Channel drives global cloud growth as total spend surges
The IT channel is playing an increasingly important role in driving the growth of the cloud industry around the world, as the market hits new heights.
The IT channel is playing an increasingly important role in driving the growth of the cloud industry around the world, as the market hits new heights.
Australia is set to account for 9 per cent of colocation services revenue in the Asia Pacific region by 2024, with the region-wide market forecast to reach US$9.7 billion in total.
The cloud market continued to see strong growth during Q3, with standout AWS generating more revenue than the next three largest CSPs combined.
Australia is set to be one of the top five Asia Pacific countries for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) revenue growth by 2024, as the market segment in the region is forecast to reach US$39.3 billion.
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Equinix has extended access to Alibaba Cloud in Sydney, allowing Australian enterprises to privately connect to the service.
Alibaba Cloud is to revamp its channel program, investing up to US$283 million into partners over its fiscal year.
Alibaba’s cloud computing business plans to hire an additional 5,000 tech staff globally over the next 10 months as it works to ramp up its cloud presence.
The economic impact of Covid-19 has so far failed to slow the cloud progress of AWS and Microsoft within the enterprise market.
Alibaba Group will invest 200 billion yuan (US$28 billion) in its cloud infrastructure over three years -- a plan that follows a boom in demand for business software as the coronavirus outbreak peaked in China.
Through the disruption of COVID-19, the APAC channel can expect to see a shift in conditions over the course of the short term, with some businesses moving for the better, but others needing to prepare for supply chain disruption.
Global spending on cloud infrastructure reached a record high in Q4 2019 with growth of over 30 per cent, and the channel has played a big part in that growth.
Alibaba Cloud has released source codes of its machine learning Alink platform to Github.
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AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud accounted for 72 per cent of public cloud services revenue during the third quarter of 2019.
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