Last month Alibaba Cloud celebrated the launch of its second data centre in Indonesia, and IDC says this growth will benefit the entire country.

Verizon has expanded Secure Cloud Interconnect to allow its customers to privately connect to Alibaba Cloud.

According to Canalys, spending grew by 46% in 4Q18 and AWS maintained dominance with nearly a third of the total.

Canalys analysts say the huge growth in cloud services will be of benefit to channel partners with a number of incentives.

Last year saw almost manic growth in revenue for cloud providers as businesses continue to seek the benefits the services can provide.

Opening a second data centre in Indonesia, a relatively small but growing IT economy, shows Alibaba is thinking strategically about its place in APAC.

The joint programme with the Singapore Management University (SMU) and Alibaba Cloud is the latter company's first of its kind outside of China.

The company’s service capability in Hong Kong has doubled since it established its first data centre in the city in 2014.

With the help of Alibaba Cloud and other partners, Haymarket HQ will provide guidance for Aussies who want to break into the Chinese market.

A mere ten months after launching its first data centre in Indonesia, Alibaba Cloud has now opened the doors to its second.

Hyperscale cloud firms will fiercely target on-premises enterprise workloads in 2019, says GlobalData.

There was a lot to unpack at the Canalys APAC Channels Forum keynote. This long-form piece tries to cover all the most relevant points for A/NZ.

After elbowing its way into the EMEA market last month, the Chinese cloud provider has now unveiled the full extent of its product portfolio for the region.

‘Smart cities’ is one of the hot buzz phrases of 2018, and Alibaba Cloud is taking measures to ensure it’s at the forefront of the movement.

The largest software acquisition in history "shows how even the biggest beasts in tech are having to adapt to the Cloud computing world."

Ongoing trade tensions between China and the US  are having a significant impact on the cloud service providers market.

While the market is seeing strong growth, it's coming at the expense of small-to-medium sized cloud operators.

Competition is heating up among the major cloud providers, as Alibaba Cloud continues to claim a bigger stake in the market.

Alibaba furthers its reach into the A/NZ market with this partnership for managed IT and cloud services from CSG.

Alibaba Cloud will work with Norwegian software company Kongsberg Digital to open up new solutions for the energy sector in China and other parts of Asia.

The two companies have announced a partnership which will improve global connectivity within Australia.

Alibaba Cloud has almost 50% of the infrastructure-as-a-service market share in China and its annual revenue grew 101% in FY18.

The two companies have released an aptly named 'Joint Edge Computing Platform' in the hopes to encourage the concept among enterprises.

Hybrid cloud deployments are certainly the flavour of the times at the moment and it’s an area these two companies are investing in.