Tag: Alibaba Cloud

Bali, Indonesia – Yell Group, a creative digital company, has teamed up with Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence arm of Alibaba Group.

Through the partnership, Yell Group aims to be equipped with cloud-based solutions to revolutionise its AI storyboard platform, AI-Deate. Alibaba Cloud will be granting Yell Group with cloud computing capabilities to provide solutions to creative teams and allowing scalability.

Through the partnership, Alibaba Cloud is also set to introduce its advanced media solutions, Elastic Desktop Service and Object Storage Service.

Yell Group’s AI-Deate can empower creators globally, with the goal of elevating the creative industry. The partnership addresses creative teams’ growing demand for generative AI use.

AI-Deate also aims to promote work-life balance for practitioners in the creative industry.

The partnership was announced during the Alibaba Cloud Global Partner Summit 2024 in Bali, Indonesia.

“This transformative partnership with Alibaba Cloud propels AI-Deate to unprecedented heights, reinforcing our core mission to enhance the lives of creative professionals through cutting-edge AI technology,” Dissara Udomdej, chief executive officer at Yell Group, said during the summit.

Indonesia – GoTo Group has announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba, the global e-commerce and technology giant, aimed at driving the growth of Indonesia’s digital economy. The collaboration will harness Alibaba Cloud’s advanced technologies to enhance and support GoTo’s expansive ecosystem.

GoTo will harness Alibaba Cloud’s services over a five-year partnership to enhance its platform and accelerate digital innovation using Alibaba’s cutting-edge cloud and AI technologies. Alibaba Cloud will deliver a range of services, including cloud computing, cloud-native databases, networking, security, and data analytics, among others.

The partnership aims to elevate the customer experience for GoTo’s Indonesian users by leveraging the latest innovations in digital transformation and AI-driven growth. Moreover, it underscores Alibaba’s commitment as a long-term investor in GoTo. Set for a five-year period, Alibaba has pledged to retain its current shareholding in GoTo Group throughout the partnership. 

Patrick Walujo, CEO of GoTo Group, said, “By collaborating with Alibaba, we are not only strengthening our technological infrastructure but also enhancing the services and solutions we can offer to millions of Indonesian consumers and businesses. This partnership marks a significant milestone in our journey to create a more inclusive and resilient digital economy in Indonesia. It also underlines our commitment to work with partners in a way that delivers the long term sustainable growth that returns value to our shareholders.”

Meanwhile, Selina Yuan, vice president of Alibaba Group and president of international business for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, commented, “As a leading cloud service provider in Indonesia for more than seven years, we are excited about working with GoTo in its digital transformation and driving innovation in Indonesia. This strategic partnership combines Alibaba Cloud’s world-class cloud computing and artificial intelligence capabilities with GoTo’s extensive ecosystem. We want to empower businesses of all sizes in Indonesia and foster innovation to drive long-term growth.”

Alibaba Cloud and GoTo will extend their collaboration into several key areas, including talent development initiatives aimed at meeting the growing demand for digital and AI expertise, critical for driving innovation and maintaining a competitive edge in the fast-changing digital landscape. 

The two companies will also explore further commercial partnerships to empower Indonesian businesses and accelerate the growth of the country’s digital economy. These efforts align with Indonesia’s push for intelligence-driven transformation, fostering greater economic opportunities and technological advancement.

The partnership MoU, signed on September 13, 2024, marks one of Alibaba Cloud’s key strategic engagements in Southeast Asia. GoTo will begin migrating its cloud services to Alibaba Cloud in October, streamlining operations, enhancing service efficiency, and reducing operational costs.

Bangkok, Thailand – Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has launched its first data centre in Thailand to bolster local businesses’ digital innovation capabilities. The move is also in line with the Thailand government’s 20 year National Strategic Plan to provide security, prosperity and sustainability to the nation.

With Thailand Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) coming into force in June, the launch of Alibaba Cloud’s first data centre in Thailand further reiterates the company’s commitment to comply with Thai regulations when operating locally, and to bring secure and innovative technology to the country. The data centre has secured ISO27001 and ISO20000 certificates and is compliant with Thailand PDPA regulations, as well as the financial regulatory guideline issued by The Bank of Thailand (BOT).

Tyler Qiu, country manager for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Thailand, said, “Data security and protection remains our top priority as we continue to expand. With the establishment of our new data centre, we are committed to being compliant with Thailand’s rules and regulations.

“In addition, we want to bring our best technology offerings, as well as our vertical know-how to Thailand. With Alibaba Cloud’s successful track record supporting global businesses, we hope to create an inclusive digital ecosystem to power Thailand’s vision as ASEAN’s digital hub,” Qiu said.

The security offerings that have been brought to Thailand include anti-DDoS service, WAF, security centre, action trail, and more. These security services can boost platform security protection, proactive defence, threat detection, and investigation and response, such as protecting software, app or websites against ransomware, mining and backdoor, and trojan programs to reduce operational issues. Architecturally, Alibaba Cloud’s security centre is also able to provide compliance assessments for businesses, in order to protect online and offline servers to meet regulatory compliance requirements.

Other key products and solutions that the company have officially launched in Thailand together with the data centre include elastic computing, database, network, storage, developer services, content delivery and enterprise applications.

Alibaba Cloud has also been enhancing its local technology implementation and migration capabilities through the support of its partners. Since the launch of its Thailand Partner Alliance 100 program last October, more than 40 partners such as National Telecom, Thailand Fintech Association, HiCloud, TMES, to name a few, have embarked on the growth journey with Alibaba Cloud. Besides direct sales, Alibaba Cloud will also work with partners to innovate new solutions to support Thai businesses.

Diego Ma, CEO of HiCloud, shared, “Together with Alibaba Cloud, we are bringing world-leading solutions to Thai customers to increase cloud adoption for their businesses.”