Europe targeted as Alibaba's cloudy world domination plans take shape

Expansion-hungry Alibaba is set to increase the global reach of its cloudy biz Aliyun by opening a data centre in Europe, a senior hand has told El Reg. Derek Wang, chief architect of Aliyun's international cloud business, said the company intends to announce expansion plans into both the European and South-east Asian markets …

[x 7]

Would you trust a company called Ali Baba? I'd be waiting for the 40 thieves to show up....

[K]

AWS || ALI = ?

Now here is the conundrum

Having Uncle Sam trawling our corporate data for evidence of dissent terrorism, or Uncle Mao for our trade secrets.. choices choices.

I'm concerned that I see Uncle Mao as the least dangerous options!

[Mark 85]

Re: AWS || ALI = ?

My guess is there's more than just those two trawling. But why make it easy on any of them? If your data is that valuable to you, you won't use a public cloud service.

[Ru']

Apart from the 'thrusting deeper' bit, congratulations on the restraint shown. Must've been hard... (oh, cock)

[W. Anderson]

Chinese influence peferred to American? Wow

Technologists with European and Asian corporations have intimatd moves to Ali Baba and other non-USA Cloud Computing vendors primaril bcause of what these corporations consider draconian intrusion into their networks and business operations b US government NSA intrusions and spying.

Strange how many international corporations trust Chinese technolog firms, even those with possible ties to "Communist" Government more than American technology possible control.