Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing subsidiary of Alibaba Group, announced on Tuesday, June 8, its plans to build its first data center in the Philippines “by the end of this year.”

The new data centre will be constructed in capital Manila (pictured) and bring the company’s total number of availability zones (data centres) to 76, spread across 25 regions worldwide.

The subsidiary’s offerings span cloud computing, database, security, machine learning, and data analytics services. A local data center will improve working efficiency for customers within the region.

Source: Rappler.com