Alibaba steps up presence in international cloud market

Alibaba’s cloud computing business unit has announced worldwide expansion plans with four new data centres in key locations around the globe.
While the growth of cloud computing has been dominating headlines in the technology world for some time, China’s influence has been relatively low-key to date with its own giants mostly focusing on the domestic market. AWS, Google, Microsoft and IBM have marched to the top of the segment though if experience tells us anything it won’t be