Tag: Huawei

IaaS market growing claims Gartner

Posted on July 19, 2023 by - News

Canalys Forum EuropeThe worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.7 per cent in 2022, to $120.3 billion, up from $92.8 billion in 2021, according to Gartner.

Amazon retained the top position in the IaaS market in 2022, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and Huawei.

Gartner VP analyst Sid Nag said that Cloud had been elevated from a technology disruptor to a business disruptor.

“IaaS is driving software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) growth as buyers to continue to add more applications to the cloud and modernise existing ones.”

“IaaS growth in 2022 was stronger than expected, despite a slight softening in the fourth quarter as customers focused on using their previously committed capacity to its fullest potential,” added Nag.

“This is expected to continue until mid-2023 and is a natural outcome of the market’s maturity. We expect an acceleration in 2024, as there is still room for additional growth.”

In 2022, the top five IaaS providers accounted for over 80 per cent of the market. Amazon continued to lead the worldwide IaaS market with revenue of $48.1 billion and a 40 per cent market share.

Ethernet switch market grows

Posted on June 13, 2023 by - News

The worldwide Ethernet switch market grew revenues 31.5 per cent year over year in the first quarter of 2023 to $10 billion.

According to Beancounters at IDC the entire worldwide enterprise and service provider (SP) router market recorded $4.1 billion in revenue in 1Q23, a 14.1 per cent annual increase.

The Ethernet switch market’s growth of 31.5 per cent in 1Q23 builds on annualised growth of 3.3 per cent in 4Q22 and 19.4 per cent for the full year 2022. In 1Q23, the Ethernet switch market strengthened across the data and non-data centre segments. Revenues in the non-datacentre/enterprise campus and branch segment grew 38.7 per cent yearly, while port shipments rose 14.1 per cent. Revenues in the data center portion of the market rose 23.2 per cent year over year in the first quarter of 2023, while port shipments increased 19.7 per cent.

Cloud rains profits

Posted on January 25, 2023 by - News

Public cloud service and infrastructure markets, operators and vendors’ revenue jumped 21 per cent to $544 billion in 2022.

New data from Synergy Research Group claims that the biggest growth was seen in infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).

Annual revenue from these services grew 29 per cent to reach more than $195 billion, despite some headwinds from the strengthening US dollar and problems in the Chinese market.

In the other main segments, managed private cloud services, enterprise SaaS and CDN added another $229 billion in service revenues, having grown by an average 19 per cent from 2021.

Synergy said public cloud providers spent $120 billion on building, leasing and equipping their datacentre infrastructure, which was up 13 per cent from the previous year.

Huawei to help save red squirrels

Posted on October 7, 2021 by - News

The University of Bristol, the Mammal Society,  Rainforest Connection and Huawei are collaborating to help save the endangered squirrel in the UK.

The project involves monitoring UK woodlands with red, with grey and with joint squirrel populations. The red and the grey squirrel don’t live together very happily.

It’s estimated that the red cohort has lost 60 percent of its range over the last 13 years. There are redoubts where red squirrels still have reasonable populations – the Wild Life Trusts believe there are 140,000 red squirrels and 2.5 million grey squirrels. But it believes that the red species may become extinct in 10 years.

The project will use artificial intelligence, bio-acoustic and cloud tech with Huawei software analysing sounds in the environment.

Cloud infrastructure spending growing like topsy

Posted on July 6, 2021 by - News

Global spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud infrastructure, including dedicated and shared environments, increased 12.5 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2021 to $15.1 billion.

Beancounters from IDC have added up some numbers and reached the conclusion that investments in non-cloud infrastructure grew 6.3 percent in the first quarter to $13.5 billion.

The analyst’s data also found that spending on shared cloud infrastructure climbed 11.6 percent year on year in the first quarter, reaching $10.3 billion.

Government builds new 5G testing facility

Posted on November 30, 2020 by - News

A new government-backed 5G testing facility is to be built in Oxfordshire to help UK businesses use 5G and satellite technology.

Due for completion in 2021, the engineering hub is to be built by the IT and business consultancy CGI at the county’s Harwell Campus. The hub will get more than £3 million in government cash. Last week, the Boris Johnson government quietly muted its manifesto promise to provide the British world+dog a top interweb connection by 2025.

Livingston told to diversify UK’s telecom supply chain

Posted on September 25, 2020 by - News

Former BT  CEO Lord Ian Livingston has been appointed as a chair of a task force into diversifying the UK’s telecom supply chain.

The big idea is connected to the decision to ban the use of new Huawei 5G equipment from the end of this year. The government is worried that UK telecoms network is too exposed to ‘high-risk vendors’.

The government is expected to publish its Telecoms Diversification Strategy later this year to end the practice of mobile companies being limited to using just three major suppliers in their telecom networks.

The Telecoms Security Bill is also in the pipeline to give the government the ability to control the presence of high risk equipment vendors, and at the same time for Ofcom to drive up security standards.

