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Alibaba announces first profitable quarter for its cloud division
Chinese giant's cloud business sees revenue of $2.4 billion for Q4 2020, just $3 million adjusted EBITA profit
Chinese giant's cloud business sees revenue of $2.4 billion for Q4 2020, just $3 million adjusted EBITA profit
It beats having to build your own data center
Due to come online in January
As part of a renewed partnership between the company and a research university in Abu Dhabi
But questions remain over whether it will build its own facility
Already 100 percent leased
Asian giant joins the open source hardware effort
Meanwhile, Jack Ma asks why the US spends so much on its military
Thankfully Alibaba stocks the huge grain of salt you should take this story with
Continues to slowly push outside of China
Moving in and out of China gets easier
The underdog chip maker signs on China’s largest retailer
Could be prelude to Alibaba realizing e-commerce ambitions in India
Alibaba gets 90 percent free cooling in its eighth cloud data center
Aliyun cloud division sets up its international HQ, and a second overseas data center
Looks to take on cloud computing industry leaders Amazon and Microsoft
Alibaba’s cloud arm gives conflicting reasons for 14 hour outage this week
Direct links through Equinix Cloud Exchange help Alibaba’s Aliyun expansion drive
More cloud data centers are planned in Europe, East Asia and Southest Asia
Alibaba’s Aliyun cloud business takes on US market