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Event Recap – AWS Blog
Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 welcomed over 100,000 attendees, 2,700+ exhibitors, sponsors and partners, and 1,100 speakers and thought leaders, to explore industry topics including AI, monetization opportunities, and the transformative power of the cloud for telcos.
This event is about providing a glimpse into the future and demonstrating how AI, 5G and APIs are unlocking new possibilities, thanks to collaborative initiatives like GSMA Open Gateway, said Mats Granryd, director general at GSMA.
AWS shared a number of customer and partner announcements across generative AI, network APIs, 5G, and network transformation. Attendees also saw firsthand how AWS innovations can transform telcos, digitize industries, and reimagine consumer experiences through the 20+ demos at the AWS next level. Watch the AWS next level recap video.
Here are a few highlights from AWS at MWC 2024.
Telcos are looking to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and generative AI to streamline costs and efficiencies, enable better customer engagement, and drive innovative new offerings. With enterprise-grade security and privacy, a choice of leading foundation models, a data-first approach, and the most performant, low-cost infrastructure, telcos trust AWS to deliver everything they need to accelerate generative AI powered innovation.
At MWC 2024, there were more 40 sessions that focused on AI, with many noting that generative AI is on the verge of transforming the way we live, work, and interact. BT Group announced that it deployed Amazon Qs coding companion (Amazon CodeWhisperer) to provide generative AI coding assistance to its software engineers. The solution is already providing 15-20 suggestions of code per active user per day for BT Group, with an acceptance rate of 37% by its software engineers who are using the platform. This is a great example of the value, efficiency, and support generative AI can offer.
Tele2 announced it is using AWS to launch an Internet of Things (IoT) customer support solution, powered by Amazon Bedrock. The solution is designed using AWS services and will help Tele2 IoT customer support agents to provide faster and more detailed conversational responses to IoT customer inquiries across multiple channels.
Central to the shift of telecom operators into future-ready organizations is the embrace of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). McKinsey estimated the network API market could unlock around $100-300 billion in revenue for operators over the next 5-7 years, stemming from connectivity and edge computing, while generating an additional $10-30 billion from APIs themselves. The GSMA Open Gateway initiative was announced at MWC 2023 with the support of 21 mobile network operators and cloud providers, including AWS. Since then, Open Gateway has expanded to 47 operators, attracting developers to build innovative use cases and applications, using APIs that expose unique characteristics of the networks.
In the run up to MWC 2024, AWS announced it is working alongside global telcos including Verizon, Telefnica, T-Mobile, Orange, and Liberty Global, to offer telco network APIs to AWS developers. These developers already use thousands of AWS APIs from over 240 AWS services, and they can access telco network APIs to reach more developers and customers through AWS Marketplace. We have AWS applications in financial services, gaming, and immersive experiences being built using telco APIs, and will be adding more operators globally, as we get adoption.
5G Future Forum (5GFF) members, including Telstra, Verizon, Vodafone, Rogers, America Movil, KT, and Bell Canada, in collaboration with AWS, released a whitepaper defining the role of bi-directional APIs between telco and cloud providers in advancing multi-edge computing (MEC) infrastructure integration and applications.
Vonage announced a collaboration with AWS to accelerate the availability of new solutions, with an anti-fraud solution as the first one. AWS generative AI services will enhance the solutions fraud detection capabilities, enabling businesses to better protect themselves from mobile fraud while improving the customer experience.
Telcos across the world are leveraging cloud to transform their networks so they can take advantage of the clouds economics, scale, and agility. This allows them to focus on whats most important transforming telcos core networks, monetizing their investments, digitizing industries, reimagining the consumer experience, and increasing resilience and security.
NTT DOCOMO, Japans leading mobile operator with more than 89 million subscribers, selected AWS to commercially deploy its nationwide 5G Open Radio Access Network (RAN) in Japan. DOCOMO will use AWS to deploy Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere, a container management software, at its 5G Open RAN to simplify network operations with automated cluster management tools. AWS is supporting NTT DOCOMO in developing its 5G Core on AWS that is running in a hybrid cloud environment.
