Alibaba announces first profitable quarter for its cloud division
Chinese giant's cloud business sees revenue of $2.4 billion for Q4 2020, just $3 million adjusted EBITA profit
Chinese giant's cloud business sees revenue of $2.4 billion for Q4 2020, just $3 million adjusted EBITA profit
Thanks to three “super data centers” in important economic hubs
But facility details are unclear
As part of the country's Belt and Road Initiative
Amidst major expansion plans
Every cloud has a silver lining
Including data centers, operating systems, and semiconductors
Energy use by China’s Internet industry is set to skyrocket, says the group
Joining Google, Facebook and Amazon in deploying its own hardware
GDS Holdings doing nationwide build for mystery customer that may be Alibaba
And there are a further 132 facilities in the development pipeline
As AWS continues to lead public cloud market
Offering infrastructure and full stack of services for what it says is Europe's largest cloud market
Developed by a new, yet-unnamed subsidiary
SAP's in-memory database to be available locally as a cloud service
The company has confirmed the location, but failed to specify a date
Amazon’s cloud division leads the way, followed by the usual suspects, Microsoft and Google
Its 17th region worldwide
One for today, another for tomorrow
As part of a renewed partnership between the company and a research university in Abu Dhabi
Home to Alibaba’s first self-built data centers
Microsoft, Alibaba and Google sing praises as they welcome competition in the data center space
China’s largest cloud provider joins AWS and Azure in offering Red Hat to its customers
But questions remain over whether it will build its own facility