Huawei Launches Agile Data Center Cloud Connect Solution

Huawei is stepping up its cloud computing strategy with the launch of the Agile Data Center Cloud Solution, which the company launched this week at Huawei Network Congress 2014 in Beijing. The new product is meant to simplify the process for building cloud services systems for enterprises using the company’s CloudEngine series of data center switches, its Agile Controller cloud applications, cloud platforms and data center network resources that can be integrated with improved automation.

“With the rapid development of cloud computing, Big Data and mobility, data center infrastructures are facing unprecedented challenges as well as opportunities. Currently, enterprise servers, storage devices and switches in data centers are highly virtualized. These devices form a virtual world to support cloud computing. However, there are still a large number of independent physical network devices in data centers, and the distinction between the virtual and physical worlds makes it difficult to implement fast service deployment, unified resource allocation, fault isolation and diagnosis, and automated service optimization,” said Liu Shaowei, president of the Huawei Enterprise Networking product line, in a prepared statement.

The new product was designed to be a service-centric offering that enables IT administrators to ensure the provision of network resources and implement cloud-based network migration in a more effective manner. IT admins can also use it for service-focused language to define and adjust network requirements.

Perhaps the biggest benefit is that the Agile Data Center Cloud Solution was designed to be integrated with a variety of cloud platforms, including VMware vCloud and its NSX network virtualization platform, Microsoft Cloud OS, OpenStack and Huawei’s own FusionSphere cloud platform.

The solution provides IT admins with a unified global view of the data center, offering information on both physical and virtual network resources.