Alibaba has announced a major reshuffle of its leadership team as it faces increasing competition from the public cloud hosting Space for infrastructure providers.
in a (n Notice (opens in new tab)the company announced that current CEO Daniel Zhang will become acting president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
He replaces Jeff Zhang, who will now focus on the Alibaba DAMO Academy, including some of the company’s IoT initiatives.
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TechCrunch (opens in new tab) reports that the company’s Hong Kong servers recently suffered a “serious outage” that left many services, including popular crypto exchange OKX, offline for up to a day, making it one of the largest Chinese data center outages in recent history made.
Other changes include the appointment of Wu Zeming as CTO and the promotion of co-founder Jane Jiang to chief people officer.
Alibaba hopes regular role changes will help the company stay agile.
“As the country enters a new phase of life with Covid and policymakers have provided direction for the future development of the platform economy, we are more confident than ever that continued development is key to solving the challenges we face today,” wrote Zhang an internal email to the staff.
Alibaba remains a major player in the data center industry and is well positioned to continue its growth, but the company still faces some major challenges.
Earlier this year we reported that the US government had done so took a close look at Alibaba Cloud to determine if it poses a threat to national security.
