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Grappling with some of the largest bemouths in the cloud computing industry , in China it ’ s Alibaba Cloud which reigns king . The cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group has quickly earned its stripes as China ’ s largest public cloud service provider and has the third largest share of the cloud computing market globally , according to Gartner . Now keen to extend its reach further afield , the company has its eyes set firmly on a new horizon : the EMEA market .
One man at the heart of this strategy is Yeming Wang , General Manager for the EMEA region . Well-versed in the technology space , Wang has previously worked for Huawei , managing its operations in Italy , France , Thailand , Indonesia and abroad . This gave him the perfect springboard to drive Alibaba Cloud ’ s EMEA expansion , a goal which he says is central to the firm ’ s strategy moving forward . “ Alibaba Group has a very strong presence in the Asia-Pacific and we aim to be number one in this region ,” observes Wang , pointing to the group ’ s global businesses like e-commerce firm Lazada . “ Besides the Asia-Pacific , we view regions like Europe as very strategic because of its size and maturity . In the Asia-Pacific region , people are still talking about migrating to cloud , whereas in Europe the discussion is
JUNE 2019