American managed hosting specialist Datapipe has been selected as a global partner of Alibaba Cloud, also known as AliYun - one of the largest public cloud services in Asia.

The partnership aims to help global businesses enter China, as well as Chinese business looking to expand outside the country.

Global expansion

Alibaba Cloud customers can rely on Datapipe to plan, build and run their cloud environments, while still using management and security of Alibaba Cloud solutions for computing, storage, database, CDN, and big data.

“As a pioneer in managed cloud services, the addition of Alibaba Cloud to Datapipe’s supported platforms and service capabilities was a natural step,” Colin Chan, Datapipe’s VP of Asia, said.

“We look forward to working closely with Alibaba Cloud to help drive the global adoption of best practice enterprise cloud solutions.”

Unique Song, director of Global Marketplace Alliances Program at Alibaba Cloud, added: “We’re pleased to welcome Datapipe as our global managed service provider partner.

“Datapipe’s experience in managing cloud environments for customers around the globe makes them well-positioned to help drive Alibaba Cloud deployments for customers in both China and overseas.”

The partnership follows several announcements designed to strengthen Alibaba’s cloud offerings, including a GPU deal with AMD, and a partnership with Docker that will see Docker Hub come to China through Alibaba Cloud.

For Datapipe, this marks the latest move in its quest to expand globally. In July, the company entered the Russian market, and in August the firm acquired British competitor Adapt as it eyed European growth.