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Alibaba Cloud opens its first International Product Innovation Center

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 11:23:46 +0000

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has unveiled its first international product innovation centre and partner management centre, to further enhance customer services and better facilitate customers’ digitalisation journey. The new Product Innovation Center will help facilitate future roadmaps for developing more market-specific solutions, and will oversee the management of... Read more »

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Alibaba Cloud launches ModelScope platform

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 12:59:03 +0000

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, started its recent annual Apsara Conference by announcing the launch of ModelScope. This is an open-source Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform that comes with hundreds of AI models, including large pre-trained models for global developers and researchers. During its flagship conference, the cloud provider also introduced... Read more »

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Alibaba Cloud unveils strategic roadmap for international business

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 06:10:00 +0000

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has announced its latest international strategic roadmap at the 2022 Alibaba Cloud Summit. During the three-day summit, the trusted cloud provider has revealed new products to support technology innovation among enterprises, an investment of $1 billion for a global partner ecosystem upgrade, and enhanced... Read more »

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Alibaba launches ‘Data-as-a-Service’ firm Lingyang

Ryan Daws — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:57:27 +0000

Alibaba has spun out a “Data-as-a-Service” (DaaS) business called Lingyang Intelligent Service Company. Lingyang will offer solutions to enterprises that were initially developed for Alibaba. “The launch of the new firm is an important step taken by Alibaba after long-term consideration,” said Daniel Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba. The team behind Lingyang has vast... Read more »

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Alibaba’s cloud arm facing US national security probe

Fin Strathern — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:35:34 +0000

Alibaba’s cloud wing is being reviewed by the Biden administration to determine if it poses a risk to US national security, according to Reuters. The probe is investigating how the company stores US client data, including personal information and intellectual property, and whether the Chinese government could gain access to it. Concerns also centre around... Read more »

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Alibaba data centres to expand throughout Asia in 2022

Fin Strathern — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:29:51 +0000

Alibaba is expanding its cloud business within Asia as it plans to open data centres in South Korea and Thailand in 2022. The Chinese e-commerce giant has previously been focused on other countries in the region, such as Singapore and the Philippines, where it was competing with major US providers Amazon and Microsoft. Already the... Read more »

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Alibaba Cloud delivers new server chips to optimise cloud computing services

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 14:40:00 +0000

Alibaba Cloud, the digital tech and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has developed an in-house processor design for use in its data centres. The server chips, named Yitian 710, are custom-built by Alibaba Group’s chip development business, T-Head. Powered by these chips, Alibaba Cloud also announced the development of its proprietary servers, called Panjiu. The... Read more »

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Alibaba launches cloud pin for Tokyo Olympic broadcasters

Fin Strathern — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:09:00 +0000

Tech giant Alibaba, a worldwide Olympic partner, has unveiled its Alibaba Cloud Pin, a digital wearable for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games that allows for the exchange of contact information in a safe and interactive manner. Designed for broadcasting and media professionals, the pin can be worn either as a badge or on a lanyard,... Read more »

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Five leading trends of database innovation: Cloud-native, self-driving, and more

Dr. Feifei Li — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:14:22 +0000

In the wake of the pandemic, one trend that emerged is the need for digitalisation, and this will continue – and even grow – in the future. And, while it’s still not clear exactly what that actual economic impact of Covid-19 will be, IDC predicts that the digital economy will accelerate to counter this. The... Read more »

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How cloud-native technologies are a springboard to innovation and business transformation

Yangqing Jia — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:37:40 +0000

Opinion Businesses agility, performance and flexibility are more necessary now than ever before — especially in these adverse, pandemic, times — in order to remain competitive and stay on course for growth. In order to remain dynamic and relevant, business transformation requires the implementation of increasingly complex and advanced applications that are able to adapt... Read more »

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