Can OpenStack open up Europe to Huawei’s cloud computing ambitions
November 4, 2014
Grazed from Diginomica. Author: Chris Middleton.
The rise of the Chinese computing and telecoms giants has been the subject of considerable attention in the West in recent years and in particular the potential impact they will have on what has been a US dominated tech sector. An interesting perspective was cast on this this week at the OpenStack Summit in Paris where Huawei, staking a claim to be China’s leading IT company (by sales) at the event, announced its intention to be a cloud provider of choice in Europe.
In particular the firm sees the UK higher education sector as a key target, and named Northumberland University as its first client in that space. Telefonica UK (O2) already uses Huawei cloud services. The company sees its mission as being to fill a gap, according to Ren Zhipeng, president, cloud computing product line, with that gap being the operational gulf between legacy systems and new cloud deployments…
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