Important technologies that support and will support Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant.

Beyond its unmatched commercial success in China and his ability to seduce investors, compared to his aggressive competitor Tencent, Alibaba Group leverages its huge native market well encoded by the Chinese authorities, to easily move on the international market.

Alibaba Group is also and mostly its strong IT capabilities in cloud computing and Big Data/Analytics. 

Alibaba has heavily invested in its cloud platform, Aliyun, to better support the explosive growth of its ecommerce platform. Alibaba has started to build its own high-level datacenters and centralize all its IT resources. Alibaba’s investments in servers deeply increase year-on-year. 

Alibaba’s platform helped millions of e-retailers overcome the IT challenges caused by explosive web traffic, by leveraging the high scalability and reliability brought by Aliyun's large-scale infrastructure architecture. 

Aliyun has developed multiple specialized architectures that are optimized for specific workload types, by customizing server configuration and virtualization technology, and even by leading the R&D of an optimized rack scale solution (Scorpio Project). 

Alibaba also launched their open data processing services (ODPS) and data process center (DPC, a business intelligence platform) as the platform as a service (PaaS) to its entire community in June 2014.