Huawei's many-headed beast of a cloud wants a serious bite of the action

More details have emerged about Huawei's public cloud. It is like a hydra, a creature with many heads. The company will build a global cloud network based on its own public clouds and those it has built with partners. Outside China Huawei is partnering with companies such as Deutsche Telecom, Orange and Telefónica. They will …

[Gartal]

Five clouds

We predict that there will be a need for more than five computers worldwide

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[amanfromMars 1]

I'm in ... and more than just a little bit interested, given the massive scaling available

Will Huawei's scheme work?

Yes. You can safely bet everything on it being a loss leader and new market colossus. Bravo, Huawei.

And methinks 'tis quite perfect enough a platform already to trail and trial Sublime Advanced IntelAIgent Services to all Public and Private and Pirate Facing Operations with Sensitive Information to Protect and Polish to Perfect Phorm.

[TheOpsMgr]

Both AWS and Azure have loads of PaaS and SaaS?

"Unlike Amazon and Google, Huawei is developing application platform services on its cloud, not just variations on the basic compute, storage and database component offerings that their customers have to combine into a data centre-level application service. While Amazon and Google offer the public cloud equivalent of bare metal, so to speak, Huawei and its partners are offering enterprise data centre-type platform services"

This is just blatantly wrong. Both AWS and Azure have rich PaaS and SaaS service portfolios, way beyond the equivalent of "bare metal".

Sounds like someone believed the BS Huawei fed them!