Huawei and Telefonica have partnered up to promote the migration of traditional IT services to the cloud. The deal will allow clients who wish to outsource computing, storage and backup services’ management to Telefonica, to do so without the need for further infrastructure investment.

The partnership will see Huawei responsible for running Telefonica’s Open Cloud service in eight of Telefonica’s data centres, with Telefonica capitalising from Huawei’s knowledge and experience on its public cloud service in the Chinese market.

The Chinese equipment maker and B2B services provider Telefonica Business Solutions has chosen Brazil, Chile and Mexico for the introduction of the new services in the first half of 2016. Five other locations have already been chosen for later in the year.

The new cloud services will run on a pay per use basis. According to Juan Carlos Lopez-Vives, CEO of Telefonica, “The combination of Telefonica’s and Huawei’s capabilities represents the best guarantee for our customers”.

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