Ultrapower Sails to the Overseas (II): Upcloudx, the Booster for Chinese Enterprises to Go Overseas
Editor's Note: Going overseas is a way for Chinese enterprises to seek opportunities and development in broader overseas markets, and Upcloudx has become a booster for Chinese enterprises to go overseas by empowering them with cloud.
Camel Games, which has maintained continuous growth in overseas flow, has seen its annual expenditure on renting public cloud resources rise year by year. The start-up Upcloudx team helped the Camel team to deploy and optimize hundreds of clusters consisting of Aurora databases and EC2 servers on Amazon Cloud to serve the game business and log processing.
After optimizing the models and configurations, Camel's cloud operation and maintenance costs were saved by 30%, and the workload of database operation and maintenance was also greatly reduced, hence the technology brought real cost reduction and efficiency.
Based on the judgement that "cloud computing is an important area of the digital economy", Ultrapower developed the business idea of transforming its ICT operation and maintenance experience and capability into "serving the cloud needs of Chinese enterprises going overseas ". At the end of 2018, Ultrapower formally set up the cloud business unit, and began to use ICT operation and management capabilities as a technical base to derive cloud capabilities.
He who excels in acting can follow a career for singing, from Amazon cloud users to cloud partners
Since the beginning of the cloud business, Ultrapower has cooperated with Amazon Cloud Technology to provide cloud services for Chinese enterprises going overseas. Amazon Cloud Technology, the world's largest cloud vendor, is also the most important cloud partner of Ultrapower.
Depending on 20 years of ICT operation and management capacity precipitation, only one year after the establishment of the cloud business unit, the cloud business unit has become a senior partner of Amazon Cloud Technology in China.
In the following 4 years, relying on the advantages of technical capability, service experience and talent reserve accumulated in the ICT field for a long period of time, Ultrapower launched a number of cloud value-added services and standardized products.
The first standardized product, "TWEAKER", is a SaaS tool for Amazon Cloud Billing Management, which was officially launched in the Amazon Cloud Technology Marketplace in 2023. The tool is designed as a public cloud cost analysis and optimization engine to help customers improve billing insights, plan and review cloud expenses, reduce cloud usage and management costs, and create better economic benefits.
Migration、DevOps、MSP 和 Data & Analytics 等多项亚马逊云科技专业认证。 Thanks to its excellent performance in serving Chinese enterprises going overseas, Ultrapower has quickly become a strategic partner of Amazon Cloud Technology in the Chinese region, and one of the key partners in Amazon's cross-border cloud ecosystem with overall technology delivery capabilities.
At present, the cloud business of Ultrapower has served more than 300 Chinese enterprises going overseas, and the business scope has been extended to more than 40 countries around the world, and the team has a number of professional certifications of Amazon Cloud Technology, such as CMT, Migration, DevOps, MSP, and Data & Analytics.
Helping multi-industry, multi-scenario enterprises sailing to the overseas
In recent years, many enterprises have relied on the elastic ICT infrastructure of public cloud to rapidly build their own application businesses, including new economy industries such as overseas mobile games and cross-border e-commerce, as well as traditional industries such as automobiles and home appliances.
The workstations built by traditional IDCs are limited by resource flexibility, work convenience, and cost controllability, making it difficult for them to meet the performance requirements of workstations for the transformation and upgrading of traditional enterprises, and the need to migrate their information systems to the cloud is gradually coming to the fore.
In the face of the globalization needs of enterprises in all industries, Ultrapower has launched multi-industry, multi-scenario cloud solutions for business scenarios in different industries, fully combining Amazon's rich project experience, and providing customers with technical verification, customized development, scale testing, migration, and operation and maintenance services.
Haier Innovation Design Center is one of the first national industrial design centers, providing design support for all the products of Haier Smart Home’s seven global brands. Every day, in Haier Design's Qingdao office, more than 300 3D designers and graphic designers are online at the same time, working through cloud desktops and rendering clusters tailored for them on Amazon Cloud by Upcloudx.
No longer limited by the resource constraints of self-built IDCs, the rendering tasks that designers used to take 3 days to complete can be completed automatically in 10 minutes by the horizontally scalable automated design system and intelligent design and rendering system on the cloud.The auto-tiering storage system with unlimited capacity solves the storage constraints of the designers' daily backups per person, and greatly improves the security of the data at the same time.
Currently, the Upcloudx team has completed the closed loop of end-to-end technical services from consulting, planning, migration, delivery, optimization, and MSP, and has established localized sales and technical service teams close to customers in 7 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Chengdu, and Ningbo.
With services covering 8 industries, including healthcare, education, gaming, finance, manufacturing, automotive, retail consumer goods, and media and entertainment.
Fully embracing the cloud-native concept, providing cloud momentum for Chinese enterprises going overseas
At present, it is becoming more and more technically difficult for enterprises to build applications on the cloud or migrate applications to the cloud, the pressure to guarantee efficient system operation is increasing, there are more and more security threats, and the requirements for architecture and cost optimization are becoming more and more stringent.
With years of experience in the operation and management of complex ICT systems and long-term service in telecom, finance and other industries with extremely high requirements for ICT service support, Ultrapower deeply understands the operation mode, usage requirements and application pain points of complex ICT systems in various industries. The rapid capture of customer needs and cost-effective implementation are the core focus of the rapid development of Ultrapower cloud business.
Ultrapower provides highly targeted cloud or on-cloud services for all kinds of customers going overseas, including planning, designing and deploying a good on-cloud architecture for industrial customers, helping customers migrate off-cloud systems and data to the cloud, assisting customers in maintaining and optimizing the on-cloud environment, and guaranteeing stable, reliable and safe operation of the system with cost-effective cloud costs.
In the direction of software business line, Ultrapower has participated in business and technical training organized by Amazon Cloud Technology for thousands of times, and more than 500 people have obtained public cloud practitioner qualifications certified by Amazon Cloud Technology, with more than 200 AWS senior architect and business expert certificates.
In June 2023, Ultrapower was awarded the 2022 System Integration Partner of the Year by Amazon Cloud Technology China; in November of the same year, it was awarded the 2023 Global System Integration Partner of the Year. This is a recognition and commendation of the comprehensive strength of Ultrapower's cloud business.
The person in charge of cloud business of Ultrapower is full of confidence in the cloud service market: "Ultrapower fully embraces the cloud native concept and application architecture, and with more than 20 years of accumulation in ICT operation and management field, we will provide solid technical support and service guarantee for the global layout of China's enterprises going overseas."
