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HANGZHOU, China -- (Business Wire)
AliCloud, Alibaba Group’s (NYSE:BABA) cloud computing arm, today
announced that it has launched its second data center based in Silicon
Valley in the United States, addressing increasing demand for affordable
and secure, mission-critical cloud computing while creating an
infrastructure for high availability and effective disaster recovery.
Cloud customers can apply for the center’s services starting Monday
(October 12).
The new facility is AliCloud’s ninth globally and the fourth data center
announced in 2015, after its first U.S. data center in March 2015, a
Singapore data center announced in August, and an
environmentally-friendly lakewater-cooled data center at Qiandao Lake,
China in early September. AliCloud also maintains data centers in
Beijing, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shanghai in China, and plans
more facilities in other international locations in the Middle East,
Asia and Europe in the future.
The new U.S. data center is designed to accommodate the cloud and big
data requirements of customers in the West Coast for the next three to
five years. AliCloud’s second U.S. data center will feature the same
service level agreements (SLAs) as its first US data center, plus a
portfolio incorporating all AliCloud services currently available in
international markets.
The AliCloud portfolio at the new data center will include more than 10
cloud services that are designed to assist customers focused on
accelerating innovation, including start-ups looking to reduce the cost
of cloud-based service delivery and big data analytics, as well as
established businesses in the gaming, multimedia and mobile Internet
industries.
The AliCloud cloud services designed to help enterprises achieve premium
performance and high availability that are available from Silicon Valley
include:
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Elastic Compute Service (ECS), a simple and efficient computing
service enabling scalable processing capacity;
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Analytic Database Service (ADS), a real-time high-concurrency online
analytical processing (real-time OLAP) service;
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Cloud Monitor System (CMS), an open platform for real-time monitoring
of sites and servers;
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Distributed Relational Database Service (DRDS), an online service for
distributed relational databases;
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Key-Value Store (KVS), an online Key-Value storage service compatible
with the open-source Redis protocol;
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Message and Notification Service (MNS), an efficient and elastic
distributed message service;
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Open Cache Service (OCS), an online caching service for rapid access
of hotspot data;
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Open Table Service (OTS), a NoSQL database service;
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Open Storage Service (OSS), a massive, secure and highly-reliable
cloud storage service;
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Relational Database Service (RDS), a reliable, elastic online database
service;
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Server Load Balancing (SLB), a load-balancing service that distributes
traffic over multiple cloud servers;
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Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), an isolated and customized network
environment including other AliCloud services; and
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Yundun, a security service which includes distributed denial of
service (DDoS) protection, host intrusion prevention, vulnerability
detection, Trojan detection, and more.
“Our data centers are typically located in key innovation and commerce
hubs around the world, where we expect growing demand for cost-efficient
cloud computing and big data analytics services. Our second U.S. data
center is situated in Silicon Valley which is the epicentre for
technology innovation world-wide,” said Ethan Sicheng Yu, Vice President
of AliCloud.
AliCloud data centers help deliver outstanding performance, including
advanced rack design, flash storage and modular infrastructure.
AliCloud’s new Qiandao Lake data center is among the most
energy-efficient in the world.
A number of new partnerships with cloud solution providers have also
been inked to enhance AliCloud’s global value proposition. These
partners, including Mesosphere, Bankware Global, Appcara, Appnovation,
Cloud Comrade and Panzura, complement the services offered by AliCloud’s
data centers around the world, by enabling providing premium cloud
products and services that are closely integrated with the AliCloud
platform, ultimately reducing infrastructure costs and improving
networking efficiency.
“AliCloud is focused on building a comprehensive and holistic global
ecosystem that offers world-class cloud computing and a nuanced
understanding of local requirements. We expect to welcome more partners
and customers onto the AliCloud platform as we extend our global reach
and continue to deliver outstanding value for our cloud computing
infrastructure services,” added Yu.
AliCloud’s overseas strategy aims to help Chinese enterprises reach the
world, and help foreign enterprises enter China’s market. The launch of
the data centers in Silicon Valley enables Internet companies in China
to expand their businesses in North America. Beyond existing data
centers, AliCloud’s strategies are being guided by customer demand.
AliCloud will be seeking local partners such as experienced companies in
the PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) areas,
as well as developers dedicated to open source projects, to work with
AliCloud. “Opening up”, “win-win”, and “inclusive technology” are
AliCloud’s principles that will help AliCloud develop localized
strategies to cater to local markets.
About AliCloud
Established in September 2009, AliCloud (www.alicloud.com),
Alibaba Group’s cloud computing arm, develops highly scalable platforms
for cloud computing and data management. It provides a comprehensive
suite of cloud computing services to support the participants of Alibaba
Group’s online and mobile commerce ecosystem, including sellers, and
other third-party customers and businesses. AliCloud is a business
within Alibaba Group.
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Alibaba Group
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Source: AliCloud
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