Huawei, 'Full-Stack Data Center' Built in One Go... Direct Design Boosts Efficiency↑

Exhibited at 'HUAWEI CONNECT 2022'
From 'Electricity-Eating Hippo' to Green Data Center

Kim Jong-ryeol, Executive Director of the Enterprise Business Group at Huawei Korea, is explaining the full-stack data center.

[Asia Economy Reporter Oh Su-yeon] As demand for data centers surges due to digital transformation across all industries, Huawei is accelerating its market approach by promoting its modularized one-stop full-stack data center.

On the 20th (local time), I visited the 'HUAWEI CONNECT 2022' exhibition held in Bangkok, Thailand.

The exhibition hall is divided into three main zones. The left side is dedicated to cloud, the right side to solutions for individual industry sectors, and the center to Huawei's core infrastructure business. In particular, the front booth of the infrastructure section showcases the full-stack data center.

At the site, Kim Jong-ryeol, Executive Director of the Korea Huawei Enterprise Business Group, said, "Performance and cloud interoperability have become very important factors in centralized data centers. It is a difficult process for clients to handle one by one," adding, "What gives Huawei an advantage over any other supplier is that it offers the entire lineup as a single solution."

Earlier that morning, Bob Chen, President of Marketing and Enterprise Network Technology Sales at Huawei Enterprise Business Group, also mentioned the strengths of the full-stack data center in his keynote speech. He explained, "In the past, it took four days to purchase devices from multiple suppliers and deploy them, and one day for commissioning (system verification). Maintenance was also unclear," and added, "Huawei provides a pre-integrated one-stop solution. Construction takes only two days, and commissioning takes 30 minutes."

In particular, Huawei maximized efficiency with its self-developed chipset. Executive Director Kim emphasized, "The biggest reason Huawei can be faster than any other supplier is because it develops its own chipsets."

Additionally, energy consumption has been reduced. The data center, notorious as a "power-hungry hippo" due to its massive electricity consumption, has been transformed into a green data center.

Executive Director Kim stated, "The reason we emphasize green data centers is that as data centers grow larger, energy consumption increases," and explained, "Huawei designs and manufactures the equipment itself. It has adopted techniques to reduce the heat generated by the equipment compared to other suppliers."

For example, unlike most suppliers who make the heat dissipation holes in data center equipment at right angles, Huawei designs them with a slanted shape. This reduces heat generation by 20%.

Executive Director Kim added, "We include many techniques that make management easier and improve energy efficiency more than any other supplier. It is not easy to achieve a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) below 1.4, but Huawei has achieved as low as 1.1," and continued, "We are ahead of any other supplier in meeting customer needs."

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