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Huawei Africa Connect 2024: Key Highlights and Innovations Revealed
Huawei Africa Connect innovations: Huawei Africa Connect 2024, which took place in Johannesburg, brought together industry experts, key opinion leaders, and ecosystem partners from Southern Africa.
The event was an avenue to discuss the construction of data infrastructure in the era of artificial intelligence.
In this advanced era, intelligent transformation and upgrading are gaining momentum across the globe, with Southern African countries actively exploring their roads to digital and intelligent transformation.
Huawei Africa Connect Innovations
In the fast-approaching intelligent era, networks are one of the most important ICT innovations.
To usher in the intelligent era, the entire industry has reached a preliminary consensus that the next generation of data communication networks is Net5.5G.
The phone company has developed strategies to construct data infrastructures, which were shared during the event. Huawei shared best practices and insights on trending topics such as data protection, ransomware protection, and the evolution of data centers.
Huawei Africa Connect Innovations Fosters New Infrastructures
The primary goal of the event was to facilitate the digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises in the sub-Saharan African region.
Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, said, “Intelligent technologies are fast approaching, driving us to constantly innovate networking technologies to better embrace business changes.”
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“Huawei offers the Xinghe Intelligent Network Solution based on the Net5.5G target architecture, to accelerate industrial intelligence and build a solid bridge to the intelligent world.”
Also, Hu Hui, Vice President of Huawei’s Scale-Out Storage Domain, delivered a keynote speech highlighting that data, computing power, and algorithms are the core components of large AI models. He emphasized that the amount of high-quality data is crucial in determining the level of AI.
Huawei Introduces Data Storage
Data storage, being a key carrier of data, plays a vital role in supporting large AI models. As these models advance, data centers are required to handle more data, which raises the demands on data storage regarding capacity, performance, and energy consumption.
Huawei’s all-flash scale-out storage is designed to activate mass unstructured data and drive the development of new applications in the AI era. This storage solution can flexibly manage any workload, enhance energy efficiency at any scale, and maintain reliability at every access point.
The forum featured four interactive sessions focused on data center infrastructure, data protection, commercial markets, and the IdeaHub CXO Roundtable.
Customers who are interested in the latest trends in data center development and the newest solutions for data protection and ransomware protection were encouraged to actively participate in discussions and share their ideas during these sessions.
