A step towards innovation – Alibaba Cloud Becomes Presenting Partner of the FIFA Club World Cup
November 22 2017 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
Alibaba Group and FIFA announced today Alibaba Cloud – the cloud
computing arm of Alibaba Group – as Presenting Partner of the FIFA
Club World Cup until 2022. The announcement was made on the
occasion of the Computing Conference held by Alibaba Group in
Guangzhou.
Commenting on the agreement, FIFA’s Director Marketing Sales and
Strategy, Iain Downie said: “We are aware of the substantial value
that Alibaba Cloud provides to business in terms of technical
support and global reaching services. We can only see great
potential in this fresh collaboration related to the FIFA Club
World Cup.”
Beginning at this year’s edition of the tournament, which will
be hosted in the UAE from 6 to 16 December, as the Presenting
Partner, Alibaba Cloud will design and provide the MVP (most
valuable player) award. In additional celebration of the
partnership, the FIFA Club World Cup Winner’s Trophy was exhibited
during the announcement and at the Computing Conference.
The FIFA Club World Cup is a FIFA-organised international
football tournament, featuring the current champion football clubs
from each of the six football confederations, as well as the
national league champion from the host country. In previous
tournaments some of the biggest footballing stars in the world have
participated, including global superstars such as Lionel Messi,
Luis Suárez and Cristiano Ronaldo, who had all been named
tournament best players in past editions of the tournament.
Simon Hu, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group and President
of Alibaba Cloud said: “As one of the world’s leading cloud
computing providers, we are striving to make technology more
inclusive to benefit more people’s day-to-day life and well-being.
By becoming a major partner of the FIFA Club World Cup, we hope to
show how our technology can bring new aspects of fun and enjoyment
to fans of sports, including those people who might have had
barriers to access or participate before. For Alibaba Cloud, this
is the true meaning of inclusive technology.”
Alibaba Cloud’s powerful cloud computing infrastructure has
proven its value proposition by supporting massive spikes in
traffic and transactions during peak events such as Alibaba Group’s
Global Shopping Festival. Within the sports industry, Alibaba Cloud
works towards providing cloud computing infrastructure and cloud
services to support operation efficiency in a secure manner,
including by supporting big data analytics requirements.
About Alibaba Cloud
Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com), the cloud computing arm of
Alibaba Group, is among the world’s top 3 IaaS providers according
to Gartner, and the largest provider of public cloud services in
China, according to IDC. Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive
suite of cloud computing services to businesses worldwide,
including merchants doing business on Alibaba Group marketplaces,
start-ups, corporations and government organizations.
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