Alibaba Cloud Establishes Second "Data Center" and Launches Acceleration Program in Indonesia

After inaugurate his presence In March 2018, the beginning of 2019 Alibaba Cloud again showed its seriousness in supporting startups, SMEs and corporations by building data center second in Indonesia. The main reason why Alibaba Cloud eventually founded data center second, because of the large number of requests from customers. In addition, this initiative is Alibaba Cloud's effort to double its service capacity.

This was confirmed by the General Manager of Alibaba Cloud Indonesia and Singapore Leon Chen when giving a presentation at the inauguration event today (09/1). As a promising market, Indonesia is the focus of Alibaba Cloud.

"We have been directly involved with the market in Indonesia since three years ago data center First in Indonesia, Alibaba Cloud's commitment is also shown by collaboration and support for the Indonesian government," said Leon.

Mentioned where is the location data center second Alibaba Cloud, Leon reluctant to mention. Likewise, how much investment was made by Alibaba to establish a company? data center the. On the same occasion, Alibaba Cloud also announced a strategic partnership with PT IndoInternet as a distributor of Alibaba Cloud's cloud computing and technology products.

Disaster recovery center

In order to guarantee data from customers, the establishment of data center The second in Indonesia is claimed to be able to help the needs disaster recovery customer. Thus, in the event of a problem or crisis, customers can still access the data with the support of data center these two.

"In this case the company is like a service E-commerce to enterprise can easily set up a disaster recovery center they are leveraging Alibaba Cloud technology to help them get through a crisis if it does occur," said Leon.

Later the second data center it allows customers to do mission-critical workloads in multiple zones and switch zones in seconds. Overall Alibaba Cloud has around 55 availability zone spread over 19 regions around the world.

Associated with the increasing interest of customers for big data and data analytics solutions, Alibaba Cloud has also launched Machine Learning for AI and will launch Elastic Search this January.

"Supported by a local team, Alibaba Cloud is ready to help customers from all walks of life to start adopting technology cloud into their business," Leon said.

Alibaba Cloud acceleration program

After previously launching an incubation program called Alibaba Cloud Certified Professional (ACP), Alibaba Cloud announced that it has certified 250 professionals and has trained more than 300 people in Indonesia.

In addition to continuing to run the program, Alibaba Cloud also announced an acceleration program called the "Internet Champion Global Accelerator Program".

The acceleration program was first launched in Indonesia. To provide training and mentoring to startups, Alibaba Cloud cooperates with businesses such as Plug and Play, Unionspace, Gtech, Indonet, Bluepower and SIS.

In particular, Alibaba Cloud opened the program in Jakarta by providing an overview of technology e-commercee to 300 startup activists and companies using the "Double 11 Global Shopping Festival Alibaba Group" case study. This program will continue in Bali on 12 January to connect more than 200 professionals to students.

Asked what distinguishes the Alibaba Cloud acceleration program from the acceleration programs that have been present in Indonesia, Leon said that the acceleration program initiated by Alibaba Cloud has the full support of the Alibaba Group ecosystem.

"Because of the diverse businesses in the Alibaba Group, later startups that are participants in the acceleration program will have access to meet related investors, brand awareness and connect with businesses that enter the ecosystem on Alibaba. This opportunity is certainly very good for entrepreneurs in Indonesia to take advantage of," said Leon.