[Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, May 7, 2015] Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today unveiled Huawei AR series Agile Branch Gateway that integrates routing, switching, voice, security, WLAN and VPN functions to meet the diversified needs of today’s enterprises. Huawei has also unveiled OceanStor V3 to help enterprise embrace cloud computing and converged storage to make business agile. Both products are launched at the inaugural Huawei Southern Pacific Partner Conference where more than 200 channel partners from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, and Singapore attended.

Huawei Southern Pacific Partner Conference is the first time where all partners are gathered following the restructuring of Huawei’s Southern Pacific Enterprise Business Group in 2014. Outlining his vision for 2015, Huawei Southern Pacific Business Group President, Wu Gang said: “2015 is a capacity and capability building year for Southern Pacific Enterprise Business. We will focus on six basic capabilities: Channel enablement, Marketing promotion, Products and Industry Solutions capabilities, Service capabilities, Supply Chain Capacity, and Process and IT Platform enhancement. We will fully leverage our partners’ strong industry knowledge, expertise and service capabilities, and focus on key industries and customers, to provide customer-centric solutions. The growth of Huawei Southern Pacific Enterprise Business Group is only possible with the immense support from our partners. We hope to work together with partners to achieve a win-win situation.”

Under the theme, “Navigating the Future, Your Journey Starts with Huawei”, Huawei launched its new channel partner eco-system which will incentivize partners to respond effectively and timely to the unique needs of enterprises in their expansion. President of Huawei Global Partners & Alliances, Raymond Lau said: “Huawei aims to be an innovative one-stop ICT infrastructure solutions provider. We continue to implement our strategy of “Be Integrated” through open collaboration in product development and joint marketing initiatives. As a testament to the importance and success of our partnership, 74% of our revenue in 2014 came from more than 6000 partners and 300 solution partners worldwide.  Moving forward, the company and partners will continue to develop joint marketing to leverage on strong local network and branding for demand generation.”  

With more than 15 regional headquarters, 36 training centers, 20 R&D centers and other centers of enterprise worldwide, Huawei has adopted an operational model of “Local Global” to ensure leading solutions continue to answer real world challenges faced by businesses. President of Enterprise Networking Product Line, Liu Shaowei said: “In the age of Big Data, intelligent cloud-based data technology will be a competitive advantage that will determine businesses agility. Our Agile Network will converge processes, technologies, governance and talent in a scalable modular design that is easy to use.  Huawei is working towards an open cloud fabric solution that is elastic and virtualized in 2015. The latest and most advanced Cloud Fabric Network, CE12800, will support the long term development of cloud-based technology and empower enterprises with greater network efficiencies.” 

Providing timely and efficient professional services is an integral part of ICT solutions delivery. Huawei is already working closely with partners to target entire product lifecycle including network planning, design, implementation, operation and improvement to help customers accelerate businesses. President of Huawei Enterprise Professional Services, Han Xiao, said: “In 2014, Huawei Enterprise’s global sales exceeded US$3.1 billion, while revenue from professional services grew 44% year-on-year, totaling US$475million. 2015 is an important year for the development of Huawei Enterprise and a watershed year for the development of our partner eco-system to deliver ‘Big Services’. Huawei is committed to develop partners through training, and building a customer-centric professional service eco-system.”

Huawei AR series Agile Branch Gateway and Huawei OceanStor V3

In the age of deep ICT convergence, Huawei AR series Agile Branch Gateway integrates cloud, routing, switching, voice, security, WLAN, and VPN, Conference diverse requirements of enterprises and lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) significantly. Based on the X86 or ARM platform, the agile branch gateway allows enterprise customers to extend cloud capability to anywhere the customers need, such as enterprise office applications, unified communications, Android App and others, achieving application, network, and information openness and implementing value-added platform to partners. It is the first to leverage innovative SDN & NFV architecture in the industry, and implements lifecycle management of ICT resources such as the application deployment, monitoring, and deletion through a unified SDN controller.

Huawei’s OceanStor V3 has leading hardware specifications, simplified management and five innovative convergences: convergence of SAN & NAS; convergence of all level; convergence of SSD and HDD; convergence of primary and backup, and convergence of Heterogeneous. At the core of these five convergences is the OceanStor OS, which eliminates data silos and allows the free flow of data to make business more agile. According to IDC report, the global revenue growth rate of Huawei storage ranked No.1 for consecutive 5 quarters up to 3Q14.

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