According to Canalys, in Q3 2024, cloud infrastructure service spending in mainland China reached US$10.2 billion, representing an 11% year-on-year increase and a return to double-digit growth. AI is emerging as a significant driver of cloud adoption, with a growing number of enterprises embedding AI capabilities into cloud-based applications to enhance intelligence and streamline operational […]
Canalys estimates that cloud marketplaces will grow to over US$45 billion by 2025, representing an 84% CAGR. Cloud marketplaces are accelerating as a route to market for technology, led by hyperscale cloud vendors such as Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and Salesforce, which are pouring billions of development dollars into the sector. “The marketplace […]
Alibaba DAMO Academy (“DAMO”), the global research initiative by Alibaba Group, has shared its annual forecasting of the leading technology trends that could shape many industries in the years ahead. Among the leading technology trends, Generative AI, which has already gained considerable traction, is expected to make further strides with its growing applications set to […]
As the number of large data centers operated by hyperscale providers increased to over 800 at the end of the second quarter, new data from Synergy Research Group shows that the United States accounts for 53% of the capacity of those data centers, measured by critical IT load. While the US accounts for over half […]
Alibaba maintained its position as the third largest public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) service provider globally in 2021, according to the latest Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker published by market research and advisory firm International Data Corporation (IDC).
Alibaba DAMO Academy, the global research initiative by Alibaba Group, announced it has made the source code of its latest federated learning platform FederatedScope, a comprehensive platform with easy-to-use packages, accessible to the open-source community.
Phillip Liu, General Manager of Middle East and Africa, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, provides cloud computing trends to watch out for in 2021.
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon was the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2017, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM.
