Huawei Technologies has announced that the R&D center has successfully migrated to its own cloud computing platform called “Desktop Cloud. The Huawei Desktop Cloud integrates computing and storage capabilities into the cloud which one can easily access using thin client anytime, anywhere.
Huawei's Indian R&D center had envisioned migrating to cloud for better centralized IT management and effective data protection alongside providing efficient IT support to its employees. The India center has successfully transitioned 2,500 R&D employees to the Desktop cloud.
Huawei Desktop cloud offers a number of advantages such as ensuring a secure office environment with unified data processing without having to worry about data leaks as well as a mobile office feature enabling easy data acccess. The Desktop Cloud solution offers a no-noise, low radiation and healthy work environment to its employees. This move has helped in cutting IT costs while improving efficiency and accessibility and has also assured a secure and reliable data storage system.
As a replacement for the standalone Desktop computer, this solution incorporates cloud computing and storage capabilities and brings easy, secure and eco-friendly access to information applications anytime, anywhere using a thin client and this solution protects the data against power failure. Through this solution, the small team operations and system installation has been rapid and convenient.
"We are proud to deploy the Desktop Cloud solution to our own R&D Center, delivering superior computing power along with the option of enhanced mobility for the R&D employees. With a significant reduction in investment with respect to equipment, energy consumption and office applications, along with overall reduction in the cost of operation and maintenance, we see the cloud computing platform as a key contributor to the maximized productivity of the R&D center employees," says Suresh Reddy, Vice-President, Huawei Enterprise, India.
Huawei's cloud computing platform now serves a great number of external customers as well. Approximately 130,000 users across 30 countries are using Huawei's Desktop Cloud in a variety of sectors, including government, healthcare, education, telecommunications, and finance.
