Huawei officially launched its "Fusion" strategy for the information technology (IT) area at this year’s Huawei Cloud Congress. Themed "Make IT Simple, Make Business Agile", the two-day event attracts over 10,000 participants, including industry experts, partners, customers, media and analysts.

Since the first HCC held in 2010, Huawei has worked closely with global partners to promote the deployment and application of cloud technologies around the world.

"IT industry is an open industry and Huawei has a very clear strategic roadmap. We will focus on developing and offering future-oriented cloud data center solutions and products, including servers, storage, data center networks, cloud operating systems as well as cloud management platforms," said Eric Xu, Deputy Chairman of Huawei.

He added that Huawei is committed to conducting open and close collaborations with partners across multiple industries, jointly offering innovative, competitive and differentiated ICT products and solutions to global enterprises, helping customers realize informationization.

Open collaboration is central to the future success of the ICT industry. With a strategy to develop an open industry architecture and enhance integration within the industry ecosystem, Huawei is dedicated to developing closer collaborations with partners around the world, jointly offering effective and agile technology solutions to customers to help enterprises improve business efficiency.

"IT is an area of strategic growth for Huawei. With unwavering commitment to technology innovation, we are devoted to the ongoing development and evolution of the IT domain," said  Zheng Yelai, President, IT Product Line, Huawei. "Today, we have a team of over 10,000 technical experts in IT R&D facilities around the world, including in Europe, Canada and Russia. Through collaboration with these facilities and our partnerships with leading universities, technology institutes and key industry players, we are able to provide reliable IT products and solutions that help customers enhance competitiveness and achieve business success in the era of ICT convergence."

The highlight of this year’s HCC is the official launch of Huawei’s "Fusion" strategy, which combines an array of IT technologies, including computing, storage, virtualization and data center technologies, to lay the foundation for an open platform that enables third-party system integration, simple deployment, simple management and simple operation and maintenance of enterprise IT infrastructures.

At the event, Huawei will unveil and showcase a series of IT products and solutions specifically developed to support the "Fusion" strategy, including the world’s first "converged data plane" storage philosophy, the world’s first fully-distributed cloud operating system FusionSphere 3.0, and the high-performance converged all-in-one appliance FusionCube 2.0.