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Traditionally playing in the telecom space, Huawei has, of late, been aggressively targeting the enterprise IT segment. With an aim to further gain a foothold in the enterprise market and capture mind share of CIOs, the Shenzhen, China-based company is readying to launch an open source-based cloud operating system called FusionSphere.
“FusionSphere will cater to the ICT convergence and virtualization needs of the enterprise segment. It is a product that is mature, and can now be taken to the market. I believe it will be a very successful product line,” said Eric Xu, Rotating CEO, Huawei. Huawei has already built some of the world’s largest data centers based on FusionSphere.
According to Huawei’s reports, FusionSphere has proven to be among the most cost-effective virtualization platforms available today. It employs a bare-metal virtualization engine that consumes less than 5 percent of physical CPU resources, yet this engine improves server utilization up to 80 percent and reduces costs for IT infrastructure deployment by 30 percent.
FusionSphere provides high availability and metropolitan area active-active disaster recovery (DR). These capabilities enable IT services that run on the FusionSphere platform to be backed up and recovered in the event of a disaster. Live migration allows the system to be upgraded or maintained without service interruption, the reports claim.
System operation is the key element that determines the virtualization system utilization
efficiency for enterprise cloud computing. Huawei FusionSphere provides visual templates that allow customers to create virtual data centers, simplifying cloud computing operations. FusionSphere's open and integrated platform provides Huawei's extended application programming interfaces (APIs). FusionSphere also supports the OpenStack APIs, allowing customers to quickly deploy on-demand cloud services, the report said.
Huawei Enterprise is one of Huawei's three Business Groups (BGs). The Enterprise Business Group (EBG) for the company grew 32.4 percent from 11.5 billion CNY in 2012 to 15.3 billion CNY in 2013.
In a bid to further establish its enterprise footprint in the Indian market, Huawei EBG, recently announced a more focused-approach to its channel partner network in the country. The programme ‘Connect, Engage & Build’ aims to build a larger channel partner ecosystem through deeper engagement with its core partners by enabling them with latest technology innovations and solutions so as to address the growing ICT needs in the market.
According to a global study by research firm, Gartner, Huawei has exhibited a year-on-year revenue growth of over 89.4% across the Enterprise LAN & WLAN market category between Q32012 and Q32013. This makes Huawei the second largest enterprise traditional router vendor and the fifth largest Ethernet switch vendor in the global enterprise networking market.
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