Huawei Elected as a Gold Member Director of OpenStack 2016 Board

[Austin, Texas, United States, Jan. 20, 2016] Huawei has been elected as a Gold Member Board Director for the OpenStack 2016 Board. This is the first time that a Chinese provider has obtained this honor.

This indicates that Huawei is demonstrating leadership in the OpenStack community on the OpenStack Community, and the OpenStack Foundation highly recognizes the efforts and contributions that Huawei Cloud Computing has made to help build the success of OpenStack. Since 2010, OpenStack has become the most influential open-source cloud computing project and rapidly gained recognition from the industry because of its open and advanced architecture, efficient community development, and smart deployment mode. Huawei has been actively contributing to OpenStack development ever since it joins the OpenStack Community. More than 600 R&D engineers are involved in the development of OpenStack open-source projects. By the October 2015, Huawei had completed 60 complete blueprints (ranked 5th), resolved 365 bugs (ranked 6th), and finished 7824 reviews (ranked 6th) for the OpenStack Liberty release, and was ranked 6th in all the contributors.

In addition, Huawei is committed to building up the OpenStack industry ecosystem. In 2015, Huawei successfully held the high-standard OpenStack Hackathon twice in China. Top OpenStack development engineers from eight companies were brought together at the events and fixed more than 150 bugs. The events enabled Chinese open-source technology developers to have a larger voice in the OpenStack Community and showed that China has obtained powerful open-source technologies.

Mr Ren Zhipeng, president of Huawei IT Cloud Computing Product Line, stated, "Huawei fully embraces open-source and sticks to principles of open source-based, enhancements introductive to open-source, contribution to open-source, and working with partners to build an open ecosystem. Adhering to opening-up and cooperation, Huawei makes great efforts in cloud transition for enterprises and carriers to build up an OpenStack-based cloud computing ecosystem."

Huawei cloud computing services are continuously increasing. By the end of 2015, Huawei has built 660 data centers, among which 255 are cloud data centers. As OpenStack becomes more popular, Huawei will continue to make efforts to promote the application of the OpenStack cloud platform in data centers of large enterprises, carriers, and service providers, supporting long-term development of many services, such as the cloud service, mobile service, social networking, big data, and IoT.