Technology
Asia Pacific
SME/Startup
"Alibaba Cloud assisted NextBillion.ai in scaling up their business quickly, easily, and cost-effectively by offering elastic scaling capabilities to dynamically provision and deprovision cloud resources based on the workload demands. It also benefited from collaborating and networking with key Alibaba Cloud ecosystem partners."
About NextBillion.ai
NextBillion.ai is an industry-leading Map Data + AI platform that helps enterprises build, scale, and manage their mapping ecosystem. It is an enterprise-centric location data platform.
The company offers map data management services, location tools, and APIs to enterprises, such as last-mile delivery, telematics, logistics, transport, food delivery, automotive, and ride-hailing/ride-sharing.
Its AI-powered unified platform enables enterprises to tackle highly complex location problems with the help of specialized mapping and routing solutions.
NextBillion.ai aims to help businesses reclaim the power of Map Data + AI, adopt decentralized location tech, and transition to self-reliance with maps.
Challenge
NextBillion.ai’s technology is built for a multi-tenant world and can be scaled remotely from anywhere across the globe. It offers multi-cloud, multi-region deployment. As a result, the company needed a cloud partner that could support and offer speed, agility, global reachability, high scalability, around-the-clock availability, and wider coverage.
As a company founded in 2020, NextBillion.ai faced operational challenges in switching to a complete remote setting due to the pandemic. Indeed this situation was not ideal for many companies, including an enterprise software company. NextBillion.ai required a cloud provider with advanced adaptive capabilities, technical expertise, and effective SLA response times to combat this situation.
Why Alibaba Cloud
Based on Alibaba Cloud’s expertise to provide high availability of 99.95% uptime backed with service-level agreements (SLA), choosing Alibaba Cloud as its technology partner was an easy decision for NextBillion.ai.
Alibaba Cloud assisted NextBillion.ai in scaling up their business quickly, easily, and cost-effectively by offering elastic scaling capabilities to dynamically provision and deprovision cloud resources based on the workload demands. It also benefited from collaborating and networking with key Alibaba Cloud ecosystem partners.
Alibaba Cloud also provided numerous innovative solutions that helped NextBillion.ai reduce the time and personnel required to manage its IT infrastructure.
Architecture
NextBillion.ai relies on Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service, such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK), Server Load Balancer (SLB), Elastic IP, and NAT Gateway, to handle the critical and growing production workloads and provide high-performance load balancing services.
It also utilizes various data storage solutions on Alibaba Cloud to manage a large growing amount of information, such as Apsara File Storage NAS and Elastic Block Storage.
All these services help NextBillion.ai build a high availability infrastructure and offer reliable services to its users and partners.
Looking Forward
NextBillion.ai is committed to redefining the global spatial space by enabling a range of innovative use-cases for unserved demands and unserved industries.
Moving forward, NextBillion.ai plans to deliver more value to its customers by relying on the innovative cloud infrastructure services of Alibaba Cloud.
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NextBillion.ai relies on Alibaba Cloud IaaS and data storage solutions to handle the critical and growing production workloads as well as manage a large growing amount of information.
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