Datapipe named Alibaba Cloud Global Managed Service Provider

Global organizations can now use
Datapipe’s cloud expertise to grow their business inside and outside China on
Alibaba Cloud

·         As an Alibaba Cloud managed service
provider partner, Datapipe helps Chinese companies expand globally and enables
international companies to enter China

·         Datapipe supports the design, build,
deployment, and management of Alibaba Cloud solutions for computing, storage,
database, CDN, and big data

·         Customer benefits include best-practice cloud deployment,
localized security and compliance, hybrid cloud access to Datapipe’s 22 data
centers across Asia, North America, and Europe, and the guidance of a trusted
partner with 15 years of experience in international cloud deployments

SINGAPORE, 13 OCTOBER 2016 — Datapipe, a leader in managed
cloud services for the enterprise, has been named a global managed service
provider (MSP) partner of Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba
Group. Global organizations entering China and Chinese organizations venturing
abroad can now rely on Datapipe’s expertise in designing, building, and
managing best-practice Alibaba Cloud environments.

Under the partnership, Alibaba Cloud
customers can look to Datapipe to plan, build and run their cloud environments
to ensure fast, secure, and compliant global expansion strategies. Datapipe
will provide migration, management, and security of Alibaba Cloud solutions for
computing, storage, database, CDN, and big data.

Colin Chan, Vice President of Asia at
Datapipe, said: “As a pioneer in managed cloud services the addition of Alibaba
Cloud to Datapipe’s supported platforms and service capabilities was a natural
step. We look forward to working closely with Alibaba Cloud to help drive the
global adoption of best practice enterprise cloud solutions.”

Unique Song, Director of Global Marketplace Alliances Program at Alibaba
Cloud said: “We’re pleased to welcome Datapipe as our global managed service
provider partner. Datapipe’s experience in managing cloud environments for
customers around the globe makes them well-positioned to help drive Alibaba
Cloud deployments for customers in both China and overseas.”

China-based Joyful Journey
Travel is Datapipe’s first managed Alibaba Cloud client and is the first company to provide financial
services to travelers in China. Joyful Journey Travel was looking to deploy a
completely elastic infrastructure for their services to allow them to quickly
and easily grow into new regions as they onboard more customers. Their biggest
concern was security, specifically how to ensure their platform was robust
enough to secure customer and financial data – a key criteria for any financial
services organization.

Datapipe’s team worked with Joyful Journey
Travel to develop a solution based on high-performing Alibaba Cloud services
including Elastic Computer Service instances, AsparaDB for Relationship
Database Systems and Alibaba’s Cloud based CDN.

Huang Gangwei, Chief
Executive Officer at Joyful Journey Travel, said:
“Datapipe understood our requirements from the very start. We knew we wanted to
move into the cloud but we didn’t know how to develop and launch a
best-practice cloud environment. Datapipe designed a solution on Alibaba Cloud
and then migrated and began managing our cloud solution. We can now scale our
operations effortlessly and our IT team is focused on building better products
instead of maintaining and managing our systems.”