The move is part of the Chinese firm to expand operations in the APAC region
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has more than doubled the capacity of its data center in Hong Kong to help the firm meet the growing demand for cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region, Asian press reported.
The expansion of the Hong Kong data center is part of Alibaba Cloud’s efforts to expand its global network coverage, and follows the recent announcement of data center openings in Japan, Germany, Australia and the UAE.
The expanded Hong Kong data center will be used to meet enterprises’ demand for high availability and data recovery and provide access to services such as data storage and analytics, enterprise-level middleware and cloud security services, the Chinese company said.
“Since our entry into Hong Kong in 2014, Alibaba Cloud has become one of the largest public cloud providers in the market. More companies have come to realize the importance of changing their traditional IT mind-set to embrace the new data technology,” Alibaba Cloud Global general manager Ethan Yu said.
“We are confident that the expanded data center facility, together with our scalable and secure cloud offering, will better meet the needs of the digital transformation in key local sectors such as hospitality and financial services.”
Through its data center in Hong Kong, Alibaba Cloud serves customers in sectors including financial services, retail, hospitality and media.
NEC launches new service to help operators to implement strategies based on network data traffic analytics.
In other APAC news, Japanese company NEC Corporation has launched a new consulting service, dubbed “TMS Professional Service,” which enables communications service providers to plan and implement strategies based on the analytics of their network data traffic.
The Japanese firm said the new offering analyzes information provided by telecoms providers to detect the trends, characteristics and abnormalities in network data traffic. Based on analytic results, NEC conducts consultation under four subjects: network data traffic optimization, customer support, security diagnosis, and marketing. Under this service, NEC also provides end-to-end support in designing, configuring and adjusting networks to help operators optimize their network investment and operating cost.
In the future, NEC aims to implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies within this consulting service to further strengthen analytics of network data traffic.
