Alibaba to double capacity of HK center

Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud), the cloud-computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, said on Monday it would double the capacity of its data center in Hong Kong, as it upped the ante with rivals Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp in the fast-growing cloud-computing market.

It also marks the company's latest expansion on top of a slew of data center openings in Germany, Australia, Japan and the United Arab Emirates, building a physical presence in 14 global economic hubs.

The expanded Hong Kong data center is designed to meet companies' soaring demand for high availability and disaster recovery, along with greater access to offerings including data storage and analytics, enterprise-level middleware and cloud security services, said Ethan Yu, vice-president of Alibaba and general manager of Alibaba Cloud Global.