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Huawei Cloud is the fastest-growing cloud services provider in the world with an expanding list of services , including Elastic Cloud Server , ECS , cloud database , cloud security , software development services , and scenario-based solutions . By 2022 , Huawei Cloud had launched more than 200 products and 200 solutions , established more than 2,800 nodes worldwide , covering more than 170 countries and regions and had more than 9000 technical partners , with more than 100 global certifications and over 3,000,000 customers globally .

In Dubai , 95 % of the emirate ’ s firms consist of SMEs , employing 42 % of its workers and accounting for more than 40 % of its GDP . The Huawei Cloud Startup Programme will leverage Huawei ’ s three decades of ICT and digitalisation expertise to support this crucial sector while helping unleash innovation in the UAE and further boosting the country ’ s digitisation goals .

The Huawei Cloud Startup Programme is a global support programme to help accelerate technology startups ’ business growth . Through the Huawei Cloud Startup Programme , Huawei will leverage its global expertise and cloud innovations and help startups address challenges associated with funding , technical and commercial resources and connections they need to expand , contributing to the emergence of innovative businesses that can lead the region ’ s digital transformation powered by Huawei Cloud . Jiawei Liu , CEO of Huawei UAE , said , “ Startups and small businesses play a pivotal role in the continuous development of UAE ’ s economy . We are proud to partner with The Entrepreneurial Nation Initiative by the Ministry of Economy , which provides a perfect platform for entities like Huawei to support the growth and development of the SME sector .”

With Huawei Cloud , startups can scale their business effortlessly by eliminating high infrastructure costs and limited computing capacity associated with onpremises data centres . Businesses can also gain access to cutting-edge technologies and resources at a fraction of the cost .

Further , participating entrepreneurs can tap into Huawei ’ s extensive ecosystem , with access to its vast innovations , technical support , mentorship , and market development opportunities . Huawei also

Jiawei Liu , CEO of Huawei UAE

provides go-to-market assistance , ensuring small business owners can reach their target audience effectively . Recognising that collaboration is crucial to growth , Huawei Cloud also helps connect founders with likeminded entrepreneurs , industry experts , and thoughts worldwide .

Huawei Cloud Startup Programme is a global success story . Intella is a two-year-old Egyptian startup that has developed a highly accurate Arabic voice-to-text transcription engine , encompassing all the 25 Arab dialects and whose model was trained and optimised on Huawei Cloud ModelArts . Through the Huawei Cloud Startup Programme , Intella received cloud credits worth tens of thousands of US dollars for AI model training in addition to co-marketing and co-selling with Huawei Cloud ’ s Egypt team to scale up its solution commercially . •

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