Telcos warn that losing Huawei could damage the network

Posted on July 13, 2020 by - News

Executives from two of the UK’s largest telecoms providers told the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee last week that removing Huawei from the country’s infrastructure will be hugely expensive, and if done too quickly could lead to customers experiencing lengthy disruptions in service.

Having initially ruled that Huawei equipment could be present in up to 35 percent part of the country’s 5G network, the government has been backtracking after US pressure and a backbench rebellion and is expected to begin phasing out Chinese tech giant from the UK’s infrastructure as early as this year.

Huawei is fighting for its life

Posted on May 19, 2020 by - News

Huawei is fighting for its life after the US demanded that foreign chipmakers, such as TSMC, stop supplying it.

Huawei relies on Taiwanese company TSMC for around 98 percent of the semiconductors used in its smartphones. TSMC uses US-made equipment to manufacture its chips, and will be among the worst affected by the US sanctions.

Speaking at Huawei’s annual analyst conference today, the Financial Times quoted Guo Ping claiming that the US sanctions have put Huawei in a fight for survival.

Openreach limits Huawei dependence

Posted on May 15, 2020 by - News

BT Group’s infrastructure unit Openreach has signed an agreement with American networking and communications firm Adtran to limit its dependence on Chinese company Huawei and to speed up construction of a fibre-based broadband system across Britain.

Under the government’s new  rules, ‘high-risk’ vendors (such as Huawei) are excluded from sensitive ‘core’ parts of 5G and gigabit-capable networks, with a 35 percent cap on high-risk vendors supplying parts to the non-sensitive areas of 5G and high-speed fibre-based networks.

How Huawei’s supply chain saved the company

Posted on May 13, 2020 by - News

Huawei’s President of Supply Chain Management, Xiong Lening, says that the company managed to survive everything the last year has thrown at it because of the outfit’s long-term Business Continuity Management (BCM) system and the company’s diversified supply policies.

Huawei by all accounts has had a pretty rubbish 18 months with the US trying to shut it down and leaning on its allies to go somewhere else.

Despite the political climate, Huawei had signed contracts for more than 50 5G projects worldwide by the end of 2019. Meanwhile, shipment volumes of wireless network, optical transmission, data communications, and IT products had been growing rapidly.

Huawei security risks are ‘manageable’, says security expert

Posted on January 29, 2020 by - News

The UK government’s decision to allow Huawei technology into the non-core aspects of the UK’s 5G networks will have surprised some.

According to a poll by leading data and analytics company GlobalData, it will have surprised a considerable number, as 47 percent of respondents said that they thought the Chinese tech giant was a security threat.

Huawei: Britain’s sovereignty will be in jeopardy, insists US

Posted on January 27, 2020 by - News

Britain’s sovereignty will be in jeopardy if the UK allows Huawei to develop its 5G infrastructure, the US secretary of state has warned.

Mike Pompeo described the decision facing Britain’s national security council as “momentous”.

The US administration has previously warned allies not to allow the company’s equipment to form part of their 5G networks, claiming it would be a security risk due to its links to the Chinese government. Huawei has repeatedly denied that its equipment could be used to spy on people and the US has totally failed to prove it.

Huawei will play a role in UK 5G

Posted on January 24, 2020 by - News

Huawei has been cleared to play a part in forming the UK’s 5G network and the UK government might actually stand up to its American overlords.

A meeting of government officials yesterday concluded that a “limited role” for the vendor would not pose a threat to the UK’s cybersecurity. The UK’s National Security Council will meet next week to decide if and how Huawei’s technology is used.

The government has been under pressure for the US to snub Huawei in the 5G rollout claiming it is all about spying when it is more likely to be about its trade war. The US claims that Huawei’s close ties to the Chinese government could facilitate espionage, which Huawei has consistently denied and the US has so far never come up with any evidence.

Earlier this month the US government reportedly told the UK that allowing Huawei’s equipment into the 5G network would be “nothing short of madness”.

But the UK government views Huawei’s technology as more advanced than that of its competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia – a view that has also been pushed by network providers BT and Vodafone.

 

Micron supplying tech to Huawei

Posted on January 7, 2020 by - News

US chip manufacturer Micron Technologies has been granted licences to supply some of its products to Huawei providing good news for both.

Micron has been struggling due to a slowing memory market, as well as the ongoing US-China trade disputes while Huawei has been under US pressure for alleged security reasons.

The market has struggled since Washington’s decision to place Huawei, Micron’s largest customer, on an “entity list” in May due to national security concerns – effectively preventing US manufacturers from supplying to it. Huawei has always maintained that its products pose a risk to US security, while a number of US companies have criticised the move due to the impact on their revenue.

Last month, the US began resuming licences to allow businesses to ship to Huawei, with Micron now revealing it has been awarded all those it had requested.

“We applied for, and recently received all requested licenses that enable us to provide support for certain products… as well as qualify new products for Huawei’s mobile and server businesses”, Micron said.