Wanda and IBM reached strategic cooperation to jointly promote enterprise-level cloud services

On March 19, 2017, Wanda Network Technology Group and IBM signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing. Wanda Network Technology Group will enter the public cloud business to provide enterprises with internationally advanced cloud services. Through this cooperation, Chinese companies will receive related IBM cloud infrastructure as a service, platform as a service (IaaS and PaaS) and advanced technologies such as IBM Watson, blockchain and Internet of Things. Wanda Group Chairman Wang Jianlin, IBM Chairman, President, and CEO Luo Ruilan attended the signing ceremony. March 19, Wanda Network Technology Group and IBM signed a strategic cooperation signing ceremony in Beijing Wanda currently has several cloud data centers. According to the development of cloud service business, it will be widely deployed in the country in the future. IBM cloud-based advanced cloud platform technology will be deployed in these cloud data centers. IBM will continue to innovate on the platform to ensure that cloud services provided by Wanda can assist the digital transformation of Chinese companies. As an important part of this strategic cooperation, Wanda Network Technology Group will promote IBM Watson services in the Chinese market, and IBM Watson, the world's leading commercial artificial intelligence system, will be introduced into China. The first thing to introduce is Watson's conversational service that adds natural language interaction capabilities to application design. In the future, more IBM Watson services based on the cloud platform will also be introduced. This cooperation is also the first time that Wanda has provided such a wide range of cloud technology services in China. It aims to help Chinese companies improve their competitiveness by leveraging IBM's leading cloud technology and the extensive industrial resources of Wanda Networks Technology Group. The establishment of this cooperative relationship heralds a significant increase in cloud computing and cognitive computing capabilities in the Chinese market and will effectively support China’s “Internet Plus” strategy.