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 |