of the HUAWEI CLOUD - find out what the cloud brand can

do for your organization!

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Computing Firepower for Macrograph

▌ HUAWEI CLOUD Accelerates Innovation

the VFX field is very important. Therefore, we plan to conduct joint

research and development with HUAWEI CLOUD to explore the future

of special effects technology.\"

Macrograph is able to run a stable production environment on the

HUAWEI CLOUD. The build not only serves the development of the film

industry in China and South Korea, but also extends the global stage

for Macrograph to produce top creative digital content.

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