AliCloud, cloud services arm of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is launching its second Silicon Valley data center, the company announced Friday, inviting potential customers to sign up for services in the new facility starting October 12.



Alibaba’s push into the US cloud services market, putting the company in direct competition with the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in their biggest market, started earlier this year with the announcement of the first Alibaba data center in Silicon Valley. The company has not elaborated whether it has been leasing space from data center providers in California or building its own facilities.

AliCloud also struck a number of partnerships with companies to integrate new products and services into its cloud platform. The new partners are Mesosphere, Bankware Global, Appcara, Appnovation, Cloud Comrade, and Panzura.

According to its statement issued Friday, the second Silicon Valley site will be its fourth in the US. Alibaba has not said where in the US the other two cloud data centers are.

 

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