Alibaba Cloud is looking for business partners after it launched its two London-based datacentres.
Yeming Wang, general manager of Alibaba Cloud for EMEA, said that the UK is the biggest cloud market in Europe and it’s an early cloud adopter.
“The region is really good regarding the market share; the adoption and its mindset are quite open, especially in the services and research areas.”
The UK expansion adds to the EMEA hubs that Alibaba has already established in Frankfurt and Dubai, and Wang said that the London datacentres were already up and running.
Wang said that the company has developed local partners, but is on the hunt for more.
“The business scenario will be localised. In the UK, we want to join our Chinese experience and technology with the know-how of local partners, and then we jointly go to market. We are working on defining a lot of localised partner programmes to help them find their position with Alibaba, which is different from their partnerships with other cloud service providers. It’s very promising, and that is why the company is happy to put the datacentre here”, Wang said.