TELUS announced a new collaboration with Samsung Electronics and AWS that will see Telus become the first telecommunications provider in North America to evolve the architecture of roaming, enabling greater reliability and faster speeds for customers traveling abroad. Meanwhile, in Europe, Swiss telecom operator Sunrise Business announced it is working with AWS to accelerate the cloudification of Swiss small to medium-sized enterprises.
In Latin America, Beyond ONE/Virgin Mobile announced it is working with AWS to drive growth and innovation in the regions telecommunications sector. Virgin Mobile will use a combination of AWS Regions and AWS hybrid cloud offeringsincluding AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zonesto modernize the Beyond One stack and mark a significant step forward in cloud adoption and digital transformation in the region.
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AWS promotes diversity in technology and supports organizations empowering women to pursue tech careers. According to GSMA, MWC 2024 attracted 26% of female attendees, and of the 1,100 speakers, 40% of them were female. This year, AWS hosted a panel discussion on opportunities and challenges women in the telecom industry face and reinforced our commitment to diversity across the telecom ecosystem during our AWS executive reception.
At MWC 2024, AWS showcased 20+ demos across three main themes:
1/ Transforming Telcos These demos focused on the network cloudification journey of CSPs (across RAN, Core, IMS and OSS/BSS) through unified automation, orchestration and generative AI toolchain, resulting in new growth opportunities, reduced OPEX, increased sustainability, and enhanced resiliency. Watch the recap:
2/ Digitizing industries Innovative industry use cases in this demo area showcased how AWS is supporting leading telcos to help digitize industries like healthcare, manufacturing, travel and hospitality, and financial services. This is done through reinventing connectivity and introducing new business models (via private network solutions, network APIs, public MEC, etc.). Watch the recap:
3/ Reimagining consumer experience The demos in this area showcased some of the innovative solutions AWS is developing with telcos and leading ISVs to engage consumers in a more exciting, personalized, and smart way.
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Amazon EC2 R7i instances are now available in additional AWS region – AWS Blog
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Europe(Paris).
Amazon EC2 R7i instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.
They deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus R6i instances. These instances are SAP certified and are a great choice for memory-intensive workloads, such as SAP, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases like SAP HANA, and real time big data analytics like Hadoop and Spark. They offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl) for high-transaction and latency-sensitive workloads. These bare-metal sizes support built-in Intel accelerators: Data Streaming Accelerator, In-Memory Analytics Accelerator, and QuickAssist Technology, allowing customers to facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for workloads.
R7i instances support the new Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) that accelerate matrix multiplication operations for applications such as CPU-based ML. In addition, customers can now attach up to 128 EBS volumes to an R7i instance (vs 28 EBS volume attachments on R6i). This allows processing of larger amounts of data, scale workloads, and improve performance over R6i instances.
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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region – CIO
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabias burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region.
Specifically, AWS will launch what its calling an AWS infrastructure Region in Saudi Arabia in 2026 to give technology developers, existing businesses, and startups and entrepreneurs a comprehensive, in-country data-center infrastructure for running their cloud-based technology solutions, according to a release by Amazons cloud unit.
The new AWS Region will enable organizations to unlock the full potential of the cloud and build with AWS technologies like compute, storage, databases, analytics, and artificial intelligence, transforming the way businesses and institutions serve their customers, said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of infrastructure services at AWS, in a press statement.
AWS will join competitors Huawei, Microsoft, and Oracle in launching significantly funded plans to build cloud infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, bolstering the countrys plans to become a technology hub for the Middle East. Indeed, the kingdom is positioning itself as a global leader in digital technologies ahead of its hosting of the World Expo 2030 in Riyadh.
Amazons investment in the kingdom aims to fortify this strategy with the highest levels of security and resilience available on AWS cloud infrastructure, helping serve fast-growing demand for cloud services across the Middle East, Kalyanaraman said.
The move likely was spurred not only by an interest in ensuring it stays on pace with competitors in a fast-growing global market, but also by pressure on foreign firms applied last year by Saudi Arabia to move operations to the country or risk losing government contracts. Amazon alongside its US-based cloud competitors Google and Microsoft acted quickly to set up regional headquarters in Saudi Arabia.
