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Alibaba vs IBM: Fighting for Third Place in Cloud

Competition in the cloud industry is heating up. On China’s Monday, Alibaba announced a $28.2 billion USD (200 billion RMB) investment [https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/20/alibaba-to-invest-28-billion-in-cloud-as-it-battles-amazon-microsoft.html] in Alibaba Cloud over the next three years. On America’s Monday,

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Stress Test the Cloud: Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP

I’ve been writing a lot about the public cloud industry lately. In my previous two posts, I touched on Alibaba Cloud’s earnings vis-a-vis [https://interconnected.blog/alibaba-cloud-the-ignored-cloud/] Microsoft’s Azure and Google’s GCP to assess their relative size, and a fairly

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Where Are The Data Centers: AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Azure, GCP

Earlier this week, I wrote about [https://interconnected.blog/alibaba-cloud-the-ignored-cloud/] whether Alibaba Cloud should be ignored in the larger cloud computing industry conversation, when its growth and earnings are comparable to that of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). A public cloud is an extraordinarily complex,

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Alibaba Cloud: The Ignored Cloud

In the cloud computing industry, the companies that get mentioned the most are the so-called “big three”: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Alibaba Cloud is usually ignored in the cloud chatter in mainstream U.S. business media,