Shifting Cloud Security Left with Infrastructure as Code

Introduction and Executive Summary DevOps and the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline are revolutionizing application development, test, and cloud delivery, enabling developers to write the application code and define the clou… Continue reading Shifting Cloud Security Left with Infrastructure as Code

Cloudflare expands the Bandwidth Alliance by partnering with Alibaba Cloud

Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, announced that it has expanded the Bandwidth Alliance by partnering with Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. The Bandwidth Al… Continue reading Cloudflare expands the Bandwidth Alliance by partnering with Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud revenue reaches $1.5B for the quarter on 62% growth rate

Alibaba issued its latest earnings report yesterday, and as part of that the Chinese eCommerce giant reported that cloud revenue grew 62% to $1.5 billion U.S., crossing the RMB10 billion revenue threshold for the first time. Alibaba also announced that it had completed its migration to its own public cloud in the most recent quarter, […] Continue reading Alibaba Cloud revenue reaches $1.5B for the quarter on 62% growth rate

Study on public cloud performance: AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba and IBM Cloud

There are notable network performance and connectivity differences between the five major public cloud providers – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud and IBM Cloud, ThousandEyes reveals. A look at pub… Continue reading Study on public cloud performance: AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba and IBM Cloud

Alibaba unveils Hanguang 800, an AI inference chip it says significantly increases the speed of machine learning tasks

Alibaba Group introduced its first AI inference chip today, a neural processing unit called Hanguang 800 that it says makes performing machine learning tasks dramatically faster and more energy-efficient. The chip, announced today during Alibaba Cloud’s annual Apsara Computing Conference in Hangzhou, is already being used to power features on Alibaba’s e-commerce sites, including product […] Continue reading Alibaba unveils Hanguang 800, an AI inference chip it says significantly increases the speed of machine learning tasks

New cross-industry consortium aims to accelerate confidential computing adoption

The Linux Foundation announced the intent to form the Confidential Computing Consortium, a community dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing. Companies committed to this work include Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, Google Clo… Continue reading New cross-industry consortium aims to accelerate confidential computing adoption

Alibaba cloud biz is on a run rate over $4B

Alibaba announced its earnings today, and the Chinese ecommerce giant got a nice lift from its cloud business, which grew 66 percent to more than $1.1 billion, or a run rate surpassing $4 billion. It’s not exactly on par with Amazon, which reported cloud revenue of $8.381 billion last quarter, more than double Alibaba’s yearly run […] Continue reading Alibaba cloud biz is on a run rate over $4B

Alibaba Cloud and Fortinet provide streamlined security for orgs with hybrid cloud infrastructures

Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, and Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, announced the expansion of the Fortinet Security Fabric offerings and new automation capabilities … Continue reading Alibaba Cloud and Fortinet provide streamlined security for orgs with hybrid cloud infrastructures

Global IaaS market reached $32.4 billion in 2018, total growth was 31.3%

The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 31.3% in 2018 to total $32.4 billion, up from $24.7 billion in 2017, according to Gartner. Amazon was once again the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2018, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, G… Continue reading Global IaaS market reached $32.4 billion in 2018, total growth was 31.3%

Alibaba to help Salesforce localize and sell in China

Salesforce, the 20-year-old leader in customer relationship management (CRM) tools, is making a foray into Asia by working with one of the country’s largest tech firms, Alibaba. Alibaba will be the exclusive provider of Salesforce to enterprise customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, and Salesforce will become the exclusive enterprise CRM software […] Continue reading Alibaba to help Salesforce localize and sell in China