Exploring Alibaba Cloud - A Real Business Option?

By DSA Editorial and Alibaba Cloud

Article originally posted at: http://datastorageasean.com/blogs/exploring-alibaba-cloud-real-business-option

Connectivity is key in today's digital age. Organizations rely heavily on cloud technology today to keep their businesses at the tip of their fingers. Be it public, private or even hybrid, the cloud has become the most important infrastructure for a business's digital transformation. In the early stages, cloud computing was very much about storing data in public clouds and using base level infrastructure such as compute services. Today, cloud technology has evolved into easy-to-use yet comprehensive services that are ready to run business class applications and functions, including AI and cybersecurity. Cloud providers no longer just passively store your data, they make that data work for you, helping your businesses gain valuable market insights.

As the importance and dependence on the cloud grows, so do the demands we place on our public cloud providers. Organizations want a cloud provider that are proven to be secure and reliable at scale, and at the same time, able to value add over and above basic Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings. What's more, in the digital age, organizations need a cloud provider that can lower the barriers to entry for emerging technologies and enable you to make full use of your data.

Alibaba Cloud can do that. Alibaba Cloud aims to redefine the digital world and break down the barriers of emerging technologies. It has created a cloud that is scalable, flexible and quick to adapt to new technology demands. For any company looking to leverage cloud to drive their digital business initiatives, Alibaba Cloud is a genuinely viable business ready option.

Since its inception close to a decade ago, Alibaba Cloud is now China's largest public cloud provider and has one of the largest shares of the global cloud computing market according to global news reports and statistics. With a growing international network of 19 data centers and its international operations headquarters in Singapore, security and reliability are of greatest importance to Alibaba's cloud offering.

Taking a more granular look at Alibaba's cloud technology, we see credibility in machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data analytics which are available on their platform and used to power innovation around the world be it in retail, finance or manufacturing. And with China being the second biggest digital economy in the world, it continues to project more funds in for digital expansion with a total of $3.8 trillion dollars being pumped in.

One of Alibaba's newest expansion is the ET Brain. The ET Brain is an ultra-intelligent AI platform on the cloud for solving complex and business problems. It has advanced big data processing power as well as multi-source and large-scale processing for real time analysis. Its neural network design provides exceptional speed while the video recognition and analysis provide multi-faceted security capabilities. Funding like this will only create more demand for even stronger, more agile and integrated systems. Alibaba Cloud rides on this investment, having been providing cloud computing services to business small and large worldwide. The path of success is the cloud's capability to support the growing market.

Last year alone, Alipay, which is supported by Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure, recorded sales of $30.69 billion in a single day during the "Double 11 Shopping Festival" with 60.3% using Alipay's digital wallet. This alone shows the reliability, stability and confidence consumers and organizations have in using Alibaba Cloud.

Public cloud services that support businesses in digital transformation will continue to improve and widen. If you are not at the forefront of leveraging these clouds, you are in danger of being left behind. This is not just a technical issue; it is imperative for business leaders to understand their cloud provider and think of them as a business partner rather than a supplier of technology.

As an example, Alibaba's Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP) aims for the globalization of e-commerce for SMEs. The study conducted by eWTP discovered that many SMEs have trouble accessing the global industry. eWTP will assist the SMEs in their development to handle the global industry, again by leveraging on cloud technology as well to develop the eTrade infrastructure and ensure best practices.

As you would expect, Alibaba Cloud offers high performance elastic computing power in the cloud. Services, including data storage, relational databases, big data processing, Anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks can be scaled up or down depending on your organization's demand. Indeed, Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services. By empowering businesses with its cloud services as well as an e-commerce ecosystem, it will only create a seamless network for businesses around the world. So, if you're considering a public cloud to digitalize your business, you need to make sure that you are looking closely at what Alibaba Cloud has to offer.

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