infotechlead

Alibaba Cloud launches second availability zone in Mumbai, India

Alibaba Cloud on Friday announced the launch of its second availability zone in Mumbai, India.
Alibaba Cloud availability zone in IndiaThe investment in new zone will complement Availability Zone A which was opened in January this year.

The new zone will offer products such as elastic computing, storage, database, network, application services and big data analytics to local governments and enterprises. Dual availability zones will enhance the security of Alibaba Cloud’s data centers in India.

The new availability zone is part of Alibaba Cloud’s strategy to expand its global footprint in order to serve a growing client base while also targeting new local customers.

“The the second availability zone reiterates our focus on India as a key market in Alibaba Cloud’s global expansion strategy,” Alex Li, general manager, Alibaba Cloud India, said at a press meet.

Alibaba Cloud India this year launched its distribution channel program with HCL Infosystems and Ingram Micro as value-added distributors. The distribution channel program encourages partners to bring technical knowledge and builds an open ecosystem among sales, technology and service partners.

Alibaba Cloud aims to train 1,000 sales and technology personnel in India by March 2019.

Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board (APEDB) will be using Alibaba Cloud’s ET City Brain solution for the state’s digital transformation journey.

Alibaba Cloud also signed an agreement with DLF malls on retail transformation initiative leveraging new retail framework. Alibaba Cloud did not share more details of its other business clients in India.

Alibaba Cloud currently has 50 availability zones across 18 centres globally — across mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, India and the U.S. (East and West Coast).

Latest

More like this
Related

IDC’s views on 33% rise in Cloud infrastructure spending in 2025

The latest IDC report said Cloud infrastructure spending is...

China cloud market to grow 15% in 2025: Canalys forecasts

Cloud infrastructure services spending in China has reached $11.1...

How AI contributed to $321 bn cloud infrastructure market?

Canalys analysts Yi Zhang and Rachel Brindley have revealed...

Is Amazon Web Services growth reflecting its AI focus?

Revenue of AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing business, has increased...