Huawei Receives Leadership Recognition from Gartner
On August 6, 2025, the respected research firm Gartner released its latest
Magic Quadrant report for container management, ranking
Huawei among the leaders in the industry. This recognition comes as no surprise given Huawei's extensive experience in the cloud sector, particularly through its committed
Huawei Cloud division, which has made significant strides in innovative
container technology.
Achievements of Huawei Cloud
Huawei Cloud has made substantial investments in what it terms
Cloud Native 2.0, allowing it to introduce a suite of innovative container products. These include:
- - CCE Turbo
- - CCE Autopilot
- - Cloud Container Instance (CCI)
- - Ubiquitous Cloud-Native Service (UCS)
These solutions are tailored to fit diverse environments such as public, distributed, hybrid clouds, and edge scenarios. Their robust infrastructure enables the management of large-scale container workloads, making them indispensable for modern enterprises.
Versatile Applications
Huawei Cloud's offerings cater to every use-case scenario studied in the report, including cloud-native applications, containerization of existing assets, AI containers, edge apps, and hybrid cloud solutions. Notably, the section focusing on AI containers demonstrates Huawei's competitive edge in this sector, marking it as a forward-thinking leader.
Not only is Huawei Cloud a frontrunner in software development and open-source contributions, but it also plays a crucial role in the wider cloud-native ecosystem. Currently, Huawei is participating in
82 CNCF projects and has appointed over
20 project coordinators, solidifying its influence in the community. Remarkably, Huawei is the only Chinese cloud service provider to have a Vice Chairman serving on the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of CNCF.
A Comprehensive Product Matrix
Delivering the most comprehensive matrix of container products in the industry, Huawei Cloud spans a wide array of environments globally. Success stories abound, illustrating the efficacy of Huawei's cloud solutions:
- - Starzplay, an OTT platform in the Middle East, transitioned to a serverless architecture utilizing Huawei Cloud's CCI, successfully handling millions of access requests during the 2024 Cricket World Cup while achieving a 20% reduction in resource expenses.
- - Ninja Van, a leading logistics provider in Singapore, fully containerized its services using Huawei Cloud CCE, achieving zero operational failures during peak periods and enhancing order processing efficiency by 40%.
- - Chilquinta Energía, one of Chile’s main energy companies, upgraded its big data platform to a cloud architecture via Huawei Cloud CCE Turbo, resulting in an impressive average performance boost of 90% and more intelligent management capabilities.
- - Konga, a top e-commerce platform in Nigeria, transitioned entirely to a CCE Turbo-based cloud architecture, enabling seamless shopping experiences for millions of monthly active users.
- - Meitu, China’s leading visual creativity platform, employs Huawei’s CCE and Ascend cloud services to deploy various models and algorithms for analysis, allowing 200 million active users to share life events in real-time with rapid iteration speeds for large-scale training.
Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud is poised to continue forging partnerships with global operators to drive innovation within the
cloud technology sphere, ensuring mutual success.
Conclusion
The 2025 Magic Quadrant report affirms Huawei’s leadership position in container management, as it continues to evolve and shape the cloud landscape through its innovative solutions. As businesses increasingly turn to cloud services for efficiency and scalability, Huawei’s role is likely to grow even larger.
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