Alibaba Cloud Expands Global Offering with Four New Data Centers
November 21 2016 - 12:30AM
Business Wire
New facilities in the Middle East, Europe,
Australia and Japan will provide comprehensive cloud service
offerings, enabling business innovation globally
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, today
announced the opening of four new data centers by the end of 2016
in the Middle East (Dubai), Europe, Australia and Japan. As a major
milestone of Alibaba Cloud’s global expansion, the new centers will
boost its data center network to 14 locations, covering key
economic centers around the world. The data center in the Middle
East, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, commenced initial
operations today.
Alibaba Cloud’s expansion will provide customers worldwide with
improved latency and greater access to its diverse offerings,
including data storage and analytics services, enterprise-level
middleware, and cloud security services. Strengthening Alibaba
Cloud's position as a major global cloud provider, the new data
centers will support Alibaba Cloud’s growing client base beyond the
current 2.3 million.
Through a stronger network of facilities and strategic
partnerships, Alibaba Cloud also plans to drive a globalization of
innovation. The enhanced cloud capabilities make breakthrough
innovation a real possibility with artificial intelligence, deep
learning and data analytics.
“Alibaba Cloud has contributed significantly to China’s
technology advancement, establishing critical commerce
infrastructure to enable cross-border businesses, online
marketplaces, payments, logistics, cloud computing and big data to
work together seamlessly. We want to establish cloud computing as
the digital foundation for the new global economy using the
opportunities of cloud computing to empower businesses of all sizes
across all markets,” said Simon Hu, President of Alibaba Cloud.
Evidence of the potential of Alibaba Cloud can be seen during
the recently completed 2016 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, where
Alibaba Cloud technology supported all of Alibaba’s online
marketplaces and facilitated a record-breaking 175,000 transactions
per second during peak traffic spikes. The festival showcased the
capabilities not only of the cloud, but also a number of other
areas, such as virtual reality, thus helping to redefine
technological boundaries.
“The four new data centers will further expand Alibaba Cloud’s
global ecosystem and footprint, allowing us to meet the increasing
demand for secure and scalable cloud computing services from
businesses and industries worldwide. The true potential of
data-driven digital transformation will be seen through
globalization and the opportunities brought by the new global
economy will become a reality,” said Sicheng Yu, Vice President of
Alibaba Group and General Manager of Alibaba Cloud Global.
Since its launch, Alibaba Cloud’s technologies have enabled all
types of businesses globally, ranging from start-ups to
multi-national companies, to benefit from the greater operational
and cost efficiency that cloud computing can provide. The new
facilities are based in four strategically important trading and
economic centers to enable the ambitions to make it easy to do
business anywhere. Each of the four will add significant value to
the global network and expand horizons.
Middle East
Alibaba Cloud will be the first major global public cloud
services provider to offer cloud services from a local data center
in the Middle East. The opening of the Dubai Data Center is held in
conjunction with YVOLV, a joint venture of Alibaba Cloud and Meraas
Holdings, a Dubai-based holding company with a portfolio spanning
across key economic sectors in the United Arab Emirates. YVOLV will
support and drive Dubai’s Smart City vision by leveraging Alibaba
Cloud’s sophisticated cloud computing technologies to create new
applications and big-data tools for customers in the region.
Europe
To support enterprises in Europe, Alibaba Cloud will partner
with Vodafone Germany to open its first data center in Europe. The
center is co-located in Vodafone’s data facilities in Frankfurt,
Germany, one of the leading technology hubs in Europe with a highly
developed infrastructure supporting technological innovation. The
facility is well positioned to meet the increasing demand for
sophisticated cloud computing services as the region seeks to
accelerate the upgrade of its digital infrastructure.
Australia
Extending its global footprint in the Asia-Pacific, Alibaba
Cloud will open a new data center in Sydney, Australia by the end
of 2016. Alibaba Cloud will bring its most popular cloud services
in data storage and processing services, enterprise-level
middleware, and cloud security services to the Australian market. A
dedicated team will be based in Australia, and build up a cloud
ecosystem with local technology partners to drive cloud and
big-data business in the region.
Japan
The Japan Data Center, hosted by SB Cloud Corporation, a joint
venture between Softbank and Alibaba Group, will provide Japanese
enterprises with competitive and enhanced public cloud computing
services from Alibaba Cloud. With the joint venture, Alibaba Cloud
will further expand its cloud computing service platform by
leveraging SoftBank’s extensive enterprise customer base in
Japan.
About Alibaba Cloud
Established in September 2009, Alibaba Cloud (intl.aliyun.com),
Alibaba Group’s cloud computing arm, develops highly scalable
platforms for cloud computing and data management. It provides a
comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to support growing
enterprises worldwide, including sellers and other third-party
customers and businesses participating in Alibaba Group’s online
and mobile commerce ecosystem. Alibaba Cloud is a business of
Alibaba Group.
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