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Huawei Announces Leading Solution to Build Better Connected World
Huawei Enterprise Business Group today launched innovative solutions and partnerships under its new marketing slogan — “Leading New ICT, Building a Better Connected World” at CeBIT 2016, the world’s largest ICT trade fair, which is being held from March 14 to 18.
The lead theme of CeBIT 2016 is “d!conomy: Join – create – succeed”. Digitalization is impacting every area of business and society, and far from being a short-term phenomenon, it will continue to create new opportunities.
To succeed in the future, companies need to develop a customer-driven digital business now that can respond rapidly to changes digitalization is bringing.
In this new era, enterprise ICT systems are shifting from siloed support systems to mission-critical production systems that enable efficient production, operation, and decision-making. To address these powerful changes, Huawei launched a new marketing slogan defining its position for the enterprise market: “Leading New ICT, Building a Better Connected World”.
Speaking at the CeBIT 2016 Global Conference, Mr. Yan Lida, President of Enterprise Business Group, Huawei, said: “As new ICT including Cloud Computing, Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Software-Defined Networking mature, a cloud-pipe-device integrated new ICT architecture is emerging to help enterprises accelerate digital transformation. Based on technology innovation, Huawei aspires to build a sustainable and win-win ecosystem by developing an open, flexible and elastic platform. In line with our Business Driven ICT Infrastructure (BDII) guiding principle and strategy of ‘Focus’ and ‘Being Integrated’, Huawei is committed to innovating jointly with partners to create value for governments and enterprises across industry sectors, helping them lead the new ICT age. Together we build a better connected world.”
At CeBIT 2016, Huawei hosted a series of activities including innovative solution demonstrations at its exhibition area, industry summits, product and solution launches, a press conference and a signing ceremony.
During these activities, Huawei provided insights and best practices of new ICT and demonstrated its capability of empowering customers to lead the new ICT era.
Huawei Builds Business Driven ICT Infrastructure with Partners and Customers
Digital transformation is taking place across enterprises in virtually all industries. Leading enterprises are putting digitalization at the core of their business strategies to meet their customers’ evolving digital needs and gain a competitive advantage.
Together with its partners, Huawei is dedicated to enabling enterprises to achieve business innovation and growth while increasing operating profit by providing industry specific business driven ICT infrastructure.
Huawei hosted three industry summits at CeBIT 2016, including the Global Safe City Summit, Global Financial Services Institutions (FSI) Summit and Global Internet Service Provider (ISP) Summit, bringing together industry experts to exchanges views and ideas on digitalization challenges and opportunities facing vertical industries.
To build safe cities, ICT technology makes possible the interconnections between cities, visualization and collaboration that power safe cities, while new technologies improve the reliability and efficiency of security systems. In the financial industry, digitalization has had a significant impact on customer behavior, channel services, product research and development, as well as the backend operation of financial organizations.
To respond to this tremendous change, financial institutions need a digitalized infrastructure to meet fast-evolving customer expectations.
For ISPs, having a leading business model alone is not enough to support the ever-changing and diverse needs of customers, ISPs also need efficient cloud-based supporting systems to drive agility and efficiency that will ultimately create new service growth opportunities.
In recent years, Huawei has grown rapidly in vertical industries, including public safety, finance, transportation, and energy.
At the end of 2015, Huawei Safe City Solution has been adopted by over 100 cities in more than 30 countries including Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, serving a population of 400 million.
Huawei Omni-Channel Banking Solution has been used by over 300 financial organizations, including 6 of the world’s Top 10 banks. Huawei Digital Railway Solution has been deployed for more than 100,000 kilometers of railway.
Huawei has helped Spain deploy an IP railway communication system and signed an agreement with Deutsche Bahn to establish a future-oriented train-to-ground communication system.
The Company has served 15 of the world’s 20 biggest energy companies, covering over 100,000 transformer substations and 38,000 km of oil and gas pipelines. Huawei has also helped ISPs move their businesses forward.
For example, Huawei enabled EVRY, the second largest ICT service provider in Northern Europe, to build a software-defined networking (SDN) based cloud data center.
Huawei Committed to Integrated Strategy and Joint Innovation, Establishing New Ecosystem Based on Open Technology
As businesses accelerate their digital transformation, new technologies, new players, and new cooperation models are emerging.