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Healthcare Cloud Computing Market size is set to grow by USD 42.21 billion from 2022 to 2027, North America is … – PR Newswire
NEW YORK, March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Technavio, theglobal healthcare cloud computing marketsize is projected to grow by USD 42.21 billion from 2022 to 2027. The market is estimated to decrease at a CAGR of 20.55% during the forecast period.However, the growth momentum will decelerate. By geography, the global healthcare cloud computing market is segmented into North America, Europe, APAC, South America, and Middle East and Africa. The report provides actionable insights and estimates the contribution of all regions to the growth of the global healthcare cloud computing market.North America is estimated to account for 39% of the growth of the global healthcare cloud computing market during the forecast period. The US, Canada, and Mexico are the major adopters of healthcare cloud computing solutions in the region. Many healthcare institutions in the US are adopting cloud computing. For instance, LifePoint Health signed a multiyear strategic partnership with Google LLC to implement Google Cloud's healthcare data engine in its hospitals across the US. Such collaborations are expected to drive the growth of the market in the region during the forecast period.
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Details
Page number
169
Base year
2022
Historical year
2017-2021
Forecast period
2023-2027
Growth momentum & CAGR
Decelerate at a CAGR of 20.55%
Market growth 2023-2027
USD42.21 billion
Market structure
Fragmented
YoY growth (%)
23.08
Regional analysis
North America, Europe, APAC, South America, and Middle East and Africa
Performing market contribution
North America at 39%
Key countries
US, Canada, UK, Germany, and France
Segment Overview This report extensively covers marketsegmentation by product (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS), component (hardware and services), and geography (APAC, North America, Europe, Middle Eastand Africa, and South America).
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The increased number of cloud vendors is driving the healthcare cloud computing market growth.
Several vendors have entered the market to provide services such as EHR and EMR facilities. For instance, Alibaba has launched ET Medical Brain, an AI-assisted solution suite that acts as a virtual assistant in medical imaging, drug development, and hospital management.The market is dominated by a few players. However, other companies are providing cloud services by partnering with existing vendors. For instance, Rackspace offers cloud services in collaboration with Amazon.com. Thus, with a rise in the number of cloud service providers, the market is expected to grow rapidly during the forecast period.
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In recent years, the Healthcare Cloud Computing Market has witnessed exponential growth, reshaping the landscape of healthcare delivery. Cloud computing, characterized by its scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, has become a cornerstone of modern healthcare infrastructure. With cloud computing solutions, healthcare providers can store, manage, and analyze vast amounts of patient data securely and efficiently.
One of the primary drivers behind the surge in the Healthcare Cloud Computing Market is the increasing adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and the need for interoperability among healthcare systems. Cloud-based EHR solutions offer healthcare organizations the ability to access patient information anytime, anywhere, fostering seamless collaboration among care teams. This enhances patient care while streamlining administrative processes.
Security is paramount in healthcare, and cloud computing offers advanced security features such as encryption, access controls, and regular data backups. These measures ensure data security and compliance with stringent healthcare regulations like HIPAA.
Moreover, cloud computing solutions enable healthcare providers to leverage advanced analytics tools for deriving meaningful insights from patient data. By harnessing the power of analytics, healthcare organizations can improve clinical outcomes, identify trends, and personalize patient care strategies.
The Healthcare Cloud Computing Market caters to a wide range of stakeholders, including hospitals, clinics, research institutions, and pharmaceutical companies. These entities rely on cloud computing to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and drive innovation in healthcare delivery.
The COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated the adoption of cloud computing in healthcare. With the sudden surge in demand for telehealth services, healthcare providers turned to cloud-based platforms to deliver remote care effectively. This trend is expected to persist post-pandemic, driving continued growth in the Healthcare Cloud Computing Market.
Looking ahead, the Healthcare Cloud Computing Market is poised for further expansion with the emergence of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). These technologies, coupled with cloud computing, hold the potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery, offering predictive analytics, remote patient monitoring, and personalized treatment plans.
In conclusion, the Healthcare Cloud Computing Market represents a transformative force in the healthcare industry, offering unprecedented opportunities for innovation and efficiency. As healthcare organizations increasingly embrace cloud computing solutions, they are poised to deliver higher quality care, improve patient outcomes, and drive cost savings across the healthcare ecosystem.
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Promoting customer choice: AWS takes another step to lower costs for customers changing IT providers | Amazon Web … – AWS Blog
Changing IT providers has always required time, effort, and money, but cloud computing has made that process easier than ever. Before cloud services, switching was often prohibitively difficult and expensive: over a multi-year process, companies would make up-front investments in new hardware and rewrite software to conform to their new providers proprietary operating system.
At AWS, we design cloud services to give customers the freedom to choose technology that best suits their needs, and our commitment to interoperability is a key reason customers choose AWS in the first place. Our open APIs and Software Development Kits (SDKs), services such as Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS Anywhere, as well as our hybrid infrastructure services like AWS Outposts and AWS Snow, allow customers and third parties to build compatible software and solutions. We have been at the forefront of developing technical solutions that allow customers to run their applications on AWS and still connect to other cloud providers, or on-premises, for any application dependencies.
We also interconnect directly with many other networks, including those of other cloud providers, to help customers enjoy a reliable data transfer experience across different providers and networks. If a customer decides to move to another IT provider, we want to remove barriers which make it harder to do so, because our focus is on building long-term customer trust and removing these barriers makes AWS attractive to new and returning customers.
Our customers make hundreds of millions of data transfers each day, and any time a customer transfers data using our infrastructure, there are inherent costs to enabling this. AWS has built a best-in-class global network by investing in networking solutions such as custom semiconductors, equipment and software, and millions of miles of terrestrial and undersea cable. These investments improve transfer speeds, reduce lag, and increase security and reliability across the entire AWS global network.
Just as AWS has innovated to reduce the cost of our different services, we work to reduce our data transfer costs and pass these cost savings on to our customers. Since 2021, over 90% of customers already pay nothing for data transfer fees out of AWS because we provide them with 100 gigabytes per month for free, to use for any purpose. Were now taking this a step further for the small percentage of customers not captured by this free tier. Beginning today, customers globally, are now entitled to free data transfers out to the internet if they want to move to another IT provider. To get started, customers should contact AWS Customer Support.
While this change may help the small percentage of customers outside our free data transfer tier, the biggest barrier to changing cloud providers continues to be unfair software licensing. Some IT providers impose licensing restrictions on their software that make it financially unworkable for their customers to choose a cloud provider other than them. In some cases, it is impossible for customers to run the software on other popular cloud environments. This issue must be solved to promote customer choice, and like many others across the industry, we believe embracing the Principles for Fair Software Licensing is the best route to achieving this.
AWS offers industry-leading cloud services to millions of customers worldwide, and we will continue to innovate and help customers deploy in the cloud, grow their cloud footprint, and move data. Review these FAQs or contact AWS Customer Support for more information if you decide to move data off AWS.
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Misconfigured cloud servers subjected to new Linux malware attack – SC Media
MisconfiguredConfluence, Apache Hadoop, Redis, and Docker servers have been targeted by a new cryptojacking campaign distributing Linux malware,SecurityWeekreports.
Vulnerable internet-exposed cloud servers are being identified and exploited through four novel Golang payloads that would eventually lead to cryptominer deployment, according to a Cado Security report. Intrusions targeted at Confluence servers involved the exploitation of the critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-26134. On the other hand, attacks aimed at Docker instances involved the creation of a container for an executable that would later allow command-and-control communication and payload retrieval. Such an attack is indicative of the extensive initial access methods for Linux and cloud malware, noted Cado Security researchers. "It's clear that attackers are investing significant time into understanding the types of web-facing services deployed in cloud environments, keeping abreast of reported vulnerabilities in those services and using this knowledge to gain a foothold in target environments," researchers added.
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Introducing the AWS Generative AI Competency Partners – AWS Blog
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the AWS Generative AI Competency designed to feature AWS Partners that have shown technical proficiency and a track record of continuing success with customers while implementing generative AI technology powered by AWS. The AWS Generative AI Competency includes APN Technology Partners and APN Services Partners. Software path partners have shown their proficiency in either Generative Ai Applications, Foundation Models & App Development, or Infrastructure & Data. Services path partners have shown proficiency in end-to-end generative AI consulting.
AWS Generative AI Competency Partners are at the tip of the spear in developing and implementing the newest generative AI solutions for their customers to propel their businesses forward with significant efficiency, creativity, and productivity improvements. These partners have proven themselves leaders in leveraging AWS generative AI technology such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart, Amazon CodeWhisperer, AWS Trainium, AWS Inferentia, and accelerated computing instances on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
AWS Generative AI Competency Partners are represented globally with services and software solutions. These partners undergo rigorous technical and commercial vetting by AWS Partner Solution Architects, guaranteeing customers a consistently high-quality experience.
If youre an APN Technology Partner or APN Services Partner experienced in working with customers on AWS using generative AI, click here to learn more.
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IT leaders dial back cloud-first strategies as hybrid IT becomes more of an investment priority – ComputerWeekly.com
Cloud-first IT strategies seem to be falling out of favour with technology decision-makers and business leaders, suggests data from the TechTarget/ESG 2024 Technology Spending Intentions study.
More than 1,400 technology decision-makers and business leaders participated in the study, which aims to shine a light on the IT investment priorities of enterprises around the world over the coming year.
The data shows that just over a third of the studys EMEA participants (36%) are taking a cloud-first approach to new application deployments, which is slightly down on a similar study carried out by TechTarget in 2023.
Back then, around half of the participants indicated that their organisation was favouring a cloud-first approach when choosing the best environment to deploy new applications and workloads.
This is in keeping with IT spending trends being seen across the wider IT industry, with public cloud firms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), tracking a shift in customer cloud spending, with enterprises focusing more on optimising their existing environments rather than ramping up their migration plans.
Jon Brown, senior analyst for cloud and IT operations at ESG, said this trend is one of the reasons why organisations are adopting FinOps to help eliminate waste within their IT estates and to bring their cloud expenditure under control.
Adopting FinOps is one way to achieve this, he said. With FinOps, individuals and teams can make informed, data-driven and cost-optimising decisions for IT resource consumption and demonstrate the business value of those expenditures.
FinOps is a collaborative methodology that is focused on helping enterprises maximise the value of their cloud investments through the formation of cross-functional teams, made up of people from the cloud, technology and finance teams within an organisation.
As well as the concept of FinOps gaining ground within enterprises, there is anecdotal evidence mounting about enterprises taking less of a broad-brushed, cloud-first approach to IT deployments, and instead focusing on running new workloads in the environment best suited for them, which could be on-premise or in the cloud.
This is perhaps why hybrid cloud emerged as the second most significant technology investment large enterprise participants in the TechTarget/ESG poll plan to make over the next 12 months. Incidentally, the first most significant technology investment area was cloud security tooling.
When the EMEA respondents were asked elsewhere in the report about the most significant investments in compute infrastructure and management technologies their organisations plan to make over the next 12 months, hybrid cloud came out top with 32% of the vote.
Along similar lines, the joint second most popular choice among EMEA respondents were investments in off-premise cloud computing infrastructure, with 29% of the vote, along with multicloud software.
As recently reported by Computer Weekly, enterprise attitudes towards hybrid cloud have evolved compared with previous years, when adopting a hybrid infrastructure was seen as something of a temporary stopping-off point for companies that were seeking to migrate all of their infrastructure to the public cloud in the long term.
As part of the previously talked about cloud cost optimisation trend already playing out in enterprises, some firms are realising now that some of the more predictable, less peaky workloads they had moved to the public cloud work better on-premise from a cost and performance point of view.
This means hybrid cloud is now becoming the desired endpoint for some of their applications, workloads and data rather than a temporary holding place.
With some enterprises looking to move applications and workloads back on-premise, the study also saw respondents asked about their plans to modernise their datacentre over the next 12 to 18 months.
The top response to that question, from 40% of EMEA respondents, was that they were planning to increase their use of IT applications and infrastructure monitoring and observability tools to get a better understanding of how their on-premise estate is behaving.
Meanwhile, 31% of respondents said they planned to deploy more datacentre infrastructure service management, orchestration and automation tools to make their infrastructure easier to manage.
According to Brown, this is indicative of the fact that enterprise infrastructure estates are becoming more complex.
The task of IT operations is becoming simultaneously more critical and complex due to a whole list of factors: modernisation, distributed cloud computing, staffing, cost pressures, digital transformation, security, remote work and tool sprawl, among others, he said.
