Chinese cloud giant
Alibaba Cloud has been recognized for its contribution to Open Source activity. Also known as Aliyun, Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing arm of the Alibaba Group. With headquarters in Singapore, the company was established in 2009. With facilities in the Middle East, Europe, Australia and Japan, it has more than 2.3 million customers and is China’s leading provider of scalable cloud computing and data management platforms. Alibaba Cloud was recognized for its contribution to the Open Source community by the 2018 MySQL Community Awards in the ‘Corporate Contributor’ category.
MySQL is a relational database management system and “the world’s most popular open source database”. It offers a “comprehensive set of advanced features, management tools and technical support” to offer high levels of scalability, security, reliability, and uptime. Alibaba Cloud received its award at the Percona Live Conference held last week in Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California, United States. Alibaba Cloud houses “more than one hundred thousand MySQL instances”. The company has won the award previously, receiving it for the first times in 2015.
“As a longtime contributor to MySQL and other open source communities, Alibaba Cloud has fostered a culture that encourages our teams to voluntarily contribute to various open source projects, either by sharing experiences or helping others to solve problems,” explained Alibaba Cloud’s Chief Architect, Hong TANG. “We believe this truly represents the essence of open source development, where everyone can build on each other’s knowledge as both a teacher and a student. By continuously contributing to bug-fixing and patch optimization for MySQL and other open source communities we can continue to make our technology inclusive.”
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