Tencent Cloud version 2.0 press release was held on January 9, 2014 at Beijing. Ji Shunyou, Tencent Cloud vice president, showed the new features of Tencent Cloud 2.0 on the scene. Ji Shunyun announced that Tencent cloud users reached 300 million, becoming the top priority of most Chinese internet users for cloud storage. This press release, filled with a such pleasant surprise, was the first Tencent Cloud 2.0 product media event before the official launch.
Tencent Cloud was launched on July 12, 2012, is one of the most important cloud service of Tencent. Its users hit 100 million after 10 months of launch, and on August 29 in 2013, Tencent increased free cloud storage to 10TB. Since then, the number of Tencent Cloud users had been growing extremely fast, broke 300 million in the recent.
Tencent Cloud 2.0 renewed its functions all-around, transformed from a single cloud storage to aggregated cloud services. Photo and file backup and share are still the core of Tencent Cloud 2.0. Dependent on its 10TB high speed cloud storage, Tencent Cloud 2.0 offers photo and file storage and cross-platform transmit, and further aggregates QR-code scanning, media player, note, face-to-face sharing, applications store, Tencent promotion activities etc. The new version allows users to play videos, check files and share in one platform-Tencent Cloud, to meet all the needs of Chinese internet users.
The update of Tencent Cloud changed cloud competition in China, which was upgraded from storage size fight to a battle for resources aggregation and user needs satisfaction.
Tencent Cloud 2.0 was launched on January 15, 2013.