China’s cloud infrastructure services market grew 21 percent year on year to US$12.4 billion in Q2, according to Omdia. Marking the first time more than 20 percent growth since early 2024, the increase was driven […]
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Cloud platforms power US$12.9b games tech ecosystem
Cloud platforms have become the core of the US$12.9 billion ecosystem driving the modern games industry, according to Omdia. The thriving sector encompasses crucial technologies such as game servers, backend infrastructure, analytics and LiveOps which […]
CapitaLand to drive digital transformation in China with Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud and CapitaLand Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to accelerate CapitaLand’s digital transformation in China. Building on a collaboration that began in 2015 and was formalised in 2019, the renewed agreement […]
China’s cloud market surges to US$11.6b in Q1 on rising AI demand
Mainland China’s cloud infrastructure market experienced accelerated 16 percent growth with spending reaching US$11.6 billion in Q1, according to Canalys. A key driver was a wave of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption among Chinese enterprises. Alibaba […]
Alibaba Cloud sets up AI global competency centre in Singapore
Alibaba Cloud has established its first AI Global Competency Center (AIGCC) in Singapore to accelerate enterprise AI adoption and talent development on a global scale. It aims to support more than 5,000 businesses and 100,000 […]
Alibaba Cloud to open 2nd data centre in South Korea
Alibaba Cloud plans to launch its second data centre in South Korea by the end of June 2025. The move is in response to surging demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence services among local […]
Singapore accelerates tech adoption with industry partnerships
Singapore is accelerating technology adoption among enterprises with new partnerships announced at the opening of ATxEnterprise by Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Tan Kiat How (above). Part of the nation’s Digital […]
Alibaba Cloud boosts AI capabilities for global customers
Alibaba Cloud has unveiled a number of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) offerings and infrastructure upgrades to empower international developers and businesses. These innovations include expanded access to foundational AI models, upgraded cloud infrastructure, and new […]
Alibaba Cloud reveals multimodal AI model
Alibaba Cloud has launched the Qwen2.5-Omni-7B unified end-to-end multimodal model that can process diverse inputs, including text, images, audio, and videos, while simultaneously generating real-time text and natural speech responses. The breakthrough is particularly useful […]
Alibaba Cloud shifts to AI-focused partner strategy to acceleration innovations
Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its “Alibaba Cloud Partner Rainforest Plan” aimed at fostering innovation and driving growth in the AI and cloud computing sectors. Unveiled at the Alibaba Cloud Partner Summit 2024, the revamped strategy […]
Alibaba Cloud expands global footprint, enhances AI capabilities
Alibaba Cloud plans to establish additional data centres in Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, and other key markets, as well as to launch its first cloud region in Mexico, over the next three years. […]
Alibaba Cloud cuts prices for international customers
Alibaba Cloud is slashing prices of up to 59 percent for its public cloud products for international customers using its China-based data centres. The move aims to make core computing resources more accessible for such […]
Alibaba to add 5,000 to cloud unit
Source: Fooksou LamimoWhile some IT bigwigs are trimming their workforce, Alibaba Group plans to add another 5,000 employees globally till March 31, 2021.
NVIDIA Tesla V100 gains widespread acceptance
NVIDIA’s Volta architecture is leaving quite an impression. According to a NVIDIA press release issued at SC17, the Volta-based NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU is available through every major computer maker and chosen by every major cloud to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing.
China’s tech giants bet on NVIDIA Volta
China’s top technology companies are betting big on the NVIDIA Volta platform.
Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, and Tencent are incorporating NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators into their data centres and cloud-service infrastructures to accelerate AI for a broad range of enterprise and consumer applications.
At the heart of the new Volta-based systems is the NVIDIA V100 data centre GPU. Built with 21 billion transistors, it provides a 5x improvement over the preceding NVIDIA Pascal architecture P100 GPU accelerators, while delivering the equivalent performance of 100 CPUs for deep learning. This performance surpasses by 4x the improvements that Moore’s law would have predicted over the same period of time.
Inspur, Lenovo and Huawei are using the NVIDIA HGX reference architecture to offer Volta-based accelerated systems for hyperscale data centres. Using HGX as a starter “recipe,” original equipment manufacturer and original design manufacturer partners can work with NVIDIA to more quickly design and bring to market a wide range of qualified GPU-accelerated AI systems for hyperscale data centres to meet the industry’s growing demand for AI cloud computing.
Alibaba Cloud rises 128% in Q3
Alibaba Cloud has outpaced cloud service provider leaders with growth of 128 percent to reach US$221 million in Q3. However, AWS increased its lead, accounting for 32.2 percent of total spend, followed by Microsoft Azure with 17.3 percent and Google Cloud with 7.6percent, according to Canalys. Both Microsoft (up 115.6 percent) and Google (up 79.6 percent) grew faster than Amazon.
Global cloud infrastructure services expenditure increased 53.1 percent year on year to reach US$10 billion for the first time in Q.
“Alibaba has established itself as the largest e-commerce business in China and is starting to dominate the provision of cloud infrastructure services in the country,” said Daniel Liu, Research Analyst of Canalys.
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