Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Huawei with 2019 Technology Leadership Award in Global Smart Modular Data Center Industry

[Paris, France, October 10, 2019] Frost & Sullivan, a global consulting firm, presented the 2019 Technology Leadership Award in the Global Smart Data Center Industry to Huawei for its innovation, customer influence, technical influence, and outstanding contributions to the sustainable development of the industry.

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Huawei with 2019 Technology Leadership Award in Global Smart Modular Data Center Industry

This award is a laurel in the ICT energy field. Huawei has been honored by Frost & Sullivan’s Company of the Year Award for Smart Modular Data Center and Modular UPS before. These honors demonstrate Huawei's outstanding achievement in market leadership, technical innovation, customer service, and strategic product development in the industry.

The smart modular data center is an important infrastructure in the digital economy era. Its market is growing rapidly around the globe. To gain competitive advantages in the market, it is essential for data center providers to exploit innovative technologies and endow their products and solutions with value-added features and new functions. Currently, smart modular data centers are widely recognized in the industry because of features like fast deployment, flexible capacity expansion, high energy efficiency, and smart operation and maintenance (O&M). These advantages also help smart modular data centers to seize market shares.

Frost & Sullivan analysts said that O&M is one of the most common challenges in the industry. O&M is closely related to power supply and cooling, which directly affect the reliability, efficiency, and operation cost of data center facilities. Therefore, how to use innovative technologies, especially the popular artificial intelligence (AI) technology, to improve data center reliability, O&M efficiency, and reduce O&M costs will be the long-term focuses of the industry.

With deep insights into the data center facility market, Huawei combines AI, information technology, traditional electronic power technology, and heating ventilation & air conditioning (HVAC) technology to provide highly advanced data center solutions that are cost-effective and efficient, improving the reliability of data center facilities and blazing the trail for the industry. Huawei adheres to the product-based and intelligent approach and uses smart micro-modules to streamline the industry chain and build the capability of rapid and large-scale replication. In terms of intelligence, Huawei proposed the innovative i3 concept to improve system availability, reliability, and resource utilization, making data centers simple, efficient, reliable, and smart. i3 stands for iPower, iCooling, and iManager. iPower helps users improve reliability of the power supply and distribution system, iCooling reduces power usage effectiveness (PUE) by enabling the automated optimization of power consumption in the cooling system, and iManager improves the resource utilization by 20% and raises the O&M efficiency of data centers.

• iPower: performs predictive maintenance by monitoring the whole power supply system, warning, and automatic fault isolation to improve the availability and reliability of the data center facilities.
• iCooling: implements data coordination between the cooling system, IT loads, and environment parameters based on AI self-learning and neural network algorithms; selects the optimal one from more than 170,000 HVAC system optimization and control combination sets within 1 minute; controls the cooling system to run in the optimal mode; and ensures 24/7 hours of continuous optimization to improve the overall efficiency of the cooling system and reduce the PUE.
• iManager: manages data center facilities in multiple branches; implements preventive maintenance; allows users to manage key operation parameters on the 3D GUI(visualized user interface) further optimizes and standardizes the data center management process; implements smart management of assets and operation using AI technologies to improve operation efficiency and benefits.

Gautham Gnanajothi, senior analyst of Frost & Sullivan, remarks that Huawei's visionary innovation and dedication and commitment to R&D have helped it acquire the leading position in the global market. Because of this, Huawei has always been the pioneer of the global smart data center industry. Its smart data center solution not only meets customers' current requirements, but also adapts to future evolution. Huawei is awarded with not only customers' recognition but also commercial success. To honor its technical strength and comprehensive market performance, Frost & Sullivan is proud to present Huawei with the 2019 Technology Leadership Award in the Global Smart Data Centre Industry.