News this week: China’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba
Group, announced it will extend its cloud-computing services to overseas
markets beginning in March this year. The company did not disclose the specific
markets it plans to target.
This development comes on the back of U.S.-based Amazon’s recent announcement of the launch of
its cloud computing services in China. Alibaba’s cloud-computing division, Aliyun, will set up data centres outside
China to serve local enterprises as well as Chinese companies’ overseas
operations.
Aliyun’s director, Zhang Jing, was quoted saying, “After
five years of development and three years of commercialisation, Aliyun is able
to provide sustainable services to customers, backed by its resourceful parent,
Alibaba.” In August, ChinaSoft International announced a strategic agreement
with Aliyun and the Lishui municipal government for a state-funded cloud
project in Zhejiang province.
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