The ICT industry has shifted to a “developer defined” development path, where customers have the power to influence the advancement of business platforms. In this environment, companies need to engage with partners in the entire ecosystem as no one company can achieve digital transformation alone.
In line with its strategies of “focus” and “being integrated”, Huawei is dedicated to building an open “developer defined” new ecosystem through joint innovations with customers and partners.
At CeBIT 2016, Huawei announced new partnerships that will accelerate digital transformation globally. Huawei announced its partnership with global leading robotics provider KUKA and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
Under the new agreement, the two companies will focus on the use of small cell Internet of Things (IoT), wireless and 5G network, as well as big data solutions in manufacturing and factory environments, to develop smart manufacturing solutions for the industrial market in Europe and China.
In addition, Huawei and Deutsche Telekom announced the commercial launch of Open Telekom Cloud, an enterprise public cloud based on German data and privacy protection laws.
Huawei provided innovative hardware and software, including server, storage, network, and cloud operation systems to build flexible and convenient cloud services, helping Deutsche Telekom accelerate its position in Europe’s cloud service market.
At Huawei’s booth, the company showcased innovative ICT solutions with 51 partners, including strategic partners SAP, Intel and Accenture, solution partners such as HEXAGO and Infosys, channel partners such as COMNET, WOHLER, and PDV.
In addition, Huawei also demonstrated innovative solutions designed for industry customers together with carriers including Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom. Huawei Enterprise Business Group in Western Europe has developed over 1,000 partners, jointly serving customers including Mercedes-Benz，and Deutsche Bahn.
At CeBIT 2016, Huawei signed a series of significant partnership agreements, covering areas of smart city, cloud computing, channel cooperation, system integration, as well as training and certification.
Huawei Showcased One-stop Innovative ICT Products and Solutions Based on Cloud Architecture to Enable Agile Innovation for Customers
Leading New ICT with cloud computing at the core is helping enterprises simplify business processes, improve business agility and respond quickly to market changes while reducing costs.
Huawei booth in CeBIT 2016
Huawei showcased a range of innovative products and solutions using new ICT including cloud computing, big data, SDN, and IoT.
Solutions included eight flagship products for high-end storage and data center switches, seven products covering cloud data centers, the IoT, agile networks and SDN, as well as industry solutions for smart city, finance, and smart manufacturing.
In addition, Huawei announced the world’s first 32-Socket x86 mission critical server delivering superior performance, reliability and cost efficiency to support enterprises’ mission critical applications on a huge scale.
Huawei also introduced the industry’s first multi-level smart control lightening IoT solution which is capable of precisely controlling every street lamp based on need, saving up to 80% energy, and its All-Optical Campus Solution that delivers easy-to-deploy new campus networks with service integration by adopting the all-optical network as the access layer of the campus.
Additionally, France-based IMS Networks shared its experience of using Huawei NE40E high-end routers and WAN solutions SDN to build a next-generation IP backbone network.
Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has commenced a forensic investigation into the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Lotus Bank and Hackerbella Ltd over alleged violations of data protection laws involving students’ personal information.
The investigation follows public complaints alleging that students’ personal data were used to open bank accounts without a lawful basis.
Dr Vincent Olatunji, national commissioner and chief executive officer of the NDPC, directed the investigation team to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the circumstances surrounding the collection, processing, use and disclosure of the affected students’ personal data.
The investigation will also determine the respective roles and responsibilities of UNILAG, Lotus Bank and Hackerbella in the alleged processing of the data.
According to the Commission, the investigation will assess the data protection compliance obligations of the parties under the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023 (NDP Act), as well as potential risks posed to the rights and freedoms of the affected data subjects.
The NDPC said the probe would cover several areas, including Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), the lawfulness and transparency of credit scoring or profiling activities, and the use of automated decision-making systems.
It will also examine the adequacy of privacy notices, data-sharing arrangements, lawful bases for processing, data minimisation and purpose limitation.
Other areas include data retention policies and the adequacy of technical and organisational measures put in place to safeguard the rights and personal data of affected students.
The Commission reiterated that institutions entrusted with the personal data of students, staff and other members of their communities have a heightened responsibility to ensure that such information is processed lawfully, fairly, transparently and securely.
The NDPC therefore warned educational institutions that are yet to comply with its existing data protection compliance directives to take immediate steps to achieve compliance.
The Commission said it would continue to exercise its regulatory mandate to protect the privacy rights of Nigerians and ensure that organisations processing personal data comply with the provisions of the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023.
