Chinese cloud providers in global expansion
August 13, 2015
Grazed from IT-Online. Author: Editorial Staff.
The Alibaba Group is to make an additional investment of $1-billion into Aliyun, its cloud computing unit. The capital will be used to expand Aliyun’s international presence and support infrastructures, in addition to R&D in cloud computing, big data, and the building of a business ecosystem. This move has once again confirmed Alibaba’s determination to expand and develop its cloud computing operations globally.
Aliyun’s global operations have just begun. In this year, Aliyun announced plans to set up data centres in Western US and the Middle East and, later on, the Eastern US, Europe, Singapore and Japan. These plans are designed to serve both the internationalisation of Chinese companies on the one hand, and local customers in those markets on the other…
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