Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps

Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data

Devops03 Sep 2024 | 2

When it comes to cloud, it's China against the world

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google dominate the west, but the Middle Kingdom plays by its own rules

Off-Prem21 Aug 2024 | 6

Alibaba and Tencent clouds see demand for CPUs level off, GPUs accelerate

Lenovo also cashes in on AI demand, without being able to turn it into profit

Off-Prem20 Aug 2024 |

Alibaba Cloud claims K8s service meshes can require more resources than the apps they run

SIGCOMM 2024 Built its own replacement – Canal Mesh – that it says leaves Google's Istio and Ambient eating dust

Cloud Infrastructure Month12 Aug 2024 | 9

Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters

Prioritizing Mexico and Southeast Asia

Off-Prem01 Jul 2024 | 2

Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training

Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks

Systems27 Jun 2024 | 6

Alibaba Cloud unleashes thousands of Chinese AI models to the world

Like Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Studio – but with the added fun of geopolitical risk

Off-Prem25 Jun 2024 |

Alibaba Cloud built its edge network hardware on Intel Ethernet ASICs

Custom 2U boxen with Tofino inside are in production and mean Chinese cloud has more space for servers

Off-Prem28 May 2024 |

Alibaba is taking its cloud to Mexico, likely following Chinese manufacturers

More AZs in its Asian backyard also planned

Off-Prem24 May 2024 | 3

Two weeks ago, Alibaba Cloud bragged its AI was soaring. Now it's slashing prices

ByteDance added a cheap service and the market followed it down

AI + ML22 May 2024 | 1

Alibaba Cloud details storage tech that's doubled its VMs per host

Exclusive Using one disk as a write cache eases stresses created by manycore CPUs

Off-Prem02 May 2024 | 3

Alibaba Yitian 710 rated fastest Arm server CPU in the cloud (for now)

Researcher finds it beats Intel's Xeons for speed on one database-related tests, joins AWS Gravitons in cost-efficiency win

Off-Prem29 Apr 2024 | 6

Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86%

Exclusive Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks

Off-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 4

Alibaba Cloud slashes prices outside China

Domestic customers saw their fees cut last January

Systems08 Apr 2024 |

Alibaba bins listing for its Cainiao logistics limb

Already backed away from cloud spinout, now gradually breaking up with its own breakup plan

Off-Prem27 Mar 2024 |

French cloud Scaleway starts renting Alibaba's RISC-V SoC

€15.99/month server offered with Ubuntu or Debian, and a zero percent Service Level Agreement

Systems04 Mar 2024 | 7

Alibaba Cloud cuts prices – hard – for multi-year commitments in mainland China

This might solve its twin problems of low growth and short-term customers

Off-Prem29 Feb 2024 |

Alibaba cancels cloud spinoff, blames US chip sanctions

Export curbs strike again and stock prices come tumbling down

PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2023 | 2

Alibaba Cloud to bring its AI PaaS out from behind the Great Firewall

Meanwhile its parent begins to break up, with float of logistics arm

Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 1

Alibaba CEO, chair and head of breakway cloud biz quits suddenly ahead of IPO

Daniel Zhang does different handover to the one expected

Cloud Infrastructure Month11 Sep 2023 | 1

China iPhone curbs reportedly extend to local government and state-owned businesses

Asia In Brief ALSO: Alibaba Cloud succession plan overturned; Fujtisu’s Thai takeaway; Australia takes on PayPal

Legal11 Sep 2023 | 7

Alibaba says demand for cloud has dipped – which improved its profits

What? How?

Off-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 4

Alibaba boss steps down to become boss of Alibaba Cloud

Near-flop of China shopping fest suggests cloud and AI are the priority growth engines

Off-Prem21 Jun 2023 | 1

Alibaba plans to spin off cloud division within 12 months

Approves breakup after missing revenue estimate

PaaS + IaaS19 May 2023 | 1

US sanctions cut Huawei profits by half in first quarter

The Chinese tech giant has 'yet again increased investment in R&D' to make up for technology losses

Networks28 Apr 2023 | 10

China's Alibaba Cloud cuts prices in bid to lure customers

Only in the Middle Kingdom as company reportedly eyes IPO

PaaS + IaaS26 Apr 2023 |

Alibaba Cloud to offer custom LLMs-as-a-service

'Tongyi Qianwen' will drive cloud consumption, industry-specific AI, and smarter smart speakers

AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 3

Alibaba to separate into six parts. Take that HP and IBM, with your puny two-way splits

Cloud and AI bundled into an entity that’s free to seek its own funds or list

Off-Prem29 Mar 2023 | 4

AWS adds Superapp Grab's Asia-centric maps to its cloudy location service

Asia In Brief PLUS ServiceNow makes Japan a discrete region; Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hub; US snipes at Korean network policy; and more

Software16 Jan 2023 | 1

Refrigeration failure at Hong Kong datacenter takes out Alibaba Cloud and others

Unlike Oracle and Google, this time there's no heatwave to blame

Off-Prem20 Dec 2022 | 1

Fujitsu to test robot datacenter inspector that – trust us – won't take your jobs

Robots aren't hard. 5G in a room full of metal is. So is explaining why you need a bot to look at blinkenlights

Networks08 Nov 2022 | 14

Alibaba Cloud plans for a fifth of its servers to use homebrew Arm CPUs by 2025

Sanctions? What sanctions? Just look at the low, low, power consumption figures

PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2022 | 4

Alibaba Cloud goes even more serverless as it tries to become a utility

Laptop-shaped thin client tied to DaaS also illustrates the concept, and its downsides

Off-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 2

Oracle and Huawei clouds the big movers on Gartner's conjured quadrilateral

AWS warned for burning customers, Azure for 'punitive' licensing, while Google's losses are a worry

Off-Prem01 Nov 2022 | 7

Xi Jinping hails 'improved cyber ecology', says state to direct strategic tech research

Asia In Brief Samsung and TSMC hit with chip tech patent suit; Ant Group's DB hits AWS; PayPal drops Hong Kong rights group; and more

Security16 Oct 2022 | 5

Alibaba Cloud reveals billion dollar 'ecosystem upgrade'

It's mostly a channel program with a fancy name, plus more outposts

Channel26 Sep 2022 | 1

SoftBank offloads part of Alibaba stake to raise much-needed cash

Invested $20 million in 2000 and will pocket $34 billion and keep a slice worth more than that – for now

Off-Prem11 Aug 2022 | 9

China's internet companies are decelerating cloud consumption, says Alibaba

Starts chasing industrial digitization as its next big opportunity

Off-Prem05 Aug 2022 | 4

Alibaba execs hauled in to discuss Shanghai Police data leak

Asia In Brief Plus: Weibo cracks down on political puns; Singaporean crypto biz Vauld restructures; Philippines fights Facebook rumors

Security18 Jul 2022 | 2

Alibaba joins rivals in offering tool for those under pressure to reduce carbon emissions

Microsoft, Amazon and Google all have products showing the damage you do and now so does Softbank offshoot

PaaS + IaaS04 Jul 2022 | 4

TikTok US traffic defaults to Oracle Cloud, Beijing can (allegedly) still have a look

Alibaba hinted the gig was worth millions each year

Legal20 Jun 2022 | 9

Alibaba Cloud challenges AWS with its own custom smartNIC

Who'll board the custom silicon bandwagon next?

Networks14 Jun 2022 |

Alibaba continues international expansion – adds two datacenters and a bank

Bit barns in Saudi Arabia, all-digital bank in Singapore

Off-Prem08 Jun 2022 |

Lenovo infrastructure group and Alibaba Cloud both make first annual profits

Chinese giants' enterprise businesses do well despite lockdowns. Other segments? Strap in for a bumpy ride

Off-Prem27 May 2022 |

Alibaba Cloud adds third datacenter in Germany

More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS

PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 1

Cloud a three-player market dominated by AWS, Google, Microsoft

Big three’s market share now at 65 percent almost everywhere outside China

PaaS + IaaS02 May 2022 | 4

Alibaba Cloud gets more of Android working on RISC-V silicon

Cameras, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth are operational – maybe China’s wider tech independence plan is, too

OSes27 Apr 2022 | 5

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba makes 9 datacenter energy patents available

Part of a Low Carbon Patent Pledge with Meta, Microsoft, and others

Systems22 Apr 2022 | 7

Alibaba Cloud's homegrown Arm CPUs emerge in VM trial

Yitian 710 chip boasts 128 Armv9 cores, available to test

PaaS + IaaS14 Apr 2022 | 4

Alibaba Cloud opens first South Korean datacenter

Better late than never – all its global and Chinese hyperscale rivals are already there

Off-Prem31 Mar 2022 |