疫情期間，阿里的生意更好了

Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, will spend RMB 200 billion ($28.27 billion) on its cloud infrastructure over the next three years following an increase in demand for digital services in the aftermath of the Covid-19 outbreak in China.

阿里云是中國電商巨頭阿里巴巴集團旗下公司，中國新冠疫情爆發(fā)使對數(shù)字服務的需求增加，該公司將在未來三年將2千億元(282.7億美元)投入到云基礎結構上。

Alibaba’s cloud revenue grew 62% in the quarter ended December 2019 compared with the same quarter a year earlier, the company said in February.

該公司在二月份說，截止2019年12月，阿里云的季度收益相比前一年的同期增長了62%。

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in extra demand for digital services, which are typically reliant on cloud computing services and data centers to function.

新冠疫情使人們產(chǎn)生對數(shù)字服務的額外需求，數(shù)字服務通常依靠云計算服務和數(shù)據(jù)中心來實現(xiàn)。

Alibaba Cloud is the largest provider of cloud computing services in China, but falls behind Amazon and Microsoft globally.

阿里云是中國最大的云計算服務供應商，但在國際上要排在亞馬遜和微軟之后。

Alibaba’s investment will focus on operating system and chip development, as well as on its network of data centers, where the technologies will be deployed.

阿里巴巴的投資將主要用在操作系統(tǒng)和芯片研發(fā)上，同時也會用在數(shù)據(jù)中心網(wǎng)絡上，后者就是其運用這些技術的地方。

Alibaba has seen a marked increase in the use of its technology since the beginning of the year. As many businesses requested that their employees work from home to reduce the risk of coronavirus infections, companies across China relied more heavily on tools like Dingtalk, Alibaba’s enterprise communications app.

從今年年初開始，阿里巴巴的技術利用率顯著提高。為了降低新冠病毒傳播風險，很多公司要求員工在家辦公，全國的公司都更加依賴釘釘這樣的工具。釘釘是阿里巴巴的企業(yè)通信應用程序。

Dingtalk also provided a platform for online learning after schools and universities were closed due to the outbreak.

在學校和大學受疫情影響停課以后，釘釘也提供網(wǎng)上學習平臺。

Meanwhile, the company helped the Chinese government roll out a health passport system, a digital quarantine measure that assigned users a red, yellow, or green rating based on their health status and travel history.

同時，該公司幫助中國政府推行健康通行證系統(tǒng)，這個數(shù)字檢疫方法根據(jù)用戶健康狀況和出行史把用戶分為紅、黃、綠三個等級。

“The Covid-19 pandemic has posed additional stress on the overall economy across sectors, but it also steers us to put more focus on the digital economy,” Jeff Zhang, president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said in a statement on Monday.

周一，阿里云智能總裁張建鋒在聲明中說：“新冠疫情給各行業(yè)的整體經(jīng)濟造成了附加壓力，但也引導我們更多地投入到數(shù)字經(jīng)濟中。”

Alibaba has increased its focus on cloud computing over the past two years, seeing the business as a major driver of growth.

阿里巴巴在過去兩年提高了對云計算的投入，把它視為發(fā)展的主動力。

Daniel Zhang, Alibaba’s CEO, said previously in an interview with CNBC that cloud computing could become the e-commerce giant’s “main business.”

阿里巴巴首席執(zhí)行官張勇此前在接受美國消費者新聞與商業(yè)頻道采訪時說云計算會成為這家電商巨頭的“主要業(yè)務”。