Abstract: Alibaba Cloud cloud storage has played an important role in China's digital business field. In addition, Alibaba Cloud, which already has cloud storage service capabilities in 9 countries and regions in Europe, America, Oceania and Asia, has not stopped, aiming to expand its influence in a wider overseas market and expand Alibaba Cloud's global influence.
When it comes to online shopping, Alibaba is inevitable. But when it comes to cloud computing, you may have heard of the name of Alibaba Cloud, but you may not know how powerful it is as a cloud computing subsidiary of Alibaba. In the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Global Cloud Computing and Public Cloud Storage, released by Gatner, a world-renowned research organization, Alibaba Cloud has risen to the top four.
The reason why Gartner is regarded as an absolute authority in the industry is that its evaluation method is not based on how big the manufacturer is and how high its market share is, but objectively based on the type of cloud storage (object, block, file, etc.). ) and hot and cold storage, global data center location, technology maturity, market strategy, market share, service commitment and SLA, etc.
Alibaba Cloud's top ranking in the world's authoritative list is inseparable from the "Pangu" distributed storage technology, an exclusive secret from ancient mythology. Just like Pangu, who "opened up the world" in myths and legends, as the common underlying storage platform for all cloud storage products of Alibaba Cloud, the Pangu distributed file system is the link between Alibaba Cloud's cloud computing and has been able to support block storage since its establishment in 2009. Various complex scenarios such as cloud disks, object storage, large-scale data processing, and databases have been finely optimized for offline and online scenarios.
For enterprises "going to the cloud", whether they are reliable and whether resources can be estimated have become key reference elements. After all, with the scale of tens of thousands of machines, it is inevitable that there will be hardware failures, and the multi-tenant environment also makes it difficult to predict resources. The Pangu file system was designed from the first day with the goal of "making unreliable resources into a reliable whole" and "making unpredictable resources into a predictable whole".
The Pangu file storage system that supports spanning multiple AZs also makes Alibaba Cloud the first cloud vendor in China and the second in the world to support spanning multiple AZs. It can support the classic mode of the Pangu file system spanning three availability zones, because the data centers of each availability zone have independent power supply, network and cooling systems, and there is no problem of data loss. This is inseparable from Alibaba Cloud's massive investment in building a high-fault-tolerant and high-performance internal core backbone network.
Alibaba Cloud Cloud Storage has already played an important role in China's digital business sector. In addition, Alibaba Cloud, which already has cloud storage service capabilities in 9 countries and regions in Europe, America, Oceania and Asia, has not stopped, aiming to expand its influence in a wider overseas market and expand Alibaba Cloud's global influence.
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