BEIJING (dpa-AFX) - SB Cloud Corporation , a joint venture between SoftBank Corp., the Japan-based telecom subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp. (SFTBF.PK), and Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA), announced it will offer packaged Alibaba Cloud services for the Japanese market starting December 15.
Alibaba Cloud services provide the critical infrastructure that supports the Alibaba Group's e-commerce sites, which recently processed a maximum 175,000 orders per second during this year's Singles' Day, a large-scale sale that takes place in China on November 11.
With Alibaba Cloud, customers can use Alibaba Group hosted data centers in China, the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore and other locations in addition to those hosted by SB Cloud in Japan. Since data centers around the world can be used with a single account, Japanese and multinational companies, as well as offshore companies providing services for the Japanese market, can use cloud services conveniently. Also, since SB Cloud offers its services in a Japanese yen denominated basis, Japanese client companies can process expenses with ease.
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