Global cloud leader aims to be the world’s
leading digital intelligence backbone by 2023
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone
of Alibaba Group, said today it has supported 38 percent of the
Fortune 500 companies over the past fiscal year.
With this milestone, the cloud service provider plans to
accelerate its globalization strategy, aiming to become the world’s
leading digital intelligence backbone in three years.
“We are extremely confident in the future of the global digital
economy, especially with the digitalization of healthcare,
business, education, leisure and other parts of our lives during
the pandemic. As the largest cloud service provider in the Asia
Pacific region, we will continue increasing investments in the next
three years to strengthen our infrastructure, our solutions and our
role in the wider technology ecosystem towards being the trusted
partner of choice not just in Asia Pacific, but for the global
digital economy by 2023,” said Jeff Zhang, president of Alibaba
Cloud Intelligence, at the Alibaba Cloud Summit 2020 event.
Consistently ranked as the biggest public cloud-service provider
in the Asia Pacific region and third in the world by all relevant
third-party measures in the past several years, Alibaba Cloud’s
goal is supported by an unprecedented RMB200 billion ($28 billion)
investment plan first announced in April to expand and enhance its
infrastructure and product portfolio. Apart from expanding service
coverage and building even more next-generation data centers around
the world, Alibaba Cloud has also committed to hiring a further
5,000 staff globally in areas from network, database, servers and
chips to artificial intelligence.
To date, Alibaba Cloud operates 63 availability zones in 21
regions around the world, supporting the needs of businesses in
over 200 countries and territories. As the first step of the recent
investment plan, Alibaba Cloud will open its third data center and
the first data-scrubbing center in Indonesia next year.
Jointly Creating New Solutions for a New Normal
With digitalization as the most fundamental driving force for
global economic development and to further promote global economic
recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Alibaba Cloud has
reaffirmed its commitment to broadened support for global companies
and will work with them to co-create the new digital reality.
Beyond a RMB2 billion ($283 million) initiative to accelerate
joint-innovation projects with partners during this fiscal year,
Alibaba Cloud also plans to elevate its successful China Gateway
strategy to serve as the global gateway for international
businesses into Asia. The program upgrade will help multinational
companies build the overall IT foundation capabilities and optimize
enterprise network through Alibaba Cloud’s one-stop intelligence
platform.
“This crisis, along with the pain it is causing will pass in
time. Our foremost concern now is how we can help businesses, large
or small, seize the meaningful opportunities in the next phase
towards recovery, and we are working closely with our partners to
comprehensively upgrade current processes for the new normal,”
added Zhang.
New Products, Services & Solutions to Support
Globalization Efforts
As part of the pivot to the new digital paradigm and to help
enterprises fast-track their digital transformation journeys,
Alibaba Cloud also launched a slate of new and upgraded solutions
for the new normal, some available globally for the first time.
New solutions include the 7th Generation of Elastic Compute
Service (ECS) high-frequency product, which is based on the
X-Dragon architecture to fuel cloud applications and hosting needs
with improved computing power and low latency. The solution nearly
triples the computing power of the previous instance and delivers
70% reduction in storage latency, offering the highest
performance-per-dollar rate in the industry. The 7th generation ECS
instances are powered by the brand-new Intel Cooper Lake Processor
to provide leading computing power.
Another groundbreaking solution unveiled during the summit is
the new ApsaraDB for PolarDB, AnalyticsDB (ADB) and Data Lake
Analytics (DLA). These new cloud-native database iterations
will provide even more scalability and reliability, especially for
e-commerce and hyper-scale use cases like Alibaba’s 11.11 Global
Shopping Festival, capably managing a peak of 87 million requests
per second reached last year while under constant attacks by
malicious entities. ApsaraDB for PolarDB will also provide the
world’s first cloud-native database supporting MySQL 8.0. In the
promising digital market of Indonesia, PolarDB has been very
well-received by pioneer users including prominent start-ups
Kopi Kenangan, Akulaku and Investree.
Other new products and features unveiled during the summit
include:
Hologres: First launched in China in June and will be
soon available in Southeast Asia and the U.S. in July, this real
time cloud-native data warehouse provides an enterprise-class
unified data storage and real time analytics service. The product
is the world’s first cloud-native Hybrid Serving Analytical
Processing (HSAP) system enabling informed and real-time business
insights. Its ability to overcome the challenges of analytic and
serving workloads empowers business leaders to innovate with
greater situation awareness and improves overall business agility.
Hologres, Realtime Compute and Maxcompute form the next generation
cloud native data warehouses of Alibaba Cloud, offering enterprises
with unified batch, real-time, serving and analytics solutions
together to solve the growing complexity in big data
architecture.
Smart Access Gateway (SAG): Available for the first time
in Southeast Asia, the all-in-one SD-WAN solution repositions
mainstream technology to solve network issues in hybrid cloud
environments without the hassle of configuration while enjoying
quick access from private networks to all Alibaba Cloud services
under end-to-end security policies. Companies can use the
cloud-native architecture SAG to connect facilities and offices via
SAG Device, computers and mobile devices with SAG App, and private
networks to the Alibaba Cloud through SAG-vCPE. SAG Device is now
available in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand
and will be rolled out to other markets soon.
ARMS Prometheus Service: Available for the first time to
the international markets, this open-source monitoring system and
alarm framework collates real-time series data and supports
multiple charts and data dashboards. It provides a fully compatible
open source experience, supports PromQL, native service discovery
and alerting. It solves the pain points of native Prometheus to
provide unlimited expansion of cloud storage, high availability and
high stability, and very low load of Indicator collection
consumption.
EDAS 3.0: Available for the first time in Hong Kong,
Singapore and Japan, and a core product of Alibaba Cloud’s
enterprise Internet architecture solutions, EDAS 3.0 provides
enhanced support for Kubernetes and the open source microservice
framework Spring Cloud and Dubbo. It demonstrates Alibaba Cloud's
best practice "three factors to ensure safety of production" --
observable, grayscale, and rollback, which can help users build
stable and efficient microservice operating environments in a
cloud-native way.
This year’s edition of the Alibaba Cloud Summit, The Pulse of
Digitalization, is held virtually and anticipated to host thousands
of participants from around the world. High-profile business
leaders and experts will share more about the current and future
ramifications of COVID-19 along with measures to rebound and
prosper post-crisis, and how Alibaba Cloud plans to transform and
rejuvenate the global and regional economic landscape.
About Alibaba Cloud
Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com), the
digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, is
among the world’s top three IaaS providers, according to Gartner.
It is also the largest provider of public cloud services in China,
according to IDC. Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of
cloud computing services to businesses worldwide, including
merchants doing business on Alibaba Group marketplaces, start-ups,
corporations and public services. Alibaba Cloud is the official
Cloud Services Partner of the International Olympic Committee.
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