CHENNAI: Chinese e-commerce major Alibaba’s cloud computing wing -- Alibaba Cloud, is set to establish two new data centers in Asia, one of which will be in Mumbai, India and another in Indonesia.
Making the announcement on Saturday, Alibaba said that together with the recently announced data center in Malaysia, Alibaba Cloud will significantly increase its computing resources in Asia, allowing greater support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) throughout the region with powerful, scalable, cost-effective and secure cloud capabilities.
“Establishing data centers in India and Indonesia (Jakarta) will further strengthen our position in the region and across the globe,” Simon Hu, senior vice president of Alibaba Group and President of Alibaba Cloud said.
These new centres will bring the total number of data center locations to 17, covering mainland China, Australia, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
These centres will offer a full suite of services, providing the flexibility for enterprises and organizations to build their entire IT infrastructure for business on Alibaba Cloud or run mission-critical and core applications.
The company has also started inking partnerships with Indian firms for the use of its cloud services. On Saturday, it announced two partnerships — one with Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a subsidiary of Reliance Communications to directly access Alibaba Cloud Express Connect via GCX’s CLOUD X Fusion. The other was with Tata Communications. The pact will see customers connect to Alibaba Cloud’s ExpressConnect via Tata Communications’ IZO Private Connect service.
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