AliCloud launches 20 services under brand name Big Data Platform
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Alibaba Cloud Computing (Alicloud) is to launch 20 new online services to the Chinese market under the brand name Big Data Platform. The new application service range caters for activities in the data development chain, including processing, analysis, computing, machine learning and big data hosting. Around 1,000 developers are expected to be developing services with AliCloud in the next three years.
The plan is to use all the data-processing capacity and data-security skills that the Alibaba Group has accumulated in ten years of running the world’s biggest ecommerce platform, AliCloud president Simon Hu told reporters at the launch. “That data becomes a resource and a service that we can provide our clients,” said Hu…
Alibaba’s cloud computing unit, AliCloud, is gearing up to launch a new suite of big data solution and analytics widely accessible in China. The e-commerce powerhouse is also planning to work with NVIDIA to initiate an internet based high graphics processing service in China. Formerly known as Aliyun, the cloud services arm serves the company’s websites and external clients which includes small enterprises working in China and businesses abroad.
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