Microsoft is planning to unveil its new Maia 300 AI chip this fall, potentially as soon as next month, The Information reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the plans.
The company introduced its Maia AI chip in November 2023 but has lagged rivals such as Alphabet and Amazon in scaling up its in-house chip efforts as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Nvidia’s costly processors.
Google began recognizing revenue from direct sales of its custom AI chips, called Tensor Processing Units, in the quarter ended June, while Amazon has also seen growing adoption of its processors, including its Trainium chips.
Microsoft has been in talks with chipmaker TSMC to secure manufacturing capacity for more than 300,000 units of the chip for delivery in 2027, according to the report. It is also looking to significantly ramp up production and persuade major cloud customers such as Anthropic to adopt the chip.
Microsoft ultimately aims to secure capacity for more than 1 million Maia 300 chips, though component supplies and ongoing capacity negotiations with TSMC could constrain its plans, according to the report.
It unveiled its second-generation Maia 200 in January, built by TSMC using 3-nanometer technology.
Microsoft packed the chip with a significant amount of SRAM, a type of memory that can provide speed advantages for AI systems handling large numbers of user requests.
X has announced plans to discontinue its Revenue Sharing programme and introduce a new Original Content Rewards programme to reward creators for producing original content on the platform.
The social media company announced the changes at the weekend in a post on its X Creators handle, saying the new programme would reward creators who contribute original content.
“Today, we’re introducing the Original Content Rewards Program, a new way to reward creators who bring original ideas, expertise, reporting, creativity, and commentary to X,” the company said.
X said it would stop accepting new enrolments into the Revenue Sharing programme from Friday, while existing participants would continue earning until September 7, 2026.
“Starting today, we’re no longer accepting new enrollments into Revenue Sharing,” it said.
According to the company, existing Revenue Sharing participants will receive three final payouts, with two scheduled for August 14 and August 28, while the final payment for earnings accrued through September 7 is expected around September 11.
X said existing Revenue Sharing participants would begin getting access to apply for the new programme from September 8, subject to meeting its eligibility requirements.
The first payout under the Original Content Rewards programme will be made on August 28, 2026, while existing Revenue Sharing creators who enrol in the new programme from September 8 will receive their first payment on September 25.
Under the new programme, eligible creators will earn from qualified impressions generated by their original content, with payments made every two weeks.
X defined qualified impressions as unique impressions from Premium users on the Home Timeline feed, where at least 50 per cent of a post is visible.
On the other hand, “The following are excluded from qualified impressions: impressions from the same account counted more than once per post; paid, promoted, or artificially generated impressions; and fraudulent impressions,” it said.
To qualify, creators must be at least 18 years old, live in a country where the programme is available, maintain an account in good standing and have either a personal or vusiness account.
They must also subscribe to X Premium, Premium+ or Premium Business, have at least 500 verified followers and record at least 500,000 Home Timeline impressions from verified users within the previous 90 days.
X said creators must also regularly post original content to remain eligible.
“We want to recognize creators who break news, share expertise, tell stories, create entertainment, and contribute meaningful perspectives to the conversation,” the company said.
The platform said original content could include threads, videos, memes, graphics, illustrations, reporting, analysis, commentary and reactions that add meaningful value to existing conversations.
It said creators who use content produced by others would need to add meaningful commentary, context, analysis, humour or creative transformation for such posts to qualify.
“Building on existing conversations is a core part of X, but simply reposting someone else’s content is not enough,” it said.
X said minor edits such as cropping, filters, borders, watermarks, speed adjustments or simple text overlays would generally not qualify as meaningful transformation on their own.
It also warned that content copied or substantially reproduced from another creator, content downloaded and re-uploaded from X or another platform without being the original author’s, automated content, disinformation and misleading content would be ineligible.
The company said accounts that violate the programme’s requirements could be temporarily or permanently removed from it, depending on the severity of the violation.
It added that creators would be responsible for ensuring they had the necessary rights, permissions or licences to use content created by others.
“Original content is content you personally create that reflects your own voice, perspective, expertise, or creativity,” X said.
The company said the new programme was intended to reward creators who make the platform more valuable by bringing original ideas and perspectives to its conversations.
“The Original Content Rewards Program is designed to reward the creators who start them, shape them, and move them forward,” it said.
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