According to professional research and analysis on the telecom cloud market, the growth consulting company Frost & Sullivan held the award ceremony –Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards on November 13 and presented Huawei with "EXCELLENT TELECOM CLOUD SOLUTION PROVIDER OF THE YEAR". This award honors the company‘s distinguished achievements in the telecom cloud market developments.

The rapid development of cloud market is really dramatic. According to the related data provided by Frost & Sullivan, the market size in 2011 approached to 11.4 billion US dollars worldwide, increasing by 20.4% compared to 2010. The market size is forecasted to be 14 billion US dollars in 2012. As the fastest growing segment, telecom cloud market size reached 3 billion US dollars, with an annual growth rate of 21.4%. Up to the end of 2012, the market size is expected to be 3.7 billion US dollars.

Entering the field of cloud computing in 2008, Huawei is maintaining more than 10,000 dedicated R&D and service staff. As early as 2001, Huawei has started its research on servers, in which its X86 series is among the top in 81 functional criteria according to SPEC. In 2007, Huawei and Symantec established a joint venture, and in 2012, Huawei did the buy-back successfully, which greatly improved Huawei‘s capabilities in storage and safety. By the end of 2012, Huawei has delivered more than 260 data centers in which 35 are cloud computing data centers.