{"id":15043,"date":"2015-06-05T08:38:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T08:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=227111"},"modified":"2015-06-05T08:38:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T08:38:49","slug":"equinix-to-offer-direct-access-to-alibabas-cloud-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/equinix-to-offer-direct-access-to-alibabas-cloud-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinix to offer direct access to Alibaba\u2019s cloud service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_226281\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2015\/06\/Cloud-Puzzle-Pieces.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-226281\" alt=\"Equinix will offer direct links to Alibaba's cloud\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2015\/06\/Cloud-Puzzle-Pieces-300x205.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Equinix will offer direct links to Alibaba&#8217;s cloud<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Equinix has signed an agreement with Alibaba that will see the American datacentre incumbent provide direct access to Chinese ecommerce firm\u2019s cloud computing service.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will see Equinix add Aliyun, Alibaba\u2019s cloud computing division, to its growing roster of cloud services integrated with its cloud interconnection service, and offer direct access to Aliyun\u2019s IaaS and SaaSs in both Asia and North America.<\/p>\n<p>Equinix said it\u2019s aiming this primarily at large multinationals looking to expand their infrastructure into Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur multi-national enterprise customers are increasingly asking for access to the Aliyun cloud platform, as they deploy cloud-based applications across Asia,\u201d said Chris Sharp, vice president of cloud innovation, Equinix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy providing this access in two strategic markets, we\u2019re empowering businesses to build secure, private clouds, without compromising network and application performance,\u201d Sharp said.<\/p>\n<p>Sicheng Yu, vice president of Aliyun said: \u201cAliyun is very excited about our global partnership with Equinix, who not only has a global footprint of cutting-edge datacentres, but has also brought together the most abundant cloud players and tenants in the cloud computing ecosystem on its Equinix Cloud Exchange platform. Connecting the Equinix ecosystem with our Aliyun cloud services on Cloud Exchange will provide customers with the best-of-breed choices and flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move will see Equinix expand its reach in Asia, a fast-growing market for cloud services, and comes just one week after Equinix announced it would bolster its European footprint with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2015\/05\/29\/226201\/\">TelecityGroup merger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equinix has signed an agreement with Alibaba that will see the American datacentre incumbent provide direct access to Chinese ecommerce firm&rsquo;s cloud computing service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2221,2339,2735,618,1993,2142,1976,2736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alibaba","category-aliyun","category-chris-sharp","category-equinix","category-infrastructure-as-a-service","category-networks","category-news-analysis","category-sicheng-yu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15044,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043\/revisions\/15044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}