Telenet hosts product roadshow of Alibaba Cloud

Telenet, a leading information technology company and value-added service provider in Nepal, hosted a product roadshow on December 16, 2019, Kathmandu about Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, to help local partners and customers get a deeper understanding of cloud computing technologies. Themed “Accelerate your Growth”, the roadshow presented a wide range of products and solutions offered by Alibaba Cloud to the market. Using Alibaba Cloud products, Telenet hopes to provide a one-stop solution encompassing technical support, consulting, training, cloud migration and ecosystem integration to the Nepal market.

Alibaba Cloud Solutions Roadshow 2019

During the roadshow, the companies showcased how businesses can use popular cloud computing products such as Elastic Compute Services (ECS), CDN, Networking, Database, Image Search, Short Message Services to transform their operations effectively on Cloud thereby raising productivity and reducing business cost. All of the products offered by Alibaba Cloud have been proven effective with Alibaba Group’s various business units’ activities, encompassing eCommerce, fin-tech, logistics, media and entertainment, and digital branding and marketing. Noteworthy, these products and solutions are also part of the fundamental technology infrastructure that supported Alibaba Group’s 2019 Global Shopping Festival, which generated USD38.4 billion of GMV in 24 hours with zero downtime.

Telenet has been offering value-added services and digital transformation technologies in Nepal for a decade. After partnering with Alibaba Cloud, we have strengthened our offerings in Nepal. As Nepal IT market is in its initial phase, our partnership will encourage more companies to utilize the cloud in order to save costs, strengthen security, increase scalability and flexibility for their businesses,” said Navankur Sood, Vice President & Business Head of Telenet.

Alibaba Cloud Services in Nepal

“In the first year of our collaboration, we have already seen an increase in technical support for our clients. Alibaba Cloud’s leading technologies and cloud architecture have successfully handled many cloud migrations for our clients,” added Samir Shrestha, Technology Head of Telenet.

“By utilizing cloud computing products, businesses can respond to customer demands quickly without incurring extra cost in manpower and infrastructure, due to the elastic and scalable nature of the technology,” said Alex Li, Alibaba Cloud General Manager for South Asia. “This is what we hope to bring to Nepal with our partner Telenet, and through our collaboration, we want to enable local businesses with the advanced technology to improve their business efficiencies with lowered costs.”

Nepal’s cloud computing market is growing rapidly as the country furthers its commitment to digitalization with various government incentives. By leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s global infrastructure, companies in this region can expand their geographic reach to support international operations and better compete in global trade. Alibaba Cloud is the largest public cloud provider in the Asia Pacific, and one of the top three public cloud providers worldwide, according to Gartner.

It has more than 70 security and compliance accreditations worldwide, and it is the first Cloud provider to fulfill the additional requirements of Germany’s Cloud Computing Compliance Controls Catalog (C5) and the highest level of Singapore’s Multi-Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) standard. Alibaba Cloud currently operates 61 availability zones in 20 regions.