It's Google v/s Alibaba in the Cloud Computing Gameplay in the Asia Pacific

As the competition intensifies in the cloud computing space of the Asia Pacific region, two major giants Google and Alibaba are giving each other a tough battle in the market. With the latest releases of Google in the Google Cloud Summit in Singapore, the company announced its plans of expanding the cloud footprint in Asia Pacific region and globally. While the tech company Google has disclosed its plans for expansion in the APAC region, Chinese firm Alibaba had announced its entry into the Southeast Asian market in August too.

Competitive Cloud in APAC

The already crowded cloud market has a stellar line of players operating in the segment, which includes Amazon's AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, Oracle and Alibaba. A huge number of Chinese players like Huawei and Tencent are expanding their reach in the Asia Pacific cloud market.

Not just the big companies but the growing dominance in the market has driven the telecom companies to go beyond the traditional technologies like SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS suggests the report by Reports Web.

The market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC) says that China is the biggest spender in Asia Pacific's cloud market. Spending on public cloud services in the Asia Pacific region – excluding Japan – will hit $15 billion in 2018, representing an increase of 35% over the year before, according to IDC...

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by Idham Azhari