Alibaba Cloud opens up a 2nd data centre in India
The cloud computing arm of Chinese e-tailer giant Alibaba, also known as Alibaba Cloud, went on to launch its second data centre in India on Friday.
The company went on to say in a statement that the new "availability zone" is located in Mumbai and will offer many product lines like Storage, Database, Elastic Computing Network, Application Services and Big Data Analytics that will aid in supporting local governments and enterprises in the Alibaba Cloud India region.
"The commencement of the second availability zone reiterates our focus on India as a key market in Alibaba Cloud's global expansion strategy," said Alex Li, General Manager, Alibaba Cloud India.
Alibaba Cloud had set up its first India data centre in Mumbai. this year in January to meet with the surge in demand for the Cloud computing service among the growing numbers of all small and medium-sized businesses in India.
The company said that the Dual availability zones will farther enhance the level of security of Alibaba Cloud's data centres in India.
This availability zone is part of Alibaba Cloud's strategy that will help it expand its global footprint to assist a growing client base while also targeting new local customers.
"India presents a unique growth opportunity with digital transformation set to add close to $154 billion to India's GDP," Li said.
Apart from this, Alibaba Cloud also launched a distribution channel programme in India with HCL Infosystems Ltd and Ingram Micro this year, as value-added distributors that encourages partners to bring in-depth technical knowledge. This will also help in building an open ecosystem among sales, technology and service partners.
In order to further strengthen this network, Alibaba Cloud would be training 1,000 technology and sales personnel, by March 2019 in India.
(With IANS inputs)
