Alibaba Cloud - anything new to offer?

John Leonard
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As China's cloud behemoth lumbers into view we look at what it means for European firms

At the start of this year, Simon Hu, president of China's Alibaba Cloud, said he wanted it to "match or surpass" Amazon Web Services by 2019. He made this statement based on Alibaba's breakneck gro...

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