Resilient DC White Paper
Building a Fully Connected, Intelligent World
A Reference for CIOs on Planning and Building Resilient DCs
Released By
Data Center of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Yang Chaobin
Board Member, CEO of the ICT Business Group, Huawei
In the new wave of AI-driven transformation, data centers (DCs) have evolved from traditional IT infrastructure to strategic assets that underpin a company's core competitiveness, with more and more core services now running on them. While the rapid growth of AI applications drives the continuous expansion of DCs, AI is also paving the way for more frequent,
lower-cost, and increasingly diverse cyber threats. In my recent discussions with clients and partners, one concern consistently arises: how can we build highly resilient DC infrastructure? The key to resilience is to ensure business continuity and deterministic security. This means progressing from active-standby to active-active and then to multi-active architecture, from passive defense to proactive prevention, and from reactive repair to automatic recovery. This white paper re?ects on industry practices and draws on expert perspectives. I hope it will offer valuable reference for building DCs for the intelligent world.
Michael Ma
Corporate Vice President, President of ICT Product Portfolio Management & Solutions, Huawei
DCs are becoming the central hub and engine for digitalization and intelligent transformation in today's world. Surging business complexity, evolving cyber threats, and rapid technological advancements are pushing DCs toward new heights in availability, security, and ?exibility. In my recent exchanges with customers, partners, and industry peers, one theme is consistently mentioned: resilient DCs are now at the core of intelligent infrastructure development, but this journey presents many challenges. Huawei, drawing on more than two decades of expertise in the data center domain, is committed to driving the industry forward through consistent innovation in products and technologies. This Resilient DC White Paper is an important outcome of years of joint innovation experience and exploration practices with customers and partners, combined with a vision for the future. It de?nes the key features of resilient DCs, introduces the industry's ?rst DC resilience maturity model, and offers both visionary and actionable suggestions for businesses to implement resilient DCs. In times of uncertainty, resilience stands as the most certain long-term investment. I hope this white paper will contribute positively to global DC development.
Liu Jianming
Director of the Expert Committee on "Smart Grid Technology and Equipment", Industry Development
Promotion Center, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China; Project
Team Owner, China Smart Grid Special Project (2030)
With the rapid development of AI, DCs have evolved from traditional information storage centers to critical infrastructures that safeguard business continuity and digital transformation. In critical industries related to national economy and people's well-being, such as smart grid, resilient data infrastructures play a crucial role in ensuring stable system operation, risk resistance, and future evolution. DCs not only support AI training and inference but also meet core grid requirements, such as real-time analysis and automated decision-making. Their resilience is directly related to the grid's reliability, security, and sustainability. According to this white paper, "Each new generation of DCs is a response to the digital economy's rising demand for higher performance, security, and ?exibility. This is the rationale behind building resilience." The publication systematically explains how to build future-oriented DCs that are driven by arti?cial general intelligence (AGI) and are able to perceive, make decisions, and evolve. It provides valuable references and practical guidelines for the electric power industry in planning, building, and operating highly resilient computing infrastructures. This white paper presents forward-thinking concepts and pragmatic content, offering signi?cant inspiration and practical reference for organizations in the electric power sector and related industries. It is well worth recommending to industry stakeholders.
