阿里巴巴与美国红帽软件签全球协议

中国电子商务及云计算巨擘阿里巴巴和美国红帽软件上周三晚宣布，阿里巴巴将开始在全球范围内销售红帽的企业软件。

许多《财富》500强公司的服务器都运行着红帽的Linux操作系统。它们还可能选择亚马逊AWS、微软或谷歌经营的第三方云数据中心来使用这个操作系统，因为红帽和这三家公司都已达成合作。现在，红帽又与阿里巴巴以及阿里云结为了盟友。

在杭州召开的阿里云栖大会，两家公司表示，阿里巴巴的云服务将在几个月内推出红帽Linux以及其他红帽企业软件。

阿里巴巴正忙于在海外扩张，通过在美国、日本等地设立数据中心为跨国公司提供支持。外界认为，对总部设在西雅图的亚马逊来说，阿里巴巴在零售和云计算技术领域都是它的对手。虽然阿里巴巴已经走出国门，但亚马逊一直在全球各地迅速建立云数据中心，并通过当地合作伙伴北京光环新网在中国推广云计算服务。

上周早些时候，阿里巴巴还披露了向多个海外技术研究中心投资150亿美元的计划。

到目前为止，阿里巴巴的阿里云还比不上亚马逊的AWS，但它的增长速度远远超过后者，这种情况一定会受到亚马逊智囊团的关注。红帽带来的企业级软件可能有助于阿里巴巴吸引更多公司采用其云计算服务。（财富中文网）

译者：Charlie

审稿：夏林

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing giant, will start selling Red Hat’s business software globally, the two companies said late Wednesday.

Many Fortune 500 companies run Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems on their own servers. They may also opt to run it on third-party cloud data centers run by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft (MSFT, +0.90%) , or Google (GOOG, -0.14%) because Red Hat already has formal ties to those three companies. Now, Red Hat is also allied with Alibaba and its Aliyun cloud.

Red Hat (RHT, +1.28%) Linux and other Red Hat business software will be available from Alibaba’s cloud within months, the two companies said. The news was announced at an Alibaba tech conference in Hangzhou, China.

Alibaba (BABA, -2.18%) is busily expanding beyond China, opening data centers in the U.S., Japan, and elsewhere to support multinational companies. The company is seen as a rival to Seattle-based Amazon both in retail and cloud computing technology. While Alibaba is building its presence outside China, Amazon has been building cloud data centers around the world at a fast clip. Amazon sells cloud computing services in China with local partner Beijing Sinnet Technology.

Earlier this week, Alibaba also announced plans to invest $15 billion in global tech research hubs outside of China.

Alibaba’s Aliyun cloud business is dwarfed by AWS thus far, but it is growing much faster, something that the brain trust at Amazon (AMZN, +0.60%) are no doubt watching. The availability of business-focused software from Red Hat could help Alibaba entice more businesses to put workloads on Alibaba’s cloud.