{"id":22472,"date":"2016-05-13T08:52:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T08:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=252892"},"modified":"2016-05-13T08:52:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T08:52:54","slug":"alibaba-and-softbank-launch-sb-cloud-for-japanese-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/alibaba-and-softbank-launch-sb-cloud-for-japanese-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba and Softbank launch SB Cloud for Japanese market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2016\/05\/Alibaba.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-252902 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2016\/05\/Alibaba-300x200.png\" alt=\"Alibaba\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Alibaba and Softbank have announced the establishment of SB Cloud Corporation, a new joint venture to offer\u00a0cloud computing services in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The demand for public cloud in Japan and surrounding countries has been growing in recent years, with Japan leading the way as the most advanced nation. A report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/2963417\">Gartner<\/a> last year estimated the total public cloud services spending in the mature APJ region will rise to $11.5 billion by 2018. Alibaba has targeted the region to grow its already healthy cloud business unit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve really enjoyed working with the Alibaba Cloud team on the joint venture over the past few months,\u201d said Eric Gan, the new CEO of SB Cloud and EVP of SoftBank. \u201cDuring the business planning discussions, I quickly felt that we were all working very much as one team with one goal. I believe the JV team can develop the most advanced cloud platform for Japanese customers, as well as for multinational customers who want to use the resources we have available in Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SB Cloud will enable Alibaba to increase its presence in the market, where it already offers services to SoftBank\u2019s business customer base in Japan, which primarily comprises of global organizations. SB Cloud will open a new data centre in the country, where it will now serve customers outside of established SoftBank customer base, offering data storage and processing services, enterprise-level middleware as well as cloud security services.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/trade.gov\/topmarkets\/pdf\/Cloud_Computing_Japan.pdf\">report<\/a> from the US Department of Commerce highlighted the Japanese market is one of the most competitive worldwide, though five of the six major vendors are American, Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce. Domestic companies, such as Fujitsu, have announced aggressive expansion plans. Fujitsu claims to be to investing $2 billion between 2014 and 2017 to capture an increased market share in cloud computing, primarily focused on the growing IoT sub-sector.<\/p>\n<p>While Alibaba\u2019s traditional business has been in the Chinese market, the company has been making efforts over the last 12-18 months to diversify its outreach. Last year, the company launched a new data centre in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2015\/08\/19\/alibaba-to-set-up-cloud-datacentre-hq-in-singapore\/\">Singapore<\/a>, as well as in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2015\/10\/09\/alibaba-announces-second-silicon-valley-datacentre\/\">Silicon Valley<\/a>. It also launched what it claims is China\u2019s first cloud AI platform last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2015\/08\/25\/alibaba-launches-what-it-claims-to-be-chinas-first-cloud-ai-platform\/\">August<\/a>, DT PAI. The purpose-built algorithms and machine learning technologies are designed to help users generate predictive intelligence insights, claiming the service features \u201cdrag and drop\u201d capabilities that let users easily connect different services and set parameters, seemingly following IBM\u2019s lead in designing a more accessible offering for the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba and Softbank have announced the establishment of SB Cloud Corporation, a new joint venture launch cloud computing services in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4029,2221,1383,656,1976,524,4178,1445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-alibaba","category-artificial-intelligence","category-database","category-news-analysis","category-public-cloud","category-sb-cloud","category-softbank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22481,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472\/revisions\/22481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}