Alibaba Claims Aliyun Is Bigger Than Anyone, Even Amazon

Alibaba claims that it offers cloud services to more than 1.4 million users in "China", only with plans to expand globally.

The information technology sector is also constantly expanding, as the world is becoming more reliant and dependent on technology and its products and services. The recent platform that has certainly made a great impact in the sector is cloud-computing platform. Tech giants are competing against each other to build one of the biggest and most prominent cloud-computing platform, thus this is an ongoing ‘battlefield’ for the tech companies. Therefore, according to latest Alibaba news, the company is also planning a global expansion of its cloud-computing business, named as ‘Aliyun’.

Apart from the tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, and Facebook etc., Alibaba Group and Amazon, are two of the dominant forces of the cloud computing sector. Both companies are competing against each other in the market. For the first time in nine years, the latter unveiled the earnings of Amazon Web Services (AWS), where it claimed to have sales worth clocking in at more than $1.57 billion for the quarter. These numbers suggest that it is leading the competition against its peers and rivals. However, the global expansion of Amazon Web Services might slow down the growth of the business due to tough competition from Alibaba.

The American electronic commerce company aims to rule over the cloud-computing sector, as its technology demonstrates its approach to be almost seven years or more ahead of other tech giants, such as IBM or Oracle. There is no doubt that the company is a leader in the domestic market; however, it will have to make its name in the international market. The e-commerce retailer is already accountable for 28% of the worldwide market for cloud business with plans to expand further. The company recently expanded in Brazil, Singapore, and Ireland, and managed to sustain in the new regions. However, expansion plans for China might be a hurdle in its growth.

In contrast, the Chinese e-commerce giant currently dominates in China only. As reported by current Alibaba updates,  Aliyun, cloud computing platform, is operating in the region since 2009 and has a huge customer database of more than 1.4 million customers. The company also seeks to expand its cloud-computing business throughout the world in order to offer Chinese businesses across the globe. This depicts the size of Alibaba’s cloud; whereas, Amazon claims to provide cloud services to more than a million across the globe.

It is a win-win situation for the Chinese giant in both situations, either Aliyun expands globally, or Amazon Web Services extends its parameters, because ambitious plans of Chinese cloud-computing platform will gradually affect America’s cloud business in the global market.

Alibaba Unit, Aliyun, Aims To Build China's First 'Cloud Hospital'

Alibaba has begin its venture of introducing Cloud Hospital in China in order to make the system of diagnosis and other hospital management easier.

The e-commerce giant, Alibaba’s power and strength doesn’t only stem from the fact that it is one of the world’s fastest growing and most potential e-commerce player in the market. The company also cherishes on hoards of data that it has gathered from the online shopping sites and the businesses pertaining to financial and/or cloud computing businesses. Latest Alibaba news reports that the subsidiary of the company, Aliyun which is looking into the cloud computing business for the e-commerce giant, has begun working on a deal which in order to build ‘cloud hospital’ in China which it claims to be the first one in the country.

Alibaba news reports that Aliyun has entered into a partnership with DHC Software and Xi’an International Medical Investment with the aim of creating a platform which is hospital administration oriented and works on improvising the quality of medical care in order to make the management of individual patient and its medical history easier for the organizations and also to analyze the aggregated data pertaining to health.

In order to bring the ‘cloud hospital’ to market and being introduced to the people of China, the responsibility has been given to Xi’an International Medical Investment which not only excels in managing the real estate and department stores but also the medical facilities. DHC Software is there to keep its focus on the development of this system. In the meantime, Aliyun is going to contribute to the data analysis, online to offline healthcare, services related to cloud computing and also the support or feature of online payment in the system.

The chairman of Xi’an IMI expressed that the new platform will let hospitals utilize it in a manner that the patients will not need to spend a long time in waiting rooms and also providing ability to the hospitals of sharing the patient information more quickly. The patients will be capable of registering for the appointments or making use of online payments. The analytic tools being provided by the software let the doctors make diagnoses accurate and precise, this will be made possible by letting them access the medical history of the patient and the relative information from other hospitals quicker and easily and also if they wish to check the information related to family health, they can.

Recently, Alibaba had also announced that the online business related to pharmacy has been transferred by the company to the Alibaba Health, however it has been on the limit by regulations in China on online selling of prescription drugs and medicine but it is hopeful that this will be lifted this year.