SINGAPORE (Nov 21): Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm and a business unit of China’s Alibaba Group, says it aims to open four new data centres by end-2016 in the Middle East, Europe, Australia and Japan.

In a press release on Monday, the Singapore-headquartered company announced that the first of the four centres in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the Middle East, commenced initial operations today. The opening was held in conjunction with technology enterprise YVOLV, which is a joint venture between Alibaba Cloud and Dubai-based holding company Meraas Holdings.

To support enterprises in Europe, Alibaba Cloud intends to partner with Vodaphone Germany to open a data centre co-located in the latter’s data facilities in Frankfurt, Germany. According to the company, the facility is “well positioned to meet the increasing demand for sophisticated cloud computing services as the region seeks to accelerate the upgrade of its digital infrastructure”.  

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