Global information and communication technology (ICT) group Huawei has unveiled a series of industrial digital and intelligent transformation solutions and flagship products.

At its Industrial Digital and Intelligent Transformation Summit at Gitex Global 2024, held in Dubai from October 14 to 18, the company and its partners launched various joint solutions for ten industries, namely public utilities, transportation, finance, electric power, oil and gas, mining, retail, education and healthcare, and a series of new flagship products.

These solutions and products, designed to support customers in enhancing their digital and intelligent transformation, include the National Government Cloud solution; ICT Talent Cultivation solution; Medical Technology Digitalisation solution 2.0; Digital CORE solution; Smart Retail solution; One-Cloud, One-Network, Multi-Hub solution; Transportation Operations Coordination Centre-Advanced solution; Intelligent Distribution solution; Unstaffed Open-Pit Mine solution; and Intelligent Oil and Gas Field solution.

“We are combining our strengths in networking, storage, computing, cloud and energy, and we are working with partners to build new digital and intelligent infrastructure,” says Huawei corporate senior VP and ICT sales and service president Li Peng.

He notes that, last year, Huawei released a reference architecture for the intelligent transformation of industries, and has since put this architecture into practice to provide customers with leading and adaptable solutions.

“We have summarised over 100 case studies that different industry customers can use to accelerate their digital and intelligent transformation,” he says, adding that, in addition, the company established 14 OpenLabs worldwide to support joint innovation with local solutions partners.

Huawei corporate senior VP and enterprise sales president Leo Chen emphasises that artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G-Advanced are among the next-generation technologies that are driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which will lead to a significant leap in productivity.

“However, this transformation also brings challenges in infrastructure, industrial applications and talent ecosystems,” he says, noting that Huawei will continue to leverage its full-stack capabilities in connectivity, storage, computing and cloud to assist industries in building AI-ready ICT infrastructure.

“We work with our partners to build a customer-centric culture, keep the principle of ‘shared benefits as the bridge, integrity as the foundation and rules as the guarantee’, foster a healthy business environment and grow together to help our customers successfully embark on a journey of digital and intelligent transformation,” adds Huawei enterprise sales global partner, commercial and distribution president Ernest Zhang.

Also at Gitex Global 2024, at the Huawei Cloud Summit UAE 2024 event, Huawei Cloud unveiled Pangu Models 5.0, which features upgrades in full series, multi- modality and chain of thought capabilities.

This emerged as Huawei Cloud’s public cloud revenue in the Middle East and North Africa region grows tenfold in the past year, with the company providing innovative services to over 900 customers and building a comprehensive ecosystem with more than 300 partners.

Huawei Cloud launched its latest products and technical enhancements, and released joint solutions with ecosystem partners.

“Huawei Cloud has progressed rapidly over the past year,” says Huawei Cloud VP and Huawei Cloud Strategy Industry Development president Joy Huang, outlining the ecosystem services offered by Huawei Cloud to enable digital transformation in various regional industries such as e-government, finance, carrier, media and entertainment, ecommerce and retail and Web3.

With hybrid cloud becoming the “go-to foundation” for digital transformation in government organisations and large enterprises, Huawei Hybrid Cloud VP Hu Yuhai announced the release of the Huawei Cloud Stack 8.5 for the Middle East and Central Asia, including a new mainframe-to-cloud solution and more use cases of Hybrid Cloud for large AI models.