Alibaba Cloud expands number of partners in EMEA region
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing and data intelligence division of the Alibaba Group, has announced that nine new partners have joined its EMEA Ecosystem Partner Program. Launched last year, the program aims to strengthen cooperation between the company's customers and partners in Europe, the Midd... Read more
Poorly secured database gives insight into Chinese smart city system
Security researcher John Wethington found a database of a smart city that could be accessed via the internet without a password. Wethington sent the details of the database to TechCrunch, hoping that the data would be secured again after publicity.
This is an Elasticsearch database with gigabytes o... Read more
Alibaba takes over Chinese Trello competitor Teambition
Alibaba has taken over the Chinese company Teambition, reports TechCrunch. Teambition is a platform supported by Microsoft and Tencent with which colleagues can work together on projects. The platform is therefore comparable to Trello and Asana. Alibaba did not provide any further details on the tak... Read more
Alibaba takes over German big data-startup Data Artisans
Alibaba has acquired Data Artisans for 90 million euros, says TechCrunch. Data Artisans is a Berlin startup offering distributed systems and data streaming services for enterprises. The company was founded in 2014.
Data Artisans was founded by the team that developed Apache Flink, an open source lar... Read more
“AWS is still the undisputed market leader when it comes to public cloud.
AWS continues to lead the market when it comes to public cloud platforms, according to Synergy Research researchers in their latest quarterly survey of the power distributions in this market. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service are the most popular services for this.
Accordi... Read more
Major targets at Alibaba cloud computing after 90 percent revenue growth
Alibaba's cloud computing division saw its revenue grow by 90 percent in the second quarter of its fiscal year. Jack Ma, currently chairman of the board of directors, says he has great goals for the future. The department aims to serve two billion customers worldwide and support 10 million companies... Read more
Alibaba will produce its own AI chips
Alibaba plans to create hardware as well. In order to do so, it is working on a subsidiary that is engaged in the manufacture of chips. The aim is to launch an AI chip in the second half of 2019 that can be used in autonomous vehicles, smart cities and the logistics sector.
Last Wednesday, the Chine... Read more