China's Alibaba has opened two data centres in London, bringing its business into the UK for the first time.The e-commerce giant has been working to expand its cloud computing arm in Europe in recent months, and has also opened centres in Frankfurt this year. 中国的阿里巴巴在伦敦开设了两个数据中心,首次将业务带入英国。这个电子商务巨头近几个月一直致力于扩大其在欧洲的云计算部门,今年还在法兰克福开设了中心。 The London operations will offer 24/7 on-site support, including security and engineering, the group said. 阿里巴巴称,伦敦运营部将提供24/7全天的现场支持,包括安全和工程。 The Chinese group is competing with Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM to become the world's biggest cloud computing business – it currently ranks fifth. 这个中国集团正在与亚马逊,微软,谷歌和IBM竞争,打算成为全球最大的云计算业务公司 - 目前,它的排名在第五位。 Alibaba Cloud's EMEA general manager, Yeming Wang, said: “Our expansion into the United Kingdom, and by extension into Europe, is in direct response to the rapidly increasing demands we have seen for local facilities within the region. 阿里巴巴云集团欧洲,中东和非洲地区总经理王烨明表示:“我们在英国的扩张,以及在欧洲的扩张,直接响应了我们对该地区当地设施的快速增长的需求。 |