Huawei ushers in Africa’s multi-architecture computing era

Huawei Cloud has released Kunpeng Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) cloud services and partner programme 2.0 at AfricaCom, the continent’s largest annual telecom event.

The Kunpeng-powered cloud services will be made available to African customers by the end of December, and will offer 15% faster multi-core computing power and a 30% higher performance/price ratio than the industry average.

These cloud services offer an unprecedented capability to meet theever-shifting requirements of a diverse range of public and private institutions.

Speaking at the Huawei Cloud, AI Forum, RuiHouwei, President of HUAWEI CLOUD Africa, noted the significance of recent technological breakthroughs.

“The computing industry has gone through the mainframe computer, minicomputer, and x86 server stages and will move to the multi-architecture computing stage,” he said.

“The computing power previously available only in the x86 architecture, is now available in different architectures, allowing for the use of appropriate computing power for eachspecific application. “

This January, Huawei launched Kunpeng 920, the industry’s highest-performing 7nm server processor in the Kunpeng architecture. The HUAWEI CLOUD ECS is powered by the Kunpeng servers, and supports multi-architecture computing.”

Rui also expressed optimism at Kunpeng’s capabilities for the local  market, “Huawei is able to innovate across the entire stack ranging from chips and  servers, to cloud platforms. In-depth collaboration between chips, hardware, and software enable Kunpengcloud services to deliver unparalleled performance. We are deeply committed to providing diversified cloud services and solutions, to help public institutions and private companies takeintelligence and mobility to even greater heights.”

At the forum, Huawei also outlined its Partner Program 2.0 initiative, which offers crucial support for partners,with regard to online and onsite training, market expansion, marketing activities, and technical understanding.

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