Alibaba Group

SDxCentral | November 09, 2018

This week Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang told CNBC that its cloud computing arm, also known as AliCloud, will be its “main business” in the future. “We strongly believe that every business in the future will be powered by cloud. We are very happy to build this cloud infrastructure in a new digital era and support all business,” Zhang told the news organization. Currently, Alibaba’s growth is largely led by the growth of its core commerce segment. However, its cloud ...

Business Wire | January 21, 2020

Virtana, the leader in hybrid infrastructure management for mission-critical workloads, is coming off a banner year in 2019 featuring the company’s strategic rebrand from Virtual Instruments and extension of its market leadership in hybrid infrastructure management. The company announced today that it achieved record bookings and significant growth in new customer acquisition, nearly 50% growth in channel-initiated business, and 50% growth in its cloud services business over the past 12 mo...

Channelnomics | January 17, 2020

Deal will fetch $557 million as company looks to close $8.4 billion acquisition of Interxion Digital Realty, which has been an aggressive buyer in the global data center and colocation market, has sold 10 data centers in North America to Mapletree, a real estate development and investment firm based in Singapore. The Lowdown: The $557 million deal comes as Digital Realty works to close its planned $8.4 billion acquisition of Interxion, which owns more than 50 colocation data centers in 13 ...

ITWeb | January 15, 2020

Oracle’s new data centres, due to launch in SA later this year, promise to bring unmatched performance, high security and new experiences to local organisations. This was the word from Andrew Sutherland, SVP business development, technology licence and systems at Oracle EMEA and APAC. Speaking this week during a media roundtable discussion at Oracle OpenWorld 2020, at the Dubai Trade Centre Arena, where hundreds of delegates gathered, Sutherland discussed Oracle’s plans to establish ...