Huawei’s Cui Hong, director of data centre integration, solution sales department.

As Africa enters the intelligent era, Huawei experts delivered their most recent insights and data centre building solutions this week.

At the Pan-African Data Centres Exhibition and Conference, the company showcased multiple solutions to nearly 3,000 global data center energy customers, as well as 120 integrators, consulting firms, and industry associations, who exchanged technologies, industry insights, and highlighted innovation cases.

The company contributed to the conference agenda by discussing data centre investments, planning, building, servicing, and solutions. 

Huawei engaged with professionals from consultancy firms and industry associations to discuss how to establish an African data centre industry exchange platform.

The company pointed out that as human innovation accelerates toward a smart world, data centres will become critical infrastructure, ushering in a slew of opportunities and difficulties.

Huawei provided its current perspectives on data centre layout in Africa to assist carriers in taking the lead in the artificial intelligence (AI) era and fully using the benefits of data centres, IT, Huawei Cloud, digital energy, and Huawei's green full-stack data centre solutions.

According to Huawei, data centres enable storage and networking capabilities that power technologies such as AI; nevertheless, as innovations expand, so does data centre energy usage.

To this end, the company said building data centre of the future will require more efficient cooling systems and more efficient energy use in order to reduce environmental impact.

On the theme of green digital infrastructure and enabling intelligence in Africa, Huawei’s Cui Hong, director of data centre integration, solution sales department said, "Huawei understands the challenges of data centre construction in Africa and addresses them through its four core values: fast construction, flexible cooling, green energy supply, and ultimate security.”

He added: “The all-scenario data centre service solution helps customers and partners build a solid foundation for the intelligent era and efficiently uses each watt of energy to support greener computing power.”

According Hong, as large AI models develop rapidly, massive computing power requirements emerge, and a large amount of data will be generated and transmitted. Because of this, data has become one of the most valuable assets within an enterprise.

The global technology company said: “To help customers build an intelligent, secure, and green data centre, Huawei released the innovative data centre infrastructure architecture F2F2X (from flash memory to flash memory to anything), from primary storage to backup, and archiving.”

This technology, according to the company, has been diversified to help businesses establish reliable storage facilities where data can be saved, run fast, and used effectively.

Further, Huawei said AI is reshaping thousands of industries, and cloud technology will be key to making AI ubiquitous. In this scenario cloud platforms become the strategic core of an enterprises' digital business.

Hong shared that Huawei Cloud provides multiple cloud migration solutions, including public cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge cloud to meet its customer needs.

“In addition, we provide local cloud services in South Africa, Egypt, and Nigeria, enabling customers in these regions to easily access the cloud with the best performance, and security compliance,” he said.