Huawei to develop public cloud services

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd will step up efforts to offer public cloud services, as the telecom giant promotes a strategy to help companies accelerate their digital transformation, rotating CEO Xu Zhijun said on Tuesday.

"Starting from this year, Huawei will focus on public cloud services," Xu said in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. "We will invest heavily in building an open and trusted public cloud platform, which will be the foundation of a Huawei Cloud Family."

His comments followed the Shenzhen-based group's establishment of a cloud business unit this year, underlining that cloud computing will be one of its strategic priorities in the coming years. Huawei declined to disclose the specific investment size.