Alibaba, the company widely seen as the “Amazon of China”, and which recently inked a deal with the United States Postal Service to enhance cross-border ecommerce between the USA and China, is now further cementing links with Silicon Valley as it opens its second data center there.
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Cloud customers can apply for the center’s services starting from October 12.
The new US data center is created to accommodate the cloud and big data needs of customers in the West Coast for the next three to five years.
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Alibaba’s chief executive Daniel Zhang underlined globalization as the company’s number one priority earlier this year.
The Chinese firm, best known for its portfolio of e-commerce services, launched its first data centre in Silicon Valley back in March as part of an ambitious $1 billion cloud investment drive. Alibaba is planning its first data centre in Europe in the first half of 2016, Yu said.
The strategy of Alibaba is to take on the mighty Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the American IT market.
The new data center in California is AliCloud’s ninth globally.
Alibaba’s cloud unit AliCloud also maintains data centres in Beijing, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shanghai in China, and plans more facilities in other worldwide locations in the Middle East, Asia and Europe in the future.
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“AliCloud is focused on building a comprehensive and holistic global ecosystem that offers world-class cloud computing and a nuanced understanding of local requirements”. It did not specify when these expansions would happen.
