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Huawei (Huawei) is the latest Chinese company to invest in the cloud. The company is more widely known as a mobile phone producer and is the sixth biggest mobile manufacturer in the world in 2015. Over the next five years Huawei Technologies, the company’s telecommunications networks arm, intends to invest $1 billion on programs it hopes will enhance the attractiveness of the cloud and speed up its adoption. Huawei Technologies has to date made heavy investment in Internet servers, data centers and cloud services. It has also made a series of investments in the cloud.
Huawei is operating in a cloud market that is forecast to be worth $20 billion by 2020. It is one of a number of Chinese technology companies, including Alibaba’s cloud arm Aliyun, to have made major investments in the cloud and in cloud-based data storage. Huawei will focus on giving customers the opportunity to house their applications in a Huawei server-based cloud. Its $1 billion investment will primarily finance joint application development and provide companies with training and support. Other Chinese companies making major cloud investments include Tencent Holdings which intends to invest $1.58 billion in cloud activities in the next five years.
Huawei’s 2014 revenue was $46.5 billion and its new project will enable developers to establish services that address their customers' business needs. Its activities will also cover areas like the Internet of Thongs (IoT), Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), and Big Data alongside SDN and mobile broadband. It will also formerly partner with developers as well as provide them with support. Huawei will offer developers certification that determines their capability with Huawei-based infrastructures.
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