Alibaba Cloud is ready to transform Indian customers

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud-computing arm of Alibaba Group, opened its first India datacenter in Mumbai. Alex Li, General Manager - Asia Pacific, Alibaba Cloud said that the new datacenter is a mega-scale one that could support the regional cloud needs for the next 3-5 years. The datacenter in Mumbai will cater to all companies looking for support in India. The datacenter will specifically cater to India and regional customers in the Indian peninsula.

India is on a journey to transform itself into a digital economy, which throws up tremendous opportunities for enterprises and SMEs to grow and become part of the global business environment. Indian SMEs are at the forefront of leveraging innovative technology more than ever before, to scale and grow their business. 

"We believe this is the right time to establish our presence in the market. We aim to bring our technology expertise and comprehensive cloud offerings to empower Indian enterprises to unlock their business potential,"  said Alex.

Talking about the data security and privacy issues, Alibaba Cloud said that it has always been a priority to ensure the highest cyber protection and compliance standards to its customers. "We comply with all applicable laws in every market we operate in. Our security standards have been recognized by a number of international organisations. For example, Alibaba Cloud is the world’s first cloud provider to complete the assessment for the Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalogue (C5) set out by the Federal Office for Information Security in Germany with the additional requirements. The British Standards Institute (BSI) awarded Alibaba Cloud the world’s first gold certification for cloud security. We have also achieved the Singapore Multi-Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) standard Level 3 and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)," Alex explained.

Lastly, Alex added that Alibaba Cloud will provide a comprehensive suite of cloud-computing and data-intelligence offerings. The major categories include elastic computing, database, storage and CDN (content delivery network), networking, analytics and big data, containers, middleware, and security. "We also look forward to bring our data-intelligence capability to India in the future," he concluded. 

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