Alibaba to launch fifth cloud datacentre

Grazed from BusinessCloud. Editorial Staff.

The Shenzhen datacentre will house approximately 10,000 servers and will provide a number of cloud services including infrastructure as a service, load balancing, relational database service, open storage service and open caching service among others. “As part of our ongoing commitment to enhance our services to better serve the cloud computing needs of users, we have chosen to open a datacentre in Shenzhen to provide customers with more options for network nodes and further enhance the reliability of user application services and response speed,” said Ben Wang, president of AliCloud.

“For users in Southern China and the Pearl River Delta region, using Shenzhen nodes will lower network latency, reduce data transmission time, and greatly enhance the user experience,” Wang added. The datacentre in Shenzhen comes just a few months after the company announced its first foray outside of mainland China with the construction of a Hong Kong cloud facility. The company has three other cloud computing datacentres in Hangzhou, Qingdao, and Beijing…

AliCloud, a division of the e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, was established in September 2009 and is quickly emerging as a cloud heavyweight in its home market, challenging rival foreign cloud computing incumbents like Amazon and Microsoft, which have recently led expansion efforts in China.

In 2013 the company said it wanted to expand operations beyond China, a strategy that may become even more critical given Alibaba Group’s recently-filed IPO, one of the most highly valued in technology history. In 2013 Ailbaba Group (in which Yahoo owns a 40 per cent stake) processed 11.3 billion orders worth $248bn, more than Amazon and Ebay combined, which could see the company as a whole value at well over $200bn…

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