
Image: Canalys Alibaba offered credits for Elastic Compute ServiceĪlibaba offered credits for its Elastic Compute Service and other products, along with making its AI-powered cloud services available to researchers with a focus on gene sequencing, protein screening, treatment, and prevention plans. Tencent Cloud increased its share to 18.0%, while Baidu AI Cloud moved into third place with an 8.8% share. Alibaba Cloud remained the leading cloud service provider in Q4 2019, accounting for 46.4% of total spend. China represented 10.8% of the worldwide total, making it the second largest market. The services offered vary between the three, but all made analytics and data tools available to researchers needing more data processing capabilities than they previously had available.Ĭanalys estimates that China’s cloud infrastructure services market grew 66.9% in Q4 2019, as total spend reached $3.3 billion. Go-to resources for safe, secure cloud storage (TechRepublic Premium) The vanilla approach: How open source helps deliver multicloud successīecome a Microsoft Azure administrator online and start a great career


Cloud: Must-read coverageĬloud security: How your public cloud environment may be vulnerable to data breach COVID-19, caused by a new strain of coronavirus, has led to China’s three major cloud providers offering free services to government agencies, businesses, researchers, and students in their bids to fight the pandemic.Īlibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Baidu AI Cloud have all opened up aspects of their platforms for free to select users, offering various services to help researchers as well as business professionals forced to shelter at home.
