Zhang Jianfeng, president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, speaks throughout the opening ceremony of Alibaba Renhe Cloud Data Center on September 16, 2020 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China.
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GUANGZHOU, China — Alibaba has launched a slew of recent cloud computing merchandise because the Chinese e-commerce big appears to be like to broaden throughout Asia.
Cloud computing is seen as a key profit driver for Alibaba over the long run and previously few years, it has been boosting its presence aggressively outdoors of China.
On Tuesday, Alibaba introduced plans to open a brand new knowledge middle within the Philippines by the top of the 12 months and launched a 3rd knowledge middle in Indonesia. Expanding knowledge facilities permits cloud suppliers to spice up their capability in sure international locations or areas.
Alibaba additionally launched a cloud-based livestreaming product designed for on-line procuring. It will enable e-commerce gamers to launch a reside stream procuring characteristic on their web sites or apps which can be hosted on Alibaba’s cloud.
Livestream procuring often includes a bunch speaking about merchandise that clients should buy straight through the reside broadcast. It has become very popular in China and is rising in different components of Asia.
The Chinese e-commerce agency hopes that such a product might help it stand out from U.S. rivals together with Microsoft and Amazon within the cloud market.
In the Asia-Pacific area, Alibaba was the most important public cloud market vendor on the finish of 2020 with a 19.2% share, in response to IDC, boosted by success in China. Amazon was second with a ten.5% share.
However, within the international market, Alibaba nonetheless trails Microsoft, Amazon and Google.
