Tencent Holdings Ltd announced last Wednesday plans to more than double the number of its offshore data centers this year, its latest push to grow its cloud business and serve both international companies as well as Chinese groups wanting to expand overseas.
腾讯控股有限公司上周三宣称，计划于今年内将它的海外数据中心至少翻一番，并提出了它最近扩展云服务业务，来为那些跨国公司和计划向海外发展的国内公司提供服务的计划。
With the new Silicon Valley data center inaugurated last Tuesday, the internet giant said another four are in the pipeline in Frankfurt, Mumbai, Seoul and Moscow.在新硅谷数据中心上于周二设立后，这个互联网界的巨头表示，另外的四个数据中心计划设在法兰克福、孟买、首尔和莫斯科。Tencent said cloud operations in Hong Kong and the Silicon Valley are also slated for expansion this year.腾讯方面表示，位于香港和硅谷的云计算中心还计划在今年扩大规模。"We want to grow our overseas cloud capability to meet the rising demand from companies around the world as they look for fast, reliable, secure and cost-effective services to expand globally and migrate to the cloud era", said Rita Zeng, vice-president of Tencent's cloud computing arm.
腾讯云计算公司副总裁曾佳欣称：“我们想要增强我们在海外的云服务能力，来满足世界各地的公司对于迅捷、可靠、安全、高效的服务日益迫切的需要。他们需要借此来向全球发展，并走向一个云服务的时代。”The data centers are designed to meet companies' soaring demand for high availability and recovery, along with greater access to offerings including data storage and analytics, as more businesses tap into cloud computing to boost operational efficiency and innovation.随着越来越多的公司利用云计算来大幅提高操作效率，促进创新，这些数据中心是为了满足公司对于有效性、恢复能力越来越高的要求，以及对于数据储存和数据分析的有效途径的需求。The new data centers form part of Tencent's broader strategy to invest in the latest technologies, such as cloud, security, big data and artificial intelligence.这些新的数据中心为腾讯带来了一些更广泛的战略，来投资建设最新的技术，比如云服务，保密服务，大数据和人工智能。