Huawei aims for cloud services from EEC hub

The firm aims to provide public cloud services throughout Southeast Asia from its hub in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor.
Seeing great potential, the firm set up its cloud business last year with a focus on the China market and this year has seen sales grow by 7 times, said Zheng Yelai, president of Huawei Cloud Business Unit. Huawei is now expanding its business base outside China and has set up cloud services and a cloud platform in Thai and international markets.
Thailand is a major focus, given its high potential economic growth and the improving political situation. The company has invested Bt700 million to lay down cloud infrastructure, cloud services, and innovative technology in its Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) hub.
It offers Cloud 2.0 services, the next generation cloud services capable of providing affordable, easy-to-use and scenario-oriented solutions. 
Cloud 2.0 boasts stable, reliable and secure services that feature cloud-network synergy and global access.
The firm provides over 120 cloud services and 60 categories of industry solutions. The cloud services can help agencies and enterprises enhance their business agility, accelerate innovation and improve security. 
“Thailand is a very important market for Huawei. Thailand 4.0 will drive new economic growth and help overcome the middle-income trap, developing the Kingdom into an innovation-driven country with higher levels of income,” said Yelai.
“Huawei has been looking for ways to empower Thailand 4.0 and is ready to help with the tech to get the country to where it wants to go. We see that by 2025, all enterprise IT solutions will be cloud-based, and more than 85 per cent of enterprise applications will run on the cloud.”
 Yelai said the firm has joined hands with business partners to provide innovative solutions and public cloud services and solutions. Customers come from government, the private sector, enterprises, the B2B sector, and telecom providers. 
Huawei will provide its cloud solutions and services in both the domestic and Southeast Asia market. It picked Thailand as a hub for cloud services for Southeast Asia customers.
By 2019, Huawei expects that the use of cloud services will exceed traditional information technology across the global market. 

Foundation of intelligent world 
“I believe that cloud services will become the foundation of the intelligent world,” said the president. 
“In the next decade, industries and companies will ‘grow with cloud’ as they adopt cloud technology. Cloud computing will become a basic technology for every industry. We are confident that the opening of this new data centre will boost the country’s Thailand 4.0 efforts by making use of our latest technologies in cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence.” 
IDC has reported that by 2018 more than 50 per cent of IT spending will be cloud based, reaching 60 per cent of all IT infrastructure and 60-70 per cent of all software services and technology spending by 2020.
Enterprise spending on cloud services and cloud-enabling hardware, software and services will reach Bt48 billion by 2021 in Thailand, said the report.