Tencent Cloud, the cloud business arm of global technology company, Tencent, today sealed a partnership with Nokia, a leading provider of network infrastructure solutions to support enterprises in Singapore and Asia Pacific as they level up their cloud and network infrastructure for the next phase of digital transformation. The partnership was announced at the recently concluded Tencent Cloud Day Singapore 2024, held at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre.
The alliance aims to create greater, seamless integration between cloud services and network infrastructure, enabling business enterprises, network infrastructure service providers, and data centres to upgrade and optimize their current IT environments to harness the potential of AI innovation.
Unlocking new Enterprise Values in Multi-Cloud Environment
Businesses in Singapore – and increasingly, across Asia Pacific – have successfully migrated basic operational functions onto the cloud and are enjoying the resulting efficiency gains. Indeed, Gartner projects that within the next four years, cloud computing will shift from a disruptor, to becoming a necessary component for maintaining business competitiveness. Meanwhile, end user spending on public cloud services is projected to exceed US$1 trillion in 2027.
As enterprises continue to adopt digital transformation throughout their operations, they are increasingly looking into ways to optimize their IT applications and services across large-scale, multi-cloud operations. As a leading provider of IP, optical, and broadband access networks, Nokia has the full breadth of network infrastructure capabilities that enable premium cloud networking, advanced network automation and slicing, and robust cross-border connectivity. Nokia’s multi-cloud and data centre networking solutions can address multi-site and multi-cloud connectivity, coupled with highest levels of security, agility, and scalability. These solutions enable enterprises to streamline their multi-cloud operations, facilitating successful digital transformation and ensuring a best-in-class customer experience.
With unified and optimised networking supports, Tencent Cloud will be able to empower enterprises and operators to host and manage cloud-based application and workloads that demands highly efficient computing, storage and infrastructure resources. Leveraging Tencent’s two decades of experience and knowhow in operating the tech ecosystem, Weixin/WeChat, with its over one billion of users, Tencent Cloud is poised to offer high-impact cloud-based media and AI services, such as media processing capabilities, real-time communication and hosting for streaming and video-on-demand, digital human creation, and more, to meet the enterprises increasing demands of handling multi-format digital data and content.
Sang Xulei, Vice President and Head of Asia Pacific Regional Business Centre for Network Infrastructure at Nokia, celebrated the new partnership, stating: “By combining Nokia’s network infrastructure capabilities with Tencent Cloud’s expertise, we are able to jointly offer end-to-end, optimized premium cloud services and networking solutions for the cloud and data centre industries in Singapore and throughout Asia. Together, we provide significant additional value to enterprises in the region, supporting their digital transformation journeys.” Meanwhile, Vice-President of Tencent Cloud International, APAC, Bluefin Zhao, urged enterprises to leverage cloud not just to improve internal efficiencies, but also to drive business innovation. “Enterprises with the foresight to adopt and harmonise cloud-based tools to actively pursue commercial results will be able to embrace the AI future; it gives them a strategic advantage over companies that still view cloud solutions as just an efficiency driver.”
Driving Global Growth in line with AI Innovation
At Tencent Cloud Day Singapore 2024, speakers and experts highlighted that artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically generative AI, is fundamentally revolutionizing how we interact and act on information in the new digital world. This revolution unlocks a wealth of new opportunities for businesses of all sizes.
More businesses will seek for reliable and cost-efficient ways to harness the potential of data to drive the next AI-powered digital transformation. To-date, Tencent Cloud has transformed and significantly improved operations regional clients such as Singaporean lifestyle brand OSIM, Indonesian job platform KUPU, and Bank Neo Commerce Indonesia. These clients are supported by Tencent Cloud’s global infrastructure comprising 58 availability zones and more than 3,200 content delivery acceleration nodes, spread across 21 locations.
Meanwhile, Tencent Cloud continues to grow its international business at a healthy pace. Specifically, Tencent Cloud’s Singapore and Malaysian businesses achieved high double-digit growth for two consecutive years.
Going forward, Tencent Cloud remains active in recruiting local and regional partners to support our growing business, adding to our existing thriving ecosystem of over 11,000 partners globally. This expansion supports increasing interest from international clients, especially in the media, entertainment, and live streaming industries, as they increasingly adopt Tencent’s cloud-based solutions to transform their operations.
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