“From Cloud to Cloud Intelligence” — Alibaba Cloud Outlines Strategic Upgrade after a Decade of Success
March 20 2019 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Product launches in China to broaden Internet
and digital technology adoption and empower ecosystem
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing and data intelligence arm of
Alibaba Group, unveiled at its Beijing Summit the new strategy to
develop the company into a more technologically inclusive platform.
Jeff Zhang, President of Alibaba Cloud and Chief Technology Officer
of Alibaba Group, for the first time elaborated publicly on the
strategic upgrade of the business – evolving to serve as a key
component of the Alibaba Business Operating System, and empowering
customers and ecosystem partners to win in the digital era. Over
3,000 ecosystem partners and industry practitioners attending the
Summit have shared the development journey of the company over the
past 10 years.
Cloud computing is becoming the main business focus of Alibaba
Group and over the past decade Alibaba Cloud has been the
technology and public cloud platform underpinning the entire
Alibaba economy from e-commerce and payment, to logistics and
supply chain management. The scalability, reliability, and security
of Alibaba Cloud are paramount to the business and the platform has
successfully sustained real-world tests on a daily basis, most
notably during the Alibaba 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, the
scale of which provides one of the biggest stress tests possible.
Businesses of all sizes have leveraged these proven successes to
grow and innovate in China and overseas.
Becoming an enabler of SaaS
“Alibaba has championed cloud computing in China over the past
10 years and has been at the forefront of rapid technology
development. Today, Alibaba Cloud not only provides infrastructural
support to the entire Alibaba economy but has also developed proven
technologies to empower millions of customers in China and
worldwide, significantly lowering cloud adoption barriers, ensuring
inclusive access, and enabling collaboration throughout the
ecosystem,” said Jeff Zhang.
“In the future, our highly compatible and standards-based
platform will allow SaaS partners to onboard easily and thrive. The
offerings will also be enriched by our continued investment in
research through the Damo Academy, that will align data science
with the development of our products. To empower all participants
in our ecosystem, we will boost the integrated development of
technology, products and services on our open platform,” he
added.
Alibaba Cloud is the IaaS market leader in China with a larger
share than the sum of the second to eighth players. The development
of the IaaS market meant that in 2018, the cost of technology
adoption for businesses in China has reduced significantly compared
to 10 years ago.
New product launches to facilitate cloud adoption in
China
Adoption of the cloud is expected to continue and become more
immersive in the traditional sectors across China. The importance
of digital intelligence will become more apparent as enterprises
need to derive deeper business insights, make data-driven
decisions, and take real-time actions. Alibaba Cloud will continue
to invest in technological research and development, ensuring that
the company has the capability to offer powerful computing and
Internet-based technology products for the further adoption of
cloud and data intelligence.
Over the past decade, Alibaba Cloud has developed 162 products
and activated 4,610 product features and functions, an average of
more than one a day. At the summit, the company announced a full
suite of new products in China, with 3 highlights – a
super-computing product, a cloud-native database as well as the
accelerator to boost the SaaS ecosystem:
- X-dragon Super-Computing Cluster
instance SCC-GN6: The most powerful super-computing bare-metal
server instance launched by the company to date, with the
capability to enhance the cluster performance by more than 100%.
This new instance provides 50 Gbps of RDMA networking throughput,
96 custom Intel Skylake vCPUs, 8 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs,
providing a total of 1000 TFlops to computational throughput, and
high-performance parallel file system CPFS with 1TB/s R/W
throughput. SCC-GN6 supports supercomputing scenarios such as
autonomous driving, machine interpretation, natural language
processing and recommendation systems.
- PolarDB: A cloud-native
relational database service that is designed for enterprise-grade
database applications. PolarDB is compatible with Oracle, MySQL and
PostgreSQL and offers excellent scalability with the architecture
of hardware-software co-design. It can scale up to 88vCPUs and
710GB of memory and allows customers to pay for usage by the
minute, enabling customers to handle a business peak traffic while
minimizing cost. It can also scale up to 100TB in storage which
helps customers cope with big data development.
- SaaS Accelerator: A highly
efficient and agile platform where ecosystem partners can easily
build and launch SaaS applications and leverage Alibaba’s proven
business and technology know-how. The accelerator helps SaaS
customers quickly deploy and test their applications on the cloud,
shorten the implementation lifecycle, and accelerate
time-to-market. It features an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface
and launch kit while remaining highly compatible with other
application programming interfaces (APIs). With the accelerator, a
smart SaaS application can go live in as little as five days.
For more information about 2019 Beijing Alibaba Cloud Summit and
to view Jeff Zhang’s keynote speech from the event, go to:
https://yunqi.youku.com/2019/beijing/meeting
About Alibaba Cloud
Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com), the
cloud computing and data intelligence arm of Alibaba Group, is
among the world’s top three IaaS providers, according to Gartner,
and the largest provider of public cloud services in China,
according to IDC. Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of
cloud computing services to businesses worldwide, including
merchants doing business on Alibaba Group marketplaces, start-ups,
corporations and government organizations. Alibaba Cloud is the
official Cloud Services Partner of the International Olympic
Committee.
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