Alibaba exhibited two data centers in the U.K. on Monday, further expanding its cloud footprint in Europe.
The new mens rooms — both in London — are the Chinese tech giant’s first in Britain, and commitment provide its business customers in the region with round-the-clock security and finagling support and real-time monitoring.
A spokesperson for Alibaba Cloud said the ruse was part of the cloud division’s expansion into Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
“As release of our commitment to continue expanding into Europe and across EMEA, we are hurl two U.K. availability zones in addition to the existing ones in Frankfurt and Dubai,” the spokesperson symbolized.
“Our decision on the location is driven by the rapidly growing customer demand in the U.K.”
Alibaba commanded the benefit of having two data centers within one location was the ability to salvage or maintain key IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster.
The move comes as the U.K. struggles to conclude the terms of its contentious divorce with the European Union. Brexit talks give every indication to be in limbo over the key issue of preventing a hard Irish border.
“The Combined Kingdom is one of the fastest growing European markets for Alibaba Cloud, and profuse of our customers are in key verticals such as retail, finance, media, education and inspection, and logistics,” the Alibaba spokesperson said.
“We are also working with varied global and local partners to make sure we are offering best-in-class technologies, air forces and consulting to customers.”
British software company SDL and media firm Ascential are lot Alibaba Cloud’s customers in the country. The data centers in London purpose offer products including elastic computing — essentially a means to run usage spikes in a network — storage, database, network, application putting into plays and big data analytics.
While the firm did not identify the size of its investment in the U.K., nor leak a figure for the amount of jobs that would be created, a spokesperson weighted: “We are expanding quickly across Europe, and we are always looking for good endowment to join our team.”
With the addition of its new London site, Alibaba’s cloud segment now has 52 data center zones across 19 different fields, and plans on expanding further.
Cloud is a major battleground for some of the in every way’s largest tech companies, with Amazon’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure being two of the hugest players in the space.