Alibaba Cloud Computing Opens Data Center in Silicon Valley
04 March 2015 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Aliyun, Alibaba’s cloud computing business, today announced the
opening of its first overseas data center in Silicon Valley,
signifying an important move to serve clients globally. The center
will initially target Chinese enterprises based in the United
States with the plan to gradually expand its products and services
to international clients in the second half of this year. Aliyun
has existing data centers in Hangzhou, Qingdao, Beijing, Shenzhen
and Hong Kong.
The Silicon Valley data center initially will provide a variety
of cloud computing services that are expected to attract overseas
Chinese businesses as they develop various kinds of applications.
U.S. businesses will also be sought as Aliyun learns more about the
needs of overseas companies.
“Aliyun offers users top-notch cloud computing products and
services at competitive prices. Now Aliyun hopes to meet the needs
of Chinese enterprises in the United States, and the ultimate
objective of Aliyun is to bring cost-efficient and cutting-edge
cloud computing services to benefit more clients outside China to
boost their business development,” said Ethan Sicheng Yu, Vice
President of Aliyun.
During Alibaba Group’s 11.11 Shopping Festival, Aliyun handled
peak order creation volumes of 80,000 orders per second. The high
volume of data processed and the stability of the system during the
Shopping Festival underscores the reliability of Aliyun’s network.
Aliyun also provides a high level of data security. An Aliyun cloud
security service called YunDun last year successfully fended off a
hacker attack on a Chinese gaming app company that is believed to
be the largest DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack ever
recorded on the mainland. Occurring on Dec. 20, this incident
lasted 14 hours and peak attacking traffic reached 453.8 gigabytes
per second. Aliyun’s customers range from start-ups to established
corporations in digital entertainment, consumer electronics,
financial services and mobile communications space. As of June 30,
2014, over 1.4 million customers were using Aliyun services
directly or indirectly through independent software vendors.
According to a report from IDC, Aliyun is the largest IaaS
(Infrastructure-as-a-Service) provider in China with a 22.8% market
share in the first half of 2014.
A survey from North Bridge shows that 75% of the companies in
America use some form of cloud services. In 2014, the global cloud
computing industry is predicted to be worth more than $150
billion.
About Aliyun
Established in September 2009, Alibaba Cloud Computing
(www.aliyun.com) develops highly scalable platforms for cloud
computing and data management. It provides a comprehensive suite of
cloud computing services to support the participants of Alibaba
Group’s online and mobile commerce ecosystem, including sellers,
and other third-party customers and businesses. Alibaba Cloud
Computing is a business within Alibaba Group.
Alibaba GroupBob Christie, +1
917-860-9410bob.christie@alibaba-inc.comRachel Chan, +852 9400
0979rachelchan@hk.alibaba-inc.comBeckie Wang, +86 136 0052
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