Alibaba Eyeing Data Center in India to Take on Amazon, Microsoft
May 26, 2016
Grazed from Yibada. Author: Editorial Staff.
Alibaba is reportedly trying to cement its cloud business with plans to open a data center in India this year. According to Indian newspaper Business Line, China’s e-commerce titan has plans to boost its cloud computing business in India likely through an acquisition. "When they start on-boarding millions of sellers and suppliers on the platform, it is clear they will need a means to support that kind of data," said Greyhound Research’s CEO Sanchit Vir Gogia in an interview with Business Line.
"It is less expensive compared to relying on a third-party data center and also there are no issues of data theft." The move is now seen as an attempt to shake the presence of Microsoft and Amazon, two of Alibaba’s biggest competitors in cloud computing, in the Indian market, added the newspaper…
Microsoft has already established its cloud business in the country through Azure, while the Amazon Web Services has been targeting the Indian space for its AWS infrastructure region since last year, reported Business Insider…
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