Alibaba Cloud eyes 5K Philippine businesses for digital transformation partnership

Cloud computing firm Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Chinese magnate Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group, is eyeing to partner with around 5,000 Philippine enterprises to support local industries' digital transformation.

In a virtual briefing, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence country head of the Philippines Allen Guo said the company aims to “support at least 5,000 enterprises, train at least 50,000 talents, and certify 10,000 clouders till the end of 2023.”

Likewise, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence president Selina Yuan said, “The Philippines is a very important market for us, even now that we are just very new in this market.”

She also emphasized the importance of supporting local enterprises with digital solutions amid the pandemic, which forced many to stay in their homes and rely on technology.

“In the next three years, Alibaba Cloud will continue to invest another 200 billion yuan to build a data center and support cloud operation systems, servers, chips, internet and other core projects in the region,” Yuan said.

Alibaba Cloud officials also revealed that its technology solutions provided support for the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, which, it said, generated $74.1 billion in gross merchandise value for a period of 11 days.

“In the cloud-native era, it is even more pivotal for businesses to be able to take advantage of innovative Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings to enhance and support high-concurrency and high-volume web applications such as e-commerce, online gaming and financial technology,” said Li Feifei, president of Database Business, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.

“Many Fortune 500 firms are already using our Cloud DBaaS for mobile apps, backups and tests, and the most recent impressive performance of our proprietary solutions during the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival is yet another strong endorsement on our capability,” Li said.—AOL, GMA News