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In a major reshuffle amid intense scrutiny by the Chinese government, Alibaba Group unveiled key senior management changes, including Wu Zeming 's rise to the company's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), as its Hong Kong servers suffered a serious outage that shut down many services in the region. Daniel Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, will assume the role of acting President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence and responsibility for the communication and collaboration platform DingTalk. In a separate move, Jeff Zhang will focus on his role as head of the Alibaba DAMO Academy and no longer serve as President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence. Read Also China's Tencent starts new round of layoffs, claim sources SoftBank shares tumble after Vision Fund reports another big loss He will continue to be responsible for Alibaba's proprietary chip development team T-Head and Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives, the company said in a … [Read more...] about alibaba: Alibaba rejigs top brass after major server outage, CEO to look after Cloud arm

Audio player loading… Alibaba has announced a major reshuffle of its leadership team as it faces increasing competition in the public cloud hosting infrastructure provider space. In an announcement (opens in new tab) , the company revealed 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. Alibaba Cloud TechCrunch (opens in new tab) reports that the company’s Hong Kong servers had recently suffered a “serious outage” that left many services, like popular crypto exchange OKX, offline for up to one day, making it one of the biggest Chinese data center failures in recent history. Other changes include Wu Zeming’s appointment as CTO, and co-founder Jane Jiang’s promotion to Chief People Officer. Read more > These are the best cloud storage providers around > … [Read more...] about Alibaba reshuffles top execs following cloud outage and US scrutiny