Huawei-Awantec to drive digitalization in the public sector

Vice-President of Cloud & AI Business Group, Huawei Malaysia, Lim Chee Siong (from left) with Chief Executive Director of Huawei Malaysia, Michael Yuan; President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Awantec, Dr. Abu Hasan Ismail and Interim Chairman of Awantec, Paul Chan Wan Siew at the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) event today between Huawei Malaysia and Awantec.

KUALA LUMPUR 6 Jan. - Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (Huawei) and AwanBiru Technology Berhad (Awantec) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today to drive and promote the adoption of Huawei Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) products and services in the public sector.

The collaboration will drive the adoption of Huawei Cloud products and services at both the federal and state levels, as well as among Malaysia’s statutory bodies, government-linked companies (GLCs), and commercial organizations.

Under this partnership, Huawei will act as Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Service Provider, offering its Cloud products and services such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Anything as a Service (XaaS), while Awantec will act as Managed Services Partner and drive demand and adoption for Huawei’s products and services.

President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Awantec, Dr. Abu Hasan Ismail said, this is a strategic alignment for the company to be in the forefront of Cloud Computing to address the Government’s call to raise the Country’s digitalization capabilities. 

"Together with Huawei, we look forward to opening opportunities, training, and building technical and competent talent teams here in Malaysia. 

"We have built our reputation as a trusted partner of the government and we want to continue to do so when the nation embarks on its first cloud policy," he said in a statement today.

The MoU was signed by Abu Hasan while signing on behalf of Huawei was it's Chief Executive Director, Michael Yuan. 

The signing was witnessed by Huawei Malaysia Vice-President of Cloud & AI Business Group, Lim Chee Siong, and Interim Chairman of Awantec, Paul Chan Wan Siew.

Meanwhile, Yuan said, as a global technology leader with deep and wide-ranging expertise in Cloud and AI, Huawei is well suited to provide the technology and services needed to drive the digitalization of Malaysia’s public sector.

“As we embark on a brand-new year, we look forward to lending our technological know-how to bring Malaysia’s public sector at both Federal and State levels to greater digital heights.

“Cloud Computing, as we know, is the backbone of digital transformation. Paired with AI, these technologies will introduce greater flexibility, agility, and resilience to processes within Malaysia’s public sector," he added. - DagangNews.com