OTTAWA – Huawei, Telus and Carleton this week signed a more than $1.4 million deal today to establish a research lab dedicated to enterprise cloud services.
Located in Carleton University’s new Canal engineering building, the Huawei-Telus Innovation Centre for Enterprise Cloud Services will give students, faculty and industry an opportunity to research real-world problems associated with cloud computing such as security and performance issues, according to the companies.
“In addition to the joint innovation centre we announced with Telus earlier in the year, this new lab, another strategic partnership with Telus, is dedicated to enterprise cloud services, and underscores our commitment to bringing leading technologies and solutions to our key customers,” said Sean Yang, president of Huawei Canada in the release.
“We have a long-term commitment to the Canadian market, and will continue to contribute to the local community by sponsoring, funding, and collaborating with universities across the nation.”
“The research that will be undertaken in this new lab will lead to solutions for real-world problems associated with the field of cloud computing,” added Ibrahim Gedeon, Telus’ CTO.
The lab will be used to drive student interest in cloud services with Huawei equipment leveraging Telus services to benefit course work, senior-year projects and graduate research. The lab will be directed by a member oversight committee led by representatives from Huawei, Telus, and Carleton University.
