Alibaba wants to become the largest cloud service provider in Japan in two years?
Some time ago, according to Japanese media such as the Japanese Economic News, Alibaba Group, the largest Internet e-commerce company in China, is expected to become the largest cloud service provider in Japan in two years. At the same time, Alibaba Cloud's sales will grow to about 100 billion yen.
As early as May 13, 2016, Alibaba Cloud Computing Department, which intends to internationalize, officially announced its cooperation with Softbank Group of Japan. The two sides will set up a joint venture cloud computing company SB Cloud Corporation in Japan, making Alibaba Cloud officially enter the Japanese market. For the newly established SB Cloud company, headquartered in Tokyo, Softbank holds 60% of the shares and Ali holds 40% of the shares.
The cooperation between Softbank of Japan and Alibaba, on the one hand, is the relationship between the shareholders of both sides, on the other hand, Alibaba's technological advantages in big data and cloud computing, plus Softbank is one of the largest telecom operators in Japan. The cooperation between the two sides has formed complementary advantages.
In addition to China and Japan, Alibaba also provides cloud services in the United States, Singapore and other countries, which is undoubtedly at a leading level compared with other domestic Internet companies that provide cloud services. As a result, in early July 2016, Alibaba Cloud was separately valued by internationally renowned investment banks, and its latest valuation has reached $39 billion. Further, Alibaba Group's market value is about 200 billion dollars, and Alibaba Cloud's valuation has accounted for 20% of Alibaba Group's market value.
Domestically, Baidu, Tencent and other companies are working on cloud computing business. Not long ago, Ma Huateng, founder and CEO of Tencent Group, attended the Tencent "Cloud+Future" Summit, and stressed that the opening of Tencent's cloud capabilities would become Tencent's next No. 1 strategy. The latest assessment also gave Tencent Cloud a valuation of more than 20 billion yuan. Interestingly, Ma Yun responded very quickly to Ma Huateng's personal platform. Alibaba Cloud chose to announce the price reduction on the day of the Tencent Cloud+Future Summit, and only aimed at the Shenzhen market. It is hard to believe that this is purely coincidental.
Finally, in general, enterprise level cloud computing and big data services are becoming the focus of competition among Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and other domestic Internet giants, as well as the businesses that Microsoft, Amazon, Google and other global technology giants have already launched. For Alibaba to strengthen its cloud service investment in Japan this time, it also shows the determination and attitude of domestic cloud service providers to actively internationalize.