And this, he added, is why IT departments are having to deploy more tools to get more done in less time with fewer people.
Sailing the seas, Through the clouds: iSoftStone and Huawei Signed Memorandum of Understanding, Launching … – PR Newswire
BEIJING, March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 4th,iSoftStone and Huawei signed a Memorandum of Understanding launching cooperation in the Middle East and Central Asia in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. In the future, both parties will adhere to the principle of mutually beneficial cooperation, jointly enhancing the ecological development and partnership collaboration in the Middle East and Central Asia. Harnessing Huawei's strengths in cloud computing technology, services, and global network coverage, and combining them with iSoftStone's expertise in digital consulting, design, technology, and empowerment capabilities, as well as its advantages in products, services, and solutions for large enterprises and various industries, the two parties will establish dedicated sales teams. Collaboratively, they will formulate market strategies to achieve mutual expansion objectives.
Huawei Saudi Arabia CEO Yang Yang and iSoftStone Chairman and CEO Liu Tianwen engaged in cooperative negotiations. Also present at the discussion were Qi Xiao, President of Huawei's Middle East and Central Asia Cloud Business Department; Zou Siyi, Head of Huawei Saudi Enterprise Business Department; Dong Libin, Head of Huawei Cloud Marketing Department; Luo Shihua, Head of Huawei Cloud Consulting and Solution Sales Department in the Middle East and Central Asia; Xu Liangdong, Head of Huawei Cloud Ecology and Partner Development Department in the Middle East and Central Asia. From iSoftStone, attendees included Director Huang Ying, Senior Vice President Tang Fanghu, Vice President Yin Lu, and Zhang Hai, Overseas ICT Sales General Manager.
During the discussion, Huawei emphasized the business development in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia. The growth in sectors such as telecommunications, government enterprises, and Huawei Cloud has been rapid and promising. Huawei extended a warm welcome to capable partners like iSoftStone to join forces and explore international markets together, seizing the opportunity to expand collectively. There is significant potential for development in areas such as urban governance, digital parks, and cloud infrastructure. With a collaborative effort between Huawei and iSoftStone, we aim to tailor services and solutions to meet the specific business scenarios in the Middle East market.
During the meeting, Chairman Liu Tianwen of iSoftStone expressed the firm commitment to strategically investing in the Middle East market. He conveyed confidence in seamless collaboration with Huawei's representative office and envisioned a comprehensive synergy to deepen the advancement into international markets alongside Huawei. Chairman Liu introduced iSoftStone's capabilities in digital technology services and industry solutions. Emphasizing key areas such as iSoftStone consulting, cloud intelligence services, implementation services for enterprise software, and capabilities in digital technology research and development. He highlighted a series of matured solutions encompassing digital parks, data middle office, system integration, AI large models, smart vehicles, hardware servers, and more.
As a steadfast strategic partner of Huawei Cloud for many years, iSoftStone has been working hand in hand, leveraging domestic industry expertise and mature cases to replicate success in overseas markets. The focus is particularly on Southeast Asia and the Middle East, driving deep collaboration between Huawei Cloud and local enterprises. In 2023, iSoftStone established its international business headquarters in Singapore, laying the groundwork for the international business management and operational system. This initiative extends support to and covers the digital business expansion and delivery in countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Thailand, and Malaysia. iSoftStone views this signing as a pivotal opportunity to escalate its commitment, channeling increased investment towards fortifying its overseas technical service capabilities and solution expertise. iSoftStone aims to bolster its collaboration with Huawei Cloud across various facets, including brand value, technical support, channel expansion, and ecological cooperation, collectively propelling them towards a new frontier of international business cooperation.
In recent years, iSoftStone has strategically aligned itself with the evolving landscape of opportunities presented by digitization, intelligentization, sustainability, and internationalization, closely aligning with national and customer strategies, deepening its international footprint. Huawei Cloud is not only the domain where iSoftStone and Huawei engage in deep collaboration but also serves as the collaborative cornerstone for both parties to expand internationally. This is particularly evident in regions like the Middle East and Central Asia, which hold significant market potential. The joint overseas endeavors are poised to achieve mutual benefits, fostering a win-win scenario and collectively leveraging the digital prowess of China to drive global economic development.
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