Alibaba Cloud news stories

“The interest of so many cutting-edge startups in our events signals the momentum of technological innovation in Singapore and across the APAC region."

Alibaba Cloud has launched its cloud computer in Singapore, with the inclusion of both the pocket-sized Wuying cloud computer and Elastic Desktop Service (EDS).

Alibaba Cloud has been named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, after seeing its revenue for database products rise due to the pandemic.

Alibaba Cloud has been recognised by Gartner among global cloud service providers for its critical cloud abilities in compute, storage, network and security.

"This announcement is further proof of our continuous support for the RISC-V software ecosystem and our commitment to the open source community."

The announcement marks the first time that Gartner has recognised Alibaba Cloud as a Challenger in the field of network firewalls.

Alibaba’s recent 11.11 Global Shopping Festival was greener than usual this year, thanks to a boost in the cloud computing power behind the event.

Alibaba Cloud has unveiled a new in-house processor designed for use in its data centres. 

Alibaba Cloud was named a Visionary in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services. 

Global Shipping Business Network's blockchain platform has officially gone live to accelerate digital transformation in the global trade sector

"This is perhaps the biggest technological change in the broadcasting industry for more than half a century."

"As more enterprises move to the cloud, many are looking for the best solutions to manage their security and compliance posture across their entire cloud infrastructure."

The company announced $1b support for Asia Pacific SMBs, as well as a live streaming eCommerce service.

“We believe Function Compute’s recognition as a leader in Forrester’s evaluation underscores our ongoing commitment to growing our FaaS offering and empowering our clients."

"We believe the report is also a recognition of our increased efforts in the education sector to help schools continue their lessons during the coronavirus outbreak via leveraging our digital-learning solutions.”

AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud lead the cloud provider market, accounting for 65% of total cloud spend in the quarter.

"With digitalisation so strong a trend, especially on the back of the pandemic, we believe there will be many new opportunities to build on the strong perception of the region’s cloud capabilities.”

Alibaba Cloud and LGMS, a cybersecurity consulting company, are teaming up to tackle the challenge of security around digital transformation and hybrid cloud.

The company’s revamped hybrid cloud strategy focuses on bringing compatibility, security, compliance, scalability and reliability with its newly upgraded product offerings and its Hybrid Cloud Partner Program.

The company's Hybrid Cloud Partner Program, Hybrid Backup Recovery solution and Hybrid Cloud Storage Array have all seen significant enhancements.

The company’s DBMS has seen a doubling in demand year-over-year as more businesses are adopting database technologies.

A new surge of COVID-19 cases in the United States and Europe will continue this trend as social distancing measures are put back in place, meaning cloud will remain vital for sustaining business operations, remote working and learning, as well as customer engagement.

"We want our customers to ride on the future trend, and we will continue to innovate and provide our customers with the best database technology so that together, we can build a solid foundation in their digital transformation process."

As a result of COVID-19 Circuit Break measures, Alibaba Cloud has noted a growing demand for cloud technologies, particularly with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore.