Case Study: Tencent achieves lower TCO and faster server deployment with Huawei servers

Tencent Invests in Huawei Servers

Tencent, one of Asia’s largest internet enterprises, needed to support massive traffic across its online services while reducing operating expenses and improving server stability. Its racks were costly to run in carrier equipment rooms, deployment was slow, and the company had to manage a highly complex mix of server types. Huawei provided the server infrastructure, including rack servers, blade servers, high-density servers, and X8000 servers.

Huawei worked with Tencent to optimize server design, reduce power use, and simplify architecture by standardizing configurations and removing unused functions. The result was lower failure rates, easier maintenance, and much faster deployment: installing 20 servers in a rack fell from 5 hours to 10 minutes. By the end of 2013, more than 100,000 Huawei servers were deployed at Tencent, cutting equipment footprint by 50%, power consumption by 15%, and annual TCO by USD 15.7 million.

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