Alibaba Group

Alibaba Group | May 12, 2014

Alibaba Group opened a cloud computing datacentre in Hong Kong Monday, marking its first significant expansion outside of mainland China. The move comes as the company looks set to unleash one of the most highly valued technology IPOs in history.The company said its Hong Kong datacentre, which was built in conjunction with local telecoms company Towngas Telecoms, will host the company’s cloud platform (AliCloud). The move follows plans announced in March this year to expand its cloud computing b...

Alibaba Group | March 04, 2015

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is launching a cloud computing hub in Silicon Valley on Wednesday, the e-commerce giant's first outside of China, underscoring its global ambitions in the face of stiff and entrenched competition. The new California data center marks the Chinese company's latest measured expansion onto American soil, and into a hotly contested U.S. market now dominated by Amazon.com Inc , Microsoft Corp and Google Inc....

sdxcentral.com | January 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo Networks and then a month later bought Metamako, a provider of low-latency field programmable gate array (FPGA) products.While Arista ultimately won, Big Switch had a long list of suitors that wanted...

bloomberg.com | January 21, 2020

Google signed a 10-year deal with travel-software provider Sabre Corp., a key win for the search giant in the competitive cloud-computing market.Sabre will pay Google to handle parts of its information-technology system and for data-analytics tools. Additionally, the companies agreed to collaborate on online travel services, a sign of Google leaning on its massive consumer business to lure enterprise clients.Sabre and Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced the partnership on Tuesday as a “...