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Alibaba Cloud and Salesforce plan to launch new commerce product

Alibaba Cloud and Salesforce are working toward an agreement to launch Salesforce Social Commerce, a headless commerce product designed and built in China.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 2 min read • Tue, 21st Sep 2021

Unified Communications

Alibaba's AI model outperforms humans in global challenge

Alibaba has secured first place in the latest global Visual Question Answering leaderboard, performing better than humans in the same context.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 3 min read • Fri, 20th Aug 2021

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Global IaaS market hit $64.3 billion in 2020

The 40.7% boost in the Infrastructure as a Service market was accompanied by another positive statistic: almost 90% of all IaaS providers exhibited growth.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Tue, 29th Jun 2021

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud shopping festival harnesses power of renewable energy and smart logistics

Alibaba's annual Mid-Year Shopping Festival was not only a large-scale campaign across popular retail platforms, but it was also a feat for 'green technology'.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Fri, 25th Jun 2021

Marketing Technologies

Alibaba Cloud 2021: eCommerce live streaming solution unveiled, plus $1b investment in APAC SMBs

Alibaba Cloud unveils $1b project to support APAC SMBs, introduces eCommerce live streaming solution, and commits to long-term growth in the region.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Wed, 9th Jun 2021

Semiconductors

Alibaba Group ranks third in global IaaS market, first in APAC

Alibaba Group remains third in the global Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market for the third year running, according to Gartner.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 22nd Apr 2021

Hybrid Cloud

Alibaba Cloud overhauls its hybrid cloud strategy

The company's Hybrid Cloud Partner Program, Hybrid Backup Recovery solution and Hybrid Cloud Storage Array have all seen significant enhancements.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Thu, 3rd Dec 2020

Quantum Computing

IBM, Alphabet and well-funded startups in the race for quantum supremacy

Companies are racing to achieve 'quantum supremacy' WHERE id = with IBM and Alphabet among those leading the charge, according to research from GlobalData.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Fri, 25th Sep 2020

Marketing Technologies

Amazon surges ahead of eCommerce competitors in market capitalisation

Amazon's market capitalisation soars to $1tn in H1 2020, with a 41.8% rise in Q2, leaving Alibaba in the dust.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Fri, 28th Aug 2020

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Amazon continues to dominate global IaaS market - report

The top 5 IaaS providers accounted for 80% of the total worldwide market in 2019, according to a new report from Gartner.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Tue, 11th Aug 2020

Data Analytics

Forrester analyses the top SaaS marketplace players

The 'New Wave SaaS Marketplaces' report analyses the top eight players and provides analyst insight on who is excelling, or trailing, in 10 criteria.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Tue, 4th Aug 2020

Partner Programmes

Alibaba Cloud to invest US$283 million to accelerate global partner innovation

Alibaba Cloud is investing USD $283 million to speed up global partner innovation, aiming to boost digitalisation and create joint products for diverse sectors.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Wed, 17th Jun 2020

Supply Chain

Alibaba records growth for 2020, but it's not all smooth sailing

The company's Cloud business saw huge gains, but the declining business activity in the early months of 2020 was not kind to the retail giant.

By Nick Forrester • 3 min read • Mon, 25th May 2020

Semiconductors

Alibaba Cloud to invest US$28 billion in cloud infrastructure

Alibaba Cloud is set to bolster its cloud infrastructure by investing USD $28 billion over three years, focusing on next-gen data centers and key technologies.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Mon, 20th Apr 2020