Alibaba Cloud Expands Coverage to Enable Indian Enterprises

Alibaba Cloud declared that clients can start to sign up for services to be delivered in its new India data centre that is set to open in January 2018.

Located in the city of Mumbai, this new data centre will aid meet the rolling requirement for cloud computing services among the fast-increasing number of Indian small and medium-sized businesses in the area.

India is a chief market in Alibaba Cloud’s globalization strategy, and the firm sees the incredible business opportunity given the speedy growth of the Indian economy and the nature of the enterprises looking to expand from the country.

Alibaba Cloud’s vision to authorize enterprises anywhere in the world to go worldwide is now extended to Indian clients with a complete suite of high-performance cloud products including largescale computing, storage resources, and Big Data processing capabilities.

Indian businesses of all sizes can now run their applications on Alibaba Cloud’s powerful, reliable and secure cloud platform. Other data centre service offerings include elastic computing, database, storage and content delivery, networking, analytics and big data, containers, middleware, and security.

Alibaba Cloud now has 33 availability zones across 16 economic centres globally, with coverage extending across mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, India and the U.S. (East and West Coast).

Simon Hu, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group and President of Alibaba Cloud said, “We are excited to be officially opening our new Mumbai, India data centre in early 2018, enabling us to work closely with more Indian enterprises. These local enterprises are innovative and operating in growth sectors, and we look forward to empowering them through our cloud computing and data technologies. As we build out the Alibaba Cloud network globally, India is another important piece that is now firmly in place. This continues our commitment to India, helping it to develop trade opportunities with other markets in the region and beyond.” Alibaba Clo

Alibaba Cloud will establish a local team of dedicated professional consultants to provide service planning, implementation and after-sales support, helping customers of all sizes as they move to the cloud and enabling them to realize their full growth potential.