AWS storms ahead as Q3 global cloud market surges
The cloud market continued to see strong growth during Q3, with standout AWS generating more revenue than the next three largest CSPs combined.
The cloud market continued to see strong growth during Q3, with standout AWS generating more revenue than the next three largest CSPs combined.
Chinese tech giant Alibaba's cloud unit expects to be profitable within 2021, a senior executive said on Wednesday.
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.
Alibaba Group beat quarterly revenue and profit estimates on Thursday, as its core commerce and cloud computing businesses continued to grow following China's emergence from the coronavirus lockdown.
Equinix has extended access to Alibaba Cloud in Sydney, allowing Australian enterprises to privately connect to the service.
For Chinese cloud services companies, the coronavirus outbreak has become a rainmaker, bringing in new business far and wide.
Alibaba Cloud is to revamp its channel program, investing up to US$283 million into partners over its fiscal year.
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.
Data centre operator Equinix has opened ME2, its fourth IBX data centre in Melbourne.
Alibaba Cloud has released source codes of its machine learning Alink platform to Github.
Hint: it's not just about tapping into a market primed for growth or global expansion.
Equinix has opened its eighth international business exchange (IBX) data centre in Sydney, SY5, and is already hosting infrastructure for other businesses.
AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud accounted for 72 per cent of public cloud services revenue during the third quarter of 2019.
Alibaba Group has developed a new chip that specialises in machine-learning tasks and which will be used to enhance services for its cloud computing division.